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  1. Re:Backing up with Linux by Linuxathome · · Score: 1 · on Distributed DVD Back-up Solution?

    DVD Shrink works in Linux also.

  2. Programmers can be affected with the new provision by Linuxathome · · Score: 2, Insightful · on GPL 3.0 to Penalize Google, Amazon?

    With the advent of the internet, it's now easier for computer programmers to freelance (see the well known Rent-a-Coder website). My impression is that under the current GPL, a programmer possibly could legally do contract work by adding to a GPL'd project without being required to release the work -- so long as the buyer will never distribute the program via CD, floppy, or internet (i.e. keep the program "in-house"). Someone, correct me if this is not true.

    It appears that closing this loophole will also close the doors for programmers to freelance in this manner. That is they won't be able to sell their programming service of enhancing a current GPL'd project -- unless, of course, the solicitor agrees to either pay or release the code. The other option is to force the programmer to pay the GPL fee and roll this expense into the contract costs. I think this issue has to be debated and discussed at length, because we can't go about and make a gut decision of saying this provision is a good addition to the GPL just because we want to make big companies like Google, Amazon, etc. pay. After all, it could affect freelance programmers -- this could very well be their bread-n-butter. Let's not get into the question of whether personal enhancements of GPL'd programming tools (e.g. IDE's) are required to be paid or released under the proposed provision, that could be a sticky situation.

  3. Convert to mp3 by Linuxathome · · Score: 3, Informative · on Sources of Intelligent Audio for Commute?
    If you use linux, you can download the streams with the commandline program curl:
    curl URLofRMfile.rm -O
    Then you can convert the rm file to mp3 with mplayer and lame:
    mplayer infile.wma/ra/rm -ao pcm -aofile outfile.wav
    lame -f outfile.wav mp3outfile.mp3
    You don't need curl to get the rm file if you don't want it. You could always play the rm stream straight with "mplayer URLofRMfile -ao pcm -aofile outfile.wav". With linux, you can also automate the whole thing with a simple bash script if you wanted (and then insert it as a cron job for full automation); then with the script, wait until a new show comes on and play.

    This and a number of other tips can be found on my blog.
  4. Listening to long mp3's on my player by Linuxathome · · Score: 2, Informative · on SCALE 3X Audio Series

    Whenever I listen to mp3s that are more than 15 minutes long, I like to cut them up into smaller more digestible chunks for easier navigation in my portable player. The tool I use is mp3splt. As podcasts become more and more popular and ubiquitous, this is a utility that you should keep in your linux toolbox.

  5. Linux already has software to record phone calls by Linuxathome · · Score: 1 · on This Call May Be Monitored ...
    The growth of monitoring has also been fueled by the advent of Internet phone technology, which has substantially cut the cost of long-distance calls and made call monitoring as easy as clicking a mouse. Sophisticated software that automatically records conversations has increased the number of calls monitors can assess.


    We've outlined a process on how one can easily record phone conversations of VoIP calls made through a SIPphone.com softphone in Linux. Linda Tripp would have had it easy with a VoIP account with SIPphone.com and Linux---imagine if she was savvy enough to do this, i.e. digitize her phone conversations and made it public years later?

  6. GOT IT, Re:I will test it if you send the invite by Linuxathome · · Score: 1 · on Hotmail Blocks Gmail Emails (and Invites)

    Got an invite thanks. Don't send me anymore. So far I can confirm Yahoo mail sends the invite to Bulk email folder (the spam mail folder). See a screenshot here:

    http://www.linuxathome.com/images/gmailtest.jpg

  7. "Build your own" in Linux--my steps in DVD making by Linuxathome · · Score: 5, Informative · on DVD Authoring Under Linux?
    Shortest answer I can give you:
    1. Use kino to do the video editing, and output/export (i.e. save as) an MPEG-2 (DVD format). To get this to work you will most likely need Mplayer installed because you'll need the mplex commandline tool to "multiplex" your audio and video files. Some like to use transcode, but I like Mplayer much better. Split the MPEG into multiple MPEGs if you want to have different chapters -- the best way to do this is to use a commandline tool called mpgtx. Or just save different MPEGs from kino. BTW, if you need to get video footage to edit in the first place then use dvgrab to get video from your DV camcorder -- it should be a part of the kino suite of tools, but if it's not, get it from one of the pages in kino.
    2. Once you've gotten your MPEGs all created, now you can author. I use dvdauthor. What you have to first do is create a XML text file to list the MPEGs you want to burn into the DVD. And example of such a file is found here. The easiest method is to create a new chapter for each MPEG file. Then you run dvdauthor like so:
      dvdauthor -o DVDdir -x xml-filename
      DVDdir is the name of the output you want -- name doesn't really matter; xml-filename is the name of the text file you created.
    3. DVDdir will be a directory from which you then need to create a video ISO. You need the commandline tool mkisofs. Example is:
      mkisofs -dvd-video -o fileoutput.img DVDdir
    4. Now you just need to burn fileoutput.img with your DVD recorder. I use dvdrecord (yes, it's a commandline tool):
      dvdrecord -v -eject speed=4 dev=0,0,0 -dao fileoutput.img

    Yes, I'm a glutton for punishment. There are lots of steps involved to do it in Linux, but it's quite powerful once you've gotten the basics down and have written shell scripts to automate the tasks.

    If you find it difficult to install all these tools on your Linux box (as many do), may I recommend installing Debian linux? Best way to do this is to do a hard drive install from the Knoppix Live Linux CD. The scripts to do this are built-in the cd: knx-hdinstall or knoppix-installer. Why do I recommend it? Installing all the tools I have listed above are a simple apt-get away -- i.e. "apt-get install kino" or "apt-get install mpgtx" or "apt-get install dvdauthor" -- I mean how much easier can it get?

    Lastly, allow me to plug my blog that has documented this and a number of other linux tips ages ago: linuxathome.com
  8. 4GB Microdrive -- Profit! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on iPod Mini Autopsy

    There is a similar drive found in the Creative Labs Muvo2 MP3 player. If you look in eBay, the drive goes for a pretty penny, considering that retail price for it is fairly high. Lots of people are selling their "OEM Microdrive" on eBay and I am willing to bet that the majority of them are pilfered from one of these MP3 players.