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Update - Re: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leo Mauler 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

As an update, I've swapped out the PII-300Mhz machine for an 850Mhz Duron so I can try out a solution which involves creating a WAV stream but then directly encoding the WAV stream to a MP3 file. Its an Ecasound project, I found it here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue94/yan-fa.html I am altering the original project by using a single station radio and recording from Line-In (I only have recording needs on NPR). Otherwise it will be the same thing. The guy who wrote the thing said that he wouldn't want to try it with less than a PII-450Mhz machine. 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: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Leo Mauler 27 Mar '05

27 Mar '05

There was a source I found (then lost...) which stated that dropped samples in recorded WAV files could be the result of lower priority in the multitasking system. Run recordings as root and you have a better quality recording, especially on a much older machine. As an update, I've swapped out the PII-300Mhz machine for an 850Mhz Duron so I can try out a solution which involves creating a WAV stream but then directly encoding the WAV stream to a MP3 file. Its an Ecasound project, I found it here: http://www.linuxgazette.com/issue94/yan-fa.html I am altering the original project by using a single station radio and recording from Line-In (I only have recording needs on NPR). Otherwise it will be the same thing. --- "Leonard, Phil" <Phil.Leonard(a)dsionline.com> wrote: > > 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. 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! Mail - Helps protect you from nasty viruses. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

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Re: [Fw: Linux Job]
by Jack 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

--- Justin Dugger <jldugger(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Debian packages occasionally update their config > files, along with the > binaries and documentation. This is typically > annoying, because the > changes are most often commented lines. I've never > seen a program > dramatically change its conf file structure to > warrant keeping the new > changes, but sometimes they do add new variables and > default settings > for them. Debian gives you the option to view the > diff in any case, > and if you aren't certain, its almost always > advisable to keep the > current config file. If I remember correctly, > apt/dpkg is not > intelligent enough to merge the two, so your choices > are typically > take the new comments or keep your customizations. Yeah, this is really annoying. Especially if you are running a testing/unstable debian like Mepis. The solution I've come up with is to save the old config file, let apt-get update the config file and then extract the lines I want fom the old config and merge into the new config. I do this only when the new config has features that need to be included to makke the updated package work. Making a merge config function would be an extremely difficult task to perform. The best solution I can think of would be an option to merge files based on user input. Like you could do a diff and then say "merge lines x-y from old conf into new conf" or "replace lines u-v from new with lines w-z from old". Which would still be a bit of a pain. Brian D. __________________________________ 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 Brian Kelsay 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

If I know you are bringing a laptop w/ this problem to the LUG meeting, I can bring an extra 3com card that I know will be supported. The 3c574 has never failed to be supported by any distro with a ftp or network installer. BSD however, caused minor problems for dj_goku at the last meeting. We had to use my laptop to get the right driver onto a floppy for his old beast. Brian Kelsay >>> Jonathan Hutchins <> 03/25/05 09:46AM >>> On Thursday 24 March 2005 07:31 PM, Leo Mauler wrote: > SUSE supports a FTP install ... Most distros with installers do - don't know how Debian is doing with it's installer. The only tricky bit is getting the right drivers for your NIC to load - I failed to get Mandrake's installer going on my Winbook with either of the PCMCIA cards I have.

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RE: Linux Audio "VCR"?
by Rob Becker 25 Mar '05

25 Mar '05

You may want to look into flac. I believe it is under the ogg vorbis umbrella of audio formats. Let us know how this project progresses. Take care. Rob -----Original Message----- From: Leo Mauler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 24, 2005 7:45 PM To: Jonathan Hutchins; kclug(a)kclug.org Subject: Re: Linux Audio "VCR"? 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/ _______________________________________________ Kclug mailing list Kclug(a)kclug.org http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug

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

25 Mar '05

I'm a little wary of using a streaming options when I can get it through a plain old radio locally. In other words, why make the same computer handle the stream and the encoding/saving when I can limit the processing requirements by limiting it to encoding/saving? --- Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins(a)tarcanfel.org> wrote: > 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.) > _______________________________________________ > Kclug mailing list > Kclug(a)kclug.org > http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug > 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 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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