Comments for the blog of Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com Fortiter Et Recte Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:52:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 Comment on Let’s be firmware about this by Jeff Waugh http://blog.christophersmart.com/2009/01/06/lets-be-firmware-about-this/comment-page-1/#comment-1070 Jeff Waugh Mon, 05 Jan 2009 23:48:38 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=398#comment-1070 Ted T'so on Debian, Philosophy and People: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/12/28/debian-philosophy-and-people/ Ted T’so on Debian, Philosophy and People: http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/12/28/debian-philosophy-and-people/

]]> Comment on Taking a SIP of VoIP by Brian http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/10/04/taking-a-sip-of-voip/comment-page-1/#comment-1065 Brian Sat, 03 Jan 2009 00:11:52 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=197#comment-1065 Chris, As you know for the past two weeks I have been trying to get ekiga working on my system. Just got it to work last night. Some pointers. 1) there is a mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list 2) On the list there were many people like yourself who said they had no problems compiling ekiga on an OpenSuse 11.1 system. As far as I could tell they were all gnome users. On my kde desktop it would not compile. Note I did an upgrade from 10.3 to 11.1. It would be interesting to see if anyone can compile on a kde desktop after doing a fresh install of 11.1 3) I eventually got over my problems by downloading the lastest version 3.0.1-1.22-i586 from repo-oss. The previous versions did not allow me to select a V4L2 camera. 4) On setting up ekiga one is tempted to set up a ekiga test account. I did and it worked fine. As part of that process you set up a stun server stun.ekiga.net. Unfortunately nodephone will not work with it installed. You do NOT need a stun server for nodephone. 5) gconf-editor is your friend. You will need it to remove the stun server and to check/ammend other parameters. 6) I have two voip numbers, one goes to my ATA the other goes to my laptop. By default both listen to port 5060 for calls. In ekiga using gconf-editor I changed the listening port to 5065 and the port range to start at 5065. I did not have to make any changes in the router. YMMV in this case as you may have to do some port forwarding on older routers. 7) I ave used amsn and have been stuck with the pokey little box that msn restricts you to. I am currently running ekiga at 320x240, it allows you to go up 640x480. This can be changed by going into preferences--video--devices and changing the size. Have fun Brian Chris,
As you know for the past two weeks I have been trying to get ekiga working on my system. Just got it to work last night. Some pointers.

1) there is a mailing list ekiga-list@gnome.org
http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/ekiga-list

2) On the list there were many people like yourself who said they had no problems compiling ekiga on an OpenSuse 11.1 system. As far as I could tell they were all gnome users. On my kde desktop it would not compile. Note I did an upgrade from 10.3 to 11.1. It would be interesting to see if anyone can compile on a kde desktop after doing a fresh install of 11.1

3) I eventually got over my problems by downloading the lastest version 3.0.1-1.22-i586 from repo-oss.
The previous versions did not allow me to select a V4L2 camera.

4) On setting up ekiga one is tempted to set up a ekiga test account. I did and it worked fine. As part of that process you set up a stun server stun.ekiga.net. Unfortunately nodephone will not work with it installed. You do NOT need a stun server for nodephone.

5) gconf-editor is your friend. You will need it to remove the stun server and to check/ammend other parameters.

6) I have two voip numbers, one goes to my ATA the other goes to my laptop. By default both listen to port 5060 for calls. In ekiga using gconf-editor I changed the listening port to 5065 and the port range to start at 5065. I did not have to make any changes in the router. YMMV in this case as you may have to do some port forwarding on older routers.

7) I ave used amsn and have been stuck with the pokey little box that msn restricts you to. I am currently running ekiga at 320×240, it allows you to go up 640×480. This can be changed by going into preferences–video–devices and changing the size.

Have fun
Brian

]]> Comment on ODF for that other office suite by Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/12/22/odf-for-that-other-office-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-1049 Chris Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:42:16 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=381#comment-1049 Oh.. whoops. It could well have been :) Thanks! Oh.. whoops. It could well have been :) Thanks!

]]> Comment on ODF for that other office suite by Jeremy http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/12/22/odf-for-that-other-office-suite/comment-page-1/#comment-1048 Jeremy Mon, 22 Dec 2008 08:26:22 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=381#comment-1048 If I remember correctly, hasn't the ODF Plugin 1.2 been out for a while? (At least 6 months, I think.) If I remember correctly, hasn’t the ODF Plugin 1.2 been out for a while? (At least 6 months, I think.)

]]> Comment on Putting DPI into perspective by Greg http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/10/15/putting-dpi-into-perspective/comment-page-1/#comment-932 Greg Thu, 11 Dec 2008 09:45:50 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=304#comment-932 Thanks a lot; I had done this before but couldnt remember how; my Nvidia display has a nice decent font-sized now! Thanks a lot; I had done this before but couldnt remember how; my Nvidia display has a nice decent font-sized now!

]]> Comment on S…l….o….w…. by Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/11/25/slow/comment-page-1/#comment-842 Chris Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:05:56 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=372#comment-842 Hmm.. maybe it's just me then :) -c Hmm.. maybe it’s just me then :)
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]]> Comment on S…l….o….w…. by Jeremy http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/11/25/slow/comment-page-1/#comment-829 Jeremy Tue, 25 Nov 2008 13:44:12 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=372#comment-829 You crazy? DreamHost have been the fastest hosts <em>ever</em> for me. Maybe it's because I was filling their pipes with all my Ctrl+F5s today (been hacking on my WordPress theme). You crazy? DreamHost have been the fastest hosts ever for me. Maybe it’s because I was filling their pipes with all my Ctrl+F5s today (been hacking on my WordPress theme).

]]> Comment on Flash! Ah ah, king of the impossible by Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/11/19/flash-ah-ah-king-of-the-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-784 Chris Wed, 19 Nov 2008 06:00:39 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=369#comment-784 Hehe. That's what you get for using PPC. It's dead, we must move on ;) And who uses an Itanium box to watch youtube!? :) Hehe. That’s what you get for using PPC. It’s dead, we must move on ;) And who uses an Itanium box to watch youtube!? :)

]]> Comment on Flash! Ah ah, king of the impossible by Jeremy http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/11/19/flash-ah-ah-king-of-the-impossible/comment-page-1/#comment-783 Jeremy Wed, 19 Nov 2008 05:45:58 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=369#comment-783 Cue the "it doesn't work on my Itanium or PPC64" comments. ;) Cue the “it doesn’t work on my Itanium or PPC64″ comments. ;)

]]> Comment on Lest We Forget by Chris http://blog.christophersmart.com/2008/11/11/lest-we-forget/comment-page-1/#comment-747 Chris Mon, 17 Nov 2008 00:42:57 +0000 http://blog.christophersmart.com/?p=357#comment-747 Haha :) Haha :)

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