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Online backup services for Linux (like mozy)
Hi all, do you know of any online backup service that would work with Linux? An equivalent of Windows' Mozy, for instance. Thanks! ... 5 Apr 2008 03:25

optical drive oddity
I install sidux on this box and all seems to go ok with no error messages...I do an update/upgrade and reboot and all is still ok... ...I switch off and leave overnight and when I reboot although the cd/dvd is called for in /etc/fstab they are both missing in /dev and I cannot use the reader or writer...This d... 2 Apr 2008 12:18

Advice on portable email client working on Linux and Windows
<myemail.an(a)googlemail.com> wrote in message news:b1055e1f-f74e-4c23-8430-b8eaa2c25f74(a)s19g2000prg.googlegroups.com... Hi all, I currently use RitLab's Voyager as an email client: it is the portable version of The Bat Pro, i.e. it runs from a USB key and can be used on any PC without installation. ... 31 Mar 2008 20:40

How to enqueue a number of video encoding jobs (vob to xvid or divx)
On 2008-03-30, myemail.an(a)googlemail.com <myemail.an(a)googlemail.com> wrote: Thanks for the tip! I installed it but I have problems with the audio. I'll play around with the settings a bit If you're only having problems with the audio when playing back in avidemux then don't worry about that too much, it sti... 31 Mar 2008 20:40

How to enqueue a number of video encoding jobs (vob to xvid or divx)
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to enqueue a number of video encoding jobs. In other words, I would rip DVDs one at a time with dvdrip into vob files, but then would like to enqueue more than one encoding job (to convert vob into xvid or divx) and leave the pc running over time. In Windows, this is very straightfo... 31 Mar 2008 19:22

Linux instability - graphics?
It would be nice if linux was as stable as windows ... Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon, Asus MX-2V MX mobo, 1gb ram, onboard graphics, gnome, fancy visual effects turned off. Appls in use are Thunderbird and Opera. Ubuntu freezes periodically, goes through bouts of being unstable (less than 5 mins uptime) then is stabl... 5 Apr 2008 14:54

Getting the Blues over bluetooth
Will Kemp wrote: On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 09:26:53 +0100, Martin Burke wrote: Will Kemp wrote: On Thu, 27 Mar 2008 17:07:28 +0000, Martin Burke wrote: [martin(a)martin-desktop ~]$ dmesg | tail [drm] Setting GART location based on new memory map [drm] Loading R200 Microcode [drm] writeb... 31 Mar 2008 20:40

SIP v. Skype *on* Linux [comp2comp VoIP]
Will Kemp <Will(a)xxxx.Swaggie.net> wrote: On Fri, 28 Mar 2008 09:05:04 -0700, myemail.an(a)googlemail.com wrote: In other words, either I use skype or don't communicate with most of my Skype friends and relatives. Most of them are quite IT illiterate and there is no way they'll ever move away from Wind... 31 Mar 2008 19:22

Linux to MS Windows VoIP calls [NetMeeting and H323 (open protocol)]
"myemail.an(a)googlemail.com" <myemail.an(a)googlemail.com> wrote:     Take a look at the site below for getting *initial* price impressions:      http://voipdecision.com/?op_country=gb     [ It is the best looking result of a 5m Google search ] I'll take a look, thanks! 2) AFAIR NetMeeting by MS... 31 Mar 2008 18:42

SIP v. Skype *on* Linux
On Sat, 29 Mar 2008 15:59:29 +0100, Andrzej Adam Filip wrote: Have you (ever) tried to use Voice over Email? That sounds suspiciously similar in principle to IP over carrier pigeon (RFC 1149)! See http://www.blug.linux.no/rfc1149 for more details. The closest i ever got was when i considered implementin... 31 Mar 2008 19:22