Re: Crossover office - Writing hebrew in IE

2006-03-06 Thread Amit Aronovitch
Daniel Feiglin wrote: > Version 2 of Crossover Office seemed to work OK, and then it broke on > version 3+. > > Solution: > Using Samba, network and old Pentium II just to run MS IE, Office &c. Interesting idea. Will a PII work faster than QEMU on an Athlon? (How about VMWare?) Note that to make

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

2006-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I found MPlayer's Web site downlaod section at http://mplayerhq.hu/homepage/design7/dload.html and downloaded from there essential-20050412.tar.bz2. After bunzipping+untarring it to a temporary directory, I invoked totem's add prop

Re: Crossover office - Writing hebrew in IE

2006-03-06 Thread Eran Tromer
Hi Noam, On 2006-01-29 12:45, Noam Meltzer wrote: > I can see Hebrew alright, but not write. > I tried to contact the crossover office presale support, but what I was > told was that they don't support Hebrew. > > I tried running the crossover IE with my default locale (POSIX) as well > as with

Re: OT: electronics in Israel / brainwave entrainment

2006-03-06 Thread Gadi Cohen
Hi All Ok so this is from a while ago and it's still OT, but I do think its info that could benefit people on this list.  I got a few replies privately and I'm going to summarize all that info.  Incidentally I didn't mention where I lived because I was looking for a chain... but I got back al

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
On Mon, 2006-03-06 at 11:19 +0200, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > As for your problem, I'm not sure what to recommend to you. Try to > install "mkinitrd" and run it manually, see whether images it create > work better. make sure that yaird is installed. RTFM yaird and run it > manually. Other than that,

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Omer Zak wrote: >Thanks also to Gilboa Davara, Gilad Ben-Yossef and Muli Ben-Yehuda for >responding to this. > >Now, I need the techl's: > >1. What (if any) should I write in the grub.conf file in my laptop to >properly boot from /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-1-686? > >2. Is there any other configuration,

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-06 Thread Haggai Eran
I'm using debian testing with a 2.6.15 kernel. I'm using (almost) standard yaird initrd file to boot, except I patched it to support software suspend 2. -- Haggai Eran On 3/6/06, Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Question to anyone who uses Debian Testing and is successful in running > kerne

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-06 Thread Shachar Shemesh
Let me try and summarize for the non-kernel hackers: Traditionally, the way to boot linux was by setting attributes inside the kernel image that would hardcode the location of the root partition. This would either be picked by the kernel build system and copied from the machine on which the kernel

Re: Initrd woes after upgrade from vanilla Debian Testing

2006-03-06 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Haggai, Can you please let me (and if not too long - also the Linux-IL members) know how exactly you invoke yaird and what other steps you need to do to get 2.6.15 to boot from Debian Testing? [I do not think I'll need the "software suspend 2" patch, so if there is clean separation of the ste

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

2006-03-06 Thread aamehl
Quoting Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I had the same problem and google said it is a problem with wmv9 dll, which I have installed. I also haven't gotten wmv's to work. Aaron > totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. > > I found MPlayer's Web site downlaod section at >

Re: IE-tab for Linux?

2006-03-06 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Technically, embedding one X11 client's window into another is something being done all the time -- GUIs for rdesktop, KDE's nspluginviewer, notification tray icons... There's even a sort of a standard for it called XEMBED. How you make it all combine with Mozilla's component model and WINE i

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

2006-03-06 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
If you use Totem with the GStreamer backend (as opposed to XINE backend), make sure you have the Pitfdll[1] GStreamer component installed. [1] http://ronald.bitfreak.net/pitfdll.php Omer Zak wrote: totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I found MPlayer's Web site

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

2006-03-06 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer Zak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > totem complains that it does not have codecs to play *.wmv files. I just use mplayer - no problem with wmv > The README file in the above .tar.bz2 only explains how to use the > plugins in MPlayer, which does not exist in Debian Sarge main (fully > Free sof

Re: Beowulf Cluster

2006-03-06 Thread Marc A. Volovic
On Monday 06 March 2006 09:35, quoth Baruch Shpirer: > Hi, > > Anyone had real experience in this issue ? constructing a cluster of over 8 > computers and such ? Performance monitoring > diskless operation > management Yes. -- --MAV Marc A. Volovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> =

Re: IE-tab for Linux?

2006-03-06 Thread Ilya Konstantinov
Technically, embedding one X11 client's window into another is something being done all the time -- GUIs for rdesktop, KDE's nspluginviewer, notification tray icons... There's even a sort of a standard for it called XEMBED. How you make it all combine with Mozilla's component model and WINE i

Re: any lecture on shell scripting soon?

2006-03-06 Thread Haim Tzadok
Hi Hetz, The lecture is postponed to Wed, 29.03.06 18:00-20:00.You are welcome to come and record the lecture.Best Regards,HaimHaim TzadokBIUX - http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/biux On 3/5/06, Lior Kaplan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See #9 at http://www.cs.biu.ac.il/biux/future.htmlOn Sun, March 5, 2006 5:

Re: IE-tab for Linux?

2006-03-06 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Why is it that difficult? Crossover embedds Windows Media player inside Mozilla quite nicely, as well as Quicktime, iPix and even Adobe 7 Acrobat for windows. Why would an app like IE 6 would be that hard to embed inside Mozilla? I know it would look ugly (specially when it comes to flash), but I t