Re: mp3 players

2001-07-10 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, to play mp3s i use xmms, which i love. It can use winamp skins. It used to be called X11Amp. xmms has a plugin that can record a track into a .wav file (disk writer plugin). I think it can write from any source it can read from (eg cd/mp3/wav/etc...) Hereward On Wednesday 11 July 2001 01:47,

Xine(.deb) DVD Playback

2001-07-11 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I have been using xine + libcss + xine_libcss_plugin to play dvds. The quality of playback wasn't too great compared to previous setups (about 4 months ago) so i tried to install the .deb version of xine, and in the process upgrade to testing. But once installed I've seen that there is no

Scanjet 5370c

2001-07-13 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Has anyone had success in setting up a parallel HP Scanjet 5370c scanner? I've found one site that says to use a patch called ppSCSI. Is this the best way? And is there anyway i can get to work as a parallel scanner, rather than have the hassel of doing scsi emulation? Thanks in advance, H

Re: VCD program under Gnome/X11?

2001-07-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Tuesday 17 July 2001 14:53, Chun Kit Edwin Lau wrote: > Hi everyone, > > Just wondering if there is any software under Gnome or X11 that play > VCD? > I try xanim, it gives me some error saying unsupport format. I am using > unstable right now. try xine, it has vcd support but i've nev

seting up a gateway

2001-07-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Is there a gateway HOWTO? I found something along that lines but none of it applied to a debian system. Also what do i need a 2.4.6 kernel for it to work, am i right in thinking that it is different from 2.2.x? Thanks in advance, Hereward

Screwed up cursor under X

2001-07-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X 3.3.6. Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now a white long and thin rectangular box with a couple of vertical transparent lines passing through it, and it happens under all window managers. It mo

Re: MP3 players

2001-07-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 15:55, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: > I finally got sound working on my potato box but still have some problems > with it. mpg123 will play an mp3 perfectly but xmms and freeamp produce > horribly distorted sound. Since mpg123 works properly, it seems to me that > I have th

Re: Screwed up cursor under X -- SOLVED

2001-07-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Wednesday 18 July 2001 14:49, you wrote: > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:21:11PM +0000, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm running an ATi AGP Rage (pro?) card with a proview monitor, and X > > 3.3.6. Under X my mouse point, rather than being a normally arrow, is now

strange error

2001-07-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
I get this error when i do basic command line operations (eg 'ps'): {isdn_ppp_unregister_compressor} {isdn_ppp_unregister_compressor_R__ver_isdn_ppp_unregister_compressor} Warning: /usr/src/linux/System.map does not match kernel data. What does this mean, and does it make any problems, (anythin

Fwd: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
-- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Corel Linux Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 11:37:42 + From: Hereward Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Thursday 19 July 2001 10:29, Bruce wrote: > I hope you can direct me. I have ju

Gateway Bandwidth Control

2001-07-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I'm running a simple two machine network, with the main machine connected a ISDN line, and setup to be a gateway to the internet for the other. When only one machine is accessing the net it works at full speed (~7.2k/s) fine, but when I try to get both machines online at the same ti

Re: Gateway Bandwidth Control

2001-07-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
rd > --adam b. > > -Original Message- > From: Hereward Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:58 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Gateway Bandwidth Control > > > Hi, > > I'm running a simple two machine network, w

Fwd: Re: Re: Corel Linux

2001-07-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
you have a interesting way of putting it -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Re: Re: Corel Linux Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 21:19:22 +1000 From: "ann Barbara" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hereward Cooper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> this is bullshit ----- Origi

Re: Remote file systems

2001-07-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
try copying them to /etc/init.d/ that should work, i had to do that. Hereward On Friday 20 July 2001 19:45, Keith O'Connell wrote: > Hi, > > I have recently installed Debian on a Dell laptop I have here. It has > largely gone according to plan (laptops are never straight forward!). > The > proble

Re: DVDs

2001-07-21 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Saturday 21 July 2001 14:20, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Sun, Jul 22, 2001 at 12:02:04AM +1000, Bek Oberin wrote: > > Through fortuitous means, I just acquired a DVD player! > > > > I've looked at the DVD HOWTO and it recommends a whole bunch > > of software from the LiVID project. > > > > Is any o

Re: viewer

2001-07-22 Thread Hereward Cooper
try having a go with kghostview. Hereward On Sunday 22 July 2001 22:14, Markus Hansen wrote: > hi guys > does anyone know which program i can use to > view > pdf, ghostscript and postscropt files? > thank you for helping > markus

Unimportant lilo query

2001-07-23 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, When i run lilo i get this message (though lilo still installs properly, and works fine) " Warning: CHANGE AUTOMATIC assumed after "other=/dev/hda1" " Could someone please just tell me what this means, thanks, Hereward This is my lilo.conf lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/bo

Re: Unimportant lilo query

2001-07-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
that worked. Any ideas what that does? Hereward On Tuesday 24 July 2001 04:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 23 Jul 2001, at 12:46, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > Hi, > > When i run lilo i get this message (though lilo still installs properly, > > and works fine) >

Re: Debian Firewall

2001-07-25 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > I want to setup a firewall for my home LAN. I will have 5 - 10 PC's > > behind it. It will be running on a PPro 233 w/ 80mb RAM, and 2 Intel > > 100mb NIC's. I want a lot of features. I want a lot of features: > > Security - you can't be 100 per cent. Do the best you > can and keep current with

hi-grade flyer 3400

2001-08-23 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Does anyone know about running debian (or any linux) on the: hi-grade flyer 3400 notebook? What can/cant it support. Will it work at all?Thanks, Hereward

Re: File Manager for wmaker

2001-08-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Hi i would like to know any url of a good file manager for > wmaker...i > use gmc, but dont like it...if somebody can help me thanks!!! i use filerunner for file managment, it does everything i need. Hereward

Re: Mp3 on XMMS are faster

2001-08-25 Thread Hereward Cooper
> My xmms plays the mp3 files too fast...i dont know why... > (xmms 1.2.5) > Have you tried to change the output plugin under preferences? Hereward

XF86Setup Error

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I'm trying to reconfigure my X, when I run XF86Setup the following appears: ### Warning CHIPSET specification missing in Card database entry S3 Savage4 (line 1442). Warning SERVER specification missing in Card database entry Trident TGUI9420 (generic) (line 2186). Warning SERVER specificat

SGML

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Firstly i'm told this is meant to be a highly controversial subject and may start a flame war, am i right? What's the easiest (and hopeful best) way of getting sgml working fully under debian. I just can't under stand what on earth is going on, or what it is trying to do. Please could someone

Re: Re: SGML

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
> What's "fully working"? ok, just working then. > For an authoring tool, my recommendation is psgmltools under > emacs. Got it! The problems come in the validation and filtering of SGML i've written. > If you're doing DocBook, there's a set of packages that you'll > want to > install, starting

Re: Re: XF86Setup Error

2001-08-26 Thread Hereward Cooper
> They suggest using either xf86cfg or XFree86 -configure, but > both of these > caused my machine (a dell dimension) to crash as (i think) > they are > essentially the same program. xf86cfg runs XFree86 -configure to generate a settings file, or so I read somewhere (manpage?) when i run xf86c

Network Collisons

2001-08-27 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, What would cause the vast number of packet collisons between the 2 computers on my network, which are connected via a 8 port hub. Thanks, Hereward

Re: Re: Sharing files between Linux & Windows machines on LAN

2001-08-27 Thread Hereward Cooper
> >Hi, > >What is the easiest way to share files between the two > computers? Is it possible over the LAN > >created with the router? What software do I need to > accomplish this? > > > >My gratitude: > >Thanks! > > Have you ever tried Samba? It has a very straight-forward > help file and config

Re: Re: ext3 howto

2001-08-27 Thread Hereward Cooper
> You want to make sure that copying and pasting *most* of your > HOWTO from this page, > http://www.uow.edu.au/~andrewm/linux/ext3/ext3-usage.html, > worked okay ?? Sorry, either you copied it or you were > thinking exactly like the person who wrote the steps on the > 'official' ext3 patch site we

Nvidia Riva TNT 3D drivers + green boxes

2001-12-07 Thread Hereward Cooper
[i'm off list so pleae cc: back to me aswell!] Hi there yal, When ever I start up X using my 3d driver for my riva tnt I get lovley green boxes appear at random locations on my screen, making it unusable most of the time. Then my box locks up when I quit X? Can anyone help? Thanks, Hereward p

speech synthesis on-the-fly

2002-02-10 Thread Hereward Cooper
TIA [1] http://ftp.arl.mil/~mike/ping.html -- Thanks, ------ -0) Hereward Cooper"Being Alone Draws Attention" Somerset, UK /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1E1D0C80 zadok.ddts.net _\_v -- pgp3rz4r8iYJi.pgp Description: PGP signature

tv card colour problems

2002-03-06 Thread Hereward Cooper
across all tv viewers/recorders. -- Thanks, -- -0) Hereward Cooper"Being Alone Draws Attention" Somerset, UK /\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1E1D0C80 z

abiword font problems

2001-11-11 Thread Hereward Cooper
[please cc: me as i'm off list] Hi there, What's up with abiword? Its complaining that "abiword could not load the following font or fontset from the X window system display server: [-*-Times New Roman-regular-r-*-*-*-0-*-*-*-*-*-*]. I had this problem on a diskless terminal once (but not on the

Re: php4 on testing is unistallable

2001-11-11 Thread Hereward Cooper
Once upon a time (actually it was more like Sun, 11 Nov 2001 10:38:04 -0500), Alex Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > php4 in testing insists that it needs an earlier version > > I've upgrade to testing: > > Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: php4: Depends: > apache

External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, How can I get my machine to automatically update a file with my current dynamic IP address? Is there a enviroment varriable which i can read it from, write it to a file, then upload it to a hidden section of a public web site, so that selected people (who know where the file is) can use it to S

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> /sbin/ifconfig > will display the IP address of all interfaces > > It would be really hard for those people to ssh in and read > that file > unless they first knew the IP, in which case they wouldn't > need the > file ... I know that, what i wanted was a system that would read the IP addres

Re: Re: External IP Address

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> I'll attach a perl snippet that I used when on modem, > might give you some ideas. Stuff between ¤¤'s need to > be adapted - mainly account specific stuff. To make it > autoexecute on connection - just place it (with a > non-ignorable name) in /etc/ppp/ip-up.d > looks like just what i was wa

Re: Re: Returned message - mailbox size exceeded - what's going on

2001-09-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Hi, > > Today I am getting the following message for each mail I post > to the > debian-user list. What is this stuff. ? Anybody facing the > same problem ? I get it too, but the posts still come through. Hereward

libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, I'm trying to compile a package that requires libxml2. According to dpkg it's installed and has dependancys on it, but when I try to ./configure the source of the package I'm installing it says that it can't find it (it is trying to search for xml2-config, but I only have xml-config supplyed b

Re: Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2001, Hereward Cooper wrote: > > > So how do I get libxml2 to be reconized > > correctly with xml2-config installed? > > > > # apt-get install libxml2-dev Cool that works! But now comes the question, why didn't DPKG tell me I had -dev, it didn&

Re: Re: Re: libxml2

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > Cool that works! But now comes the question, why didn't > DPKG > > tell me I had -dev, it didn't reported libxml2-dev when I > did a > > "dpkg -l *xml2*, only libxml2? > > dpkg -l doesn't work that way, it only accepts package names. > What you > want to do is > > $ dpkg -l | grep xml2 But

"Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Does anyone know how to read a "folio" file under linux/debian? The file extension is a nfo. I needed it as the new AS Physics Course now comes with the text book on a CD. It uses, yes you guessed it, a windows based program, called "Folio Views", and well I don't want to spend any more time u

Re: Re: Full screen on xine

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > Hi, > > I am unable to make xine display fullscreen. The "F" key > does not work > even with the " -pf" option . Any ideas? > > regards > > bt > > With the version (0.4) currently available from debian you > need to make > sure your videocard/driver supports Xv (Xvideo). In XFree 4.x > (which

Re: Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
On 05 Sep 2001, Constantine Karastamatis wrote: > Date: 05 Sep 2001 00:24:55 -0700 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > From: Constantine Karastamatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics > > Hereward

Re: Re: "Folio" file types / AS Physics

2001-09-05 Thread Hereward Cooper
> > Does anyone know how to read a "folio" file under > linux/debian? > > The file extension is a nfo. > tryed out command 'file xyz.nfo' already? Maybe it knows > this type. it comes back with: ### $ file AdvPhySS.nfo AdvPhySS.nfo: data ### Hereward

Re: Tasks in woody

2001-09-09 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Oh, that was a typo error, sorry. But the problem is the same. I use tasksel > to select the tasks, and it doesn't work. The task-x-window-core > (I don't remember it's name exactly) has the same problem, or even > task-kde does not work. > I don't know the insides of this, but maybe this mi

Gainward Geforce MX Dual Head

2001-09-10 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Anyone had any experience using a "32Mb Gainward Geforce MX Dual Head" graphics card, utilizing the Dual Head + TV Out under debian? Would anyone recommened any other DualHead+TVOut Card instead? Thanks, Hereward -- GPG Public Key @ : http://www.zadok.uklinux.net/ : "Love is Hate

EBay Monitor

2001-09-12 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Has anyone got an ebay auction monitor, which will work for the UK? I've found bidwatcher, but I don't think (correctly me if I'm wrong) it works for ebay.co.uk? Thanks, Hereward -- GPG Public Key @ : http://www.zadok.uklinux.net/ : "Love is Hate. War is Peace. Windows is Stable?

Re: EBay Monitor

2001-09-12 Thread Hereward Cooper
> connect it to ebay.com and it'll work. ebay numbers are global, and > aside from prices in dollars, it'll be the same... > OK. ebay.com (website) does accept my userid/password and displays by bids. But bidwatcher doesn't when I press the "pull info from eBay now" button? When i try adding in

Re: newbie xmms

2001-09-13 Thread Hereward Cooper
> Is someone using xmms under woody? > > I can't make it work. It say: > > | e164179:~> xmms /usr/share/sounds/KDE_Startup.wav > | > | Segmentation fault > | > | You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit > | http://www.xmms.org/bugs and fill out a bug report. > > What ever is the file

Re: rm & download

2001-09-16 Thread Hereward Cooper
On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:15:41 + Rajesh Fowkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to downloads the following files : > > rtsp://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm > > pnm://rxn-rbn-sea07.rbn.com/usat/usat/g2demand/010913_worldtrade_planes.rm

Re: rm & download

2001-09-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
> One way you can try is with a tool called 'wget'... except replace rtsp and > pnm with http. Realistically though I think that > you're not going to get the actual rm file itself... but it might work Nah, wget doesn't recognize the protocol. The realplayer system is designed so that you can't

Re: rm & download

2001-09-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
> wget http://server/real.rm actually worked and grabbed the proper rm file. > ofcourse conveniently enough, i just tried it now on the first site i found > and it failed :P > The protocal is the problem, the http server is not the same as the realserver (neither is ftp, ssh, telnet, etc...), an

Re: video players

2001-09-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
> what good video players are there in linux? i've been playing around with > Xine but it's messed up, sometimes i can get .mpg files to work sometimes it > starts with a green screen, sometimes it has no sound. what player are there > that can play .mpg .avi and divx? > mplayer is good (mpl

iptables nat forwarding

2001-09-18 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Could someone please tell me why this command won't forward any www calls to 192.168.1.1 (firewall + gateway) to 192.168.1.2 (apache server). iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -p TCP --dport 80 -j DNAT --to-destination 192.168.1.2:80 What I can't figure is why that doesn't work, when the follo

Re: video players

2001-09-19 Thread Hereward Cooper
> pardon my asking, but how, exactly, does xmms work? (i type, "xmms" > in a console, get the xmms "skin," click the ">" ("play") button, > and select my *.mpg. the "skin" and console just "stare" (and must be > laughing at me, secretly). > I think you need a xmms plugin to do anything other

Re: nimda probes

2001-09-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Adam McDaniel writes: > > the worm wouldn't even know the difference, to it it looks like it > would > > hit microsofts site from your url if it tries those extentions. > > And then Microsoft will accuse you of a DOS attack. Couldn't you j

libapache-mod-mp3

2001-09-20 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Has anyone had experience using mod_mp3? I had it working perfectly when I used potato ages ago (when mod_mp3 was firstly mentioned on /.), but ever since I updated to testing I've never be able to get it working again. I setup apache correctly, but xmms gives me this error when I press play:

Re: configing network stuff

2001-09-22 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Alex Hunsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > What's the command under debian to config or check network stuff? > (e.g. set IP, > DHCP server etc.) ifconfig seems to report some things, is anything > else? Under ifconfig can be used to configure devices: eg: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1

Re: etherconf reconf

2001-09-23 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Stephen Gran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > c) How do I update my keyboard and language setting from us to > norwegian? > > I think: dpkg-reconfigure console-data should do it Thanks, Hereward pgpxYeutHhdqW.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dynamic ip addresses

2001-09-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time "Christy Schulte" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I sent out an earlier message about setting up ddclient, but since no > one > responded I'm assuming no one uses this particular program. > Sorry must of missed it, but I run ddts on my dynamic ip address it works great. Signup, down

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > problem: two systems with the same sources.list don't know about the > same > available packages. have you tried running the update selection from dselect. I think the problem is that dpkg only lists the files from the package list

Re: apt-get wierdness: when 6 is equal to 9

2001-09-24 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Peter Jay Salzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > just tried it -- i think you're right. imho, this goes beyond > inelegance, > and borders on a bug that needs to be fixed. it's unthinkable that > there are > two databases of available packages which are out of sync everytime we > c

Beam Internet

2001-10-01 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi there, Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet access. It sounds pretty (very!) cool, and you can get it _anywhere_ in Europe. I was wondering if it will work on linux, or you _have_ to use the devil OS? Thanks, Hereward

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Hereward Cooper
once upon a time Adam McDaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > on Mon, Oct 01, 2001 at 06:21:04PM +0100, Hereward Cooper > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > Has anyone had _any_ experience with 'beam' satellite internet > access. >

Re: Beam Internet

2001-10-02 Thread Hereward Cooper
> OMG, goto http://www.expressvu.ca/en/aboutdirecpc.html .. that looks > horrible. Using a modem to send the requests out, and the dish to > receieve the content. > > This just has proprietary-windows-software written all over it. I > would > assume the European Beam Internet would be the exact sa

libapache-mod-mp3 == no webserver

2002-03-17 Thread Hereward Cooper
Listen 8002 MP3Engine On MP3CastName "band b" MP3Genre "band b" MP3 /home/music/non-cd/bandb MP3Random On Timeout 1200 -- Thanks, ------ -0) Hereward Cooper

Seagate IDE HDD Driver

2002-04-08 Thread Hereward Cooper
ver at boot time, and how to get it to do so? -- Thanks, ---- -0) Hereward Cooper "Being Alone Draws Attention" Somerset, UK/\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]GPG:

Video Editing

2002-05-12 Thread Hereward Cooper
** I'm off list so please CC: me! Does anyone know of some video editing software that can chop some frames from a DivX avi? The only ones I have seen do camcorder stuff. -- Thanks, -0) Hereward Cooper "Being A

Keyboard Crashing

2002-05-28 Thread Hereward Cooper
4.18 with Sid on a Tyan 2460 -- Thanks, ---- -0) Hereward Cooper "Being Alone Draws Attention" Somerset, UK/\\ [EMAIL PROTECTED]GPG: CCBBA7D3 zadok.org.uk _\_v Currently Listerni

X nice value

2002-06-09 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, When I configure/reconfigure xserver-common I give debconf my nice value for X, but when ever I 'startx' it says it is reverting back to a value of 0, no matter what value I give it. How can I force X to use my nice value? Thanks, Hereward -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Snooping

2002-06-12 Thread Hereward Cooper
Hi, Can anyone suggest a program that will enable me to surf the net from within an 'untrusted' network without the risk of being snooped on? I was thinking about something that will run apache-ssl, and I tell it what page I what to visit. i.e. http://host.trustednetwork/encrypt.php?url=www.debia