Re: Video capture

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 18:16:04 -0500 Matthew Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SuSE 8.1 shows support for tons of chipset/devices. I can't tell if any are USB or otherwise. I'm just looking in the YAST2 hardware module. I'm sure linux-usb.org has more info First place I looked. Lots of USB

Re: Parallel Port - SUSE 8.1

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
The device is /dev/lp0 and, if there is a second port, /dev/lp1 At least on my linux, which is not SuSE. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:00:10 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I installed SUSE 8.1 on a AMD Duron box. When I installed it, I had the parallel stuff disabled in the

Re: Video capture

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
Are you talking digital cameras or digital video? My experience is more with digital cameras, like the Sony DFW-SX900. I had been looking at Broadcast2000 for video, but I think that went away over fears of legal action if it allowed people to copy DVDs. I think the apps mentioned on the

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
The Netscape AddressBook will output an LDIF file, which is the interchange format for LDAP. You need not type in these files by hand. I have not found another tool for making these files. I was playing with how well they really work in practice. The problem as I see it is that LDIF is a bit

Re: File Type Not Supported

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:46:26 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/13/03 13:28, Condon Thomas A KPWA wrote: Folks, I think I have a demented install. I'm trying to mount a floppy drive and it keeps telling me File type not supported by kernel. VFAT?!? I thought all modern

Re: SuSE 8.1, ghostscript problems (xfig export).

2003-03-14 Thread David A. Bandel
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 21:35:19 -0800 Bill Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] have you tried to run the command was: line from a CLI? perhaps gs will give you a little better hint when the error message isn't intercepted by xfig. Yup. Nothing but something cryptic about transparent.

Re: Gnucash: Opinions please

2003-03-14 Thread Tim Wunder
On Thursday 13 March 2003 3:45 pm, someone claiming to be Dr. Jones wrote: I am starting to use Gnucash now and excited about it. What tax preparation programs are available to work with gnucash data? I don't believe there are any. -- RedHat Psyche 8.0, stock kernel, KDE 3.1.CVS, Xfree86

RE: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread tom
Greets List, Roger; Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am the happy maintainer of an address list for the parents in my daughter's class. For three or four years this has been a task passed on and on, with each making a new list, and the lists being all different and in various stated

Re: Parallel Port - SUSE 8.1

2003-03-14 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 09:04:54 +0100 Roger Oberholtzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The device is /dev/lp0 and, if there is a second port, /dev/lp1 At least on my linux, which is not SuSE. On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 23:00:10 -0700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I installed SUSE 8.1 on

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread John Voigt
On 03/13/2003 04:57 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: snip OpenLDAP seemed a better way to enter the info once and use it everywhere. Or, is it everywhere? Any opinions about this? Better ideas? Suggestions for tools? Hi, LDAP could work well for this. You might check out Directory

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:02:29 -0500 John Voigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 03/13/2003 04:57 PM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: snip OpenLDAP seemed a better way to enter the info once and use it everywhere. Or, is it everywhere? Any opinions about this? Better ideas? Suggestions for

Question

2003-03-14 Thread Rick Sivernell
List I need to take a picture of my desk top, tried printscreen with ctrl shit alt keys. I am running xfce 3.8.18. Any appreciated cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User .~. / v \ /( _

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread James McDonald
John Voigt wrote: I've been experimenting a bit with using OpenLDAP ... and need to keep things GUI-ish so the Windoze admins can figure it out if they need to add or modify user info. LOL unless we are clicking next we Windoze admins are lost... hmm... just make sure that you set all the

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Hi Roger ! Have you tried Novell eDirectory ? I find that it is eminently suitable in environments where the administrators are only familiar with Microsoft stuff (i.e. they need a GUI) , or when the database administrator or sysadmin needs to get up to speed quickly on LDAP. eDirectory runs

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread John Voigt
On 03/14/2003 08:48 AM, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 08:02:29 -0500 John Voigt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This looks interesting. But I wonder how extensible it is. For example, I did not see a place to enter an address. Company locations were there. Ooops - I did it again. I'm

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread John Voigt
On 03/14/2003 09:05 AM, James McDonald wrote: John Voigt wrote: I've been experimenting a bit with using OpenLDAP ... and need to keep things GUI-ish so the Windoze admins can figure it out if they need to add or modify user info. LOL unless we are clicking next we Windoze admins are lost...

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to install Novell on my server for this :) BTW, someone told me today that the city of Stockholm is Novell's biggest single client. Sounds odd to me. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:08:14+0800 Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Shawn L Johnston
Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to install Novell on my server for this :) BTW, someone told me today that the city of Stockholm is Novell's biggest single client. Sounds odd to me. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 22:08:14+0800 Chong Yu Meng [EMAIL

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Tim Wunder
On 3/14/2003 10:00 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to install Novell on my server for this :) BTW, someone told me today that the city of Stockholm is Novell's biggest single client.

Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Shawn L Johnston
Tim Wunder wrote: On 3/14/2003 10:00 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to install Novell on my server for this :) BTW, someone told me today that the city of Stockholm is Novell's

OT Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Tim Wunder
On 3/14/2003 10:15 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: On 3/14/2003 10:00 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want to pay for me to install Novell on my server for this

Re: VCR tape to DVD

2003-03-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:39:52 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, that's a bit different than saying that there are various standards for DVDs. this is dvd recording standards. No. There are different standards. Matthews point that a

Re: Question

2003-03-14 Thread Net Llama!
barring fancier options, you could use xwd, which comes with X. if you're looking for a gui tool, i think there's ksnapshot (assumign that you have KDE installed), and xv also can do this. I dont' think that XFCE includes any native tools for this though. On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Rick Sivernell

Re: OT Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Tim Wunder wrote: On 3/14/2003 10:15 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote: Tim Wunder wrote: On 3/14/2003 10:00 AM, someone claiming to be Shawn L Johnston wrote: Roger Oberholtzer wrote: I doubt that the parents in my daughter's class want

Re: VCR tape to DVD

2003-03-14 Thread Roger Oberholtzer
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:55:01 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:39:52 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, that's a bit different than saying that there are various standards for DVDs. this is

Re: VCR tape to DVD

2003-03-14 Thread Net Llama!
On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003 10:55:01 -0500 (EST) Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 14 Mar 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 16:39:52 -0800 Net Llama! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, that's a bit different than saying

MainFrame Style HEx Dump

2003-03-14 Thread Ben Duncan
Anyone know of a good Mainframe Style hex dump Program. These are the ones in which there were 4 rows of information on each line - Row 1 was the byte number (ie 11.2) the second and third row was the hex Code (example letter A would be 41, four on top, one on bottom ) and finaly,

Re: OT Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 10:51:53AM -0500, Tim Wunder wrote: [...] Cripes, they bothered to put Microsoft in front of Windows and Novell in front of NetWare and Sun in front of Solaris, why couldn't they be bothered to put RedHat in front of Linux? It just fries my goat when I see that...

Re: Question

2003-03-14 Thread Rick Sivernell
Lonnie Thanks, actually I was playing with gimp. It has an acquire selection, it gets the whole window. I now can select that which I need. Way Gimp. cheers -- Rick Sivernell Dallas, Texas 75287 972 306-2296 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Caldera Open Linux eWorkStation 3.1.1 Registered Linux User

Re: Parallel Port - SUSE 8.1

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 05:51:45AM -0700, Collins Richey wrote: .. If dmesg indicates that the parallel port is detected and /dev/lp0 exists, you shouldn't need to do anything else. Hook up a printer and give it a try. You need to check the BIOS setting for the parallel port as well to make

Re: Question

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 12:11:30PM -0600, Rick Sivernell wrote: Lonnie Thanks, actually I was playing with gimp. It has an acquire selection, it gets the whole window. I now can select that which I need. Way Gimp. Now if somebody could tell me how to get screen shots during the installation

Re: MainFrame Style HEx Dump

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:00:21AM -0600, Ben Duncan wrote: Anyone know of a good Mainframe Style hex dump Program. These are the ones in which there were 4 rows of information on each line - Row 1 was the byte number (ie 11.2) the second and third row was the hex Code (example

Re: MainFrame Style HEx Dump

2003-03-14 Thread Ben Duncan
Yup .. still does not come close to the usablility of 'dem ol' style Sys390 Mainframe dumps. Bill Campbell wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:00:21AM -0600, Ben Duncan wrote: Anyone know of a good Mainframe Style hex dump Program. These are the ones in which there were 4 rows of information on

Re: Recommendations on Terminal based email clients with IMAP support

2003-03-14 Thread Kurt Wall
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:37:18AM +1100, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I have been feeling cut off at work lately so I have moved my ssh port and now login to home from work with putty and use http://pebrot.sourceforge.net as a text based MSN client. I would also like to pick up my

Re: MainFrame Style HEx Dump

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 02:31:21PM -0600, Ben Duncan wrote: Yup .. still does not come close to the usablility of 'dem ol' style Sys390 Mainframe dumps. Sorry. I avoided all IBM systems in my mainframe days. My mainframe experience is all Burroughs Medium and Large Systems running MCP. I got

Re: Recommendations on Terminal based email clients with IMAP support

2003-03-14 Thread Bill Campbell
On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 04:18:01PM -0500, Kurt Wall wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2003 at 11:37:18AM +1100, James McDonald wrote: Folks, I have been feeling cut off at work lately so I have moved my ssh port and now login to home from work with putty and use http://pebrot.sourceforge.net as a

Lame Startup Script for Gimp

2003-03-14 Thread Joel Hammer
#! /bin/sh cd ~/My\ Documents /usr/bin/gimp-1.2 This is the startup script for gimp as delivered to my lindows computer from the warehouse. This is a debian system. This script is called gimp. So, you start the thang with the command gimp. Problem is, no options can be passed to the program

Re: OT Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Chong Yu Meng
Net Llama! wrote: me too just ignorant marketing types mostly who think Redhat = Linux. That's actually quite funny. It's like, when I'm overseas, people think that just because I'm Chinese, I know martial arts, and have trouble with my r's and l's. Flied lice velly good Net Rrama ... :)

Re: OT Re: address info / ldap question

2003-03-14 Thread Net Llama!
On 03/14/03 18:33, Chong Yu Meng wrote: Net Llama! wrote: me too just ignorant marketing types mostly who think Redhat = Linux. That's actually quite funny. It's like, when I'm overseas, people think that just because I'm Chinese, I know martial arts, and have trouble with my r's and l's.

netscape 7.02

2003-03-14 Thread Jack Berger
Just an fyi for anyone interested... Just loaded netscape 7.02. On the face of it, it is a very big improvement performancewise over 7.0/7.01. Startup times are noticeably improved (on both linux and windows). Unfortunately I have no benchmarks for memory usage. -jhb-