World: r3wp

so if I say to you that ubuntu is very good then it's vry good 

For example my mom was tired to get lot of problems with her windows 
in installed 2 month ago ubuntu  I use synapse to get some  missing 
packages and now all works well she is very happy with her pc ... 
My mom is 62 years old and dislike coputing but ubuntu have her preference 
...

curious distro is targeted by the Rebol/View linux build. I know 
compatibility is not an issue, just idle curiosity.

which distro

Any chance of a world master moving this group under the "Operating 
Systems" divider?

Done.

I need to prepare some installation instructions for our polish partner. 
I will do some scripts to access mySQL on their server, using rebol, 
but I will not have access to the site. So I want to be well prepared, 
so they don't get annoyed after writing them tens of times "try that, 
try this" etc. :-)

They use Debian. I have Fedora at home. What would I like to ask 
is - where to put rebol interpreter on Debian? Where to put things 
like user.r or mysql-protocol.r or whatever other script I produce 
to them? The path is almost always trouble for me. I e.g. start console 
and I have to define set-net once again, as it does not use my user.r 
settings etc. Any insights?

has latest beta core available shell access? I will not probably 
able to solve mySQL 4.0.1 charset conversions using mySQL commands, 
so I will use 'iconv utility .... need to convert by using externall 
tool, so I need shell access for that ...

thanks a lot ...

why not use encap

Then they/you can put one binary *anywhere* in the path

encap? that could be way to go ... but I am not sure what SDK I have, 
not probably /Command sdk - do I have shell enabled? :-)

... hopefully so ...

All SDKs have shell, library and encryption. Command adds ODBC/Oracle 
and SSL (client side)

interpreter can be anywhere, usually /usr/local/bin. the shebang 
(first line, with that #!) needs to point there, but thats not rebol-specific, 
its the way with every language.

about special settings (user.r) i would write a short script dumping 
system/options and system/script. running from cgi. That should show 
the pathes.

i guess user.r is at users home, not sure where that is with their 
cgi-settings. on a new rebol 
 >> get-env "HOME"
== "/home/volker"
works too.

where are sub-script? rebol makes a cd to the current script. So 
you can use relative addresses from there. just make a subdir %lib/ 
where the script is.

call: i have 2.6.0.4.2 and call is there. IIRC thats the real release, 
not even beta.

when i upload things, i use a builder-script which takes my local 
installation and replaces some things, like the shebang. then i copy 
that result to the server. you could make a config-script, 
 exe: %/usr/local/bin/rebol
 data: %/svr/www/my-dir/
  ..
let them adjust that and run the builder.

Also it makes sense to not hard-wire most pathes, but put them in 
a config too and load them at runtime. but does not work with the 
shebang, it must be hardcoded in the script.

happy installing ;)

thanks a lot! :-)

(about shebang, dont forget to mention that little "-c" or "-cs"!!)

You can keep your scripts unchanged with this shebang line:

#! /usr/bin/env rebol

what is a good client for bittorrent? i want to help seeding a bit, 
but not to have lots of btdownloadcurses open.

I use Azureus ....

self updating java client. Some folks found it slow and eating too 
much CPU cycles, but no problem here at all ...

cpu-cycles would be a problem here i guess. but will look, thanks.

but that was reported some xyz versions before. They do regular updates, 
it is really a nice app, having auto-updates for itself and its plug-ins, 
simply a joy to use - that is how apps should work - install just 
once and then have it up-to-date for ages ...

ah, did not noticed I am in linux group, sorry. But Azureus is JAVA 
based, hopefully it will work with linux too ...

should, thats why i did not notice it could be wrong :)

I tried playing the presentation on Mandrake and all I got was the 
vid/no sound ? Which player are you guys using that will play a mp4 
?

mplayer.

but Gabriele says vlc works, except of version 0.8

mplayer is probably the best on linux.

tried mplayer and all I got was the vid/no sound-yet it does play 
a mp3 ?

do you have all the plugins? it uses some codecs from windows. compiled 
mine myself, based on some tutorial. maybe distros has not everything 
due to ip?

will check,thanks ! still a newbie in the Linux world-have a Linux 
user group meeting tonite :)

i have a /usr/lib/win32 full of such codes. and there where one or 
two other dirs mentioned too. IIRC xine suggested to download the 
mplayer-codes too, althought i installed from distro.

mplayer should not need the win codecs for mp4.

maybe your mandrake is just a bit old.

try to download mpeg4ip, it is a mp4-only player/encoder. that should 
in theory work...

have 10.1 not the very newest but $ is tight right now

(IMHO you should donwload Ubuntu, it will keep itself updated and 
it is easy to use - though gnome based)

also i can not get View 1.3.? to install it does not make a ./rebol 
dir ?

problem with most Linux distro is that I have a dual cpu and most 
don't support dual cpus :(

on XP right now other wise I could check as I write

google "mplayer mp4 mandrake"

The solution (hopefully): install something more: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050925.165309.a1ed86e6.en.html

your problem: http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20050924.022642.ef5dfed6.en.html

about dual cpu: i guess thats wrong. usually distros have multiple 
kernels and you need one with smp in the name. should be as simple 
as telling the package-manager what you want. (in theorie, never 
tested smp, but on debian changed kernel for other reasons that way.