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FOSS for Joe (was Hello There)
by Ben Francis 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

P.S. http://home.freeuk.com/losingtouch/pics/office_suicide.gif -- Ben "tola" Francis 00101010 tola ^/. http://hippygeek.co.uk mailto:tola_at_imen.org.uk opinions expressed are of the voices in my head only

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Re: [ALUG] Video cards (or Names and topics)
by Edenyard 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

MJR wrote: > > Video cards that play DVDs? Actually the card? Not use a program? I > think you get the idea. > Well - maybe I've been labouring under a misapprehension all this time, but I've seen advertised some cards, such as this one: "GeForce2 MX400 AGP 64MB Graphics Accelerator - (blah, blah) Allows full-screen, full-frame DVD playback." Or there's this: "nVIDIA TNT2 M64 Graphic Accelerators - (blah, blah again) DVD playback using Power DVDXP4.0 with RCA composite and S-VHS outputs" I don't know whether quoting those two makes it any clearer why I've been asking my question, or whether I'm barking up some sort of a wrong tree. I assumed that proper DVD decoding (whatever that might be) needed more power than a CPU could give and so some sort of purpose-made hardware did the decoding. But why would a card's spec specifically talk about allowing full-screen DVD playback if the type of card had no bearing on this???? > > From http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- > "If you can't get an answer, please don't take it personally that we > don't feel we can help you. Soemtimes the members of the asked group > may simply not know the answer. No response is not the same as being > ignored" > Thanks for the reference - I'll go and find it next time I'm connected. Clearly, though, there have been (infinitely) more answers since I made my comment than before (ratio = 6:0) so I'm not sure that the sentence you quoted above explains why I didn't get a response before. Cheers, Gerald.

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Kernel Bug found at root of Debian's Compromised Servers
by Wayne Stallwood 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

http://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/debian-security-announce-2… Patches available for 2.4.18 2.4.23 and 2.6.0-test6 onwards are unaffected.

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RE: [ALUG] cups server problem
by Jenny Hopkins 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

Wayne Stallwood wrote: > > Not a CUPS expert by any means, but this sounds like a > flaky/incorrect printer > driver to me. > > What printer and CUPS driver are you using ? > Hi, The posts on this arrived after I left work yesterday, but I had another go last night and got it working. I think what *may* have happened is that because I'd been initially faffing about with various drivers/ports/settings the parallel port had got into an unhappy state. So when I then thought it should work as I'd got the settings correct (Epson Stylus C70, driver something like cups-2.4-gimp-something, /dev/lp0) it still kept spitting out nonsense. In the end a reboot cured it and it printed me a glorious test page. I then spent a while trying to print to it from a second linux box; I could see the request was getting through to the server by watching the output to the logfiles, but it seemed unhappy with "get_printer_attr" - "no good!" type errors. It'll be something silly somewhere. Thanks, Jenny

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Advice required on CD burning software
by Nick Heppleston 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Morning all, Starting to get into the world of creating my own CD's and as my new laptop doesn't have a floppy drive, I need to start writing data CD's. Can anybody recommend CD-writing software (and CD-RW software if there is a difference) for Linux? I run Gentoo over a blistering 56k dial-up modem so am looking for a few recommendations before I unleash the power of the modem ;-) Cheers, Nick -- Nick Heppleston 07989 581766 | nickheppleston(a)gmx.co.uk The Funky PC - http://www.thefunkypc.biz

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Re: Playing DVDs with Linux using Ogle
by Richard Lewis 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

> I thought I would have a go at trying to get my PC to play DVDs this weekend > so I done an apt-get install ogle-mmx ogle-gui then ran install-css.sh and > linked /dev/dvd to /dev/hdc. > Why not just link to someting more obvious? # ln -s /dev/cdrom /dev/dvd > If I type "ogle" I get the ogle gui appear When I first started using Ogle I used to use it on the cmd line: $ ogle -u cli I remeber I often had to issue this command about 3 or 4 times and eventually it just worked. > However if I then click on FILE and OPEN DSC the following appears: > > libdvdcss error: failed opening device > libdvdread: Can't open /dev/dvd for reading. Do you know what version of libdvdcss, libdvdread and libdvdplay you have installed? Get the latest versions and make sure they're installed properly and with --prefix=/usr. They has quite a few dependencies so make sure they're all installed as well. http://developers.videolan.org/ (You may have to compile you're own versions of these; I don't know whether they're [libdvdcss] in Debian or not and I can't check because packages.debian.org is still down!) Cheers, Richard

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Re: xwWindows
by Richard Lewis 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

>> Do anyone use wxWidows ? > > Many people use wxWindows. I think the site http://www.wxwindows.org/ > keeps lists of examples. > >> I juts thinking to base my staff on it or to use the standard way - >> GTKor >> KDE ? >> Some suggestion ? > > It depends how portable you wish your program to be. wxWindows can run > in lots of places and make a reasonable attempt at *looking* correct, > although it can't integrate as well with GNOME or KDE. > > I like to see people develop GNUstep, but that's another story. I would choose wxWindows over GNUstep; wxWindows runs on Unix variants, MacOS (inc. < 10) and Windows; whereas GNUstep only really runs on Unix variants. wxWindows is written in C++ against GNUstep in Objective C. (Though I suppose whether this is an advantage or disadvantage is enturely a matter of opinion ;) ) wxWindows is at a further stage of development. (2.4.2 against 1.9 & 0.9.1) Cheers, Richard

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Reminder: Norwich thursday meet next week
by Syd Hancock 02 Dec '03

02 Dec '03

Don't forget: Norwich monthly evening meeting next week, thursday 11th December, from 8pm at the Forum bar. Syd

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Video cards (or Names and topics)
by Edenyard 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Thanks to Adam, Anthony and MJR for the thoughts on video cards. Adam wrote: > > to make your own VGA to Scart/RGB cable and use custom refresh rates to drive > the TV, you could possibly kill your tv doing this :) As far as I know there > are no consumer gfx cards that do RGB out (they either do composite or > s-video) > if anyone can prove me wrong then that would be fantastic. > RGB out was only a preference - I'd happily accept composite PAL or even YUV. But I suppose YUV is even more unlikely than RGB? Anthony Anson wrote: > > Did you say why you wanted a different card and what constitutes 'good'? > Yes, I did. I want something that plays DVDs well and something that gives composite, RGB or YUV video signals (in addition to the standard VGA socket). What constitutes 'good' is being well supported by Linux, i.e., having stable drivers that make all of the card's functions work. MJR wrote: > > Most likely, your question wasn't precise enough > Well - fair enough, if it wasn't. However (and with all due respect), I'd have thought that "I want well-supported video card for Linux that plays DVDs with video out" might have been specific enough to get something going? > > (seen ESR's paper about "smart questions"?) > No! What's that all about, then? Thanks for the input! Gerald.

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wxWindows
by Vasko Tomanov 01 Dec '03

01 Dec '03

Do anyone use wxWidows ? I juts thinking to base my staff on it or to use the standard way - GTKor KDE ? Some suggestion ? Cheers Vasko

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