Lousy Audio - Wav files Playing too fast

2001-05-05 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hey folks, I'm having just an awful time with audio problems right now. I recently installed RedHat 7.1. I was running a modified 7.0 with 2.4.3 kernel, 4.0.2 X and most libraries custom compiled to work with my hardware (ATI Radeon) that wasn't supported in 7. When it became to ocumbersome

Directory Structure MAX_SIZE

2001-03-14 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hey all, A friend just asked me a q I could not provide an answer for. They are doing a large project in which they assume the directory structure will be quite vast (deep) and would like to know if there is a limit to that depth. I am presuming it's an ext2fs (possibly reiserfs?). Does anyone

Swap Disk/Leaky mem?

2001-03-04 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hi all, I am having a problem that I hope someone can help me with. I recently installed RH7 on my intel SMP machine. I upgraded all the packages and then installed a custom 2.4.2 kernel. The problem is that shortly after startup and entering X win, the HD starts grinding away for several seco

Re: Graphics Art

2000-12-24 Thread Rob Hardowa
The Gimp is my #1 choice, but for tutorials, 2d and 3d software and stuff check out http://www.linuxartist.org On Sun, 24 Dec 2000, you wrote: > Ever see a classy web page logo with shadows, highlighting, > characters/font type like aAbB...etc. but all tailor made into some > special sylistic s

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-03 Thread Rob Hardowa
That's also something I'd had real troubles with. The modem I have is the alcatel speed touch home. I've downloaded both the users manual and advanced manual from their site and just cannot get that thing to use the web or telnet interface. It has a default address of 10.0.0.138 and no matter w

Re: Find IP for DSL

2000-11-03 Thread Rob Hardowa
te: > On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Rob Hardowa wrote: > > As mentioned by others, ifconfig will help you find the IP's associated > with local interfaces. However, if you're using a routing DSL modem (the > kind that does NAT rather than PPPoE), you'll probably have to use >

Find IP for DSL

2000-11-03 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hey all, I'm on a DSL line and I need to set up a temporary one time FTP server to have a co-worker transfer to me a very large uncompressed wav audio file. My quesiton is: Is there a way to find out my IP address so he can connect? Our DSL issues dynamic IPs. I have tried a couple web based

Re: BeOs

2000-10-19 Thread Rob Hardowa
I sat in on a demonstration of an SGI mainframe not too long ago. It was doing rendering in real-time to 3 projectors lined up in a 180 degree theatre...pretty darn amazing. They used it to demonstrate applications in architecture (very cool), flight simulators and other areas. It was a most im

Re: 1st OS

2000-10-19 Thread Rob Hardowa
Alrighty, if you want accomplishments, lets go back to the Bell Labs Model 1 electromechanical computer in 1930, the ENIGMA coding machine in 1928 or the Babbage/Lovelace "Analytical Engine" of 1834...but I do think the question asked was regarding the first OS, not the first computer, my addition

Re: [OT] RE: DSL pricing, etc.

2000-10-19 Thread Rob Hardowa
I hear ya, I pay $40CDN/month for my ADSLand our provider was the first in North America to offer the ADSL service (Sasktel)checking out relatives in the US on Earthlink who pay $54.95/month for the phone company connection PLUS their ISP. Too much money! If we were to convert what we pa

Pro Audio Processing on Linux - was Re: BeOs

2000-10-18 Thread Rob Hardowa
More thinking out loud PLUS my two centsthrow in the modulus operator to get the remainder and the result is my opinion, worth about as much as the Canadian dollar rose in value today :) I'd love to see more Multimedia development for Linux. It has been pretty bad up to this point, ie, a ser

Re: 1st OS

2000-10-18 Thread Rob Hardowa
: > Prior to WWII the term computer actually referred to a human being. > > Paul Anderson > > Rob Hardowa wrote: > > > Totally off topic but worth a stab at it... > > > > According to "Operating Systems Concepts" by Silberschatz and Galvin it > >

Re: 1st OS

2000-10-18 Thread Rob Hardowa
Totally off topic but worth a stab at it... According to "Operating Systems Concepts" by Silberschatz and Galvin it all depends on how you define "Operating System." The first operating system for computers would have been a human being. The first software O/S depends on your definition of O/S.

Re: Does anyone know of a AOL IM for Redhat?

2000-10-03 Thread Rob Hardowa
If you can handle a 'script' program (shudder) Tik is ok. It is a bit different than the other standards in that you can insert modules to display everything from stock tickers to weather forecasts in the same window as your buddy list. Or even language conversions On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, you

Re: getting started with web hosting

2000-09-27 Thread Rob Hardowa
I agreemore isn't always better. I mean, more RAM is always desireable, and SCSI drives are better, and of course a separate machine for a database server is a security/performance plus, but none of these is necessary by any means. I run a 100MHz Pentium as my development machine in which I

RE: Anyone receiving old list emails today

2000-09-25 Thread Rob Hardowa
How odd, I've chalked it up to about 170 mails from the list today with several old ones in there. I knew it was slow but that's rediculous. I haven't received other old mails on other lists todaymaybe all that traffic finally flushed the queue? hehehe :) On Mon, 25 Sep 2000, you wrote: >

Anyone receiving old list emails today

2000-09-25 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hey all, I've received over 100 emails today dating back to sept 14th from this list only. No other old mail has come in from other lists or personal on this mail account. Is this the latency of the list? I know personally i've posted stuff that has never shown up...maybe it's still on it's way

Re: vmlinuz

2000-09-25 Thread Rob . Hardowa
The list is a great place to get help with problems you are experiencing, but I doubt that any one of it's participants has enough time to research and describe "vmlinuz" for you. At least not in great enough length that you would likely be satisfied. I noticed you are using MS Outlook as your m

Re: [OT] Apache serves English and Chinese equally well?

2000-09-22 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, you wrote: > I've been asked whether we can host some pages and CGI for research > purposes that will be written in "Simplified Chinese". I don't know the > first thing about hosting data using non-English character sets... But it > seems to be more a browser-side issue th

Re: Streaming media

2000-09-21 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > P.S. mp3 is not the same as MPEG - I've noticed many people are confused about >that. > > MPEG is video, mp3 is audio only. > > Unless I've gone nuts or this has change, MP3 does indeed mean MPEG, in > a way. MP3 is short for MPEG3, which is an audio format. M

Re: Linux is More Secure than NT? Prove It.

2000-09-15 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote: > > I believe companies of alternative operating systems should buckle down and > have their products rated by the NCSC to better compete with Microsoft and > make us feel proud (and more secure) in using alternative operating systems, > like Linux. Please email co

Re: Kernel Question

2000-09-14 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Fri, 15 Sep 2000, you wrote: > AND yes a smaller kernel is faster i would imagine although i've never gotten > mine that small. Whoops! I should have mentioned that was done with make bzImage so that's the compressed size :) I'd love to have the kernel that size though! The stock redhat

Re: Kernel Question

2000-09-14 Thread Rob Hardowa
Kernel.org is where I get my goods from :) Keep in mind that the latest stable kernel (last time I checked) is 2.2.16 and redhat's latest rpm's are 2.2.16-3, so unless you wanted a development kernel, using the rpms is just fine. Regarding the how to, it's been a while since I read it, but if yo

Re: console System monitor?

2000-09-14 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote: > As I've said several times, my co is in the middle of shifting over to > Linux web and email servers. > > One thing we use all the time on NT is a resource meter. Current page hits, > current CPU usages, memory usage, SQL querys in progress, etc. > I recall

Re: Who broke GCC compiling ...

2000-09-14 Thread Rob Hardowa
Just a quick note... It's been a long time since I studied compilers, and a brief time at that, so I'm not really qualified to give you any information other than an opinionso I offer this... A standard user space program that only uses regular C library functions should not require the kern

Re: List Archive

2000-09-14 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote: > Has anyone tried to access the archive of this mailing list? > (http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists/redhat-list/index.html) > > It brings up the list for the "redhat-announce-list" rather than the > redhat-list. I found that out toobut if you look at the bot

Re: asm include missing as well

2000-09-13 Thread Rob Hardowa
> Following the example of linking "linux", I linked "asm-i386" to "asm" > as well. > You may have that wrong...and its kinda trivial, but if a file is looking at it then it's critical. On my 6.2 system the linking for asm is as follows /usr/include/asm is linked to /usr/src/linux/inc

Re: Who broke GCC compiling ...

2000-09-13 Thread Rob Hardowa
I wouldn't (again) blame it on redhat. If the link is missing you should create it...or just force a reinstall of the source and header packages and it should do it for you. I've installed kernels from tarballs on my own and recreated the link, and I just installed one on monday from rpms and th

Re: Who broke GCC compiling ...

2000-09-13 Thread Rob Hardowa
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, you wrote: > /usr/include/bits/errno.h:25: linux/errno.h: No such file or directory > make[1]: *** [fnmatch.o] Error 1 Sounds to me like you are missing the kernel headers. Install the kernel source and make sure that /usr/include/linux is a symlink to /path/to/kernel-src/in

Re: Am I asking for problems?

2000-09-13 Thread Rob Hardowa
>From reponses on the list I guess others have had 6.2 running on Presario. The problem I encountered during an install was with Xor, as far as I can remember anyway :) And that was back in January so it would have been 6.1 I believe. It didn't recognize the video adapter and all I could get

Re: Apache problem

2000-09-13 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hi Jake, I'm not an Apache admin or anything but I may be able to help. If your problem is where Apache is looking for your web files, then the config file you are looking to change is, depending on apache version, likely httpd.conf. You will likely find this in the conf directory of your webse

Re: where can I get realplayer?

2000-09-13 Thread Rob Hardowa
Hiya, Looking at the file, it appears that it simply tells kde desktop what to use for wav files. Kdelnk are kde desktop icons and actions. Real probably just replaces this file with its own to either include .ra files or to change the default action of .wav files. I have RA7 installed but did

Re: Netscape uses ??? instead of ''

2000-09-12 Thread Rob Hardowa
does it all come down to the monopoly thing again? They'll only replace the ' and " in text BETWEEN tags? Is that the deal? > On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Rob Hardowa wrote: > > > Really, it's Netscape? That's funny, cause I still have that problem in > > Lynx

Re: Netscape uses ??? instead of ''

2000-09-12 Thread Rob Hardowa
Really, it's Netscape? That's funny, cause I still have that problem in Lynx and Amaya as well. Not QUITE the same problem, but rather than displaying the ? it displays nothing at all, not even a space. I've come across that in my editor as well where it will display a space instead of the ' or

Re: Am I asking for problems?

2000-09-12 Thread Rob Hardowa
Sorry I missed the original post on this but I thought I'd throw in my 2 cents :) I tried installing linux on a 566 celeron Presario in January and it was a complete waste of time (in my opinion). The install went over ok but X didn't recognize the graphics cardwell, can't call it a card any