What fun stuff have you done recently?
I'm curious what other people are doing in Linux right now for "fun". My current project has been integrating Asterisk (Open source PBX) and MythTV (Open source PVR). I've gotten it so that I can call my house and have it read me what shows are going to be recorded. The inbound line is a soft-phone SIP connection from Vonage. I'm probably going to beef up my phone tree to include other things, and may eventually get some home automation things going through it. What projects has everyone else been doing? -Kyle
Wow, that project sounds pretty neat. I'm actually heading up a few Ruby on Rails Plugins and am hoping to tighten up my 'integrating fckeditor and rails' how-to this summer. Josh On 5/22/06, Kyle Sexton <ks@mocker.org> wrote:
I'm curious what other people are doing in Linux right now for "fun". My current project has been integrating Asterisk (Open source PBX) and MythTV (Open source PVR). I've gotten it so that I can call my house and have it read me what shows are going to be recorded. The inbound line is a soft-phone SIP connection from Vonage. I'm probably going to beef up my phone tree to include other things, and may eventually get some home automation things going through it. What projects has everyone else been doing?
-Kyle
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On 5/22/06, Kyle Sexton <ks@mocker.org> wrote:
I'm curious what other people are doing in Linux right now for "fun". My current project has been integrating Asterisk (Open source PBX) and MythTV (Open source PVR). I've gotten it so that I can call my house and have it read me what shows are going to be recorded. The inbound line is a soft-phone SIP connection from Vonage. I'm probably going to beef up my phone tree to include other things, and may eventually get some home automation things going through it. What projects has everyone else been doing?
-Kyle
Parts of MY current "beginnng to put together" are in a spiritual sense related to yours. Wifey's expensive DirecTv satellite system now carries XM music channels. Which Inspired me to try capturing that audio stream. Even after the IRD's D/A converter and a test run using crap windows tools it sounded quite acceptable. The rest of the project follows naturally. Migrating my music collection to a server for the "Squeezebox" remote audio terminal. http://www.slimdevices.com The not finished elements are- Settling on a distro for the server. Collating my existing 4 gigs estimated MP3 stuff scattered across diverse media and at varying sample rates/levels/quality. A non trivial task of it's own to be truthful. Ripping some 200+ cd's not yet converted- to the not yet chosen format and any other cruppage required for making all this play nice. Do consider some blogging of your project details both software and hardware. Which is part of my next reason for getting a LiveJournal account . Having a "snapshot" of proven compatible soft and hard elements can save others from much sanity erosion. Yes, some like trying and failing. Not me. I suspect sharing some combinations that just plain worked may make us much good karma! So-called compatibility lists are sadly no match for independent living with the assembled system and logging the Roses&Thorns. Oren
On 5/24/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 18:50, Oren Beck wrote:
Ripping some 200+ cd's not yet converted- to the not yet chosen format
FLAC and/or Vorbis ;)
Those are on the possibles list. What experience does anyone on-list have with battery portables using any open source codecs?
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On 5/24/06, Luke-Jr <luke@dashjr.org> wrote:
On Tuesday 23 May 2006 18:50, Oren Beck wrote:
Ripping some 200+ cd's not yet converted- to the not yet chosen format
FLAC and/or Vorbis ;)
Those are on the possibles list. What experience does anyone on-list have with battery portables using any open source codecs?
My 20GB Rio Karma plays FLAC, ogg vorbis, mp3, and wma and has Linux support. FLAC is a great archive format. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdK/DE5xXU3JS1mQRAjl8AKCvBnySnReHqk0Qj9fXEhHnh3vJeQCgmruR pmM/cDhCw0afpiQxNgGJyMA= =DgJp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
FLAC and/or Vorbis ;)
Those are on the possibles list. What experience does anyone on-list have with battery portables using any open source codecs? _______________
If you archive all the music in flac, you can convert the lossless audio to any format for any player. That is what I have been doing. If i need ogg, i make stuff ogg, need mp3, i make it mp3. It all stays high quality cause of flac.
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FLAC and/or Vorbis ;)
Those are on the possibles list. What experience does anyone on-list have with battery portables using any open source codecs? _______________
If you archive all the music in flac, you can convert the lossless audio to any format for any player. That is what I have been doing. If i need ogg, i make stuff ogg, need mp3, i make it mp3. It all stays high quality cause of flac.
Coolness...I was just about to start ripping my CD collection with no compression to a couple hundred Gig of free space recently created on my RAID (I decided I could really live without local mirrors of Debian for the hppa, S390, sh, and a few other arches :). Is there a handy (preferrably command-line) utility to rip FLAC files and create CUE files from audio CDs? I'm fairly new to the whole computer audio thing (other than listening to internet radio via winamp). Would I need anything else to insure I could re-create the original audio CD content exactly (I don't care about extra info that might be there like lyrics, screen-savers, Sony root-kits, etc. :-) ? - -- Charles Steinkuehler charles@steinkuehler.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEkEt9LywbqEHdNFwRAnIRAJ9a3iNTB7SchFDBewXQWI8qZrw4lgCg6toQ 9gskhB3P0YoVNzL7cP+4LHY= =czxj -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 17:46, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
Coolness...I was just about to start ripping my CD collection with no compression to a couple hundred Gig of free space recently created on my RAID (I decided I could really live without local mirrors of Debian for the hppa, S390, sh, and a few other arches :).
Note FLAC will likely only half the disk space used...
Is there a handy (preferrably command-line) utility to rip FLAC files
Live compression will slow stuff down, since compression is slower than CD I/O. I'd do separate ripping and compressing processes. If you do want to do compression on-the-fly, KDE's audiocd:// can do it.
and create CUE files from audio CDs?
Why would you want a CUE?
Would I need anything else to insure I could re-create the original audio CD content exactly (I don't care about extra info that might be there like lyrics, screen-savers, Sony root-kits, etc. :-) ?
If you don't care about lyrics, data, etc, why care about exact byte positioning of the audio (only thing I can see a CUE useful for)?
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 12:46 -0500, Charles Steinkuehler wrote:
Would I need anything else to insure I could re-create the original audio CD content exactly (I don't care about extra info that might be there like lyrics, screen-savers, Sony root-kits, etc. :-) ?
All you would need would be the flac files and the CUE file.
On Monday 22 May 2006 20:39, Kyle Sexton wrote:
I'm curious what other people are doing in Linux right now for "fun".
Most recently, I've been migrating Armagetron Advanced to Subversion... not that simple, taken into consideration that our project history spans 3 CVS modules, and I'm stringing them together into one continuous flow.
My current project has been integrating Asterisk (Open source PBX) and MythTV (Open source PVR). I've gotten it so that I can call my house and have it read me what shows are going to be recorded.
Sounds fun. I'd like to get XMPP/IM/Jingle integration working for Asterisk, myself... need more free time >_<
The inbound line is a soft-phone SIP connection from Vonage.
Do they sell that now? Or is it in addition to a hard-phone plan you already have? Either way, probably cheaper to go somewhere else. Were it not for the horrible/non-existant support (no phone/email answers; requested a # to be ported months ago and no progress; etc), I'd recommend SellVoIP-- $1 per #/mo plus 1.1 cents/min (incoming and outgoing).
I'm probably going to beef up my phone tree to include other things, and may eventually get some home automation things going through it.
On the topic of home automation, are there any cheap temperature/door/light/etc sensors/controllers that can just be plugged into an Ethernet connection, maybe with PoE (though preferably w/o, of course) and configured to send send some simple UDP packet to a predefined server (I figure this might be simple enough to not require a CPU and thus maybe run off non-PoE Ethernet electricity)?
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