Re: mirror sites

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Kobets
You suggesting having a perl related site without a mirror of CPAN ? :-) As far as I am concerned, Debian mirror would be nice, i386, alpha and sparc. Mandrake and RedHat are d/l at very nice speeds from official mirrors so it's really not neccessary to mirror them and Slackware rarelly used (as

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Eli Marmor
Recently, there is an old-new alternative, which had not been serious until recently: VNC. VNC technologies made a big leap in the last year, and are really viable for many uses that had demanded pure X in the past. If you control both of the sides (the UNIX side AND the Windows side), you

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 04:47:43AM +0200, Eran Tromer wrote: Some time ago I consulted this list about good X servers for Windows (it's easier and far cheaper to access Linux from Windows than the reverse; I need both). This what happens when you're open - people pay the competetion in order

packet log

2002-11-06 Thread Cedar Cox
Unusual System Events =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Nov 6 12:25:21 nanu kernel: Packet log: input - ppp0 PROTO=6 172.26.140.7:9044 192.117.108.106:3379 L=1400 S=0x00 I=56154 F=0x4000 T=107 (#2) Nov 6 12:25:21 nanu kernel: Packet log: output DENY ppp0 PROTO=6 192.117.108.106:3379 172.26.140.7:9044

converting doc files in mozilla

2002-11-06 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Hi I would like to send application/msword files to antiword, and from there, back to mozilla's window. You may call it a caveperson's plugin, if you please. Anyone knows how this should be done? Dan. = To unsubscribe, send mail

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image. I will try to install a minimal RH7.3 on a spare partition (well, the

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 12:26, Arie Folger wrote: I can now confirm that the dvd playing softwares are the troublemakers; I just popped in another disc, and the results are the same: instead of a normal image, I see a split screen with two copies of the same half image. I will try to

Re: Rootless Cygwin/XFree86

2002-11-06 Thread Eran Tromer
Ira Abramov wrote: why isn't it cheap to access win from lin? I have done it several times with TightVNC clients, as well as with the windows RDP client (both are packages on Debian's main tree, apt-get install rdesktop xvncviewer) I find VNC way too slow and jumpy for extensive work, which

Re: SOLUTION Re: resizing /

2002-11-06 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, Nov 04, 2002 at 10:52:58AM -0500, Arie Folger wrote: Finally, I wondered why I had a kernel panic, and after some searching found that RH had once autonomously given a name to the original / partition; the label was / (I know, this is confusing). So once I realized that and issued

Backup tapes recommendation

2002-11-06 Thread Aviram Jenik
Hi, We're looking for recommendations for a backup tape for daily Linux backups using Amanda. I would like to hear recommendations (off list please; I will send a summary of the responses I receive) on Linux-friendly backup tapes and especially good/bad experiences, things to avoid, potential

General means for backups (was: Re: Backup tapes recommendation)

2002-11-06 Thread Omer Zak
META_RULES_OF_DISCOURSE In spite of Aviram's request to keep the subject off list, I would like to generalize the discussion. Since the discussion is not specific to Linux, I am cross-posting it to the Hackers-IL mailing list and urge people who want to contribute to it - to post only to

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
I found the culprit: the XV video output driver. Only mplayer has an output driver (the X11 output video driver) that gives me a proper picture. Problem: what can I do to make xine, ogle and vlc work? More pressing problem: see the following error message from mplayer, and you'll understand

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Oleg Kobets
Check permissions on /dev/dsp for no sound problem. Other then that, what graphics card do you use ? If it's ATI like me, compile XVidix and it will work superbly, or use good nvidia drivers which supposely work too with xv. Other then that, enable frame buffer and drm support in kernel for your

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote: Check permissions on /dev/dsp for no sound problem. That is a misleading error message. Since the selected video_out device is incompatible with this codec, there is no stream, and thus no sound. I thought this would be obvious, sorry.

Re: dvd player*s* show twice same half screen

2002-11-06 Thread Arie Folger
On Wednesday 06 November 2002 16:26, Oleg Kobets wrote: Other then that, what graphics card do you use ? If it's ATI like me, compile XVidix and it will work superbly, or use good nvidia drivers which supposely work too with xv. Now it dawns on me, xvidix is for ati cards only, not for my