[SLUG] Re: howto extract Chapters from movies?

Hi Sonia, I'm not sure how 'automatic' you want the process to be. If you're willing to do the thing manually, you can edit with Avidemux http://fixounet.free.fr/avidemux/ or GopChop http://gopchop.sourceforge.net/ If you were 'extracting' the movie from a DVD, there are many

[SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive

I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate 160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora. It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook. I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive fit the laptop and would it give the BIOS a hard time? Any help etc. I

Re: [SLUG] Re: [LINK] Close encounters of a Vista type

Don't know if you can on Vista But if you go to command prompt in XP, you can type ipconfig /all and it will give you what you are looking for. Chris - Original Message - From: Adam Todd [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED]; SLUG slug@slug.org.au; Link [EMAIL

Re: [SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 20/02/2007 09:33:20 PM: Any help etc. I should point out that I'll take the Windows-laden hard drive and store it elsewhere. I do have some standards. It should be encapsulated in Synroc and dumped in the Marianas Trench. David 99112707 NOTICE This e-mail and

Re: [SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive

On 2/20/07, William Bennett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate 160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora. It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook. I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive fit the laptop and

Re: [SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive

William Bennett wrote: I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate 160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora. It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook. I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive fit the laptop and would it give the BIOS a hard time?

Re: [SLUG] On fitting an internal hard drive

Michael Lake wrote: William Bennett wrote: I have the opportunity to a) upgrade to Fedora 5 and b) buy a Seagate 160MB internal hard drive, hopefully to facilitate the Fedora. It's a Fujitsu S Series Lifebook. I've not done this before. Would the new hard drive fit the laptop and would it

Re: [SLUG] Postfix, LDAP, NFS, virtual domains, Mailman, et al

On 21/02/07, Howard Lowndes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: An even further alternative thinking might be to not NFS mount anything anywhere, but to have Postfix on the mail server relay all inbounds to the mailing lists on the mail server directly to the MTA on the web server. Does that all make

[SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

Hi all, I have a number machines sitting in another country with access to them via a VPN. On one of these machines host www.google.com returns valid IP addresses, but wget www.google.com results in Resolving www.google.com... failed: Temporary failure in name resolution. However, using

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

Hey hey. On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:24 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: I have a number machines sitting in another country with access to them via a VPN. On one of these machines host www.google.com returns valid IP addresses, but wget www.google.com results in Resolving

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

Peter Hardy wrote: How is your /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Sorry, should have mentioned that I already looked at this. This file controls how name resolution for different things is done. A default Linux install will most likely include the line hosts: files dns hosts:files dns

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour? perhaps you've got the http_proxy environment variable set to something invalid? - -- dave. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

David Gillies wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour? perhaps you've got the http_proxy environment variable set to something invalid? Sorry, that doesn't explain the behaviour.

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 01:24:01PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Anybody have any explanation for this weird behaviour? No, but I bet the strace/ltrace output would give a good clue as to where the problem was happening. -i -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Re: [activities] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

Activities? Oops.. On 21/02/07, Zhasper [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not a solution, but a couple of suggestions: try stracing wget to see if you can tell exactly what lookup it's doing. I've attached a quick run that I just did below- you can see it looking at nsswitch.conf, checking the files,

Re: [SLUG] dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 13:50 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: Peter Hardy wrote: How is your /etc/nsswitch.conf ? Sorry, should have mentioned that I already looked at this. This file controls how name resolution for different things is done. A default Linux install will most likely

[SLUG] Wireless card.

I am about to have an adsl2+ broadband service connected. I have a Belkin Wireless G Router. Is there a suitable wireless card for a desktop that is sure to be OK for all or most flavours of Linux? John. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info

Re: [SLUG] **Solved** dns lookup with host works, other apps doesn't.

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: In addition, the problem is not restricted to wget; telnet, ping, lynx etc are all broken, but host works. Ok, found the problem; the routes were all screwed up to pass everything through the VPN and the packets were hitting the firewall at the other end of the VPN.