Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-20 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 20, 2004, at 1:53 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark, This may be a dead product by now, but this old article speaks of running a QuickTime plugin on Linux. This is not a Linux port of QuickTime, but an emulation of the x86 plugin. Sounds cool if it actually works. http://www.linuxdevcen

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-20 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 20 oct. 04, à 22:36, Mark Talluto a écrit : On Oct 20, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Hi Mark, Took 1 hour to see how it goes on Suse-Linux 8.2 Pro with video and i did'nt get clean usable results. Xanim, VLC, MPlayer and so on are not on the road to egal Quicktime in any way... Sorr

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-20 Thread Roger . E . Eller
Mark, This may be a dead product by now, but this old article speaks of running a QuickTime plugin on Linux. This is not a Linux port of QuickTime, but an emulation of the x86 plugin. Sounds cool if it actually works. http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2001/09/06/crossover_partone.html

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-20 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 20, 2004, at 10:12 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Hi Mark, Took 1 hour to see how it goes on Suse-Linux 8.2 Pro with video and i did'nt get clean usable results. Xanim, VLC, MPlayer and so on are not on the road to egal Quicktime in any way... Sorry, i will not go head with those Linux video t

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-18 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 18, 2004, at 2:13 PM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Hello Mark, Because curiosity, i will have a look on what my old Suse 8.2 laptop can hold about Rev 2.5 video playback and let you know how it goes. Best, Pierre Hi Pierre, I look forward to your results. I am currently going through the steps

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-18 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello Mark, Because curiosity, i will have a look on what my old Suse 8.2 laptop can hold about Rev 2.5 video playback and let you know how it goes. Best, Pierre On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:07 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Le 18 oct. 04, à 05:53, Mark Talluto a écrit : Anyone get Lindows to play any video

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-18 Thread Mark Talluto
On Oct 18, 2004, at 1:07 AM, Pierre Sahores wrote: Le 18 oct. 04, à 05:53, Mark Talluto a écrit : Anyone get Lindows to play any video in Rev 2.5? I have set the vcplayer to "/usr/bin/MPlayer" and to "/user/bin/mplayer". I have yet to get video to play. I know I have mplayer installed because if

Re: Lindows, video, and Rev

2004-10-18 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le 18 oct. 04, à 05:53, Mark Talluto a écrit : Anyone get Lindows to play any video in Rev 2.5? I have set the vcplayer to "/usr/bin/MPlayer" and to "/user/bin/mplayer". I have yet to get video to play. I know I have mplayer installed because if I double-click on the test video, it plays in mpla

Re: Lindows - defaultfolder on startup

2004-09-14 Thread Mark Talluto
On Sep 14, 2004, at 4:53 AM, John Rule wrote: I get the same behavior in RedHat 9...it's a Linux issue I believe. I am parsing the long id of the mainStack for the current application path. This is actually a more reliable practice than defaultFolder IMO. JR Hi John, Thanks for the confirmation.

Re: Lindows - defaultfolder on startup

2004-09-14 Thread Mark Talluto
On Sep 14, 2004, at 1:10 AM, Martin Baxter wrote: Mark Talluto wrote: From the docs: When you start up the application, the defaultFolder is set to the folder containing the application. If you're using the development environment, this is the folder containing Revolution; if you're using a standal

Re: Lindows - defaultfolder on startup

2004-09-14 Thread John Rule
I get the same behavior in RedHat 9...it's a Linux issue I believe. I am parsing the long id of the mainStack for the current application path. This is actually a more reliable practice than defaultFolder IMO. JR Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 14:30:29 -0700 From: Mark Talluto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subjec

Re: Lindows - defaultfolder on startup

2004-09-14 Thread Martin Baxter
> Mark Talluto wrote: > From the docs: > >When you start up the application, the defaultFolder is set to the >folder containing the application. If you're using the development >environment, this is the folder containing Revolution; if you're using >a standalone application, this is the folder cont

Re: Lindows teaser

2003-09-27 Thread Pierre Sahores
Just to say that LindowsCD start and work perfectly under my old Samsung SN6300 PII 300 160 Mo RAM SNB Laptop. A good ocasion to set-up this old box as an home-made personal firewall/routeur. -- Bien cordialement, Pierre Sahores Inspection académique de Seine-Saint-Denis Applications et SGBD ACI

Re: Lindows teaser

2003-09-27 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Sep 26, 2003, at 22:16 Europe/Vienna, Barry Levine wrote: The words I keyed in on were "without having to install anything". I erroneously thought it would permit me to do so once I decided I liked it. *sigh* So, do you think that, for $50, we can actually write apps for this OS an

Re: Lindows teaser

2003-09-26 Thread Barry Levine
The words I keyed in on were "without having to install anything". I erroneously thought it would permit me to do so once I decided I liked it. *sigh* So, do you think that, for $50, we can actually write apps for this OS and, more importantly, get paid by them for doing so? Barry On Friday,

RE: Lindows CD - It's a teaser

2003-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Alex, Good point. I'm told they're working on such features for LindowsCD (it's relatively new at this time). You might want to check out Lindows BusinessStation, which is interesting in that it queries a server on startup and loads specific internet aware apps. BTW, you can right-click on the de

RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Pierre, Excellent points. And after installing Red Hat thrice before, I agree. Linux needs a 'desktop' oriented distro. And, RR is just the RAD tool for developing on it. In fact, IMHO, there's a huge opportunity for small developers with Lindows. best, Chipp > > Because Suse or Readhat are

RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Hi Xavier, > > If RPMs are not available and Lindows doesn't come with a compiler > (assumed), how do you > get more apps (like one you see one another distro?)... You are correct, Lindows doesn't come with a compiler. But using Click-N-Run, you can download ALL the developer tools with a single

Subject: Re: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread HyperChris
Please don't! >>So Bush shops at Walmart!!? ;)), ___ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution

Re: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Wolfgang M. Bereuter
On Freitag, Sep 26, 2003, at 11:05 Europe/Vienna, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nopix has our Guru's approval. Walmart doesn't! ;)) From the Lindows site, the office suite is extra $$... The seagate story was either on Slashdot.org or theregister.co.uk So Bush shops at Walmart!!? ;)), ROFL regards

RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Pierre Sahores
Hello Chipp, List, As a long user of Linux as both a development platform and a web/erp's over internet services hosting platform, it seem me that some main distro are mostly dedicated to build great, powerfull and secure servers solutions (internet/intranet/extranet/VPN/ERP,...). About server st

RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Pierre Sahores
Le ven 26/09/2003 à 11:21, sims a écrit : > I suspect the answer will be no...I'll ask anyway. > > If I have Virtual Windows (Windows 98) running on my OSX machine with > lots of RAM, > will I be able to pop in a Lindows CD and have it run? > ;-/ > > sims Hello, If you mean Virtual PC 5 or 6 (

RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread xbury . cs
Sorry for the FUD. Im warry of scams as usual and you all know how EULA's can tie you up... I'll try it anyway and as I said, it sounds like a good way for RR dev'ers to get their apps out there. Do they have a click and sell to all wallmart users? ;)) If RPMs are not available and Lindows doe

RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread sims
I suspect the answer will be no...I'll ask anyway. If I have Virtual Windows (Windows 98) running on my OSX machine with lots of RAM, will I be able to pop in a Lindows CD and have it run? ;-/ sims -- --- http://EZPZapps.com [EMA

Re: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread xbury . cs
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RE: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Chipp Walters
Xavier, > After talking to our guru, Lindows just happens to be a paying version of > a reduced debian distro. Lindows is indeed based on Debian, as they say on their website, but have you ever tried installing Debian? It's not for amateurs! BTW, as I mentioned in my article, Linux hardcore slash

Re: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread Alex Rice
On Friday, September 26, 2003, at 01:05 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: After talking to our guru, Lindows just happens to be a paying version of a reduced debian distro. The author may have been involved in a scam web site earlier too... Sounds like another Bill Gates wannabe to me... Well mark

Re: Lindows...

2003-09-26 Thread xbury . cs
After talking to our guru, Lindows just happens to be a paying version of a reduced debian distro. The author may have been involved in a scam web site earlier too... Sounds like another Bill Gates wannabe to me... Well marketed though. For those interested there is more on www.cnet.com. In bri

Re: Lindows available again.

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 10:15 PM, Alex Rice wrote: First person to contact me off-list: I will snail mail you the LindowsCD I burned. OK- contest over :-) Alex Rice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Mindlube Software | http://mindlube.com what a waste of thumbs that are opposable to make machin

Re: Lindows available again.

2003-09-25 Thread Alex Rice
On Thursday, September 25, 2003, at 08:07 PM, Chipp Walters wrote: Please note, you will need a minimum of 256Mb RAM to run the CD (as it installs many programs in RAM), though it's not necessarily the case with the installed version of the OS (you can purchase it from Lindows directly, if you