Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.
On Thu, 24 Nov 2011 11:33:00 +0100, dulev wrote: Try: $ flac -d -o 1.wav 1.flac $ cuebreakpoints 1.cue | shnsplit 1.wav cuebreakpoints is part of cuetools package. I would also use this method. Except I usually use bchunk to split the file, where you use shnsplit. So that would be: $ bchunk -w 1.bin 1.cue track.wav Then of course I would encode the tracks, tag them, rename them. -- Olav Lavell o...@freeict.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1787aaa9a0488637ca6d6a23219f0...@freeict.nl
Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:06:13 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote: I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :( Longer version: I depend on the International (with dead keys) keyboard layout, as configured in System Settings, Region and Languages. I chose the first of three layouts with the same name. However, my dead keys do not work like they did in Gnome 2.x. Has anyone else noticed this and come up with a solution? It works fine here with a full Spanish environment: locale, keyboard, etc... I'm using a Spanish keyboard and swicthing to the International (with dead keys) layout works as expected, I mean, when I press the accented key of my Spanish keyboard (´) and then press the letter (e) I get é, as usual. The rest of the keys act like a US keyboard. This is exactly how I would expect things to work. So you understand my problem when it doesn't... ;-) For those who are unaware: dead keys mean that one can simply type ' followed by e to obtain é. Many other combinations exists. It is *not* the same as the Compose key used in some other configurations. Sadly, in my case typing ' simply produces ' (single quote). In other words, it does not wait for the second keystroke. Does it work for a new user account? Thank you for that tip. I just tried. Yes, with a test user it does work as expected. Strange. I am usually using a Dutch localised environment, but it happens when I switch to English as well. Also, is there an alternative for the ugly but trusty keyboard switcher panel applet we used to have in old Gnome? As soon as you add a second keyboard layout, the keyboard switcher should be present at the top bar as it happened with the old applet. This works with my test user, not with my regular account. The keyboard switcher does not appear at all. No change I make in the Layout tab of Region and Languages seems to have any effect at all, not even Reset to defaults. Now, I would rather not delete my current account and all its associated settings. Is there perhaps a specific file that I can edit or delete to *really* reset things to normal? Something in gconf/dconf? Thank you again. -- Olav Lavell o...@freeict.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/b8a6317158010e4db409879ecba33...@freeict.nl
Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:20:46 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: - For the non-visible indicator problem: Run this from a terminal (don't worry, it is harmless, you are only requesting for a variable value): gsettings get org.gnome.libgnomekbd.indicator show-flags And put here the result. I already gathered that the command is harmless ;-) The result: false I even tried setting it to true and logging out and back in again. Doesn't change anything. No indicator ever appears. - For the layout issue: Try by ading a different layout (e.g., International with dead keys AltGr) and check if that works by pressing AltGr+E which should return an accented é. Like I said in my previous message, nothing I do in the Layouts dialog tab seems to have any effect. I tried many different keyboard layouts (and combinations) already. The keyboard just behaves as if the USA layout (the natural layout of the physical keyboard) is always in effect, even when it is not even listed in the dialog. Anything else I can try? I am not a complete newbie but I feel like one in this case. I am not well versed in the gsettings registry. Thank you for your continued interest. -- Olav Lavell o...@freeict.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/860dce19637f3b5f49eca48e3e37b...@freeict.nl
Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?
Hi list, I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :( Longer version: I depend on the International (with dead keys) keyboard layout, as configured in System Settings, Region and Languages. I chose the first of three layouts with the same name. However, my dead keys do not work like they did in Gnome 2.x. Has anyone else noticed this and come up with a solution? For those who are unaware: dead keys mean that one can simply type ' followed by e to obtain é. Many other combinations exists. It is *not* the same as the Compose key used in some other configurations. Sadly, in my case typing ' simply produces ' (single quote). In other words, it does not wait for the second keystroke. I am usually using a Dutch localised environment, but it happens when I switch to English as well. Also, is there an alternative for the ugly but trusty keyboard switcher panel applet we used to have in old Gnome? Thank you. -- Olav Lavell o...@freeict.nl -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8b86feda21c5e524e3b2161adc9cb...@freeict.nl
Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?
Op ma, 03-01-2005 te 08:28 -0700, schreef Paul E Condon: CERN, the European center for research in high energy physics has a very active computer group that supports high energy physics and is energetically international. All of their work has financial support from governments and is generally available to any interested downloader. As to their being a community, that depends on how close to normal human being you place physicists. Pretty close actually; they have 24 ribs just like we do. There seem to be lots of other similarities and they are being actively researched. Also, http://www.openscience.org/ may be of some interest for Nayyar. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?
Op vr 08-10-2004, om 13:59 schreef Andrea Vettorello: On Fri, 08 Oct 2004 11:22:13 GMT, Scotty Fitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I got an official woody set and am now setting it up, and am wondering if this bright idea of mine is actually advisable. I thought that if I mounted a seperate and small partition as the /home directory, as well as using the same partition for storing documents and user files from my Windows 2000 Pro (the other side of my dual boot system,) that I could write a batch to backup this small partition to another small partition, and have all my data from both my systems backed up at once. On the surface, it looks to me like an efficient hack, but I know that somebody else must have thought of this before and tried it. Can that FAT32 structure handle all of /homes files? Particularly dot files?! Thanks IIRC FAT32 lacks user/group and the default attributes (rwx, correct me if i'm wrong), No you're correct. so IMHO not a good idea to use for home... I think it's not much of an issue if the computer is used mainly by one person, and if he is the owner of the mount point what could go wrong? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?
Op do 30-09-2004, om 20:22 schreef Adam Funk: Sorry: I'm sure I've most of the man mplayer page a few times and I still can't figure out how to do this. I want to convert a RealPlayer URL stream into a file in some sensible (e.g. WAV, Ogg, MP3) audio format. I started with this: mplayer -dumpfile foo.wav -dumpstream rtsp://ra but foo.wav turned out to be a RealMedia file. 1. mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile foo.rm rtsp://whatevah 2. mplayer -vo null -vc dummy -ao pcm -aofile bar.wav foo.rm 3. convert bar.wav to mp3, ogg etc. with your favorite converter -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?
Op do 30-09-2004, om 22:01 schreef Adam Funk: I'm still curious, however. Why does mplayer record to a RealAudio file, which is not a useful format? Because the -dumpstream option just writes to disk what it gets from the network? I think it just doesn't do any conversion at all. Which is fine by me, because I like to store RealAudio and RealVideo streams in their native formats: they're smaller than almost anything else and readily usable with mplayer. Great for having an archive of radio shows for example. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: keeping woody
Op di 28-09-2004, om 11:45 schreef Clive Menzies: On (28/09/04 05:57), [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I set it up to make sure I stay with woody and do not automatically upgrad to the new stable? In your /etc/apt/sources.list change references from stable to woody and then you will continue to track woody. This needs to be on the front page of www.debian.org, www.debianplanet.org and any other website about Debian! In big letters! The same solution is true for everyone who wants to keep with sarge when it becomes the stable release. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine
Op zo 26-09-2004, om 04:45 schreef Don Jackson: I feel she needs to have a GUI interface for her email, etc. since that is what she is used to. She is not very computer literate and I need to make it as easy as possible for her to operate (she's had some brain damage from an accident some years ago). Anyone have any suggestions of what I could do to improve speed within the constraints I have mentioned? (Yes, I know that command line email program would do wonders, but she needs the GUI.) I don't really need all the fancy stuff that the KDE desktop provides. I think she'll be happy using XFCE4 or IceWM. She could run KDE or Gnome programs from within either of those, without having to boot the entire memory eating desktop environment. You can make them look pretty, too. XFCE4 has a usable file manager and aims to be a lightweight desktop environment. IceWM is just a window manager (but a usable one and you can extend your desktop with features and applications yourself). http://www.lynucs.org/index.php?p=apps http://xwinman.org/ I might mention that Win98se with Outlook Express is quite fast (relative to sarge/kde/kmail) on this same machine. I would try to upagrde the memory to at least 128 or 160 MB or so. Linux does well on older hardware, they say, but it must be older hardware with plenty of RAM. Perhaps some computer store in your neighbourhood still has a couple of those chips lying around somewhere, gathering dust. But I would never pay more for them than an absolutely symbolic price. Or like, if I buy a pack of CDRs you give me the SIMMs for free, right? Thanks for any suggestion you might make... Don -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: exim port
Op di 14-09-2004, om 22:33 schreef [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi. I have a question regarding exim. Looks like my ISP blocked port 25. How to I tell exim to listen on another port? Thanks in advance. Mike Much more interesting: how do you tell other servers to deliver mail to you on a port other than 25? Can't be done I guess. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Remove unrequired dependencies
Op zo 12-09-2004, om 21:40 schreef Tom Wesley: Hi, :) Sorry for a probably normal query, but I couldn't find an answer with Google: Is there a simple way to remove packages that were installed as dependencies for packages that have since been removed? Take a look at the deborphan utility, which is installable by apt-get install deborphan -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)
Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:25 schreef John Hasler: Olav Lavell writes: Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a minimal distribution The Debian base system is too much? Isn't it? Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. [the following part was about easy updating through apt-get:] Yeah, unless you start installing stuff that did not came packaged from Debian. For instance, I like having a conservative Woody base system with bleeding edge custom compiled apache and php on it. Download the source packages from Unstable, make your changes, and then build and install the packages. I am missing your point here - have no problems finding sources or compiling them. My remark was just to clarify that there are scenarios where keeping a system up to date is not an easy task performed automatically. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)
Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:13 schreef Roberto Sanchez: Olav Lavell wrote: The Debian base system is too much? Isn't it? Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. I believe because certain things (like the daily update of the man and locate databases) depend on the ability to send mail to a user on the system if there is a failure or a problem. I know, I know - I just don't agree 100% with that policy, that's all :) Why does anything want to send mail to anyone on a Linux system? Can't they read log files? :) Sending mail to an administrator is luxury, not necessity. Thus, without such funcitonality it would be a broken system. No, it would just be a smaller system. Less installed packages less complex depencies = easier to maintain. (roughly) BTW, exim can be configured to only do local mail deliveries (i.e., no incoming mail from other hosts and no outgoing mail to other hosts). I know, I know - but you can't just drop it altogether without a lot of hassle. Oh, and it's not a big deal either, please don't think I'm against Debians standard choices for installation. I agree that for 90% of all cases the Debian base system is exactly right. And a good base to build your system further. I did not mean to start a discussion on this. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)
Okay, learning every day :) Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:26 schreef John Hasler: Olav Lavell writes: Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. Exim isn't part of the Debian base. Don't confuse 'base' with 'standard'. Then how do I install a _base_ system? I am honestly interested. This is something I have been after for a while. I am missing your point here - have no problems finding sources or compiling them. My remark was just to clarify that there are scenarios where keeping a system up to date is not an easy task performed automatically. If you download the Debian source package, apply your changes to it, and then install it with dpkg it goes into the packaging system database. This keeps the packaging system happy so that, for example, packages that depend on said package won't complain when you try to install them. This sounds interesting too. I'm going to experiment with that. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: This is one of the things I love about debian -- it doesn't make any assumptions about what you want on your machine. It installs the very basics necessary to run the OS and update your packages, and then you can choose what to add to your setup. Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a minimal distribution :) For a lot of machines, X is not at all fundamental =) I'll readily admit, though, that installing debian from scratch is not my favorite activity. It can be quite confusing to a new user, and even after having installed debian on several systems, it takes me a while to get the hang of it again. I did my first Debian install right after like 25 times. The install program has no more secrets for me :) The good news, though, is that once you've found your way through the initial install, you never have to see it again, because it's so *easy* to upgrade. Yeah, unless you start installing stuff that did not came packaged from Debian. For instance, I like having a conservative Woody base system with bleeding edge custom compiled apache and php on it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: speedy spam
Op di 14-10-2003, om 19:36 schreef Jamin W. Collins: On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 01:20:09PM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: I wonder if anyone has thought of obfustcating email addresses on the list's web archives? I wonder how many 'bots regularly scrape it for addresses? Yes, they have, and it's been pointed out that most any obfuscation that doesn't break functionality can be easily undone by a script. Why not strip e-mail addresses from web archives altogether? Another way to collect addresses from a high volume mailing list like debian-user is of course, simply to subscribe and wait for the addresses to flow in. I just think there's nothing you can do on the mailing list level, every one should just take care of their own defences :( -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Weather Stations
Op za 11-10-2003, om 04:51 schreef Arnt Karlsen: ..http://www.ibutton.com/weather/ ? Found it from http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+PC+%22weather+station+sensors%22 Or perhaps even http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/index.asp? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: windows NT
Op za 11-10-2003, om 11:18 schreef Paul Johnson: On Sat, Oct 11, 2003 at 09:23:30AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: HAHAHHA! What even makes you think that? Debian is an OS. It doesn't run on other OS's, it *is* one. Did you even read the web page (http://debian.org/) to avoid looking like an idiot up front, or did you need to prove it to the world? Damn, you're hostile today. Was there a need for that? No more hostile than usual. I'm very consistantly hostile to gross stupidity. Ah. Then think about what you just did. Why punch someone on the nose who is maybe just setting his/her first steps into the world of Debian? Should we not want to encourage educate people like that, rather than scare them off? The world doesn't need more morons. Could not agree more. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
procmail solution against swen
If your internet provider lets you run procmail before getting the mail
from their server, or if you run procmail yourself, the following recipe
(to be put in your ~/.procmailrc or /etc/procmailrc) will effectively
drop all swen-related stuff to the waste basket. I think it's a clever
one, no false positives yet and I'm swen-free almost a day now. Thanks
to the anonymous who posted this where I could snag it.
The line where it says
* b3 [..]
should be on one line, really.
:0
* 14
* 165000
{
:0 BD
* b3IAAABBZG1pbgAAAEdFVCBodHRwOi8vd3cyLmZjZS52dXRici5jei9iaW4vY291bnRlci5naWYv
/dev/null
}
--
Met vriendelijke groet,
Olav.
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Re: MS mail bombs
Op ma 22-09-2003, om 09:42 schreef Ron Johnson: On Mon, 2003-09-22 at 00:26, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Sep 21, 2003 at 12:09:50PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Sat, Sep 20, 2003 at 09:19:32AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote: [snip] If Swen is the shape of things to come, it's the end of dial-up POP3 mail accounts. What's going to happen (nay, *is* happening) is that ISPs are starting to offer spam virus filtering. Yeah, but for a fee... Which can be totally justifiable from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come gratis either. But that does not make it any more satifactory from the consumer point of view. Customers need to pay more again, only because of the sh*t that Microsoft has thrown upon them. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system
Op do 18-09-2003, om 05:57 schreef Karsten M. Self: You don't want to image your system, you want to back it up. No, he wants to image it - just like he said. Jasper said it's a testing system. I read that as saying: a system that he likes to mess up quite often and thoroughly with trying out different software etc. - after which he wants to quickly restore it to it's basic configuration. That is to say, without having to do the Debian installation again every time. Exactly this is one of the things that disk imaging/cloning is meant for (roll-out of batches of identical PC's is the other). Jasper has already found partimage, and I can't recommend any better. Another tool that I have been using lately for this purpose is savepart http://www.partition-saving.com/. It is much more DOS/Windows oriented - can save images to FAT partitions only - but has some nice features too. I think every OS hacker/tinkerer/engineer who is dealing with both Linux and Windows systems needs both programs in his/her toolbox. Thank you. Peace. Yeah ;) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system
Op do 18-09-2003, om 21:26 schreef Bill Moseley: What about Mondo (was it mentioned already?)? It should do bare-metal restores. Nice, didn't know about that one. Looks nice, going to try it and compare to the others. These are links for lazy people who don't want to use Google :) http://www.microwerks.net/%7Ehugo/ http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/1.6x-howto/quickstart.html -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
