Re: What is possible with static ip?
yes, provided your isp isn't blocking the port you share on. some isps block port 80 which would stop you from running a regular web server. most block port 25 unless it's going thru their server. On Wed, 8 Dec 2010, Matt Smith wrote: I discovered my isp has assigned me a static ip. Does this mean I can make files available over the internet, if I want to leave a box running 24/7? Thanks, Matt Smith. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/idm96b$fa...@dough.gmane.org Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1012071703020.12...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: Straw poll: What browser do you use?
On Tue, 7 Sep 2010, B. Alexander wrote: I'm just wondering, since firefox/iceweasel seems to be getting unusable. I have a 2.2GHz C2D box with an nvidia card at home, and a 3.0GHz C2D with a (lame) ATI card at work. I find that firefox (or xulrunner-stub) have memory leaks, and after a couple of days, it eats up a significant amount (10-30%) of memory. The work box has 3GB and the home box has 4GB. It also eats up a significant amount of CPU. This morning, after idling all weekend, iceweasel on my work system was chewing up between 70 and 100% of my cpus, and scrolling pages were hesitating for several seconds. So what do others use? Firefox 3.6.8 normally. On the work machine I use Google Chrome 'cuze it's faster but I don't really like it much. Chrome will start acting strangly if I have too many windows open that are full of tabs where Firefox doesn't seem to have a problem with it. I like to take advantage of the space in the status bar for extra buttons/functionality. Can't do that with Chrome. Chrome makes you put all the extension buttons in one place. Chrome's also not as configurable as Firefox. On memory leaks and stuff, they all seem to, especially if you use flash and it seems just about every website on the planet uses it somewhere. When it gets too bad I just kill it with a -9 and when I restart it will restore everything the way it was sans memory leaks. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1009071012260.6...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: Recording A/V from embedded Flash player
On Sun, 5 Sep 2010, Celejar wrote: I'm looking for a general solution to record audio and video from Flash players embedded in webpages. I've searched the web, but not found any really general solution. Some Flash video players save a .flv file under /tmp, and that's great, since I can just copy it somewhere else (sometimes it's necessary to do this before the video finishes (pausing it if necessary), since it disappears on completion, but usually it remains there indefinitely). Obviously, anything that uses a mms: url is manageable, since I can then feed that url to mplayer or vlc and instruct them to capture / dump it. But what to do when neither of these is the case, and AFAICT the player is using some proprietary protocol to communicate with the server? I'm interested in audio and video, but primarily the former. Now, obviously the Flash code isn't providing its own HW drivers, so it must be talking to the ALSA and video subsystems, so shouldn't there be some way to instruct ALSA to dump the audio to a file? Any help, ideas, leads will be much appreciated When I need to just capture the audio from something I use audacity. Alternately you can look at the webpage source and see what the file name is of the flash and see if you can get it with wget. Or try a firefox extension that will download and save as an mp4. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1009051516450.6...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: The NAME environment variable
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, T o n g wrote: Hi, The NAME environment variable is very important to my script, but in one Debian derivative distro (, , Ubuntu), I found such variable does not exist: $ env | grep ^NAME || echo no found no found This is the first time that I found the NAME variable missing from the environment. How common is this? Lenny: no found. FreeBSD: not there either Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1008272047070.6...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: iceweasel vs google-chrome
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010, Paul Cartwright wrote: I just found out I have an issue with audio playing in iceweasel, but NOT in google-chrome. I've mostly used iceweasel, but lately, every morning when I try to listen live to a news show ( http://wsbradio.com/ - listen live) the audio comes out either garbled, or not at all. usually I just do: /etc/init.d/alsasound restart . It crashed iceweasel, and when I restart iceweasel, audio works. Today I decided to just fire up google-chrome, and went to that listen live, and IT WORKED. any clues as to the difference in sound capabilities? I have the same problem with firefox. After it's been open for a few hours that happens to the audio. Doing a killall -9 firefox-bin and then restarting it (with the killall it'll restore all the tabs and windows) restores the audio. I've found the same thing if I leave alsaplayer open overnite. The problem with google-chrome is that it will run my loads way up (6-10) if I leave it open overnite. I very seldom close a browser and usually have multiple windows with multiple tabs open. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1007220857560.11...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: OT:Video Capture From Camcorder
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Thomas H. George wrote: Camcorder output is composite (two RCA jacks) I bought one device which I can't get to work. Any products known to work with Debian Squeeze? I don't want to repeat my mistake. What did you buy so noone else makes the same mistake? Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1007150945470.11...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: [OT] First computer (was Re: LVM)
On Thu, 17 Jun 2010, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 17 June 2010 15:03:52 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: What was that thing that was only a keyboard that had the cpu and memory built into it? You connected a tape player for the I/O and a TV for the display. I used it to play chess on and to do astrology programs. It took hours to get that thing to read in a tape without errors. It was around 1977 I think. An early Atari? My son had one in 79/80. Vic-20, Commodore 64, Radio Shack Color Computer, there was also a TI something back then. Then there was also the Radio Shack Model I but it didn't hook up to a tv. It had a cheapo monochrome monitor. Showing my age, I worked at an RS Repair Center back then. Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1006171213410.53...@paprika.michvhf.com
Re: Moving a drive to another computer
On Wed, 19 May 2010, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20100519_124653, Vince Vielhaber wrote: A friend was running windows and the viruses got the best of it. She sent me the drive so I could get her pics and documents off of it and put 5.0.4 on it and send it back (she's a few states away). What problems (and solutions) should I be expecting when she installs the drive in her computer? I'm assuming the network setup will be one problem. My background is mainly in FreeBSD. If a drive is set up as being /dev/ad0 and the other machine sees it as /dev/ad4 it won't complete the boot, it'll complain with a cannot mount root error. Will that be an issue with Debian? Thanks! Vince. Since your asking I assume you've never done it before. Split the job into two separate tasks: 1) Get the pix off. 2) Install 5.0.4 1) install the drive as a second HD on a computer that boots from the first HD, and explore what is on the drive. Mount your friend's drive ro (read only). Depending on how many pix you find, choose an appropriate storage medium to copy pix to. Then 2) install 5.0.4, which will be much less nerve wracking if you don't have to worry about losing the pix. I'm just not sure about the linux part. The first thing I did was copied the entire windows drive to one on my desktop. The pix and stuff are safe. I just want the installation on her end to be as painless (for both of us) as possible. I just set up my daughter's machine the same way this one will be set up so I'm going to apply the suggestions I got earlier to my daughter's drive and move it to another machine (or three) and see how it goes. I'm really not a fan of surprises! Thanks! Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1005191737420.46...@paprika.michvhf.com
Moving a drive to another computer
A friend was running windows and the viruses got the best of it. She sent me the drive so I could get her pics and documents off of it and put 5.0.4 on it and send it back (she's a few states away). What problems (and solutions) should I be expecting when she installs the drive in her computer? I'm assuming the network setup will be one problem. My background is mainly in FreeBSD. If a drive is set up as being /dev/ad0 and the other machine sees it as /dev/ad4 it won't complete the boot, it'll complain with a cannot mount root error. Will that be an issue with Debian? Thanks! Vince. -- Michigan VHF Corp. http://www.nobucks.net/ http://www.CDupe.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pine.bsf.4.64.1005191240350.46...@paprika.michvhf.com
