Campaign to boycott HD DVD

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
Hi, This is not directly related to Linux but it must be close to the hearts of most participants here and would probably affect Linux users more than proprietary OS users: http://writersblocklive.com/boycott/ Does Hamakor's charter include this subject? It would be nice to setup a translation o

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/9/06, Aaron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > Thanks for all the replys, > I used win scp and it worked like a charm. Congratulations. As for the security of this - I keep ssh open on my computer (which is online 24/7) and use some random non-standard port to cut down on the amount of prob

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/9/06, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was under the impression that debian was all like "only completely > free software (and we think GPL is borderlined)" and such - where does > this w32codecs package come from and how does it sit with the debian > guidelines, if you'd care to enli

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Aaron
Hey, Thanks for all the replys, I used win scp and it worked like a charm. Thanks again, Aaron * Alex <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [060308 23:04]: > Hey Aaron :) > > pscp from putty is a command line utility, without GUI! > So if you're waiting for a dialog you're out of luck! > > Just open a command pr

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Diego Iastrubni
> WinSCP is an MS-Windows based SFTP/SCP client. it has an > explorer/midnight command like interface and even registers itself as > the sftp:// url handler so you can do WIN+R and type sftp://mycomputer > to log in. Nice, did not know that trick. I used to have winscp on my DOK. It's a single bi

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Shlomi Fish wrote: >Hi Aaron! > >If ssh is working then scp and SFTP will also work. > Totally off-topic for this thread, but I'll just mention that this is not always the case. The most common failure that causes SSH to work but SFTP and SCP to fail is a .bashrc script that issues output even wh

Re: sendmail, crontab and WordPress

2006-03-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
"Hetz Ben Hamo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I can do a simple 2 line script to do this and put it in my crontab, > but I'm looking for a better way that upon receiving the email by the > Linux machime, that it should run my little script so it will feed the > text directly and not after X minute

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Wed, Mar 08, 2006 at 04:37:31PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi all, > > I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them > to > my work computer. > > I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. > > I tried the pscp from putty but it won't

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Alex
Hey Aaron :) pscp from putty is a command line utility, without GUI! So if you're waiting for a dialog you're out of luck! Just open a command prompt and run it. Should work right away and is pretty easy to use (its similar to scp). Give it a try! Alex On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:37, you wr

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 16:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring > them to my work computer. > > I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. > > I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. > >

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday, 8 בMarch 2006 16:37, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and > bring them to my work computer. > > I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. > > I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. >

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Michael Ben-Nes
what about FTP ? [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. I of course can't fiddle wit

Re: accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
The quick&dirty method, which I use, is to combine a Web site and FTP: First, upload the relevant files from one computer to a subdirectory in a Web site, which you control, and which has room for those files (in a password-protected subdirectory already set up). Then, download those files into the

accessing my computer from a windows box

2006-03-08 Thread aamehl
Hi all, I need a way to get some files from my home computer (Ubuntu) and bring them to my work computer. I don't want any permanent solution, but something like scp. I tried the pscp from putty but it won't open for me. I of course can't fiddle with win network settings. I was able to enter m

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Oded Arbel
On Wednesday, 8 בMarch 2006 14:14, Amos Shapira wrote: > > codec pack and drop it in /var/lib/win32. Now you should have no > > problem playing everything which is supported on windows. > > > > For wmv9 , make sure you have the wmv9dmod.dll file. > > $ apt-file search wmv9dmod.dll > w32codecs: usr/

SOLVED (amazingly enough) Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Omer Zak
After reading the following, it took me two minutes to solve the problem and few more minutes to ensure that now I can play movies, which I still have in my E-mail inbox. Given Debian Sarge, which was tainted a bit by previous experiment, in which I unbzip2ped MPlayerCodecs' essential-20050412.tar

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/8/06, Oded Arbel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday, 6 בMarch 2006 14:49, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > > If you use Totem with the GStreamer backend (as opposed to XINE > > backend), make sure you have the Pitfdll[1] GStreamer component > > installed. > > If you use the xine backend, make su

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/8/06, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Have you reported this problem on the Kopete bugzilla? Actually no, but browsing through their site I was reminded that they actually take the MSN code from AMSN, which is much easier to install (and might even be the program I confused with Kope

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/8/06, Gadi Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There's only an unstable alpha driver for my webcam in Linux, which is When I bought my webcam (Logitech Pro 4000) I made sure it's supported on Linux :) > mostly unusable. Since VMware version 5, there is support for isochronous > USB devices,

Re: sendmail, crontab and WordPress

2006-03-08 Thread Amos Shapira
On 3/9/06, Josh Zlatin-Amishav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: > > > I can do a simple 2 line script to do this and put it in my crontab, > > but I'm looking for a better way that upon receiving the email by the > > Linux machime, that it should run my little s

Re: Trying to play *.wmv files in Linux (Debian Sarge) using totem

2006-03-08 Thread Oded Arbel
On Monday, 6 בMarch 2006 14:49, Ilya Konstantinov wrote: > If you use Totem with the GStreamer backend (as opposed to XINE > backend), make sure you have the Pitfdll[1] GStreamer component > installed. If you use the xine backend, make sure you have the xine win32 dll support decoder plugin (xine

Re: sendmail, crontab and WordPress

2006-03-08 Thread Josh Zlatin-Amishav
On Wed, 8 Mar 2006, Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: I can do a simple 2 line script to do this and put it in my crontab, but I'm looking for a better way that upon receiving the email by the Linux machime, that it should run my little script so it will feed the text directly and not after X minutes... Tr

sendmail, crontab and WordPress

2006-03-08 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi people, Maybe someone had this issue and solve it, so here goes.. I installed WordPress 2 on my machine, everything works ok. One feature of WordPress is to allow posting by email (you send an email to a designated address that you specify on your server, and it will be posted on your blog). H

Re: Skype or MSN massenger and webcam under VMware?

2006-03-08 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Wednesday 08 March 2006 05:38, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone here had positive experience running Windows version > of Skype or MSN massenger under Windows-XP/VMware/Linux(debian)? > > Skype is the only VoIP for Linux I managed to use throught my ADSL > router NAT and MSN Massenge