[SLUG] Video file conversion

2001-12-25 Thread Jason Rennie
Hi all, I have a collection of divx encoded avi files that i need converted to mpg 1 or 2. Can anybody suggest a linux tool to do this ? I had a look at the mjpeg tools but I'm not sure they do this. Jason -- Hofstadter's Law : It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take

Re: [SLUG] Deb 2.2r4 not recognising Ultra100 TX2 controller

2001-12-25 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Adam Bogacki I have a double boot system which I am trying to turn into a triple-boot one [hda is 20Gb Win 98, hdb 10Gb Deb Woody, hdc would be 40 Gb Potato which I could use as a reliable home server]. Why would you put both woody and potato on for dual boot? I have received

[SLUG] [OT] Hard disk wipe / file shredders etc

2001-12-25 Thread James
Hey everyone, I am wondering, is there any software I can use with Linux that can scramble everything on my hard disk while running in memory, so I can prepare for a new install? I want it to be impossible to recover deleted files. Also what of shredders? There is one in the gnome desktop,

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Hard disk wipe / file shredders etc

2001-12-25 Thread Damien Elmes
James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey everyone, I am wondering, is there any software I can use with Linux that can scramble everything on my hard disk while running in memory, so I can prepare for a new install? I want it to be impossible to recover deleted files. Also what of

Re: [SLUG] Video file conversion

2001-12-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jason Rennie wrote: Hi all, I have a collection of divx encoded avi files that i need converted to mpg 1 or 2. Can anybody suggest a linux tool to do this ? transcode http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ It's a bit tricky to use, and

Re: [SLUG] Video file conversion

2001-12-25 Thread Jason Rennie
transcode http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ It's a bit tricky to use, and I think you'll need to aquire the Windos codec dlls from somewhere to make it useful (it uses libavifile), but it works. thanks jamie, i've just finished setting this up, has anybody

Re: [SLUG] Video file conversion

2001-12-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jason Rennie wrote: transcode http://www.theorie.physik.uni-goettingen.de/~ostreich/transcode/ It's a bit tricky to use, and I think you'll need to aquire the Windos codec dlls from somewhere to make it useful (it uses libavifile), but it works. thanks

Re: [SLUG] Can anyone explain...

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Howard Lowndes wrote: ...why, when I have installed Linux to a disk in one box (eg, a testbench), then move that disk to another box (a production box), the kernel will load but then hangs when it gets to the part where init runs. This appears to be a problem often

RE: [SLUG] SLUG: Accounting software

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
Dare I say it, what's missing is a Project Leader. Someone who can round up the features needed, any existing software that's sortof close and is open source by necessity and keep track of programmers investors. Lets face it, there's more incentive if we're paid or will benefit from it

Re: [SLUG] sendmail/imapd/getmail configuration

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
I suggest you do this one step at a time. Lets get your sendmail working correctly first and foremost. You'll need to enter your local domains one per line into a file. With RedHat 6.2 I think this was either /etc/sendmail.cw or /etc/mail/sendmail.cw but you will find a reference to this in

Re: [SLUG] Sunday Night Linux Challenge!

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
Hmm... the trick would be to find the warm start boot rom address, or even the cold start address, then somehow find where the live kernel image is in ram and poke into that a whole pile of machine code instructions to jump to the warm start address. To do this you'd be using the built in echo

Re: [SLUG] SLUG: Wine - getting it going

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
On Sun, 23 Dec 2001, Internet User wrote: [Drive C] Path = /mnt/windows (this is how it appears in konqueror) Type = hd (it is a hard drive 20 gb, lba) Label = windows (this is the label of the drive) Filesystem = win98(this is the file

Re: [SLUG] help please

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
Sounds to me like your system is trying to switch into graphical mode and isn't getting there. This can happen if you are bordering on the limits of your monitor. If you can hear the monitor clicking it's another indication it's having trouble with the video signal. I have read ahead what

Re: [SLUG] [OT] Hard disk wipe / file shredders etc

2001-12-25 Thread Grant Parnell
On Wed, 26 Dec 2001, James wrote: Hey everyone, I am wondering, is there any software I can use with Linux that can scramble everything on my hard disk while running in memory, so I can prepare for a new install? I want it to be impossible to recover deleted files. Boot off a CD or

[SLUG] Should that space be there?

2001-12-25 Thread Howard Lowndes
I have been playing around with dnssec-keygen to generate keys suitable for running a dynamic DNS and I notice something odd. Have a close look at these two files. The first is the *.key file and the other is the *.private file. Notice the space in the key of the *.key file between Q Z, which

RE: [SLUG] Deb 2.2r4 not recognising Ultra100 TX2 controller

2001-12-25 Thread Adam F. Bogacki
Thanks, Jeff. I have a double boot system which I am trying to turn into a triple-boot one [hda is 20Gb Win 98, hdb 10Gb Deb Woody, hdc would be 40 Gb Potato which I could use as a reliable home server]. Why would you put both woody and potato on for dual boot? My idea was to use hdb as a