Re: [OT] The story of Mel

2008-06-04 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 02:05:33PM +1000, Amos Shapira wrote: I just tracked down the Real Programmers vs. Quiche Eaters text to show to our developers when I found a link to the following: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html I think it's a nice little story Some more details in the

Using a DVD which was burned using LG RC-288 DVD player/writer

2008-06-04 Thread David Harel
Greetings, A friend of mine burned a DVD using LG RC-288 VCR/DVD player/recorder. He is able to view the video on his player but we can not use it anywhere else. One thing I thought was that the DVD was not fixated. Every attempt to use the DVD disk came with either errors or nothing. $

Re: Using a DVD which was burned using LG RC-288 DVD player/writer

2008-06-04 Thread ik
I had such problems with few DVD drives (some of them where burners and some only ROM). The problem I found out in two of them was that the version of the firmware had bugs that required upgrading to a newer version. Another problem I found on few other drives where that they came to the end of

Re: Store selling Linux computer with support

2008-06-04 Thread Daniel Feiglin
--090803020609040808070900 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Arik Baratz wrote: On Tue, Dec 4, 2007 at 10:04 AM, Maxim Veksler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://d-source.co.il are resellers of http://affordy.com which

Re: Using a DVD which was burned using LG RC-288 DVD player/writer

2008-06-04 Thread Amos Shapira
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 1:41 AM, ik [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: btw even burning DVD's too fast can have problems. x8 does not always works right on some DVD burners (and I saw DVD that offers even faster burning). I heard many years ago about a research which found that the speed of burning has

Wine needs your help

2008-06-04 Thread Amos Shapira
I don't follow Slashdot very much but I happened to find the following instructions on one of the comments - they contain a link to a Windows program (on Wine's test web site) which if executed on WINDOWS, will produce output that will help Wine a lot. A later comment further down the thread says