vp62 codec

2007-08-29 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I have a strange problem with a codec that seems to be missing, but is in fact installed. Here's the story: My daughter wants to see a video from this site: http://aznv.tv/en/drama/p.iD-MTAy/ According to the site it's a Winamp stream using VP6 I tried every player I have installed on my box

Re: vp62 codec

2007-08-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 06:40:43PM +0300, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I have a strange problem with a codec that seems to be missing, but is in fact installed. Here's the story: My daughter wants to see a video from this site: http://aznv.tv/en/drama/p.iD-MTAy/ According to the site it's a

HP OfficeJet 5610 Samba

2007-08-29 Thread David Suna
My apologies if this shows up twice. I sent it out and I didn't see it so I am sending it again. I have an HP OfficeJet 5610 connected to Windows XP machine on the local network. I am trying to have my Ubuntu machines print to it. I was able to add the printer as a Samba printer but the

Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Kfir Lavi
Hi, The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in open standards. Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to go Open. Thanks, Kfir

Re: HP OfficeJet 5610 Samba

2007-08-29 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 09:32:39PM +0300, David Suna wrote: I haven't been able to find a driver for the 5610. I have hplip and hplip-ppds installed but I don't know if this is used by the Samba print drivers or not. Samba does not have print drivers. It has a program called SMBPRINT

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Dan Armak
On Wednesday 29 August 2007, Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in open standards. Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to go Open.

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Lior Kaplan
Kfir Lavi wrote: Hi, The Open University decided to open some of her books to the public. My friend want to give some arguments why they should publish the books in open standards. Please post some arguments that can persuade the head of this project to go Open. Does he want the documents

Re: HP OfficeJet 5610 Samba

2007-08-29 Thread David Suna
Geoff, Thanks for your reply. To test out the Linux setup I tried plugging the 5610 directly into the Ubuntu machine. It automatically identified the printer and was able to print to it without a problem. The problem only seems to be when printing to it on the XP machine via Samba. The

Re: Open standards

2007-08-29 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Hi Kfir, I think that Lior's argument is the best and the only one. To expand on it a bit, ODT or ISO/IEC 26300:2006, OASIS Open Document Format for Office Applications is the only international standard for office documents. It is unlikely that documents not complying with this standard will