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Not only is GnomeMeeting the perfect solution to my situation, I don't even need to buy a webcam to use it...

I have a hauppauge TV Tuner card that has a video-in port. I ran my video camera in thru that port, and GnomeMeeting sees it. I'm glad I checked before I took this new webcam I bought out of the box. It's going back tomorrow.

I was never able to use my video camera with Net Meeting in Windows, now I can use it with GnomeMeeting in Linux.

Thanks again for all of your help!

Wow.. thats f'ing beautiful.

This is an old thread, but I found it because I needed this information today...

I wanted to add that I installed mdbtools and also got the libreadline dependency error, but since Mandrake 9 installs a newer version of libreadline than is required by mdbtools, I decided to install the rpm with the --nodeps argument. It worked fine.

Not always a solution, but in this case it is.

Rob

I just tried it... it sure didn't look like it supported webcam based on the description on the site, and when I installed it, sure enough, it doesn't.

Gotta keep looking.

It's not looking good...

I've had it happen... I usually just go into the settings... change it to digital and the back to normal, and it looks fine again.

Are there any Linux instant messaging clients that support webcam? I don't care what protocol, AIM, MSN, ICQ, Y!, Jabber, etc...

My brother and I instant message all the time, and he got a webcam for xmas... he has been bugging me to use mine, but I don't know of a client that supports it in Linux.

He's willing to use any client in windows if it means we can IM with webcams.

Or, is there anything else I can do to video conference with him? Any Linux Netmeeting type tools that have Windows counterparts?

Thanks

I can't believe no one has posted about Celestia yet!

Celestia is really cool...

Maybe more eyecandy than anything else... but check it out:

http://celestia.sourceforge.net/

The screenshots are beautiful.

Wouldn't you know as soon as you started partitioning /, /usr, /tmp, /home, etc???

maybe you want to know before you buy it... that would make more sense.

I'd buy the friggin thing... 200gb...Sweet.. I have 120gb... I thought I was the big man on the block... That didn't last very long.

No offense, but the whole "what is linux/why linux/10 reasons..." sounds pretty boring...so dull and overdone. I can't go to slashdot, this site, or any tech news site without reading why one is better than the other, etc...

But it sounds like you really want non Linux visitors to be swayed by your site to convert. So, as a Linux user who was once a Windows user... here is what would have made me very happy during my time on the fence:

1. Lots of comparisons between the various distros. Pros/cons, installation issues, hardware compatability issues.

2. A wealth of information about widely used software. I used Linux for over a year before I discovered K3B.. I don't know how it eluded me, but now I don't know how I ever lived without it! Going from Windows to Linux is like moving to a new town... now you have to find where to go to do all the things and replace all the things you had in the old town...

3. A compilation of FAQs on various topics: Hardware, software, KDE, Gnome, whatever.

Anyway, you get the point... I certainly wasn't swayed by "true multitasking!" and "choice of GUI desktops!" and "built in hardware compatability" and that nonsense. I was swayed after I was able to find software solutions to replace the existing ones that I had in Windows. Linux on the desktop goes nowhere without applications.

I still play xscorch... I love it...

Someone MUST post a link to the download site the day this game becomes available!!!

Try K3B....

I will never go back to eroaster or xcdroast or other such nonsense....

It can be a bugger to install... (dependencies and stuff) but once you use it, you will never use anything else.

Never had a bad disk burned with it.

If you still have problems after using K3B... you're trouble is probably driver/hardware... and as such, out of my league.

Didn't you say you were a student?

I remember buying the Palm C Codewarrior for $99.00 because I was a student at the time...

I'd check if they are still running those deals...

I hate to sound like a broken record, but I didn't like codewarrior nearly as much as I like Netbeans.

:D

Yes use K3B

Once you use it, you will never want to use that eroaster/xcdroast crap again

Right, but I've never found a free one for windows. They either have 30 day trials periods or connection time limits...

Cygwin/Xfree86 is much better than those, and free.

Wait a sec...You can run x apps over ssh,

I do it all the time...

But it takes some setup..

Here's what you do:

You need to download and install the new Cygwin (or if you have an older version of Cygwin, you need to download the Xfree86 bits for it) Cygwin and Xfree86 are HUGE.

Once set up, you can then type startxwin.sh in a cygwin bash shell and it will start an xwindows session. From there, you can ssh with the -X option and it will allow you to run X applications over SSH.

There are also other xservers for windows that you can buy.. but why bother, this one is free and really nice.

It's nice, but I have found that it is slower than VNC. But it really depends on the app.

If you are running SSH, you can also get the free WinSCP tool for secure file transfer over ssh

SCP is to FTP what SSH is to Telnet. And sshd handles both!

Didn't it prompt you to accept a key or anything the first time you logged in?

I think it should have...

But yes, once you have accepted that key from your machine, its pretty much telnet with encryption!

I saw that article a while ago.. either Slashdot or bbspot linked to it.. I dont remember...

It looks pretty cool, like a hybrid console/gui. What I really like about it is that it isnt another start-menu window manager clone. It's very unique.

As great as IceWM, KDE, Gnome, xfce, and many others are, they unfortunately owe most of their functionality to the start-menu that Microsoft created. Not that they all aren't great in their own right!! (Oh my god! I could see the flame war I'd start with that previous comment!!

But as cool as I think this 'anti-desktop' is, I would never use it. I'll take KDE (and all of extra processor cycles it may take to run it) any day.

Dude, you really ought to post these as separate topics if you want people to read them

As for the scanner problem, you really shouldn't try to fix it any more unless you have installed the most recent sane-backends and xsane.

I had all kinds of scanner problems until I updated these apps. Now I have none.

why is it that i cant use konqueror to log on to THIS site? i got to use mozilla or galeon or somethign else:?

C'mon... Konqueror is a decent filemanager... but thats about it... I have problems with most sites I have visited with Konqueror, let alone this one. In all likelyhood its javascript. And advanced html tags... see that iframe when you reply to a post... Not many browsers support that! Maybe Konqueror does, I haven't checked, but there's a zillion reasons why Mozilla is a better choice for browsing.

why is it that my hp scanjet 2200c usb is seen immediately  after boot and only then?

As for scanner problems, good luck. I would recommend downloading the tarballs for the most recent SANE backends, and the newest XSANE gui and compile them yourself. Forget about RPMs. Even if there have been recently released RPMs for the most recent versions, you will probably have dependency problems. I'm afraid you'll probably have to bite the bullet. Also make sure you have the drivers for your scanner (usually a .bin file on the installation CD somewhere) on your PC. Ignore what Scanner-drake says. If your scanner problems are anything like mine were, you wont get your scanner to work by trying to configure it with scanner-drake.

Open Office.

I think they were the same product at one time. But they aren't at all any more.

I'm telling you, as a professional Java developer, I give Netbeans my highest mark.

Thanks!

I spent a lot of time looking for other UPS monitoring plugins for gkrellm, but didn't find these!

Unfortunately, the belkin one doesnt work with my UPS, and I'm not using NUT, so the gknut plugin doesnt work either.

But I really appreciate your help.

By the way, since you were listing some great gkrellm plugins, I should share my favorite, the seti@home monitor!

Rob

If gkups or another UPS monitoring plugin comes with Gkrellm 2.1.3, I can't find it. The only think I can find is a battery monitor for laptops. Thats not what I'm looking for.

So, I guess I am still looking for that gkups plugin for gkrellm. Anyone have it?