KCLUG March 2005

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Re: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leo Mauler 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

--- David Nicol <davidnicol(a)gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 06:25:07 -0800 (PST), Leo Mauler > <webgiant(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > > > I haven't used cron much as a mostly home user of > > Linux. My main Linux machine doesn't change all > > that often to need to run many cron jobs. > > for the occasional task, you might be better using > "at" rather than "cron" Especially since "at" is more like a VCR than "cron". And apparently "at" is a lot easier to get going: I think I'm doing the cron thingy right and I can't get any jobs to run (not even "run ls every minute from 6pm to 7pm on any month, day of the month, or day of the week."). And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that. -- Bertolt Brecht __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

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OT: MidWest Tech Conferences (was OT: Yet Another Perl Conference)
by Leo Mauler 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

I'm sick and tired of living in the center of a fairly neat circle, on the circumference of which are most of the technology conferences. No, can't afford to move to anywhere on the circumference of the circle. So I'd like to see a list of the technology conferences which do make it here into the MidWest. We already know about ITEC, what are the others which make it out here? I'm needing to know when I can get my technology conference fix within a 100 mile radius of the center of the KC Metro Area. --- glim(a)mycybernet.net wrote: > Hello... > > Here is something for people interested in the Perl > programming > language. Conference registration for Yet Another > Perl Conference North > America 2005 has just opened. YAPC is the > grass-roots, all-volunteer > annual Perl conference. Because it is > volunteer-driven it is very > affordable. Because the volunteers are passionate > about Perl its > quality is very high. > > If this has sparked your interest please take a look > at the details here > and more details on the conference web site. Have > any questions? You can > contact the conference organizers by email at: > na-help(a)yapc.org > > Thanks for reading! > > ----------> > Yet Another Perl Conference, North America, 2005 > Registration now > open. > > Conference dates: Monday - Wednesday 27 - 29 > June 2005 > > Location: 89 Chestnut Street > http://89chestnut.com/ > University of Toronto > Toronto, Ontario, Canada > > Info at: http://yapc.org/America And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that. -- Bertolt Brecht __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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Re: linux on an old laptop
by Leo Mauler 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

SUSE supports a FTP install, if you happen to have a broadband Internet connection. I used that once to install SUSE on a laptop without a CDROM drive. --- crash 3m <crash3m(a)gmail.com> wrote: > There are adapters that will let you put a laptop > hard drive into a > regular system. You can pick them up at microcenter > for $6 or > something. Depending on the distro your wanting to > install, you may > be able to boot from floppy and do a network install > as well. > > > On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:10:13 -0600, Christopher > Kanaan > <ckanaan(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > I recently acquired an old IBM Thinkpad (550MHz > Celeron) with a broken cd-rom > > drive. I would like to remove windows and put > linux on there. I went through > > the bios menu's and found that it only boots from > FLOPPY, CDROM, or HARD DRIVE. > > It does have USB and a 10/100 cardbus ethernet. I > guess I was wondering if > > anyone had any creative ideas on how to get linux > on this beast or if anyone had > > and external (usb) floppy disk drive or an > external cd-rom that they could bring > > to the meeting on tuesday night. > > > > thanks, > > chris And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that. -- Bertolt Brecht __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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RE: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leonard, Phil 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

> It seems to me that I remember that to be a problem > with the WAV file format, > and/or the file size reaching the point where it's > no longer stored in RAM. > You might try a different encoding. I regularly work with multi-track projects where each track is over 2G in size, all .wav files. I don't think it is a limitation of the file format.

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Subversion of config files - was:[Linux Job]
by Brian Kelsay 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Like a rollback mechanism? Last known good? Or just a place to store the old versions. RedHat recently introduced a rollback mechanism/repository for RPM. you have to install the RPM with the proper switches and have the repository ready. I read about it in Linux Journal. Brian Kelsay >>> Gerald Combs <> 03/24/05 08:31AM >>> Brian Kelsay wrote: > Get with Cymor and interrogate him about what Debian does exactly. When I do an upgrade, if a package has a config file and the author has added new default features, the apt/dpkg system compares it to your config file to see if you have customized it yet. I've been told the best thing to do is to say no to an update of the config file to preserve your changes. I have chosen on one box to look at the changes, but got a bit lost. I assume that once you are familiar w/ a given pkg, you could change this stuff on the fly to get new features. Gentoo does this too, in its own annoying way. What I want is something that will automatically detect when I make a change to a given file in /etc, and check that change into SVN. That way I can see all the changes that have been made to a configuration file, and revert back to a specific revision if needed.

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Re: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leo Mauler 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

Wow, a different uncompressed encoding than WAV (brain explodes). Any suggestions as to what I should be using? I've never used any non-MP3/OGG audio format other than WAV. --- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> wrote: > On Wednesday 23 March 2005 11:05 pm, Leo Mauler > wrote: > > > The problem is that after about an hour of > recording > > the WAV file develops pops and crackles, and > starts > > losing sections of the recording. > > It seems to me that I remember that to be a problem > with the WAV file format, > and/or the file size reaching the point where it's > no longer stored in RAM. > You might try a different encoding. And I always thought: the very simplest words Must be enough. When I say what things are like Everyone's heart must be torn to shreds. That you'll go down if you don't stand up for yourself Surely you see that. -- Bertolt Brecht __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Sports - Sign up for Fantasy Baseball. http://baseball.fantasysports.yahoo.com/

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Re: [Fw: Linux Job]
by Brian Kelsay 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Get with Cymor and interrogate him about what Debian does exactly. When I do an upgrade, if a package has a config file and the author has added new default features, the apt/dpkg system compares it to your config file to see if you have customized it yet. I've been told the best thing to do is to say no to an update of the config file to preserve your changes. I have chosen on one box to look at the changes, but got a bit lost. I assume that once you are familiar w/ a given pkg, you could change this stuff on the fly to get new features. Brian Kelsay >>> Gerald Combs <> 03/23/05 11:00PM >>> Dave Hull wrote: > There are system administrators who use version control for config files. It's > not just for breakfast anymore. Out of curiosity, are there any distros that version-control configuration files out of the box?

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Re: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Brian Kelsay 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

and it is QT based. Sweet. Brian Kelsay >>> Jonathan Hutchins <> 03/24/05 01:16PM >>> On Wednesday 23 March 2005 11:05 PM, Leo Mauler wrote: > I have to work a lot of weekends these days, and I'm > out so late on Saturdays that, having missed "A > Prairie Home Companion" from 5-7pm Saturday, I sleep > right through the Sunday morning repeat. I note that they do webcast it, but only during the "live" broadcast window. You might be able to use "streamtuned" ( http://freshmeat.net/projects/streamtuned/ ) to recorde the webcast. Streamtuned might also be of interest to Rick Franklin, looking for a stream browser. (No relationship I can find to streamtune.)

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Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leo Mauler 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

I have to work a lot of weekends these days, and I'm out so late on Saturdays that, having missed "A Prairie Home Companion" from 5-7pm Saturday, I sleep right through the Sunday morning repeat. I'm really looking for a reason not to use Windows 98 and the "Total Recorder" application I registered a few years ago. This solution technically works, it allows me to record from Line In at a pre-scheduled time, without me having to be around to start the recorder. The problem is that after about an hour of recording the WAV file develops pops and crackles, and starts losing sections of the recording. I don't mind a Mono recording and even that setting doesn't help. I somehow think Linux might do a better job (and ext3 should manage the larger WAV files better than FAT32), but no one seems to be using the "record from Line In" option for recording radio like a VCR. Everyone's developing projects using hardware FM Radio cards, and I'm just not in that income bracket these days. So how does one go about doing a timed recording in Linux? Assume that the sound hardware is already installed and working (KNOPPIX 3.7 detects the SoundBlaster PCI card with no problems). I'm probably going to use Mandrake 10.0 since I'm used to it. I'd still prefer a console solution, the machine is a PII-300MHz with 256MB RAM. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/

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RE: [Fw: Linux Job]
by Garrett Goebel 24 Mar '05

24 Mar '05

Jonathan Hutchins wrote: > Hal Duston wrote: > > > Source Code Configuration Management > > * CVS > > * Subversion > > * Visual Sourcesafe a plus > > I would think that would be the responsibility of the software > project manager. Putting under the SysAdmin pretty much > guarantees you get a programming orientation to the job, > rather than a systems and support orientation. There is plenty a sysadmin can do with sourcesafe without needing to know about branching, labelling, and pinning... They can perform nightly maintainance, scan logs, and be familiar with the various forms of data corruption that occur and how to recover from them. They can split and merge repositories. Try vainly to make it more secure through the use of shadow folders, etc. > A lot of people don't appreciate the fact that a good programmer > is NOT the same thing as a good system administrator. True. Consistent, cautious, conservative, and reliable are not the hallmarks of most programmers. Nor a willingness to perform tasks of a repetitive nature. Just as there is a world of difference between a database administrator and a database architect, a good systems administrator is not the same thing as as a good systems architect. Administering a system is different than designing one. If you have a well architected system, you won't need as many sysadmins. The best sysadmins I've encountered have almost always come from a software or database developer background. They usually end up as the systems architects... but their job title more likely still reads "senior sysadmin". -- Garrett Goebel IS Development Specialist ScriptPro Direct: 913.403.5261 5828 Reeds Road Main: 913.384.1008 Mission, KS 66202 Fax: 913.384.2180 www.scriptpro.com garrett(a)scriptpro.com

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