
Distribution: debian Instant Messaging: none -> sTeam Web Browser: firebird Email: mutt IRC: ircii (to lazy to look for something better :-), roxenchat (not irc) Music (Ogg/MP3): xmms, mplayer... Movie players: mplayer (works always) (never seen xine working) Office Suite: none Remote Access/Control: ssh PDF: gv Graphics: gimp Image Viewer: xzgv (am not entirely happy with it, but others are worse) Text/Code Editor: vi Personal Finance: vi (i have a text file where i write down all my expenses) Servers: Caudium, sTeam, wwwoffle (occasionally) Window Manager: Window Maker Office: screen (in servers in austria) (the office is the place where you have all the tools you need to do your office work. all i need is a terminal running ssh (putty if necessary) and a network-connection, add a browser and my office is complete) greetings, martin. -- Pike Conference 2003 - Sep 25-27 - http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/

Funny, I use debian as well, but I've always had issues getting mplayer to behave intelligently. It works, but I end up with this weird thing where it will refuse to fullscreen. I've managed to get to work a few times, but it's not as simple as say, just apt-get install xine-ui totem w32codecs, which seem to have intelligent defaults for controls, and handle any file I throw at it (short of real player crap). Although to be fair, if you don't grab the w32codecs deb package (it's somewhere on apt-get.org) pretty much nothing works. I think there's also something you have to run for DVDs to play properly... but I don't have a DVD player, so I can't really comment. Edward
Distribution: debian Instant Messaging: none -> sTeam Web Browser: firebird Email: mutt IRC: ircii (to lazy to look for something better :-), roxenchat (not irc) Music (Ogg/MP3): xmms, mplayer... Movie players: mplayer (works always) (never seen xine working) Office Suite: none Remote Access/Control: ssh PDF: gv Graphics: gimp Image Viewer: xzgv (am not entirely happy with it, but others are worse) Text/Code Editor: vi Personal Finance: vi (i have a text file where i write down all my expenses) Servers: Caudium, sTeam, wwwoffle (occasionally) Window Manager: Window Maker Office: screen (in servers in austria) (the office is the place where you have all the tools you need to do your office work. all i need is a terminal running ssh (putty if necessary) and a network-connection, add a browser and my office is complete)
greetings, martin. -- Pike Conference 2003 - Sep 25-27 - http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug

Distribution: Gentoo Instant Messaging: Gaim Web Browser: firebird, Galeon Email: Evolution IRC: X-Chat Music (Ogg/MP3): xmms Movie players: GXine, Totem Office Suite: OpenOffice Remote Access/Control: ssh PDF: ggv Graphics: non Image Viewer: Gthumb for small amounts, CompuPic for large amounts Text/Code Editor: vi Personal Finance: mySQL/PHP Servers: net-snmp, GDM (on my Gentoo server I use Postfix, CourierIMAP, OpenLDAP, MySQL, cyrus-sasl, Apache 2, Php 4.3, DHCP, NFSv3 and Bind) Window Manager: Metacity?? The one built in to Gnome 2.2 works well enough for my needs ----- Original Message ----- From: <edward(a)murrell.co.nz> To: <wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Sent: Tuesday, August 05, 2003 10:00 AM Subject: Re: [wlug] Some things I use.
Funny, I use debian as well, but I've always had issues getting mplayer to behave intelligently. It works, but I end up with this weird thing where it will refuse to fullscreen. I've managed to get to work a few times, but it's not as simple as say, just apt-get install xine-ui totem w32codecs, which seem to have intelligent defaults for controls, and handle any file I throw at it (short of real player crap). Although to be fair, if you don't grab the w32codecs deb package (it's somewhere on apt-get.org) pretty much nothing works. I think there's also something you have to run for DVDs to play properly... but I don't have a DVD player, so I can't really comment. Edward
Distribution: debian Instant Messaging: none -> sTeam Web Browser: firebird Email: mutt IRC: ircii (to lazy to look for something better :-), roxenchat (not irc) Music (Ogg/MP3): xmms, mplayer... Movie players: mplayer (works always) (never seen xine working) Office Suite: none Remote Access/Control: ssh PDF: gv Graphics: gimp Image Viewer: xzgv (am not entirely happy with it, but others are worse) Text/Code Editor: vi Personal Finance: vi (i have a text file where i write down all my expenses) Servers: Caudium, sTeam, wwwoffle (occasionally) Window Manager: Window Maker Office: screen (in servers in austria) (the office is the place where you have all the tools you need to do your office work. all i need is a terminal running ssh (putty if necessary) and a network-connection, add a browser and my office is complete)
greetings, martin. -- Pike Conference 2003 - Sep 25-27 - http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/ _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
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Movie players: GXine, Totem
I'm not familiar with Totem. What is it like?
Image Viewer: Gthumb for small amounts, CompuPic for large amounts
I trialed CompuPic once. Has it improved lately? If I remember rightly it wasn't free or OpenSource. Is this still the case?
Window Manager: Metacity?? The one built in to Gnome 2.2 works well enough for my needs
Metacity is a nice clean quick WM. It does lack a few features I miss a little from Sawmill/Sawfish. -- Oliver Jones § Senior Software Engineer § Deeper Design Limited. oliver(a)deeper.co.nz § www.deeperdesign.com § +64 (21) 41-2238

Very nice. If you're in Gnome2 anyway. It's essentially a front end to Xine (although to be fair/truthful, what most people call xine, is xine-ui, which is just the default front end that they produced.) It does away with the 95% of options the most people never use, and leaves you with a simple gnome interface. If you have a GTK2 theme in place, it uses that too. It also (the key thing that converted me over) has the ability to play files from the samba without mounting the remote share (I think this is done through gnome-vfs?). This is cool, especially if you have movie/TV series leeching flatmates. ;) Re Metacity: I understand the author of metacity (and indeed, one of the ideas behind GNOME) believes in intelligent defaults. For those who want to fiddle, there's always sawfish and KDE. ;) Edward On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 12:24, Oliver Jones wrote:
Movie players: GXine, Totem
I'm not familiar with Totem. What is it like?
Image Viewer: Gthumb for small amounts, CompuPic for large amounts
I trialed CompuPic once. Has it improved lately? If I remember rightly it wasn't free or OpenSource. Is this still the case?
Window Manager: Metacity?? The one built in to Gnome 2.2 works well enough for my needs
Metacity is a nice clean quick WM. It does lack a few features I miss a little from Sawmill/Sawfish.
-- Oliver Jones § Senior Software Engineer § Deeper Design Limited. oliver(a)deeper.co.nz § www.deeperdesign.com § +64 (21) 41-2238
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The problem I have with mplayer at the moment is with some windows media playing the sound lagged by about 2 seconds. I can watch the videos but the sound is out of sync. Ah well, at least it kinda works. :) On Tue, 2003-08-05 at 10:00, edward(a)murrell.co.nz wrote:
Funny, I use debian as well, but I've always had issues getting mplayer to behave intelligently. It works, but I end up with this weird thing where it will refuse to fullscreen. I've managed to get to work a few times, but it's not as simple as say, just apt-get install xine-ui totem w32codecs, which seem to have intelligent defaults for controls, and handle any file I throw at it (short of real player crap). Although to be fair, if you don't grab the w32codecs deb package (it's somewhere on apt-get.org) pretty much nothing works. I think there's also something you have to run for DVDs to play properly... but I don't have a DVD player, so I can't really comment.
Distribution: debian Instant Messaging: none -> sTeam Movie players: mplayer (works always) (never seen xine working) (the office is the place where you have all the tools you need to do your office work. all i need is a terminal running ssh (putty if necessary) and a network-connection, add a browser and my office is complete)
Another app/server I've started using is TeamSpeak. It is really good voice chat server for use when playing Battlefield 1942 (or other online games). You could also use it for conference calls I guess. It's not OpenSource unfortunately. But it is available as Windows & Linux client/server. It's written in Kylix/Delphi so it has a QT GUI and the server is admin'd via HTTP. It uses a number of different codecs. Including the OpenSource Speex codec which seems to be the best at low bandwidths.
http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration
Pike is an interesting language. Didn't it grow out of LPC (used to create MudOS + Nightmare MUDlib)? Regards -- Oliver Jones § Senior Software Engineer § Deeper Design Limited. oliver(a)deeper.co.nz § www.deeperdesign.com § +64 (21) 41-2238

On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 12:19:34PM +1200, Oliver Jones wrote:
The problem I have with mplayer at the moment is with some windows media playing the sound lagged by about 2 seconds. I can watch the videos but the sound is out of sync. Ah well, at least it kinda works. :)
i have had this problem when the cpu-load is to high. try shutting everything else down and see if that helps. (and watch top)
Pike is an interesting language. Didn't it grow out of LPC (used to create MudOS + Nightmare MUDlib)?
jupp. pike is a reimplementation from scratch. among the advantages pike does not need to adhere to the non-commercial licence of lpc. greetings, martin. -- Pike Conference 2003 - Sep 25-27 - http://pike.ida.liu.se/conferences/2003/ -- interested in doing pike programming, sTeam/caudium/pike/roxen training, sTeam/caudium/roxen and/or unix system administration anywhere in the world. -- pike programmer working in europe open-steam.org unix system- bahai.or.at iaeste.(tuwien.ac|or).at administrator (stuts|black.linux-m68k).org is.(schon.org|root.at) Martin Bähr http://www.iaeste.or.at/~mbaehr/

Workstation: ---------------------- Distribution: Debian Woody Instant Messaging: Gaim CVS Web Browser: Mozilla Firebird Email: Mozilla Thunderbird IRC: XChat 2.x (only for writing an XChat UnderNet script - no permenant use) Music (Ogg/MP3): xmms Movie players: mplayer (with all the w32codecs - absolutely brilliant) Office Suite: OpenOffice 1.1 Remote Access/Control: ssh PDF: gv Graphics: Haven't done anything graphics related Image Viewer: Have not really needed this Text/Code Editor: vi Personal Finance: Finance? HAH! Daemons: Apache 1.3.26, sshd, snmpd, snmptrapd, infopipe (self written one that displays the MP3 being played when you telnet to it) Window Manager: Gnome 2.2 + MetaCity Server: ---------------------- Distribution: Debian Woody IRC: Irssi Remote Access/Control: ssh Text/Code Editor: vi Daemons: Apache 1.3.27+php4.3.1, sshd, exim 4.20, spamassassin, snmpd, snmptrapd, sshd, mysql, bind9, zebra (zebra and bgpd) Toy: ---------------------- Distribution: Debian Sarge Remote Access/Control: ssh Text/Code Editor: vi Daemons: Apache 1.3.27, sshd, mysql, bind9, slapd Oracle: ---------------------- Distribution: RedHat 7.3 Remote Access/Control: ssh Text/Code Editor: vi Daemons: sshd, oracle database, snmpd, snmptrapd Power Drain (still to be comissioned - was waiting for power crisis to be over): ---------------------- Distribution: Debian Woody Alpha Remote Access/Control: ssh Text/Code Editor: vi Daemons: Apache2, snmpd, snmptrapd, sshd Gavin

Daemons: Apache 1.3.27+php4.3.1, sshd, exim 4.20, spamassassin, snmpd, snmptrapd, sshd, mysql, bind9, zebra (zebra and bgpd)
I use MailScanner (http://Mailscanner.info) with F-Prot for Virus/Mail scanning. MailScanner can use SpamAssassin too.
Oracle: ---------------------- Distribution: RedHat 7.3 Remote Access/Control: ssh Text/Code Editor: vi Daemons: sshd, oracle database, snmpd, snmptrapd
Hmm. I take that you're using some free version of Oracle?? Regards

Oliver Jones wrote:
/Daemons: Apache 1.3.27+php4.3.1, sshd, exim 4.20, spamassassin, snmpd, snmptrapd, sshd, mysql, bind9, zebra (zebra and bgpd)/
I use MailScanner (http://Mailscanner.info) with F-Prot for Virus/Mail scanning. MailScanner can use SpamAssassin too.
I haven't worried about virus scanning, although I suppose I should at some stage. Haven't really thought it necessary as I don't access any email in Windows unless it's via a webmail interface. I should also add IlohaMail and cyrus imapd to that list.
/Oracle: ---------------------- Distribution: RedHat 7.3 Remote Access/Control: ssh Text/Code Editor: vi Daemons: sshd, oracle database, snmpd, snmptrapd/
Hmm. I take that you're using some free version of Oracle??
I guess so. It's a version you can download from their website, and it installs and you can create tables etc with no restrictions that I can see. Of course, if support is needed, then you'd have to shell out the big bucks for support. I decided to play with Oracle as we use that as our database backend at work, and I'm writing perl scripts that put data into, and retrieve data from and oracle database. Gav
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Andrew Thrift @ Millennium
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Edward Murrell
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edward@murrell.co.nz
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Gavin Grieve
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Martin Baehr
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Oliver Jones