Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 November 2003 08:19 pm, Ken Bloom kabloom-at-ucdavis.edu |lugod| wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:04:46PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wednesday 26 November 2003 03:28 am, Bill

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Ken Bloom
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 08:04:46PM -0800, Ryan wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 26 November 2003 03:28 am, Bill Kendrick nbs-at-sonic.net > |lugod| wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08AM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > > +RW is random writeable. You could fo

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 November 2003 03:28 am, Bill Kendrick nbs-at-sonic.net |lugod| wrote: > On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08AM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > +RW is random writeable. You could format it as ext2 and mount it :) > > OOh.. that's messed up. Cool! :

Re:Re: [vox-tech] Text Scroller in Xlib---

2003-11-26 Thread Sharad Bajaj
I vaguely remember the thread about that.  I don't recall if therewas any consensus or solution, though. Out of curiosity, are you planning to use plain Xlib, or are you going to(or willing to) use a toolkit on top of it, like GTK+ or Qt? I've done Xlib, long ago, but didn't do anything very fancy

Re: DVD-9 (was: Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning...)

2003-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
On Wed 26 Nov 03, 9:10 AM, Jonathan Stickel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > >if you can wait a bit, DVD writers that can write DVD-9 media will be > >coming out soon. this will double the 4.7GB you can get on DVD-5 media. > > > >it also means you can make backups of your co

DVD-9 (was: Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning...)

2003-11-26 Thread Jonathan Stickel
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: if you can wait a bit, DVD writers that can write DVD-9 media will be coming out soon. this will double the 4.7GB you can get on DVD-5 media. it also means you can make backups of your commercial DVD's without fiddling with them, like yanking foreign language, yanking subt

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
if you can wait a bit, DVD writers that can write DVD-9 media will be coming out soon. this will double the 4.7GB you can get on DVD-5 media. it also means you can make backups of your commercial DVD's without fiddling with them, like yanking foreign language, yanking subtitles, compressing, etc.

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Jonathan Stickel
That Sony DRU-510A is a good drive. I just bought one at Fry's last week myself after having success with my wife's external Sony DVD+/-RW drive. It has dropped in price about $130 since it first hit the shelves. Soon it will be replaced by the next model which burns at 8x. Bill Kendrick wrote

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 02:48:08AM -0800, Ryan wrote: > > +RW is random writeable. You could format it as ext2 and mount it :) OOh.. that's messed up. Cool! :^) I guess with nearly 5GB, the overhead of maintaining the filesystem stuff (directories, etc.) becomes much less of a problem. :^) >

Re: [vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Ryan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 26 November 2003 01:31 am, Bill Kendrick nbs-at-sonic.net |lugod| wrote: > I was at Fry's the other day, looking to FINALLY buy a CD burner. > I happened to run into a LUGOD attendee (Steve, who I vaguely recognized, > but sadly barely re

Re: [vox-tech] Text Scroller in Xlib---

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 01:00:43AM -0800, Sharad Bajaj wrote: > Hello Mr Julie Russell , (Julie would be a "Ms", "Mrs" or the like, FYI ;^) ) > I have seen one or two message from ur side regrading one > application .I am also developing same application I am looking for > help how can we scroll

[vox-tech] DVD playback and burning under Debian; IDE DVD+/-RW drive

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
I was at Fry's the other day, looking to FINALLY buy a CD burner. I happened to run into a LUGOD attendee (Steve, who I vaguely recognized, but sadly barely remembered - sorry, Steve!), who recommended a DVD burner they were having a mail-in rebate deal for. So, I decided that 4.7GB is, indeed, m

[vox-tech] Mozilla crash on paste?

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
I'm working on Melissa's desktop box, a Debian Woody system with a backport of Mozilla (Mozila 1.5: "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031115 Debian/1.5-3.he-1") and am noticing it crashes (as in, the window _vanishes_) whenever I paste into it! It doesn't matter if I'm pas

[vox-tech] Text Scroller in Xlib---

2003-11-26 Thread Sharad Bajaj
Hello Mr Julie Russell ,     I have seen one or two message from ur side regrading one application .I am also developing same application I am looking for help how can we scroll text in child window,please help me i will be very great full to u. Regards Linux Man.   R

Re: [vox-tech] Linux software for windows

2003-11-26 Thread Bill Kendrick
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 11:54:01AM +0530, karthikeyan.balasubramanian wrote: > Hi, > > Just curious, want to know complete list of software's running on > Linux and its equivalent in Windows worlds. For examples I know Really more of a "vox" question than 'vox-tech'. Just to quickly give som