Debian-DVD's/CD's

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Greetings, I am going to install Debian Sarge, the third part of the Genbisu (Gentoo, Debian, SuSE) I am going to make. Steve gave me some images, but unfortunatly I deleted one of them when I was preparing my drives for Debian. Has anyone got some Debian-DVD's (preferably 64-bit). I have a DVD-RAM

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Col
> > What about something to lop the first 10 seconds out of an MPEG without > destroying the quality too much? > Have you tried avidemux? Also I have had some sucess running virtualdub under wine. Col.

Re: SOLVED: Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
I forgot: One also has to execute "cp $XAUTHORITY /data/suse$XAUTHORITY". Robert Himmelmann wrote: Thanks or all the help. mount --bind /tmp /data/suse/tmp solves the problem. There was some confusion about my motives in doing this. I am not trying to access X on a server machine from a client ma

SOLVED: Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Thanks or all the help. mount --bind /tmp /data/suse/tmp solves the problem. There was some confusion about my motives in doing this. I am not trying to access X on a server machine from a client machine but run three distributions with one X and one kernel at the same time using chroot and mou

[OT]: Re: GLU report 5/5/5

2005-05-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, May 6, 2005 1:27 pm, Richard Tindall said: > Steve Holdoway wrote: >> > That would make an interesting tale too. There's a lot of stuff on the > History Channel lately, for VE-day, especially on the Atlantic war. More > detail? http://www.convoyweb.org.uk/ -- Windows: Where do you wan

Re: GLU report 5/5/5

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Tindall
Steve Holdoway wrote: Sorry about the technical difficulties - made my usually poor abilities even worse. Our only problem was keeping up with your organic processor speed. Our only salvation was the two-fingered typing ;-) It was good. Thanks. I've been doing a lot of work both here in my grown up

Re: GLU report 5/5/5

2005-05-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Fri, May 6, 2005 12:17 pm, Richard Tindall said: > Many thanks to Steve Holdaway for tackling the complex area of web >[snip] Sorry about the technical difficulties - made my usually poor abilities even worse. I've been doing a lot of work both here in my grown up job and sorting my father ou

Re: ==>> OpenOffice.org Next Tuesday <<==

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Fisher
Christopher Sawtell said: > Portrate Port rate? How fast is that? -- Robert Fisher FishNet Computer Services www.fisher.net.nz

==>> OpenOffice.org Next Tuesday <<==

2005-05-05 Thread Christopher Sawtell
The Canterbury Linux User Group. 7:30pm 10th. May 2005 St Albans Community Resource Centre 1047 Colombo St. Christchurch This month, the Group's meeting is to be an interesting lecture and demonstration of the OpenOffice.org suite of programs. It is to be given by Ian Laurenson, an OOo inner circl

GLU report 5/5/5

2005-05-05 Thread Richard Tindall
Many thanks to Steve Holdaway for tackling the complex area of web development and hosting. Apologies for the technical difficulties of screen projection, that affected the presentation. Between us, we were unaware of the platform change and that this would be likely to impact the display. In futur

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Derek Smithies
Hi, emacs -nw will open up emacs in the console you are using >From man emacs, -nw Tells Emacs not to use its special interface to X. If you use this switch when invoking Emacs from an xterm(1) window, dis- play is done in that window. This must be the first op

Re: SuSE 9.3

2005-05-05 Thread David Fletcher
any chance of getting a copy off you? cheers, dave On 5/5/05, Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Must have arrived in NZ by now. Some hype and sort of feature list is > here: > http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14691.html > > Same media as 9.2: dual-layer DVD for 32/64 bit, D

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 06 May 2005 06:25:24 +1200 Vik Olliver wrote: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 00:17 +1200, Lee Begg wrote: > > I guess that the Sony Camera is either a digital still camera or a mini dvd > > writer video camera. If it is, you are more stuck. You could try > > transcode > > or mencode to turn

Re: paradise email misbehaving today?

2005-05-05 Thread yuri
On 5/6/05, Roger Searle wrote: > Yuri do you know what was up with the paradise servers yesterday? No email > delivery for at least 9 hours (that i know of). Spam/virus filter having to delete craploads of infected emails being sent to paradise addresses. If you are running windows and have parad

Re: paradise email misbehaving today?

2005-05-05 Thread Roger Searle
Yuri do you know what was up with the paradise servers yesterday?  No email delivery for at least 9 hours (that i know of). Roger yuri wrote: On 5/6/05, Nick Rout wrote: Perhaps there is a new virus or spam scam doing the rounds, they tend to clog email servers pretty fast.

Re: paradise email misbehaving today?

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 06 May 2005 10:05:15 +1200 yuri wrote: > On 5/6/05, Nick Rout wrote: > > Perhaps there is a new virus or spam scam doing the rounds, they tend to > > clog email servers pretty fast. > > Yes, the latest version of the sober virus has been doing the rounds > last few days. > It is cloggin

Re: paradise email misbehaving today?

2005-05-05 Thread yuri
On 5/6/05, Nick Rout wrote: > Perhaps there is a new virus or spam scam doing the rounds, they tend to clog > email servers pretty fast. Yes, the latest version of the sober virus has been doing the rounds last few days. It is clogging up mail servers around the world. Yuri -- ** WARNING to mai

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
This is NOT remote X11, it is X11 from within a chroot on the same machine! On Fri, 06 May 2005 09:35:32 +1200 Michael JasonSmith wrote: > :) > > With my experience with Fedora — which I suspect is very similar in its > X11 setup to SuSE — I can say that everyone is right. You have to do > damn

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> 2. Run "xhost +ClientMachine" as a user running an X11 server, to > allow connections from "ClientMachine". I would strongly suggest you forget that xhost ever existed. It allows any user(!) from that machine to connect to your server. Instead, use the X11 xauth mechanism. It works

Re: paradise email misbehaving today?

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
funnily enough over the last few days I have been having problems with orcon's smtp server (from home). I keep getting a 432 error - "system problem try again later" or words to that effect. I may go back to running a local smtp server at home that forwards on to orcpn, at least that way my clien

Re: OT: 9G SCSI Hard drive to swap for IDE

2005-05-05 Thread Carl Cerecke
Already gone. Carl Cerecke wrote: I've got a SCSI 9GB Quantum HN91W011 hard drive. According to google, it is 7200 RPM with a SCSIW interface. It is a full-height (about 3cm high) 3.5in drive. I am told it works. I'm looking to swap it for an IDE drive of a comparable size/speed.

Re: paradise email misbehaving today?

2005-05-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
> > Hi, is anyone else experiencing email delivery problems with Paradise? No doubt about it. Typically it shows when I get responses to list postings before seeing the original, or some emails are 12-15 hours late. I think it already started Wed. In the past it often was when one of Paradise's ma

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Michael JasonSmith
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 07:45 +1200, Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Now I tried emacs -d 127.0.0.1:0 on Gentoo and it gives about the same > message as in SuSE. I think I have to enable TCP/IP support in the > server somewhere. How can I do that? :) With my experience with Fedora â which I suspect i

IP location

2005-05-05 Thread Craig FALCONER
This is nifty. Totally wrong but quite interesting. Apparently my work and home IPs are in california. http://planetlab-01.ipv6.lip6.fr:1/cbg.php Geographic Location of Internet Hosts with Multilateration (GeoLIM) Project GeoLIM project aims at providing the geographic location of an Inte

OT: 9G SCSI Hard drive to swap for IDE

2005-05-05 Thread Carl Cerecke
Hi, I've got a SCSI 9GB Quantum HN91W011 hard drive. According to google, it is 7200 RPM with a SCSIW interface. It is a full-height (about 3cm high) 3.5in drive. I am told it works. I'm looking to swap it for an IDE drive of a comparable size/speed. Either that, or if somebody has a spare SCSI ada

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
On Fri, 06 May 2005 07:37:35 +1200 (NZST) Steve Holdoway wrote: > http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net any good? I mentioned that to Vik last night, although my reply seems to have gone to him instead of the list. A brief play seems to reveal that it works, although the interface is a little unusu

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Nick Rout
try setting the DISPLAY variable: DISPLAY=:0 emacs On Fri, 06 May 2005 07:45:20 +1200 Robert Himmelmann wrote: > Now I tried emacs -d 127.0.0.1:0 on Gentoo and it gives about the same

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread sirlancelot
Just a thought - I've found the live distro DyneBoloc really handy for trying out the various audio / video apps, it features the latest of all these. http://www.dynebolic.org/ from the features page Get Introduced Dyne:bolic GNU/Linux is a live bootable distribution, an operating s

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
With strace xhost I found out that xhost accesses some files in /tmp. After "mount --bind /tmp /data/suse/tmp" it worked and now I can natively run SuSE and Gentoo-applications at the same time. The whole sequence is now: mount --bind /dev /data/suse/dev/ mount --bind /tmp /data/suse/tmp mount -

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Rex Johnston
Robert Himmelmann wrote: Now I tried emacs -d 127.0.0.1:0 on Gentoo and it gives about the same message as in SuSE. I think I have to enable TCP/IP support in the server somewhere. How can I do that? Can you see the "-nolisten TCP" flag in the process listing. man Xserver will tell you all about

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Now I tried emacs -d 127.0.0.1:0 on Gentoo and it gives about the same message as in SuSE. I think I have to enable TCP/IP support in the server somewhere. How can I do that? Hello, I am running Gentoo/SuSE (soon Gentoo/Debian). After "mount --bind /dev /data/suse/dev/", "mount -t proc none /da

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
http://lvempeg.sourceforge.net any good? On Fri, May 6, 2005 6:25 am, Vik Olliver said: > On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 00:17 +1200, Lee Begg wrote: >> I guess that the Sony Camera is either a digital still camera or a mini >> dvd >> writer video camera. If it is, you are more stuck. You could try >> t

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Vik Olliver
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 00:17 +1200, Lee Begg wrote: > I guess that the Sony Camera is either a digital still camera or a mini dvd > writer video camera. If it is, you are more stuck. You could try transcode > or mencode to turn it into dv for kino. > > If it is a proper Sony DV HandyCam, then m

Re: Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Lee Begg
On Thu, 05 May 2005 21:55, Vik Olliver wrote: > I find myself once more needing to do simple GUI edits on an MPEG file > from my Sony camera, and being unable to find anything to do the job in > the entire Debian catalogue. > > I can extract the MPEG, and play the MPEG. I want to edit the MPEG, but

Re: Kernel Panic when booting with new kernel

2005-05-05 Thread Steve Holdoway
david merriman wrote: Hi there, First a bit of background... I've been having problems playing DVD's on my pc (Mandrake 10, 1GB RAM, AthlonXP 2.4MHz, nVidia GeForce2 MX400). Not crucial, I just wanted to see if I could. I've tried Xine and Kaffeine, and usually I just get a green window with i

Kernel Panic when booting with new kernel

2005-05-05 Thread david merriman
Hi there, First a bit of background... I've been having problems playing DVD's on my pc (Mandrake 10, 1GB RAM, AthlonXP 2.4MHz, nVidia GeForce2 MX400). Not crucial, I just wanted to see if I could. I've tried Xine and Kaffeine, and usually I just get a green window with intermittent sound, or

Re: Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Gareth Williams
> xhost (on Gentoo) gives > > access control enabled, only authorized clients can connect > > I suppose I have to allow anybody to connect to make this work. How do I > do this? Try saying xhost localhost to give all users on the local machine access to the X server. Alternatively replace loca

Using one X server on one machine for two distros

2005-05-05 Thread Robert Himmelmann
Hello, I am running Gentoo/SuSE (soon Gentoo/Debian). After "mount --bind /dev /data/suse/dev/", "mount -t proc none /data/suse/proc" and "chroot /data/suse /bin/bash" I am in SuSE. Now when I try to run emacs it prints out emacs: Cannot connect to X server :0. Check the DISPLAY environment variabl

Editing an MPEG file

2005-05-05 Thread Vik Olliver
I find myself once more needing to do simple GUI edits on an MPEG file from my Sony camera, and being unable to find anything to do the job in the entire Debian catalogue. I can extract the MPEG, and play the MPEG. I want to edit the MPEG, but no dice. Anyone found a tool that works yet? Cinelerr

SuSE 9.3

2005-05-05 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
Must have arrived in NZ by now. Some hype and sort of feature list is here: http://www.novell.com/coolsolutions/feature/14691.html Same media as 9.2: dual-layer DVD for 32/64 bit, DVD with source, and 5 CDs for those with an even older computer than mine. Anyone tried it yet? I don't have time to