Re: [PLUG] First quad core system...

2010-10-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
"Michael C. Robinson" writes: > I'm trying to upgrade from a Pentium 4 3.06 ghz system to a Quad Core AMD > Phenom system. I'm upgrading from Fedora 12 i686 to Fedora 13 x86_64. > Okay, is there a way to support legacy software such as: Dirk Dashing Secret > Agent, Rick Rocket, Eschalon Book I,

Re: [PLUG] First quad core system...

2010-10-18 Thread Ali Corbin
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:22 PM, Michael C. Robinson wrote: > > There is a way to run 32 bit software on a 64 bit platform??? > Your fedora 64bit distro should have come with a selection of 32bit libraries, enough to support the 32bit apps that they think you might want to run. If they missed som

[PLUG] First quad core system...

2010-10-18 Thread Michael C. Robinson
I'm trying to upgrade from a Pentium 4 3.06 ghz system to a Quad Core AMD Phenom system. I'm upgrading from Fedora 12 i686 to Fedora 13 x86_64. Okay, is there a way to support legacy software such as: Dirk Dashing Secret Agent, Rick Rocket, Eschalon Book I, Eschalon Book II, Dungeons of Daggorath

[PLUG] NFS server problems

2010-10-18 Thread Nathan W
hi folks, a little background. the system is a qnap turbostation i flashed debian arm onto. just fidgeting around (i never learn better...) i install blockcontrol and moblock, at which point i quit being able to mount nfs share on the LAN (this despite having all LAN traffic whitelisted in blockco

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-18 Thread Daniel Pittman
Paul Heinlein writes: > On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Robert Munro wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Salvage resellers are selling some refurbished IBM Thinkpad T41 and T42 >> notebooks on Ebay, which seem to be selling for a little more than $100 at >> auction. These syst

Re: [PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Aaron Burt wrote: > > Before you go too much further, I've had the same symptom due to the player > not being able to keep up with the framerate.  Is it any better if you > disable video output and/or use mplayer from the commandline?  How did you > strip out the a

Re: [PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-18 Thread Aaron Burt
On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 09:26:46AM -0700, Rogan Creswick wrote: > I apologize for the tangential nature of this post, but I am hoping > for a linux-based solution and I don't know where else to ask right > now. > > I have a video of a talk that is spattered with very loud, > ear-wrenching, bursts

Re: [PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-18 Thread Jason Barnett
I have no clue how to do this, but it sounds like a fun challenge. If you want to send me the sample, I'll see what I can come up with... no guarantees though. Jason On Mon, Oct 18, 2010 at 9:26 AM, Rogan Creswick wrote: > I apologize for the tangential nature of this post, but I am hoping > fo

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-18 Thread Robert Munro
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thank you all for your replies. An IBM T4x Thinkpad is sounding good. Regards, Robert -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAky8i5EACgkQ+qYMIUkNJC

[PLUG] SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT: October PLUG AT: Allison Randal on Ubuntu Release Engineering

2010-10-18 Thread Michael Dexter
Announcement: Portland Linux/Unix User Group Meeting PLUG Advanced Topics for October 2010 Topic: Ubuntu Release Engineering by Allison Randal Date and Time: Tuesday, October 19th, 7PM Location: Free Geek, 1731 SE 10th Avenue Ubuntu 10.10 arrived on 10/10/10 and work has already begun on Ubunt

[PLUG] Audio normalization / static removal in Linux

2010-10-18 Thread Rogan Creswick
I apologize for the tangential nature of this post, but I am hoping for a linux-based solution and I don't know where else to ask right now. I have a video of a talk that is spattered with very loud, ear-wrenching, bursts of static at random intervals. There are quite a few of these bursts (on av

Re: [PLUG] Is anyone running Linux on an IBM Thinkpad T41 or T42?

2010-10-18 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010, Robert Munro wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Salvage resellers are selling some refurbished IBM Thinkpad T41 and > T42 notebooks on Ebay, which seem to be selling for a little more > than $100 at auction. These systems have 1.6GHz Pentium M CPUs