Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of downing the file and when I want to watch any movie, I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use it. And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, not a stream. So, you mean mplayer can NOT play stream? mplayer can play streams. But the4

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Michael Niggli
Chuanwen Wu wrote: You have to download it as it has to be in RAM before mplayer can use it. And you have to download the whole thing as it's a container file, not a stream. So, you mean mplayer can NOT play stream? As far as I know, mplayer can play file on a web(html) site. In man

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Daniel Iliev
On Fri, 29 Feb 2008 11:43:43 +0800 Chuanwen Wu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thefile. Now I want to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play it. Is

Re: [gentoo-user] sshfs issue

2008-02-29 Thread Mick
On Thursday 28 February 2008, Chris Brennan wrote: Are you sure the switch/hub/router is failing? With any remote connection such as smb/nfs/sshfs, if the target becomes unavailable for some reason such as lag or a bad route from Point A to Point B then that terminal window will hang till

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your local machine anyway. But I can save the time of

Re: [gentoo-user] Renaming tons of files

2008-02-29 Thread Markus Schönhaber
Alan McKinnon wrote: Alan McKinnon wrote: And it's not A rename the OP wants to do - check the thread title Yes, he does want to rename files - tons of them per the title. Well... As in, the same behaviour you get from 'ren *.txt *.doc' in Windows and DOS. This gets exceptionally

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Chuanwen Wu
Does the wget itself work, eg. does wget ftp://ftpserver/file.ext download your file? Yes, I can see the file after downloading, but mplayer just don't play it. I attach the output below, when I do wget ftp://THE_FTPSERVER/1.RM -O - | mplayer -cache 8192 - below. There are some Chinese

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Ed Santiago
I want to use mplayer to play files on the ftp server. For example, I have some files on: ftp://user:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/thefile. Now I want to play it, but I won't need to download all the file first then play it. GNUMP3d is available as a Gentoo package: http://www.gnump3d.org/ You run it

Re: [gentoo-user] How to use mplayer play file online?

2008-02-29 Thread Florian Philipp
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 11:58 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote: On Friday 29 February 2008, Chuanwen Wu wrote: Meanwhile, just download the file and play it. What's the problem with that? To view the whole thing from beginning to end all that data would still have to move from the server to your

[gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Steve
Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth they are using... Ideally, I'd like to see a real-time

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 05:26:26PM +, Steve wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, and to quantify how much bandwidth

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Steve
Alan wrote: Give iftop a look. great tool... unfortunately, even in promiscuous mode, it doesn't track TCP data except to/from the host on which it is running. I presume this means that my Netgear DSL router implements a switch as as opposed to a hub... Nice try though... --

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread Don Jerman
On 2/28/08, andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On gio, 2008-02-28 at 19:23 +0100, KH wrote: Hi, never tried that and might only be a temporary workaround. You could install grub in the mbr of both disk and then point them only to your internal disk. That way you should always be able to

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread andrea
On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or /dev/sda. The OS handles all the controller events and connects the USB device up through udev.

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Steve wrote: | I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, Given the fact that other tools don't serve your purpose, I'd say you give ettercap a try. It's a sniffer that can do ARP Poisoning (sniffing in switched lans).

[gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Jonathan Haws
I am having a major problem right now with my laptop. I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 filesystem is

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Mick
On Friday 29 February 2008, Steve wrote: Alan wrote: Give iftop a look. great tool... unfortunately, even in promiscuous mode, it doesn't track TCP data except to/from the host on which it is running. I presume this means that my Netgear DSL router implements a switch as as opposed to a

[gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. There's 30 some odd possibilities under /usr/portage/sci-electronics. What sorts of experiences has the group had? Oh, and

[gentoo-user] [OT] beware ebay seller

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
Hi group, If you're looking for PC power supply on ebay and you come across a Dynex, big quiet fan, PCI-E, SATA, 24 pin for cheap from 2213Joseph. New in Box! Don't buy it. You'll get the Dynex box alright and a new PS but it's just a run of the mill, noisy, substandard unit. No SATA, no PCI-E

Re: [gentoo-user] Grub hangs when a USB disk is attached

2008-02-29 Thread Don Jerman
On 2/29/08, andrea [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On ven, 2008-02-29 at 13:00 -0500, Don Jerman wrote: When the usb disk is attached after boot the BIOS doesn't give it a HD number in the series 0x80,0x81, etc, where 0x80 = (hd0) in grub or /dev/sda. The OS handles all the controller events

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know what communicating IPs are consuming most bandwidth, and to quantify how

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread Mike Mazur
Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 9:15 AM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. You could try app-office/dia[1][2]. It has some circuit

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread maxim wexler
Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had success with #dd if=partition-to-be-copied of=partition-to-be-copied-to bs=varies mw

Re: [gentoo-user] [Probably off-topic] How do I find out what is consuming the bandwidth?

2008-02-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Saturday 01 March 2008, Mike Mazur wrote: Hi, On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 2:26 AM, Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Situation: There's a LAN with a Netgear ADSL router... heterogenous OS, including Gentoo, are installed on various PCs on the LAN. I'd like to know what communicating IPs are

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread Ted Ozolins
maxim wexler wrote: Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. There's 30 some odd possibilities under /usr/portage/sci-electronics. What sorts of experiences has the

Re: [gentoo-user] best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread David Grant
Try geda On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:15 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group.

[gentoo-user] Re: Digest of gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org issue 1420 (76178-76227)

2008-02-29 Thread mvidela
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[gentoo-user] Re: best circuit drawing software

2008-02-29 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2008-03-01, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi group, I need to post some drawings of a circuit I'm working on to an electronics group. Nothing too elaborate, just sketches really, but with the proper symbology. Along with the other suggestions, there's Eagle, but it might be a

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Mark Kirkwood
Jonathan Haws wrote: I regularly make backups of my system using Norton Ghost 2003 to DVD. However, my laptop crashed and I tried to restore my backup that I had made and it restores just find but when I try and boot it tells me that my Ext3 filesystem is corrupt and had errors and I would

Re: [gentoo-user] Suspend/Hibernate on Dell Inspiron 6000

2008-02-29 Thread Gafei Szeto
Hey, I actually had the same problem as the original poster. I have the Dell Inspiron 6000 as well. I had the ati 8.40.4 driver and I recently upgraded my kernel from linux-2.6.21-suspend2-r7 to various versions of linux-2.6.23-tuxonice sources just to try to get it to suspend to ram properly.

Re: [gentoo-user] Ghosting a Ext3 partition

2008-02-29 Thread Ritesh Kumar
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 8:23 PM, maxim wexler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doesn't Ghost work with Ext3? What can I do to recover my system without reinstalling from scratch? I've had success with #dd if=partition-to-be-copied of=partition-to-be-copied-to bs=varies Is there a reason why