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web friendly video codec choice How to get there from ATI's mpeg24 6927
Howdy all, Here's the flow that ended up working, offered for net.posterity: 1) export the .vcr file from ATI multimedia Center to...
web friendly video codec choice How to get there from ATI's mpeg24 6928
Actuallly the question has quite a bit to do with Linux. :-) transcode specifically. If you read on to see the inquiry regarding transcode under Gentoo as a possible tool for conversion...
web friendly video codec choice How to get there from ATI's mpeg24 6929
Indeed. What's troubling is there are video formats that Microsoft's media player plays quite happily within the AVI and MPG file format. Just not...
Number of elements in a sequence
All modifications of variables are side-effects. Imperative programs f this kind are INTENDED to create such side-effects. And if you...
Restoring file systems
On Tue, 15 Nov 2005 23:44:45 +0100, Simen Martinussen staggered into the Black Sun and said: failure on a FAT parbreastion Make...
Thunderbird line wrap vs line break
Let me see if I get this right. Is your text being wrapped twice? In my particular case, I stick to no...
copying files to a directory using symbolic link in linux 6933
Posting this to 'comp.os.linux.advocacy' is not useful; cola is mostly a place for trolls to gather. Therefore: The normal Unix permission scheme doesn't allow this; to access a directory, you...
copying files to a directory using symbolic link in linux 6934
R Padala Not having permittions on the directories above means you cant do it. Symbolic links dont actually change the path used, they only give you something like a bookmark... the system sees...
copying files to a directory using symbolic link in linux 6935
The short answer is "No". In fact, it is just this type of "hacking" that is deliberately prevented. If your user is...
embedded font error in ghostscript
We just switched servers from one with an older GS to this new one which I installed AFPL Ghostscript 8.51 on. GS is a fresh...
embedded font error in ghostscript
A bit of clarification is in order here : - "pixel counts" : (how many pixels an image has, horizontally or...
Better filesystem idea
Hi! I manage AS-400 server. There exist some interesting solution of serious problem which concerns all Unixes. Namely this is filesystem...
Better filesystem idea 6939
Ido not suppose that system quota resolves simple problem: what about data which canot be written to disk because of hardquota? If we are talking not about mp3 files of some user but about database...
Better filesystem idea 6940
Michael! Soluton You sugest looks good, but is build on the monitoring software level, moreover it do not guarantee that all write peration would be stoped...
Better filesystem idea 6941
Of course it does - it's your DBs responsiblity to log the intent and roll it back or forward as need be. If there's no space, there is no space and that...
Out of Memory
About three-quarters through a slide-show presentation on Impress (openoffice.org), the application is end. The system log has the following messages: Nov 21 14:46:57 jimmy kernel: oom-person: gfpmask=0x601d2, order...
Looking for filesystem suggestions
I'm trying to set up a linux box that will capture video into jpegs at 30 frames per seconds (yes, 30...
MBA or MS in CIS
If it's a technical position you are after, an MBA in CIS will not be looked upon as...
Unkillable process
Robert M. Riches Jr. I would check if it had a real name that doesn't change... what is the actual executable ruinning? That...
exim+clamd not deny virus email how
Hi, Group, I have to set up a very weird mail server - we need receive all emails containing...
command line vs gui 6947
Good !! I was thinking that only a professional CAD user would be most qualitied to judge. My 'proper' OS Oberon-S3; uses a TUI, with mouse-cording. eg. right & then left buttons, cuts the 'selected...
mogrify draw text stopped working after upgrade
If anyone can recommend a more appropriate newsgroup for this question? We recently upgraded from php 4.1.2 to php 4.3.9 and ImageMagick 5.5.7 to version 6.2.5. I have a script that creates...
installing TTF not for X windows. 6949
I can't get GhostScript to recognize any TTF on the system. (Red Hat AS4, without X windows.) It worked...
installing TTF not for X windows. 6950
snip That's an interesting path. It's not a normal part of the X font path nor the Ghostscript fonts. PDFlib is used by PHP...
installing TTF not for X windows. 6951
Ah, but PDFlib *is* part of the problem. In message-ID error message: PDFlib is creating...
bad block checking the root file system
Since my internal HD has suffered a minor and survivable head crash in the past, from which I recovered by the rather draconian...
bad block checking the root file system
Are you sure? It usually just wants it to be readonly, no matter what it SAYS. After all stuff changing under e2fsck would be a disaster (writable mount), but e2fsck changing things under...
DHCP sevrer do nt support option option135 "i
Hi I want to boot diskless pc with Linux (bpbtach) I have configured DHCP & TFTP & both run fine. According to my knowledge to work on a PXE bootrom i need option...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc
Hi All, Kindly bear with me for some ultimate beginner's questions:- 1) when we install a linux distribution (RH), where do we have the binary for...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6956
Usually it is kept inboot, although it can be placed elsewhere. Just make sure your boot loader (lilo, grub, whatever...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6957
On Thursday 24 November 2005 10:34, paul stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: The binaryvmlinuxwill reside...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6958
Excellent Aragorn, it was indeed a nice patient reply. You got the points where I m a bit (or byte) confused. Thanks for...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6959
On Thursday 24 November 2005 20:37, paul stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.misc...: Because...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6960
paul Since you say Red Hat, the rpms from which the distribution is installed put the kernel binary(s) inboot. I do not...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6961
Thanks for your patient response..... Anywhere you like. People usually put it inboot becuase they usually put EVERYTHING required to boot inboot. Uh, yeah, under a usual split. You...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6962
Eh? I don't undertand you. The kernel has a 4KB or 8KB stack, total. It does its own memory management so nothing is "standard". But yes, it works within the first 1GB of address space...
Long standing doubt onusrsrc 6963
On Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:02:32 -0800, paul shouted Hoy...... No, the only symlinks that should be present is what the kernel make process creates. Here this is from Linux from scratch Contents of Linux...
Linux could have saved the life of a 19 year old girl 6964
wrecked that last sentence got an unholy moan - escaping from the back of my throat. i dunno about recovered... i dont really know what...
Linux could have saved the life of a 19 year old girl 6965
guess it depends on your definition of 'recover'. i am on opiate maintenance (the polite way of...
command line vs gui 6966
Robert Heller Perhaps that's because 'find' is an unstructured mess ? Menues and 'forms' are a disciplining method of imposing structure. That's the ultimate absurd garbage !. Progress is acheived by disciplined...
command line vs gui
Certainly, but that doesn't mean that you couldn't do a useful front end for it. That's only part of what is needed...
command line vs gui 6968
I don't think so. How do to "files OR directories"? How to mark: ( -type f ! ( -iname '*.bak' -o -iname '*.bk...
command line vs gui 6969
One word too many? Click both boxes. files whose name is NOT .bak and is NOT...
command line vs gui 6970
I have been following this thread without adding to it, for quite a few days, on and off. Although it is hardly anything new, it never ceases to surprise...
command line vs gui 6971
snip All right, let me try in English, no Boolean algebra allowed: Suppose I want to find all...
command line vs gui 6972
We are in different mental universes. It doesn't to me. But perhaps someone unfamiliar with Boolean expressions would also find it So, you're saying that someone unfamiliar with Boolean...
command line vs gui 6973
How many such boxes do you have on the dialog? How much screen space are you going to allocate to a simple "-type love" query? And how to do more...
command line vs gui 6974
Lee Sau Dan That's what I get for involving myself in stupid discussions :-) Some disclaimers first: - I'm not a designer, and I have very poor skills in both design and human...
command line vs gui 6975
Only when the image is approriate. A random image can express no words. A wrong image even causes misunderstanding. So, you should rather say: An *APPROPRIATE* image can express thousands of words. Again, given that...
command line vs gui 6976
Lee Sau Dan Well, pretty much - except for the prune action, I cannot see anything that is impossible through my suggested interface. It is not impossible to include the prune-action ... just let the user...
command line vs gui 6977
Lee Sau Dan I still think it could be useful for those who are using "find" seldom enough to forget the options...
command line vs gui 6978
Well .... Maybe my example wasn't clear. What I said was that to sort based on characters 10 through end-of...
command line vs gui 6979
Well, one could argue about exactly what that ("infinite is infinite") means and whether it's true (given that...
command line vs gui 6980
Well, first of all, I chose a really bad example. First, I misread your definition, thinking you were describing a conjunction of terms, each a disjunction...
command line vs gui 6981
Lee Sau Dan Yes, indeed. But if you are to use the application once in a month, for the...
command line vs gui 6982
I don't think so. Disjunctive-conjunctive normal forms are usually expansions of what is *originally* more compact (but more deeply nested). They...
command line vs gui 6983
I'm confused .... And no wonder. Earlier you So, does checking multiple boxes mean an AND of the conditions, or an OR? I...
