[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So, I now have a DVD reader in my computer. It does a fine job reading
audio and data CDs, but I had that before. I would like to be able to play
movies, too. What, if anything, do people use to watch DVDs on Linux?
Open Source software? Commercial software?
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have, until now, been avoiding having anything to do with DVDs, due to
the issues surrounding their use. (I was afraid I would be arrested for
turning it on or something.) However, having watched it become the fastest
growing consumer
We've got some 'postcards' printed up for hand distribution (not
suitable for posting!) about ApacheCon in November. Would anyone
care to have some to distribute at the next couple/few LUG meetings?
Or at work, or whatever? If so, please reply on-list so we don't
get dozens of requests and have
We have another quarterly gathering in September, and we can put them on
the table then.
I'll let the various local chapter leaders speak up for their groups.
--Bruce
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 05:44, Rodent of Unusual Size wrote:
We've got some 'postcards' printed up for hand distribution (not
In a message dated: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 10:25:26 EDT
Derek D. Martin said:
However in Red Hat's defense, one thing to realize is that the number of
software components included with a distribution like Red Hat makes it
impossible to QA everything thoroughly.
Which is also one of the reasons it
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is also one of the reasons it takes Debian 2.5 years to issue a
new release!
Oh, come, come -- it's not really -that- quick, is it? ;-)
Regardless of distribution, you get a lot more bang for your buck
with Linux than you do with any
Hi all, I've got a convoluted hardware setup question for y'all :)
I've been having a hard time trying to force my sound and network card
to use different IRQs. The system is a RedHat 7.2 machine using the
stock kernel, so I'm running loadable modules for tulip and emu10k1.
On bootup, my
In a message dated: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:44:59 PDT
Ken Ambrose said:
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which is also one of the reasons it takes Debian 2.5 years to issue a
new release!
Oh, come, come -- it's not really -that- quick, is it? ;-)
This most recent one was only 2.5
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the latest Debian release *is* 7 or 8 CDs at this point!
The latest Debian release, Potato r3.0, is 8 CD's. I was going to make
ISO's using Jigdo over the weekend until I relaized this. I didn't have
enough drive space to
Kenneth E. Lussier said:
On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 13:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Personally, I beginning to think it's far easier to just install a
base OS (similar to what you get with commercial UNIXes), then do
something like apt-get or rpm-up2date to install new, non-OS stuff.
This is
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 01:54:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated: Thu, 25 Jul 2002 08:44:59 PDT
Ken Ambrose said:
Alas, QA has one (or two, depending on how you look at it) strike(s)
against it:
- it's not sexy, which means relatively few do it voluntarily, which
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From: Scott Garman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 5:30 PM
Subject: Fighting with IRQs.
I would really like to learn more about how IRQ and IO assignment is
done by BIOS and Linux, if anyone could point me to some good
On 25 Jul 2002, at 1:30pm, Scott Garman wrote:
I've been having a hard time trying to force my sound and network card
to use different IRQs.
Are they PCI cards? If so, it doesn't work that way.
PCI slots each have four interrupt lines assigned to them -- INT A, B, C,
and D. Those
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, at 2:00pm, Rich C wrote:
If I were to disable this setting, I could manually assign all my IRQs
based on PCI slots (or ISA slots if I had any.)
See me other post on PCI interrupt routing. :-)
ISA cards (be they legacy ISA cards or Plug-and-Play ISA cards) have
all
PCI slots each have four interrupt lines assigned to them -- INT A,
B, C, and D. Those interrupt lines are connected to a component
called an APIC (Advanced Programmable Interrupt Controller),
which routes the PCI interrupts to the interrupt pins on the
microprocessor. The routing
- Original Message -
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Greater NH Linux Users' Group [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 7:24 PM
Subject: Re: Fighting with IRQs.
Not exactly. The cards themselves do not determine their
configuration,
Read my post again. I did not say that
In a message dated: 25 Jul 2002 14:23:47 EDT
Kenneth E. Lussier said:
This is what I have been doing for quite some time. I have one Debian CD
that I use to do a bare minimum install. Then I have an options file on
a floppy that I created using `dpkg --get-selections`. When the
selections are
In a message dated: 25 Jul 2002 14:54:32 EDT
Kenneth E. Lussier said:
I have three different selections floppies. One for
desktop systems, one for laptops, and one for servers. Once the base is
installed and everything gets installed from the selections
floppy/apt-get, I manually install the
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At some point hitherto, Paul Iadonisi hath spake thusly:
Compare Derek's complaints to what I
would consider standard sysadmin practices as espoused by Evi
Nemeth, et al, in the UNIX/Linux System Administrator's Handbook
series. RH
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, at 3:51pm, Rich C wrote:
Not exactly. The cards themselves do not determine their configuration,
Read my post again. I did not say that the card did this.
Er, I just read your post again, and you did say that. However, you asked
us not to quote you, so I won't. :-)
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At some point hitherto, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hath spake thusly:
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, at 10:55am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't disagree with any of that, I was merely stating that it's an
amusing read.
You forget there is a real person on
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, at 5:54pm, Derek D. Martin wrote:
When you say this, it makes me think that you don't get GNU. GNU's *not*
Unix. But it was always intended to work like Unix, by and large.
I have written and rewritten a response to this several times now. In all
cases, the inevitable
On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, at 10:25am, Derek D. Martin wrote:
On a few occasions, I've allowed frustration to get the better of me, and
said some things I'd probably prefer I didn't...
Well, Derek, if it makes you feel any better, I think that happens to
everyone now and again (certainly, to me!),
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