Maybe some decades from now all power per flop wasting supercomputers will
be located in India.
In the long run, they're the only ones on the planet who can afford the
energy real cheap
(Disclaimer: I'm located in Jaipur, India).
Vincent, I'm curious why you think we will be able to afford
Hey gang, is there any good documentation on how to use libsox
on the net? i've been googling but nothing except the ubuntu man
pages cropped up?
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Also have a look at libsndfile:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
Erik
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I've been suggested that arecord may be able to record direct from
PCM if I change the environment variables. Like:
SDL_AUDIODRIVER=alsa ./myprog
I'm quite scared of doing this, lest I lose audio altogether,
having seen how moody Ubuntu is regarding sound. I mean,
Don't be
Hi List, I had one more question,
if you'd bear with me...this is a different question from the last one.
I play an instrument called the jaw harp, which is played in this video(not
me!):
http://in.youtube.com/watch?v=rDdG97MesZM
Now I would like to feed this live audio into my box, do a bit of
You are urged to revisit this assumption. Every single one of those
systems started from a similar premise as you are now claiming.
Of course, if you just want to waste time programming instead of making
cool sounds etc, go right ahead. Otherwise you will be at least 10x as
productive
They don't have to succeed in the US to succeed, and in Europe
(especially in Russia) business linux boxes are very popular with the
government and many businesses who don't have the large prior investment
in MS systems to act as ballast. As I've been predicting for years that
the day would
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 8:49 AM, Douglas Eadline [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
shameless plug
http://www.clustermonkey.net is great place to look.
/shameless plug
Many thanks! I was looking for a nice 101, ya know, a
place to start.
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Carl, yes...it is not easy to break into this strange world of linux audio
programming.
I'm a newbie myself...and while I have never used libsndfile directly, I
will be doing
that over the next two weeks. So I can share my own experiences with you.
I'm assuming you know C/C++ and coding with
[[sorry darren, this was meant for the list. i hit the wrong button..]]
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 1:38 PM, AlgoMantra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Look, I know that everything I'm asking for exists on the Linux
platform. The problem is, it doesn't all exist in one place, or under a
single language
I want my musical skills to be all I need to be able to make music on
Linux.
I feel that knowing how to compute on Linux IS a musical skill these days.
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I'm not your personal army. I'm MY personal army.
http://www.textbooktorrents.com/torrents-details.php?id=7987
Very useful book.
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On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Parthan SR [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
AlgoMantra wrote:
http://www.textbooktorrents.com/torrents-details.php?id=7987
Very useful book.
Is the book available under a FOSS compatible license which allows free
sharing and distribution
On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:16 PM, Fabian Enos [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Instead of throwing us a link to a torrent, you could have mentioned
the name of the book, the author, etc etc so that we could have
atleast googled it or something similar...
The name of the book is the topic of this
2. This is the attitude which might cause Free software enthusiasts to
be labeled as pirates or free loaders.
Here I am trying to pass on a link that I found useful,
and deem absolutely appropriate for fellow Indian Ubuntu users, and instead
of thanking me, you cast aspersions on my
The Ubuntu Linux Toolbox book is not a freely available book for
download. The publishers have clearly mentioned:
No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval
system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic,
mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning
Hence, the same publisher has the right to sell his copyrighted
version in India at Landmark for INR 1132:
Would be nice if you could mind your language when mailing to a public
mailing list.
I kindly request you not to send such links to this mailing list in
future and to follow list guidelines. Else, we have to kindly show you
the door. Thank you.
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Yo all, I'm on Hardy.
I went into sharing options for a folder which contains
videos, so I can share it over wifi with my brother. It made
me install a small package, and then gave the error:
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare
directory
On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Fabian Enos [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Try 'sudo net usershare'
*
It opened up a manual page which doesn't make any sense to me whatsoever,
therefore I
took the liberty of copying it below for your kind perusal, should you have
the patience to go through it,
Hello All,
A friend of mine is running Ubuntu Hardy on a Dell Inspiron 1525,
with dual boot Vista. His lspci shows that the wireless chip is of
type BCM4310.
What's the best way of getting his wifi up and running? I have had
lots of frustrating experiences for my own laptop, so if there is an
Sanjay, did you buy a system with Ubuntu pre-installed?
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On the subject of input devices, I had a recent project that may be
just up your alley. First, I changed my xorg.conf to only read from
one specific mouse device, then I used the input event interface that
the kernel creates for each extra mouse, and wrote a c program that
mapped five
Well, it can be fun to poke around with a little bit of C code, but in
the case of GS this probably won't get you very far unless you really
get serious and write your own realtime synthesis engine. Which isn't easy.
But I *would* rather write my own realtime synthesis engine. If anyone
who
Hey Guys, thanks so much for all the input.
Now I need to process/experiment with it all and get back to
you.
Jens!!! The code you're sending is most helpful.
We were able to play a few nice loops today in class
using pure sine synthesis in C, and I of course suggested they
start working on a
I didn't mean to recommend Pd as a general language (this time), but
as a kind of library that takes away many tedious tasks like GUI
writing or audio interfacing and lets you concentrate on the dsp side
in your C code, while still being able to quickly run it. Of course
you could also use
[[[again, meant for the list. Dunno why Gmail is defaulting weirdly]]]
On 6/18/08, AlgoMantra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you have any midi-keyboard around? Because stdio won't tell you that
a key has been released, only that it has been hit.
Interesting!!! It'll be fun to find a way
Thanks, Justinfor the informative post. I wasn't aware of all those
details.
right, that will set up working sound in just seven lines. Doing the
same in ALSA is a bit more involved, unless you do like me and just
copy/paste what other people have figured out:
Jens, your generosity is
On 6/17/08, Jens M Andreasen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.granularsynthesis.com/index.php
I know that website, Jens... and a good bit of Microsound theory. I also
have Curtis Roads' insane book. I'm looking
for ways to make grains and play clouds using /dev/dsp and C code.
I should be
I'm a newbie to audio in linux. I can code in C, and I know that
if you $cat /dev/dsp you can see your microphone feeding weird
shit into this sound device. I've also read that this device is encoded
as 8-bit unsigned, and I know the binary math of that format. I'm
currently coding on Ubuntu
Sorry, my last reply was meant for the list, not just
Fons.
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 6:56 AM, AlgoMantra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
FYI:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3836
I was looking for this sort of thing.
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If you are a newbie, and want to contribute to KDE
Documentation, you could do it in the following way.
Newbie at what? I'm not even sure what KDE is...but
I have been using Ubuntu for 4 months now.
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I think you understood me wrong. By distribution, I meant a linux
distribution. Linux distributions mainly contain artwork licensed
under CC-BY-SA.
I haven't seen any art in Ubuntu except the desktop wallpaper yet. Kindly
enlighten me! Even if I misunderstood you, my argument is for ALL art
Hello allso apparently Firefox 3 has a pretty
insane bug. Calls some function called fsync()
repeatedly...
http://jasondclinton.livejournal.com/66509.html
and...
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=421482
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if you try *$cat yes /dev/audio*
you should hear what sounds like a sine wave,
but probably isn't a true sine. The reason why
this happens (and more tricks) are described
here:
http://everything2.com/e2node/catting%2520weird%2520things%2520to%2520%252Fdev%252Faudio
What I would like to do is
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 12:00 AM, sivaji j.g [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Nowadays most of the TV program allows the viewer to rate their
program by sending sms i.e saying the viewers to type vote a and
send sms to some number say 5657 to vote for team A .
My question is how thing works ? what
Just an advance warning, since I found this very strange for
a linux system..you might be trying to compile C code
using gcc but it may not work,
with many errors saying stdio.h: no such fileetc
that means you need to:
$sudo apt-get install build-essentials.
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This is nothing specific to hardy, you always need build-essential for
compiling c programs.
And build-essential is installed automatically in case of clean
install. If it is an upgrade you need to make sure ubuntu-desktop is
installed before upgrading.
Okay, I didn't know that...
What do you mean by JRE1.4 that you have installed? Is it installed
from repositories?
Assuming that it is installed from repository, you simply need to
change the default java being used. Try 'man update-java-alternatives'
1.4 is not included in the repositories. I had to download the .bin
I've switched to Epiphany browser. Though it has less features,
the performance is much better than Firefox and more importantly,
it's keeping my wifi connection steady.
Deluge is also another big problem. What's a better torrent client?
Azureus was crashing on Gutsy...
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On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 2:21 AM, Linux Lingam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
linux lingam? ROTFLwhat a name.
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Hi, I'm noticing that Hardy (esp. Firefox) has become much slower
since i installed it only a few days ago. Nothing dramatic, but its
kind of annoying. How does one clean up the temp files and
unnecessary data?
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at 10:33 AM, AlgoMantra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello,
I moved the path accordingly to have the .fw in /lib/firmware/b43
manually,
but still no effect. I am copying my dmesg output here:
Please advise. I think I need a different firmware, perhaps?
Yes, you are right. You need newer
Parth/Onkar,
Inside /lib/firmware (using sudo) I found all these .fw files.
rebooting had no effect. Kindly advise...
regards,
- Rohit
a0g0bsinitvals2.fw
a0g0bsinitvals5.fw
a0g0initvals2.fw
a0g0initvals5.fw
a0g1bsinitvals5.fw
a0g1initvals5.fw
b0g0bsinitvals2.fw
b0g0bsinitvals5.fw
My fault. The driver expects the firmware files in b43 directory. The
correct command is (I have verified on my ibook :-D )
'sudo b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware/b43 wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' (Replace .o
filename appropriately).
In case you get error 'directory does not exist then do 'sudo mkdir
This is the command you should run, once the b43-fwcutter package is
installed.
'b43-fwcutter -w /lib/firmware wl_apsta-3.130.20.0.o' (Replace .o
filename appropriately)
*Dear Onkar*, the b43-fwcutter package installed this time, after I skipped
the option to
fetch firmware. then I ran this
I had the same problem on my HP Pavilion tx1000, and I found a
solution to it. I was upgrading from Gutsy to Hardy, and I am not sure
if this problem persists in a fresh Hardy install as well.
Mine was a fresh install because Gutsy's update manager was badly
corrupted. It seems to be a
Lut4rp,
Since I don't have Hardy currently installed, I tried this running the
LiveCD
two times with different outcomes. I am not a CLI guy yet, and perhaps I
should have tried this on a proper install, but here's what happened. I
got the .O file in XP, rebooted and kept it waiting as a copy in
I am not completely able to understand why are you trying this in a
live session. I don't have idea how this works in live session but if
you install hardy, I will be able to help you.
Onkar
Okay, I have installed Hardynow what should I do?
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Hello Everyone,
Has anyone else had problems with WiFi on Hardy?
There seems to be some issue with a package called
b43-fwcutter. I keep going in circles but no wifi yet.
Please suggest a solution. I don't have a wired connection
so I can't use apt-get. I can download files in WinXP and then
Hello All,
I was just wondering if there are any Ubuntu users here
who reside in Jaipur? I'll be happy to arrange a
meetup so we can share ideas.
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We didn't use OpenCV (never heard of it) but here's
what we made with a webcam, projector and pygame:
http://algomantra.blogspot.com/2007/11/parab0xx-light-controlled-musical.html
That's like saying that an ocean liner isn't
a ship because it wouldn't be able to get off
the ground into the sea by itself.
It has the body of a lion, and the head of a lion,
but does that, in fact, make it a lion?
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On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 5:29 AM, Lenard Lindstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You have a space shuttle in your garage. Wow, that must be one big garage.
We've not yet confirmed if Ian is humanoid. It is yet early to speculate
about the size of his ship, and therefore, his garage.
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There are no passengers on spaceship earth.
We are all crew.
(Marshall McLuhan)
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 7:34 AM, PyMike [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey people!
My team has started a Python/PyGame challenge called PyDay. In the
competition you will make a one file game in 24 hours, no larger than 32 KB,
drawing all graphics internally (inside the code. That means NO image
Yaaa...I'm on!!! Nothing like a challenge
to get me off me lazyr pirate arse.
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Hi, I haven't been able to install any packages for over a month now.
The situation is beyond urgent, and quite ridiculous since I can't
continue any of my work.
The system kept saying that the file containing list of files for libtheora0
and
libtracker-gtk0 were missing every time I run apt-get.
Did you try `sudo apt-get -f install` ? If so, what was the output ?
regards
VK
Here it is:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get -f install
[sudo] password for fadereu:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0
http://blog.wired.com/music/2007/11/video-prototype.html
We've made this entirely in Pygame :)
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On Nov 28, 2007 8:33 AM, Kevin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That's pretty cool; I'll be interested to see the Source.
I'd love to release the source on this list, Kevin. Just waiting for
clearance from the other boys. I'm having a tough time
explaining what open source means.
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On Nov 28, 2007 8:45 AM, Mark Mruss [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That does look very cool, what were the motivations behind the
project? I'd also love to take a look at the source code.
mark.
thanks, mark. there's a good description at our website (see below).
I made this while learning
I got the clearance from my partners. I just want to thank the members
of this list for helping me out during the making of this code. I love it!
Parab0xx made it to Wired, I couldn't ask for more :)
Source zip:
http://rohitgupta.xwiki.com/xwiki/bin/download/Main/WebHome/parab0xx.zip
That's the
hey, please forgive me for any stupid observations.it's just
that I've been avoiding testing Twisted because people seem
to be of the opinion that it takes over the main loop. And they
like having control over that.
Can the main reactor be manipulated in such a way that it is
not the main
aswin! awesome!! welcome!!! what is your idea of a goal, especially if
you're using UBUNTU?
great!
On Nov 19, 2007 9:48 PM, aswin sahadevan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello all...!
My introduction : I met Parthan and Anjaan at BarCamp5 Bangalore and
that's partly the reason i am part of
On Nov 16, 2007 12:25 PM, gaurav chaturvedi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Hi Rohit,
Interesting project this, Where in Bombay is AlgoMantra, located?
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On Nov 16, 2007 3:49 PM, mehul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 16, 2007 12:26 PM, Parthan S R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bhavani Shankar R wrote:
considered bad mailing list etiquette to top post. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting and another
thing... your
Chill man We are just asking you to follow some guidelines so
that its easier to read for others... No hard feelings mate.
Who exactly are you asking? And see your post, man! I don't think you
are following the same freaking guidelines! Sheesh!
Insane.
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Has anyone used Gnomeradio on Ubuntu? How does
one check if the right hardware/software is on the machine
for this to work? Do laptops normally have an FM tuner card
or does it have to be added externally?
I'll be highly obliged for some light on the matter
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Thanks Mr. Pandit! But my question was slightly different than what you
answered. Let me rephrase it in smaller parts:
1. Do Laptops normally contain an FM tuner card (eg. Compaq Presario C500)
or does it have to be bought separately and installed externally?
2. Is it the same as a TV tuner
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heh, hard feelings about what, dude? - f
On Nov 16, 2007 11:36 AM, Bhavani Shankar R [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 11/16/07, Roshan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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I don't think anyone should think like that, man :)
I'm sure what you're doing is important. Its just
I'm glad, if this simple textual mode of expression
pains you a lot. I had no idea this
list was full of sensitive ladies instead of tough
ubuntu hackers. How the hell do you code with
such disability?
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It just reconfirms, I am so uncl!
I don't think anyone should think like that, man :)
I'm sure what you're doing is important. Its just that
I don't know what is NetBeans...
about this.
and another thing... your style of posting is called top posting..It
is generally
amit, I'm chill. i know you're chill too.
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this was made in Pygame! I hope pygamers like this.
i can't share the source code yet but i'm happy to discuss
the algorithm.
http://algomantra.blogspot.com/2007/11/parab0xx-light-controlled-musical.html
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Hi All,
So I'm accessing and modifying pixels of a video capture image stream using
image.load() which type() tells me is a PixelAccess object.
I have a 160X120 image in RGB.
Is there a simple way to convert this into an array for applying functions
using Numpy? If the (x,y) coordinates for
hth,
casey, what do you mean by hth? yeah, I found surfarray :)
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On 10/25/07, Casey Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 25, 2007, at 4:33 AM, AlgoMantra wrote:
Hi All,
So I'm accessing and modifying pixels
it helps a lot!
# def ston3d(join=2)
confirm hypothesis
if communication = people:
global conversation
code += conversation
pygame.ROCKS.get st0ned( )
On 10/25/07, Casey Duncan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Oct 25, 2007, at 9:27 AM, AlgoMantra wrote:
hth,
casey, what do
we'd love a copy and review it toothe mailing address is given here:
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20H Bungalow, New Kantwadi
Perry Cross Road, Bandra (W)
Mumbai - 50 INDIA
On 10/16/07, Will McGugan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks
Hi, I've been playing with the VideoCapture module to get a webcam working.
It does work but only at 160,120 resolution and this is the error
I get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File C:/Documents and Settings/user/Desktop/flutera/webcam.py, line 8,
in module
Thanks Kyle. I had not initialized the font system.
It works after I included pygame.font.init()
I have a couple of other issues with the code I'm working on right
now.
1. if event.type == pygame.QUIT:
sys.exit()
I'm using this to close the Pygame window, but it always sort of hangs
and
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