Re: [SLUG] Linux midi interface
On 9 Feb 2013 15:29, Ben Donohue donoh...@icafe.com.au wrote: Pity midi keyboards don't just have a USB port at the back and do away with the round midi plug. That would be so much easier! Some do. I have a behringer umx61 that you can connect via USB, works fine with linux. - Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Building Java for embedded Linux
On Thu, Dec 22, 2011 at 10:19 AM, David Lyon david.lyon.preissh...@gmail.com wrote: I'm wondering how to get Java running on an embedded linux ARM board. Anybody know how to do it? I haven't used it myself but there is an embedded port of OpenJDK that is meant to run on ARM: http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/java/javase/javase-emb7u2-relnotes-1395056.html I'd be interested in hearing how you progress with this, we tried running some of our code on ARM devices a few years ago using other implementations of Java and experienced some compatibility issues. If OpenJDK runs ok then we might be able to dust them off and get some use out of them. -- - Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Alternatives to Gnome3
On Mon, Nov 14, 2011 at 12:22 PM, Rod Butcher rbutc...@hyenainternet.com wrote: I don't see how Gnome 3 being forced on folks who never asked for it meets above realworld rules. Unless I misunderstand your point, I think forced is a bit strong. There are more alternative window managers on linux than actual users. -- - Steve (who likes Unity and is not ashamed to say so) -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] USB Wireless Inet under Linux.
On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Carl Adams 52midni...@gmail.com wrote: I'd be very interested to hear from anyone who has either a good, inexpensive wireless Inet connection, or experience with these modems. We're using a bunch of Huawei E160E and E169 USB modems from Virgin on some embedded systems that work fine with Linux (a minimal Ubuntu install). Purchased in the last month or two so I assume they are relatively current. The E160E comes up as 12d1:1003, not sure about the E169. - Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] FC 5 sound problem
On 10/19/07, Luke Vanderfluit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a /~~~ 'Cannot open the audio device. Another application may be using it.' \__ Not 100% sure but I think you should be able to find out which app (by name and process id) is holding onto the sound card by one of: lsof /dev/dsp or lsof /dev/snd/* ...depending on whether it's using oss or alsa. CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] alsa, jackd, recording radio, Amarok
On 10/17/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can I use jackd at the same time as something like Amarok? Don't know about amarok but. - Aqualung (http://aqualung.sourceforge.net/) claims jack support, never used it so I can't vouch for it's quality compared to Amarok (I don't use amarok either :) - Gstreamer can hook into Jack now, so I've had Banshee playing through Jack (a bit of fiddling around though). So it's possible to get a media player to output to Jack (which is mostly used by the pro type apps, DAW's, midi sequencers etc.). Assuming your card supports simultaneous capture/playback then you should be able to record the radio at the same time as playing music through your media player. If you are using jack, I'd recommend using qjackctl to start/stop/configure, it lets you hook apps up to each other and to playback/capture devices using the mouse (so for example you'd connect aqualung to the playback device, and jack time machine to the capture device to record the radio). CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [Fwd: Re: [SLUG] xmms won't play for non-root]
On 9/20/07, Kevin Shackleton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Creating an audio group, assigning /dev/dsp to the audio group and adding myself to the audio group made no difference. It seems that I've applied a solution without knowing what the problem was. Any clues as to how to identify the problem? What are the permissions on /dev/dsp? Do other sound apps work for non-root users? Haven't used xmms for a long time, do you have the same output plugin selected for root and non-root? What has changed on your system since it worked last? CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?
On 7/19/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip $ mplayer http://138.25.162.211:8080 -dumpaudio -dumpfile foo This doesn't give any errors, but mplayer won't play the file. Is this the right way to rip using mplayer? Is there an easier way to do this (maybe using another program)? It works if you use -dumpstream instead of -dumpaudio. Perhaps mplayer can't specifically separate out the audio from the stream for that particular format? CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] ripping a window$ media stream?
On 7/20/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks, that worked! Out of interest, what format would that be coming out as natively (I'm an audio noob)? Playing says: Opening audio decoder: [ffmpeg] FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders AUDIO: 44100 Hz, 2 ch, s16le, 64.0 kbit/4.54% (ratio: 8003-176400) Selected audio codec: [ffwmav2] afm: ffmpeg (DivX audio v2 (FFmpeg)) Umm I assume its DivX audio v2, which may or may not have some relation to the windows media audio format, I'm not really sure. Disclaimer: Technical assistance provided by Steve should not be interpreted in any way as an endorsement by Steve of activities that may or may not have the approval of the broadcaster. CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Newcastle LUG - LOGIN
Howdy, This is a reminder for any Newcastle/Hunter region based subscribers to slug that LOGIN (the Newcastle LUG) meets at 7:30pm on the 3rd Monday of each month at the Wallsend Enterprise Centre. Our next meeting will be on the 16th July and will be about gaming on linux. Please give me a yell if you'd like any more info, or check out http://login.linux.org.au Thanks...Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Fedora access and securtiy
On 1/26/07, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 08:38:45PM +1100, Kevin Waterson wrote: Thanks for that, but is there not a simple method to simply edit a file? This *is* the simple method. Once you've installed shorewall, you'll only have to edit a few files in /etc/shorewall - probably these: I'll give another vote for shorewall, I'd actually recommend it over some of the gui tools out there for manipulating firewalls (which I understand are not an option for you at the moment). I struggle with iptables a bit, shorewall makes setting a firewall up a bit more intuitive (and you can always look at the iptables rules it's generating if you want to know exactly what it's doing). Not sure if anyone has mentioned it yet but keep in mind that if you're manipulating a firewall on a remote machine and you bugger it up, you can lock yourself out of it. That's not fun :) Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
apt-file (was Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper))
On 1/3/07, Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You can also use 'dpkg -S fglrx_dri.so' 'apt-file' lets you search through packages you haven't installed yet (but are in the relevant apt repositories). I think dpkg -S is only for installed packages? Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] OpenGL on ATI Radeon (Ubuntu Dapper)
On 1/3/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One problem with both dpkg -S and apt-file search is that they only work on packages that have actually been installed. When Pendo first mentioned apt-file I thought it was actually able to find files in packages which weren't installed. Unfortunately this is not the case. Did you run 'apt-file update' ? Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: apt-file
On 1/3/07, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hmm, I can't get apt-file to work at all: Sorry, I replied in the other thread. You need to run apt-file update. It needs to build up an index of the files in the packages before it works properly. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Html to pdf conversion with all the formatting
On 11/23/06, param [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have checked the FO:XSL file which is generated by my application. It seems to have all the formatting tags etc. :-(. Any error messages during the fop processing? It'd be weird for it to silently drop formatting. Fop doesn't implement the fo spec completely, so it might be worth checking on the fop site whether those tags are implemented in the version you're using (it definitely should do tables and the basic types of text formatting that you would want, our files have plenty of that stuff in them). If you're using an old version of fop, perhaps look at trying a more recent version. We found the trunk to be pretty stable, although much more strict on compliance with the FO spec. It's apache stuff so it's not too hard to build. Also, if your solution doesn't have to be native java it might be worth checking out some of the alternatives described in the thread linked in my earlier reply, they may give you fewer hassles (can't comment on the quality of their output in comparison to fop however). Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: Html to pdf conversion with all the formatting
On 11/22/06, param [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Firstly I am converting HTML object to corresponding XML file then this XML file is converted to FO:XSL file. Using FOP I convert this XSL file into PDF using Tranformer. I recently worked on a project using fop, we used the style sheet that the following article refers to: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html?page=1 specifically the one called xhtml2fo.xsl in his examples: http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/html/jw-0410-html.zip We ended up changing a few things, but out of the box it did most of what we wanted (tables were a bit dodgy, but using the trunk version of fop fixed that). Have you checked that the actual fo that you're producing actually has all the formatting tags that it should (ie. do the bits you expect to be underlined have: text-decoration=underline)? Is it spitting out lots of errors when you run the transform? If so, google will more than likely turn up an answer. Also, fop will be sensitive to the quality of the html you're sending to it, we run ours through jtidy to clean it up before we do do the xslt. If you're going to persist with fop, it might be worth directing your questions to the fop mailing lists, you'll find people there with more fop experience than on the slug list. When you do, posting error messages and/or examples of the code/xml will help get you more useful responses. http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/fop/maillist.html Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Html to pdf conversion with all the formatting
On 11/22/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I am able to convert HTML to PDF document, but the colors, images styles etc do not appear on pdf document. Does anybody has any idea how to do this? What are you using to do the conversion currently? There was a thread on slug not long ago about this topic, have a squiz through http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2006/11/msg00344.html Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] howto convert html to pdf?
On 11/14/06, Sonia Hamilton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I (well my boss actually) want to convert several hundred html pages to pdf - what's the easiest way to do this? Any pointers, ideas? We're using Apache FOP for html - pdf conversion. It might be slightly more involved than the other tools people have suggested, however it will give you a lot of control over the final pdf (via xslt). We looked at some of the single-shot command line tools and found that fop produced nicer documents, albeit with a few more steps. It's Java though, this may or may not be an issue for you. Link below gives some examples of how to use it from the command line, as well as in code. http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-04-2006/jw-0410-html.html?page=1 Home page is at http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ If you do use it, grab the latest version, handles tables etc. much better. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] DHCP client vs sendmail
On 8/9/06, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I googled for this problem, but I had no luck in finding anything specific, only very general stuff for desktop machines that don't wander between networks. Not the answer you're looking for but have you thought about using some sort of webmail? Then it doesn't matter where you are, as long as you can get on the net you have email. (to be honest, that's the main reason gmail works well for me, doesn't matter where I am I have access to my mail, there's no synching issues, no setup, no backup issues etc.). And these days the various webmail services out there don't suck as much as they used to (keyboard navigation, ajax-y snappiness etc). Gmail lets you change your sender address so you can keep using your old email address if that's an issue. You can also download the mail from gmail to your local machine at a later stage as well if you need. Only issue is whether you trust google (yahoo, etc.) to have a copy of all your mail (I'm very dull so it's not a problem for me :) Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A comparison for fun ...
On 7/8/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why SuSE Why Ubuntu I've never used SuSE so nothing too useful to contribute however: snip SuseUbuntu - snip RPM is usually easy and lots of infoapt-get is very easy is available about installednot detailed info about packages packages, changed packages, eg apt-get install kubuntu-desktop adds 800M contents of packaghes apt-get remove kubuntu-desktop dels 40K !! Being picky, comparing apt-get and rpm is not really right, comparing yum or whatever other rpm management thingo's are out there now is more appropriate (dpkg is more the equiv for rpm). Not really a comment on main point of your comparison though. For that case apt-cache show package is usually pretty good, although I can see that running it for kubuntu-desktop may not make it crystal clear that it is a meta-package (do rpm distro's have that concept??, if not maybe an additional point to add because it's a good feature). It does however say that the installed size is 40 (it just has heeaps of dependencies :) A more contstructive comment I could add might be that with ubuntu (and debian) you tend to go to one place to get all your packages (ie. their repo's), whereas my (now fairly dated) experience with other distro's is that you tended to need to add other repositries and therefore start to head down dodgy dependency street. Whether this applies to SuSE (or other's anymore) I'm not really sure. Cheers...Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Playing DVD isos from HD
On 7/1/06, bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any program that will handle DVD menus ( remotely) from dvd isos copied to hard disk and streamed over a home LAN? VLC will work to play such isos and handle menus on the pc on which the isos are stored, however I want to be able to do this remotely via streaming the dvd iso. VLC has a streaming capability, under File-Wizard it will walk you through setting it up as a streaming server, then you just open up vlc on the other end as a client of that stream. Might be worth a try if you're used to using vlc. Cheers..Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick
On 5/16/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip looking at config.log I see this: - configure:42977: checking for JPEG support configure:42979: result: configure:42993: checking jconfig.h usability configure:43005: gcc -c -g -O2 -Wall -pthread conftest.c 5 conftest.c:209:21: jconfig.h: No such file or directory configure:43011: $? = 1 Not %100 sure but I'd guess you're missing the jpeg development libraries. CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] decode librarary for imagemagick
On 5/17/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 16, 2006 11:21 pm, Sam Lawrance wrote: Not %100 sure but I'd guess you're missing the jpeg development libraries. Or, the configure didn't pick them up for whatever reason. FWIW ImageMagick configure obeys CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS. thanks, so what's the suggested course to try to take advantge of that ? I think ideally you want to find an RH7.3 rpm that has the jpeg headers etc, something like libjpeg*-dev (not sure how such packages are named on redhat). Actually ideally you would want to upgrade, redhat 7.3 is *really* old and you're in for a world of pain each time you try to install something that has more than zero dependencies :) CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS is about telling the compiler/linker where things are, so in your case they would be useful for indicating exactly where the jpeg headers are (usually if they are in a non-standard location), a quick google would give plenty of examples. I think the configure script was looking for a file called jconfig.h, does such a file exist on your system? If you're get to the stage where you have to keep downloading source packages to meet all your dependencies then it might be worth looking at something else (or an upgrade to a newer version of redhat), a slow transition from redhat 7.3 -- linux from scratch is only going to get harder and harder to maintain :) Cheers..Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Stallion
On 5/17/06, Christopher Vance [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have just inherited an old ISA bus EasyIO 8-port card, for the purposes of running a bunch of other machines with serial consoles. Having checked the board against the documentation for IRQ and I/O address information, I added the needed single line to configure the device. That's quite an achievement, but I'm not sure it makes you a stallion. CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: The joy of APT (was: photo gallery recommendations sought)
On 5/7/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But again a real eg: http://www.ltsp.org lbe used to build, does not NOW. Where were you (in terms of versions) when it DID build. How do I tell my friend that it did build around Marchish with all the latest upgrades, but does not now. Go back to 'then' and it will build. I should let this go but I won't :) I think you're saying that apt-get doesn't cope when you mix managed packages and custom source builds. If you need to a constant base environment to build your packages on then don't update your system. If you want your system to evolve nicely over time then use apt on a consistent package repository and it will. Again it is much cleaner to say 'install RH9, choose DEV environment, add get-text', it works: a repeatable, exact solution for ever. Not really a problem with apt, that's a problem with making changes. How are you adding get-text? However you do it, if you add the wrong version you have the same problem. If you add the right version then if you had run apt against a repository with the right version you'd also be fine. I'm not suggesting that building from a known cd and adding stuff to it to get a standard environment is a bad idea, just that it has nothing to do with whether apt-get is a good tool or paradigm. Again horses for courses: whose building 'that version' of LBE (used by 1000s customers worldwide for POS touch terminals) and needs to continue building THAT version. Then don't change the version. Or create packages that roll nicely with updates. Apt is there so that changes within the packaged environment run smoothly, not so that unpackaged source trees build nicely on it. Seems like criticising a stapler for being a crummy hole punch. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: The joy of APT (was: photo gallery recommendations sought)
On 5/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Take DammSmallLinux and try to make a development system and (real) soon apt-get gives fatal errors and again 'the bell tower' Isn't that more about the distro/packaging quality/dependencies etc.? (I don't know anything about DamnSmallLinux so this is not intended as a criticism of it) A counter example I could offer would be: take ubuntu hoary, progress through breezy to dapper beta without ever having having to re-install from a cd and without really experiencing any packaging issues. Apt is just a (very nifty) tool, the joy comes from the distro having good practices around the way they organise their packages, dependencies etc. IMHO. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Mounting flash drive.
On 5/3/06, john gibbons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From all four approaches I ended up with the statement that the usb disk does not exist. My own technical know-how has long since fizzled out. How does one make it exist in the first place? Ignoring the philosophical implications of that question, it might be helpful if you can post to the list the output of dmesg when you plug in the usb disk. Is there any device that looks like /dev/sdXX after you have plugged it in? Maybe the module for usb mass storage is not being loaded for some reason? Cheers..Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Newbie - Can't execute anything I've downloaded
On 5/1/06, Josh Shone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, first e-mail: Howdy. Trying to get Firefox 1.5 and Frostwire on to my Kubuntu 5.10 install. Firefox comes in a tar.gz, Frostwire in a .deb package. Firefox: The newer version of ubuntu (dapper) has firefox 1.5. Dapper is in beta now so the final release cannot be too far away if you can tolerate 1.0.8 for a little while and wait for the upgrade. It's generally much easier to run apps that your distribution packages for you than trying to install stuff from the actual project (for example, you don't need to re-install when a security bug gets patched, the ubuntu guys roll out a patched version and you pick it up next time you run the update manager, no brainer). Only minor drawback is you can be a little behind the latest version of a given application. With ubuntu though the worst case is about 6 months though (or 6 months + a bit for longer for dapper :) Frostwire: Had never heard of frostwire, the faq says its a java app. Possibly silly question but have you got java installed? Otherwise do as already has been suggested and run it from the command line in a terminal. Hopefully a meaningful error will be printed out which you could google for and/or post to the list. Cheers..Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] setting up sound card in RHEL3
On 4/5/06, Voytek Eymont [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've inserted an Ensoniq PCI sound crad in a RHEL3, on power up, the 'altered hardware' picked it up as Ensqniq ES1370 how can I test if I have sound support from command line ? (and, to tell me if I plugged speakers in correct jack...) I've never really grasped completely how sound works on linux, but I know that if you run aplay -l you'll get a list of the cards that alsa knows about. eg. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay -l List of PLAYBACK Hardware Devices card 0: UA25 [UA-25], device 0: USB Audio [USB Audio] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 You can use aplay to play a sound via tha command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay /usr/share/sounds/ekiga/busytone.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ekiga/busytone.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono If you hear something, then I think you're sorted. If not, you may need to unmute/turn up the sound device, try alsamixer and unmute things (my card doesn't do the software mixer thing so I can't tell you exactly which thing to unmute/increase volume). If you have mulitple cards, you may need to use the -D switch for aplay which will select the specific card. On my system I can use: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aplay -D cards.pcm.default /usr/share/sounds/ekiga/busytone.wav Playing WAVE '/usr/share/sounds/ekiga/busytone.wav' : Signed 16 bit Little Endian, Rate 8000 Hz, Mono To find out the pcms on your system, run aplay -L. And this is where I run out of steam re. alsa, try the different pcm's listed and see how you go, other's on the list might be able to give you other pointers (you might want to check the alsa web site to make sure your card is supported etc). On my distro NAME CENSORED IN THE INTERESTS OF SLUG HARMONY all this stuff gets setup automatically, I'm not sure whether this is a standard thing for alsa on all distros or whether you'll need to set up an .asoundrc with the appropriate information for the new card on your system. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC
On 4/1/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We already have tools to maintain a local cache of network-accessible data: * USENET news propagation and caching (going back approx 25 years) * ftp archive mirror maintenance tools (going back approx 15 years) * HTML web spidering, wget, etc (maybe 10 years??) * Intelligent Agents (latest craze 5 years ago, already fading) I understood your original post to be about the value of an rss feed vs. a page of links you can click to manually download content. I wasn't suggesting that rss was better or worse than any other techniques that may have already been in place for publishing/syndication, but rss + a decent aggregation program is better (for me) than a page of links that I manually need to track. I wouldn't say it's mankind's most amazing achievement, but it saves me a little time/effort :) Once more we are back to the beginning... RSS does nothing that wasn't already done (by several existing methods) and in many cases offers less functionality than existing systems. None of these systems solve the basic problem which is being able to selectively collect useful information while filtering out junk. RSS doesn't solve that either. It can help a little. There are zillions of blogs/podcasts out there, I don't have to read all of them (mostly junk), I can subscribe to the ones I like (useful). Finding them in the first place is obviously the hard bit, but I don't think that is the problem rss is intended to solve. Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Podcasts from the ABC
On 3/29/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I wrote an RSS to HTML translator because I couldn't see the value in RSS (no doubt someone will explain it to me). Then I just click on the links in the HTML and download it like any regular file (oh wow, downloading files, I've only been doing that since I first got hold of a modem so now I have yet another layer of indirection to achieve exactly the same result). The value is pretty straight forward, I don't have to know there's a new science show available, I've subscribed to the feed so it magically appears on my computer when it's ready. No checking the web site, no link clicking, no effort at all really. Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] mp3/ogg players recommended
On 3/27/06, David Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, snip Ogg playback without too much messing around, that is, no need to re-sample to 44100hz or change to a specific bit-rate just to get the track to play on the device. Plug and play in Linux. Thus needs to comply to the USB mass storage standard. Battery life is important 2, but meeting the first 2 points are my main concern. Looking for around the 512mb+ mark. I can recommend Samsung yepp players. I bought a yp-t6z last year and have been very happy with it, battery life is good (aaa batteries), plays ogg (+ a few others), linux is no problem, has line in recording (never used) and a microphone (never used). Was about $200 for the 1gb version (http://www.samsung.com/au/products/mp3players/mp3players/yp_t6z.asp) about 3 or 4 months ago, not sure how much the 512mb version is (http://www.samsung.com/au/products/mp3players/mp3players/yp_t6x.asp). No crappy index file like an ipod either, you just drop the files on it and groove away. My wife says it's ugly (it's v. v. small, a little boxy) but what would she know. Cheers...Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Re: mp3/ogg players recommended
On 3/27/06, David Ward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanx alot for all the replies guys (and for cleaning up my email ;) ) Where would one find these Samsung Yep players on sale ?? Got mine from Tandy. Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: Java/Flash on ppc was [SLUG] Ubuntu install cd's to give away...
On 3/14/06, Peter baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I'm hoping installing flash and java is'nt too hard on ubuntu. I'm a newby! I'm running Ubuntu (very happily) on an ibook, unfortunately support for non-free technologies on non-x86 platforms can be a bit of a pain sometimes. I think you'll find that: - Java is ok (see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JavaPPC) - Flash is not ok I don't bother with either (Java is fine when it's not in my browser, Flash on the other hand is evil! Evil I tells ya!), but I can appreciate that, particularly with browser plugins, this can be a pretty sore point. In both cases there are open source versions that may or may not do what you want (I suspect that more progress has been made on the Java front then on the flash front, however I don't have any recent experience to back that up). The ubuntu forums would probably be a good place to find peoples experience with this stuff. I could say just avoid websites that use flash (this can be a good idea whether you have a browser plugin or not :), however if you're new to linux and looking for the closest experience to what you may be used to then perhaps running it on an intel machine (if possible) might be an easier way to start. (Otherwise just take pleasure in cursing those who build sites you can't access, indignation builds character, I didn't want to look at your stupid site anyway you bastard) CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C
On 11/23/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: While I agree wholeheartedly that tests are necessay, I'm curious why you are advocating writing Python tests to find bugs at run time that say an Ocaml compiler will find for free at compile time. While I would agree that catching any bugs asap is a good thing, I find that typos and the like are not the problems that are causing me most grief (crappy logic, crappy requirements, not enough time, other developers writing crappy code, etc are more likely to cause me problems). Python works for me because: a) i (and others) write less code because the language is very expressive. therefore less bugs b) i (and others) write less code because there are heaps of modules out there to do many of the things I need to do (and so many of them come as part of the standard library). therefore less bugs c) i write code and it tends to work first or second go (which says way more about python than it does about my coding ability). I don't have to fight the language, and don't often think why did they do it that way? d) the code tends to be easy to read (both my code and the code in standard modules etc.) e) i don't have to look up the documentation each time I try something slightly new (I can keep a large chunk of the language in my head or I can work it out by playing around in the interpreter for a few minutes) f) actually I'll mention the interpreter again, it seems such a simple thing but the number of times I've not known how to use a module but worked it out in the interpreter using a combination of dir, help and __doc__ in a short period of time makes it worth mentioning as a point on it's own Erik, I've never used ocaml (and know very little about it). Would you be able to evaluate it against some of the points I've raised above, particularly in comparison to python (I'm assuming you've used python based on your criticism)? (I'm not suggesting my criteria are the only ones that matter, different experience, different projects, different environments etc might make other things more or less important, they are criteria that are relevant to me however) Cheers.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C
On 11/23/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: lots of interesting stuff Cool, thanks Erik. Will check it out. CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Funniest thing I've seen in months.
DaZZa wrote: Microsoft tries to recruit ESR. Seriously http://esr.ibiblio.org/index.208.html I laughed. Lots. I think you should find out the real story about esr, it's much more amusing. http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: OT: GPG for Windows (Outlook)?
James Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Question to the group: is there some sort of plug-in for Outlook (F/OSS preferred) users that provides similar integration. I've looked at PGP but the external user (the sender) doesn't want to spend that much $$$ on it, so I'm back to square one. I told them to run Linux too - but I was laughed at (idiots). Any help or suggestions are welcome :) I had a requirement at work about 18 months ago for one of my users to be able to send/receive pgp encrypted files (from a windows desktop). I ended installing windows privacy tray (google currently gives this link for the project http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~twoaday/winpt.html) which did the job well enough. It's basically a gui calling gpg underneath. It was a bit rough then but functional enough for a (very) non-techie to use (still in use as far as I am aware). I cannot vouch for what state the project is in now however. The site refers to an outlook plugin which I've never used, so that may be worth a look also. You could probably script up something that called gpg for you if outlook lets you call out to other programs (I've never used outlook). CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Re: Why XML bites and why it is NOT a markup language
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: By the way, how DO I get perl to read such a file? Just forget the xml jazz and grep out the mp3 links :) http://linc.homeunix.org:8080/scripts/bashpodder is about 10 lines of bash and works nicely. In addition to hack, John Safran and Dr Karl are also available via podcast, and there's a couple of good radio national feeds available at http://www.abc.net.au/rn/podcast/default.htm also. Great for those of us with mega-commutes. Yay ABC. Getting full value for his 8c a day.Steve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] wiki choice
On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 11:30 +1100, Peter Miller wrote: snip My question: is there a small footprint, file-based wiki engine out there driven by CGI and written in C? Freshmeat's search, Sourceforge's search, and Google have all bean less than forthcoming on the question. Not C, but awkiawki is a wiki written in awk which might be worth a squiz (and I think the K in awK is the guy who co-wrote C if that helps :) Not too pretty but wiki-functional enough, file-system based, fast, low footprint etc. Hooks into rcs to give you change history etc. If you can get over the feeling that awk shouldn't be used like this it may suit. http://awkiawki.bogosoft.com/ CheersSteve -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Further to Poor Qantas Web Site
On Sun, 2005-01-23 at 10:12 +1100, Michael Still wrote: I've used the Qantas website for _years_ using Firefox (well, Mozilla before that) and Linux. You just need to have popups turned on for that one site... Their new international booking stuff is actually kinda nice. I booked several (domestic) flights for my family on sunday on the qantas website with no problems at all. Popups blocked, firefox 1.0 from ubuntu hoary (ppc). Haven't tracked the whole thread so ignore this if someone has already done so, but has anyone tried to inform Qantas about the problems they may have with their site? http://www.qantas.com.au/needhelp/dyn/feedbackform?cat=web Disclaimer: I work for qantas, not in the ebiz area however (so don't blame me :) Steve. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] linux on ibook
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Any comments? I'm running yellowdog linux on my ibook which I got a couple of months ago. Getting the graphics card working with the version of X in debian at the moment (xfree4.2) requires some work, whereas with yellowdog it was a put the cd in, click a couple of times and you're up and running kind of thing. I still plan on getting debian running (reasons below), but I might wait for xfree 4.3 to make it's way into sarge. Yellowdog is fine (it's basically just redhat rebadged for PPC). It's full of pointy clicky goodness, it supports all the hardware out of the box (I think the tv out might not work, never tried it though), it has quite a lot of up to date software distributed with it, it looks pretty polished. The installation was flawless, the only thing I had to do was switch on acceleration for the video card (which again was clicking a box, very easy). Has apt-rpm, mac- on-linux, lot's of groovy stuff. Basically it's like all the commerical linux offerings now, very polished and pretty easy to install. The only iritation I've had with YDL is getting packages. apt-rpm is fine, but if the packages don't exist then it's not that useful (not that this has happened a lot, the majority of things are available). I've actually had to install a couple of things from source again which after using debian for awhile is really annoying :) Not YDL's problem though really, just smaller user base, and people like me complaining rather than packaging software. Cheers...Steve. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
[SLUG] Debian Testing
Hi y'all, A question for debian-ites. Is there much value in tracking debian testing? I was thinking that it might be a nice way to stay relatively up to date with new software (compared to stable), not _too_ risky in terms of stability (compared to unstable), and not too hard on the dialup connection (compared to unstable). Based on such impeccable reasoning I updated my sources.list to point at testing and the updates were 178mb! (on my connection this is a lng download) I understand that it has been a while since woody was released so there will have been plenty of updates to catch up with but are changes to testing usually added at such a rate that I'm going to be up for big updates like this on a regular basis? My modem is still sore. Steve. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
