Hey Jamie or Daniel Do you have the Debian CD handy ? -----Original Message----- From: Lindsay Druett Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:00 To: wlug Subject: RE: [wlug] Some things I use. Things I use... WinXP Outlook Media Player (Playing Gatecrasher) Notepad Cisco TFTP 5x Putty 2x Windows Explorer Folders and now 1x Error Report... "Would you like to send this error report to Microsoft ?" -----Original Message----- From: Oliver Jones [mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:20 To: wlug Subject: Re: [wlug] Some things I use. 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/> 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. <mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> oliver(a)deeper.co.nz § <http://www.deeperdesign.com> www.deeperdesign.com § +64 (21) 41-2238
/nick Jamie or Daniel We have the woody iso on the cd burning machine in G1.02 :) Come on up. On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Lindsay Druett wrote:
Hey Jamie or Daniel
Do you have the Debian CD handy ?
-----Original Message----- From: Lindsay Druett Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 14:00 To: wlug Subject: RE: [wlug] Some things I use.
Things I use...
WinXP Outlook Media Player (Playing Gatecrasher) Notepad Cisco TFTP 5x Putty 2x Windows Explorer Folders and now 1x Error Report... "Would you like to send this error report to Microsoft ?"
-----Original Message----- From: Oliver Jones [mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz] Sent: Tuesday, 5 August 2003 12:20 To: wlug Subject: Re: [wlug] Some things I use.
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/> 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. <mailto:oliver(a)deeper.co.nz> oliver(a)deeper.co.nz § <http://www.deeperdesign.com> www.deeperdesign.com § +64 (21) 41-2238
-- Matt Brown matt(a)mattb.net.nz
Some things I use: file browser - Emacs editor - Emacs email - Emacs + vm-mode netnews reader - Emacs + gnus-mode wordprocessing - Emacs + auctex + LaTeX + xdvi posters - Emacs + auctex + pdfLaTeX + acroread bibliography - Emacs + bibtex-mode + bibtex programming - Emacs + c-mode + gcc shell-scripting - Emacs + sh-mode numerical work - Emacs + matlab-mode + matlab version control - Emacs (knows about diff, patching, RCS and CVS) games - Emacs (tetris, patients, etc.) psychiatric help - Emacs Psychiatrist Honestly, emacs is your friend. Need I say more? Michael.
file browser - Emacs editor - Emacs email - Emacs + vm-mode netnews reader - Emacs + gnus-mode wordprocessing - Emacs + auctex + LaTeX + xdvi posters - Emacs + auctex + pdfLaTeX + acroread bibliography - Emacs + bibtex-mode + bibtex programming - Emacs + c-mode + gcc shell-scripting - Emacs + sh-mode numerical work - Emacs + matlab-mode + matlab version control - Emacs (knows about diff, patching, RCS and CVS) games - Emacs (tetris, patients, etc.) psychiatric help - Emacs Psychiatrist
I missed the thread - was it about operating systems?? [ducks for cover] Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is possibly list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me.
email - Emacs + vm-mode
Ah, yes. A perfect example of Zawinski's Law. "Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can." If only Emacs had stopped there. (Honestly, it's not very Unix [or even GNU] like to have one monolithic program to do everything!) Craig
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:26:25PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
Some things I use:
file browser - Emacs editor - Emacs email - Emacs + vm-mode netnews reader - Emacs + gnus-mode wordprocessing - Emacs + auctex + LaTeX + xdvi posters - Emacs + auctex + pdfLaTeX + acroread bibliography - Emacs + bibtex-mode + bibtex programming - Emacs + c-mode + gcc shell-scripting - Emacs + sh-mode numerical work - Emacs + matlab-mode + matlab version control - Emacs (knows about diff, patching, RCS and CVS) games - Emacs (tetris, patients, etc.) psychiatric help - Emacs Psychiatrist
Honestly, emacs is your friend. Need I say more?
Gotta love it! Surely you also use: web browser - Emacs/W3
S Swami writes:
Gotta love it! Surely you also use: web browser - Emacs/W3
Well, I have used it occasionally to read html encoded email messages, but to be frankly honest I tend to use konqueror for general web browsing, so to keep the nice symmetry I choose not to mention that fact :-) Michael.
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