looks like you already answered your own question..one server, multiple sound cards, multiple mp3 players.
The tougher question is how to intelligently select different playlists (or even songs) for different rooms on the fly. ie The person sitting in the kitchen wants to hear their new Tragically Hip album during dinner..how do you select that? (with ease)
here's one answer (to start off)
have a seperate playlist for all the different bands you have in your MP3 collection..press a button on your remote control to say you are choosing playlists, now use the numbers on the remote (like a phone pad) to get to the correct letter (in this case "T"), have the mp3 server say the name of the band, and you accept or reject the names until you get to the The Hip..(still kinda slow and painful)
2)
have some sort of PIN code that each person in the house has, so when they enter a room, punch in their PIN, their playlist pops up...they have a couple preselected playlists that they can then shuffle through to get to the one they want. ( alot of initial setup)
3)
if their are computers running in each zone...piss easy, they can select the music.
as a side question, how are you guys handling the wiring for multi room music? I am really looking to go wireless, but haven't found a good system yet. Any good DIY stuff? And any recomendations for recievers to control the multi room speakers?
There is mention of it every now and then on the V4L list.
You really need V4L2 to actually do it (V4L1 doesn't support two programs accessing the tv tuner at the same time)..but it should be ready from prime time rsn.
For the mpeg encoding, the best tool I've seen so far is mp1e (mirror here...the real site seems to be down..)
For grabbing the listings, have a look at xmltv. There should be a new release coming out soon, with support for more countries...
ccdecoder (search freshmeat) also looks promising...it has the potential for grabbing listings right off your cable tv line..
If you don't wanna grab tv listings off the web, which btw is a good idea...as i've found out, web pages change a lot so you gotta keep changing your perl script to keep up with their lame changes...anyway..
There is loads of info being sent down your cable line right now, you can use XDS to gather the info for a couple days worth of TV watching.
There is a program called cc (listed as ccdecoder on freshmeat), that can sorta decode XDS info, only for the current show though..
You can buy whitepapers about XDS for about a hundred bucks from the the FCC, there is also limited info at this link. Not much but something..
maybe you could ask RCA nicely and they will send you some info on how they implemented it..(they have TVs that download that info through the cable line[I got one])
from Jimmy's website:
Q: Is it Loud?
A: No. In fact, the Power supplies and Orb are the loudest in the case.
Q: Electro-Magnetic Interference?
A: Haven't noticed anything so far. Not even while turning the fan off/on high/low - update 08/01/00 Still haven't had any problems with electromagnetic interference.
down at the bottom is the FAQ..also there is a bunch more pics on this site:
You would be much better off using reiserfs. In case someone does kill the power for what ever reason, you will be much better off.
And yeah it is stable, even though it is not included in the main kernel yet.
Only Easier The First Time: The GUI looks EXACTLY the same with the exception that the options are all laid out as checkboxes. But the options aren't explained, so no power is really gained here. How does it help to know I have a "password" option for/dev/hda1 if I don't know what that means?
It will be easier everytime. All you have to do is go to your control panel, click Filesystems (or whatever) then choose what you want mounted, and here you get the added bonus of seeing all of the options you might want, as simple check boxes. where as when you are vi/emacs/pico/jed/joe/gedit/kedit/....-ing the fstab, you are not sure what options you have, so you go check the man page, flip back to your editor, wonder where to put the options, and with what syntax..etc
It will be piss easy for helix to add in a help file, or context sensitive help popups to tell you what each option will do...remember this is version 0.1.
Less Power: The tool doesn't give you any information how the file is actually laid out and there is no integrated text-processing. So the user does not advance on any path of knowledge where they can become MORE efficient (through the use of scripts, etc).
Who cares how the file is laid out? Why would Joe User give a rats ass how 30 years ago some engineer decided the syntax on the fstab? Or any other config file?
Scripting?!?! Joe User can't even remember their login name and password, much less _any_ command to type into a script file. You don't believe me? Pick at random anyone who has never written a script before, but has used computers for more than 3 years. Spend one week teaching them how to use vi/emacs and write a simple script file. Spend 8 hours per day doing that. Go back to that user 1 month later, and ask him to write the same script file.
Not Forwards Compatible: If a new filesystem came along that had extra options, this tool would have to be re-written to accomodate. Whereas/etc/fstab wouldn't have to change one whit.
File systems do not come out very often. When they do come out, they normally spend a long time in alpha/beta. If you are someone who is going to grab the beta of some new file system, and try it out, then you can probably figure out how to add the correct info into your conf files. A short time later Helix -- or anyone else, it Free Software after all -- will make the simple change to add the options to the GUI interface.
All Helix has done here is open up a couple text editors on the files you need to edit to make changes to your system, all in one nice window. They show you what options to have for everything. I don't see how this is a bad thing at all.
one step at a time, my anonymous friend.
These tools are to help everyone using GNOME. It is up to your ISP to write installation scripts for you in order to have what you desire. Each ISP, and internal network will have different settings for DNS, NFS (if at all), dhcp, et al. so it would be impossible for Helix to write software to solve that problem.
Not to mention that these sort of things are only going to have to be editted once for everytime you switch networks, so it isn't that hard anyway.
what?
All these tools are really doing is is firing up an editor on a couple different files, then probably checking your syntax to make sure it is correct.
They really don't dumb down anything, other than where the files are located.
So if anyone is interested in shutting down the Colorado legal system, simply send a bunch of spam to people in Colorado. Make sure to set the From: line to marketing@microsoft.com, or even better set it to be the colorado court system so you can take up more resources.
remember that outage a little while ago...who here thinks that was a planned outage now? I do. Maybe for the last little while they have intentionally slowed down, or stopped service, just so that when they do bring in win2k servers, they can point at it and say..."remember how crappy hotmail used to be with that Unix crap...now look at it, fast and stable with Win2k" Everyone should use Win2K, its the greatest....yadda yadda yadda" Conspiercy theory? maybe. Would anyone put it past MS to do that? Nope. It would be _great_ PR if it works, if it doesn't...well, everyone knows that hotmail is unstable, so noone will be surprised, or suspect anything.
The ultimate question being is RedHat going to stay true to the look and feel of Unix and the power and useability of it or not? You should read what Miguel has to say about that here.
AFAIK redhat hasn't pulled out any tools for the experienced user, and even if they did, it is piss easy to throw them back in. So I don't quite understand what you mean by...and less and less to those who seek to immerse themselves in the goodness of a unix environment (bad).
I think that the Free Software Foundation is a little late on the ball in supporting the community yeah, the FSF has done nothing for community, all RMS does rant rant rant...nothing at all productive, like I dunno GNU, the GPL, starting the whole Free software movement, from which branched off the OSS movement.
...but GNU has up until now made no moves towards supporting the Free Software community - which is why there isn't one. hmm, last I checked I am part of the FSC, and so are lots of the people contributing to the GNU project.
I would much rather see a.gnu TLD, instead of a.oss. sure.oss covers a broader area, but.gnu would cover a much more important movement.
Thanks for personal holiday greetings Jon, Happy independence day to you too. Although I am not american, I'll think of it more as Happy (belated) Canada Day.
if I traceroute to my home machine just after the connection dies, I get to the gateway machine for my ISP subnet, but not to my machine
sounds like a crappy rogers cable connection. When you are at home do you ever notice short outages of net access? From what I've seen it is quite common for cable modems to go offline for 30 seconds or more every hour, which could explain why your ssh's are locking up. I'm sure there is an option to lengthen the timeout time in ssh, read the man page.
I would imagine that Corel is trying to "get in on the ground level" of Linux. They want to get everyone hooked on using their distro/apps early on - hence giving them away - then later charge for them. They must see Linux as taking over Windows in the next few years, so they want to have deep roots in before the whole industry turns to Linux.
I'm sure the campus book stores won't like it very much, but tough tittes to them!! I don't know what campus you are on, but I have never heard of any campus book store selling books for cheap...they will by them back for cheap, just to mark up the price to some insane amount, and sell them back to students. CBS are a central place to get all of your text books, but by no means do you have to go them. In fact, I would suggest avoiding them if at all possible, always look to buy your books off of someone who took the course before. It is way cheaper.
I don't think that they "forgot" about portability, they have, and will intentionally ignore portability. It is not an issue for them. They live in a completely microsoft dominate world, there is no other, beside a few dying quails (Mac, UNIX). Is it right or wrong? It's ignorance, with a dash of arogance, and a little aggressive business manouvers.
all for nothing, mind you, in this day of interoperability.
OpenBSD does do IPSec, the man page is dated 1997, but not sure when it was first implemented. OpenBSD doesn't do SMP yet though they are working on it.
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cool. actually you are the one that got me started on this =P we exchanged a few emails about a month ago, I meant to mention your code as well, but forgot the name of it:(
Slashdot Mirror
I trust most Slashdot readers to see through that kind of stuff.
/. readers to have half a clue...shudder
whoa. I have never seen such misplaced trust.
...trusting
If /. did mirror sites, then that could take ad revenue away from the said site. There is also copyright issues.
looks like you already answered your own question..one server, multiple sound cards, multiple mp3 players.
The tougher question is how to intelligently select different playlists (or even songs) for different rooms on the fly. ie The person sitting in the kitchen wants to hear their new Tragically Hip album during dinner..how do you select that? (with ease)
here's one answer (to start off)
have a seperate playlist for all the different bands you have in your MP3 collection..press a button on your remote control to say you are choosing playlists, now use the numbers on the remote (like a phone pad) to get to the correct letter (in this case "T"), have the mp3 server say the name of the band, and you accept or reject the names until you get to the The Hip..(still kinda slow and painful)
2)
have some sort of PIN code that each person in the house has, so when they enter a room, punch in their PIN, their playlist pops up...they have a couple preselected playlists that they can then shuffle through to get to the one they want. ( alot of initial setup)
3)
if their are computers running in each zone...piss easy, they can select the music.
as a side question, how are you guys handling the wiring for multi room music? I am really looking to go wireless, but haven't found a good system yet. Any good DIY stuff? And any recomendations for recievers to control the multi room speakers?
(s)he is probably talking about the discontinued X10 Mouse Remote from x10.com. Read about it here.
you should probably refer to rfc1918 instead. It obsoletes 1597.
There is mention of it every now and then on the V4L list. ...the real site seems to be down..)
You really need V4L2 to actually do it (V4L1 doesn't support two programs accessing the tv tuner at the same time)..but it should be ready from prime time rsn.
For the mpeg encoding, the best tool I've seen so far is mp1e (mirror here
For grabbing the listings, have a look at xmltv. There should be a new release coming out soon, with support for more countries...
ccdecoder (search freshmeat) also looks promising...it has the potential for grabbing listings right off your cable tv line..
now I'm just waiting for the Good Times Virus to come true...
I'm sure MS has a team working on it.
If you don't wanna grab tv listings off the web, which btw is a good idea...as i've found out, web pages change a lot so you gotta keep changing your perl script to keep up with their lame changes...anyway..
There is loads of info being sent down your cable line right now, you can use XDS to gather the info for a couple days worth of TV watching.
There is a program called cc (listed as ccdecoder on freshmeat), that can sorta decode XDS info, only for the current show though..
You can buy whitepapers about XDS for about a hundred bucks from the the FCC, there is also limited info at this link. Not much but something..
maybe you could ask RCA nicely and they will send you some info on how they implemented it..(they have TVs that download that info through the cable line[I got one])
from Jimmy's website:
Q: Is it Loud?
A: No. In fact, the Power supplies and Orb are the loudest in the case.
Q: Electro-Magnetic Interference?
A: Haven't noticed anything so far. Not even while turning the fan off/on high/low - update 08/01/00 Still haven't had any problems with electromagnetic interference.
down at the bottom is the FAQ..also there is a bunch more pics on this site:
You would be much better off using reiserfs. In case someone does kill the power for what ever reason, you will be much better off.
And yeah it is stable, even though it is not included in the main kernel yet.
Only Easier The First Time: The GUI looks EXACTLY the same with the exception that the options are all laid out as checkboxes. But the options aren't explained, so no power is really gained here. How does it help to know I have a "password" option for /dev/hda1 if I don't know what that means?
/etc/fstab wouldn't have to change one whit.
It will be easier everytime. All you have to do is go to your control panel, click Filesystems (or whatever) then choose what you want mounted, and here you get the added bonus of seeing all of the options you might want, as simple check boxes. where as when you are vi/emacs/pico/jed/joe/gedit/kedit/....-ing the fstab, you are not sure what options you have, so you go check the man page, flip back to your editor, wonder where to put the options, and with what syntax..etc
It will be piss easy for helix to add in a help file, or context sensitive help popups to tell you what each option will do...remember this is version 0.1.
Less Power: The tool doesn't give you any information how the file is actually laid out and there is no integrated text-processing. So the user does not advance on any path of knowledge where they can become MORE efficient (through the use of scripts, etc).
Who cares how the file is laid out? Why would Joe User give a rats ass how 30 years ago some engineer decided the syntax on the fstab? Or any other config file?
Scripting?!?! Joe User can't even remember their login name and password, much less _any_ command to type into a script file. You don't believe me? Pick at random anyone who has never written a script before, but has used computers for more than 3 years. Spend one week teaching them how to use vi/emacs and write a simple script file. Spend 8 hours per day doing that. Go back to that user 1 month later, and ask him to write the same script file.
Not Forwards Compatible: If a new filesystem came along that had extra options, this tool would have to be re-written to accomodate. Whereas
File systems do not come out very often. When they do come out, they normally spend a long time in alpha/beta. If you are someone who is going to grab the beta of some new file system, and try it out, then you can probably figure out how to add the correct info into your conf files. A short time later Helix -- or anyone else, it Free Software after all -- will make the simple change to add the options to the GUI interface.
All Helix has done here is open up a couple text editors on the files you need to edit to make changes to your system, all in one nice window. They show you what options to have for everything. I don't see how this is a bad thing at all.
one step at a time, my anonymous friend.
These tools are to help everyone using GNOME. It is up to your ISP to write installation scripts for you in order to have what you desire. Each ISP, and internal network will have different settings for DNS, NFS (if at all), dhcp, et al. so it would be impossible for Helix to write software to solve that problem.
Not to mention that these sort of things are only going to have to be editted once for everytime you switch networks, so it isn't that hard anyway.
what?
All these tools are really doing is is firing up an editor on a couple different files, then probably checking your syntax to make sure it is correct.
They really don't dumb down anything, other than where the files are located.
So if anyone is interested in shutting down the Colorado legal system, simply send a bunch of spam to people in Colorado. Make sure to set the From: line to marketing@microsoft.com, or even better set it to be the colorado court system so you can take up more resources.
remember that outage a little while ago...who here thinks that was a planned outage now?
I do.
Maybe for the last little while they have intentionally slowed down, or stopped service, just so that when they do bring in win2k servers, they can point at it and say..."remember how crappy hotmail used to be with that Unix crap...now look at it, fast and stable with Win2k" Everyone should use Win2K, its the greatest....yadda yadda yadda"
Conspiercy theory? maybe.
Would anyone put it past MS to do that? Nope.
It would be _great_ PR if it works, if it doesn't...well, everyone knows that hotmail is unstable, so noone will be surprised, or suspect anything.
The ultimate question being is RedHat going to stay true to the look and feel of Unix and the power and useability of it or not?
...and less and less to those who seek to immerse themselves in the goodness of a unix environment (bad).
You should read what Miguel has to say about that here.
AFAIK redhat hasn't pulled out any tools for the experienced user, and even if they did, it is piss easy to throw them back in. So I don't quite understand what you mean by
or
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I think that the Free Software Foundation is a little late on the ball in supporting the community
...but GNU has up until now made no moves towards supporting the Free Software community - which is why there isn't one.
.gnu TLD, instead of a .oss. sure .oss covers a broader area, but .gnu would cover a much more important movement.
yeah, the FSF has done nothing for community, all RMS does rant rant rant...nothing at all productive, like I dunno GNU, the GPL, starting the whole Free software movement, from which branched off the OSS movement.
hmm, last I checked I am part of the FSC, and so are lots of the people contributing to the GNU project.
I would much rather see a
'course that's just my opinion.
Thanks for personal holiday greetings Jon, Happy independence day to you too. Although I am not american, I'll think of it more as Happy (belated) Canada Day.
cheers,
Jose
if I traceroute to my home machine just after the connection dies, I get to the gateway machine for my ISP subnet, but not to my machine
sounds like a crappy rogers cable connection. When you are at home do you ever notice short outages of net access? From what I've seen it is quite common for cable modems to go offline for 30 seconds or more every hour, which could explain why your ssh's are locking up. I'm sure there is an option to lengthen the timeout time in ssh, read the man page.
I would imagine that Corel is trying to "get in on the ground level" of Linux. They want to get everyone hooked on using their distro/apps early on - hence giving them away - then later charge for them.
They must see Linux as taking over Windows in the next few years, so they want to have deep roots in before the whole industry turns to Linux.
I'm sure the campus book stores won't like it very much, but tough tittes to them!! I don't know what campus you are on, but I have never heard of any campus book store selling books for cheap...they will by them back for cheap, just to mark up the price to some insane amount, and sell them back to students.
CBS are a central place to get all of your text books, but by no means do you have to go them. In fact, I would suggest avoiding them if at all possible, always look to buy your books off of someone who took the course before. It is way cheaper.
I don't think that they "forgot" about portability, they have, and will intentionally ignore portability. It is not an issue for them. They live in a completely microsoft dominate world, there is no other, beside a few dying quails (Mac, UNIX).
Is it right or wrong?
It's ignorance, with a dash of arogance, and a little aggressive business manouvers.
all for nothing, mind you, in this day of interoperability.
OpenBSD does do IPSec, the man page is dated 1997, but not sure when it was first implemented. OpenBSD doesn't do SMP yet though they are working on it.
cool. actually you are the one that got me started on this =P :(
we exchanged a few emails about a month ago, I meant to mention your code as well, but forgot the name of it