Linuxers July 2006

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[OT] ogg supported in external media players?
by Rohit V Bhute 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

This is a deviation from Debarshi's email. I wanted to know whether ogg-vorbis files can be played in the ubiquitous MP3 players or the iPod? And on another tangent, are the MP3 players supported in Linux? What about cell-phones like Nokia 3250, N series, etc.? Are they completely locked in to the Nokia Suite? -- Rohit V. Bhute http://blog.rvbhute.org

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sorry for prev msg
by Harsh Busa 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

sorry the 31 languages on a cd msg was sent to the list my a mistake ... sincerly apologize for the error -- __________________________ http://www.ebackend.com/blog

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ogg Vorbis tag reader
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

> Forget about RMS. Thomson which holds the rights to the fraunhoffer > institute patents for MP3 could go after u. Then they would be going after a number of other GNU packages too. > http://www.mp3licensing.com/royalty/ to count your potential > liability. Completely RAND u know. > Do not take licensing and patent issues lightly. They can impair your > life. Especially since the closed software companies are scrapping > the barrel bottom for ideas and money. I know that. That is why I asked the GNU people. But, there are many GNU packages which are flaunting MP3 support. Is this not strange? Moreover these patents are very strangely worded. eg., the LZW and GIF patents prohobit you from making programs that encode pictures in GIF, but there is no restriction on decoding them; I heard although MP3 is patented the ID3 tags are not. In fact my only requirement is reading the tags. Now dont claim that you know more about patents than Dr. Richard M. Stallman, and Prof. Eben Moglen put together. Cheers, Debarshi

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Qmail backup
by Hozefa Motiwala 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Hi I have a Qmail server running on a machine,running samba, configured on a window$ network. I want to take regular backups of the emails from the Qmail MailDir.(Maybe a cron job or something) Please suggest a good way to do so. Thanks Hozefa.

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Ogg Vorbis tag reader.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

Does anybody know about a good Ogg Vorbis tag reading tool? I need a command line utility to read tag information from Ogg Vorbis files, as a part of GNU Songanizer. I am in a hurry since without this, GNU Songanizer will only have MP3 support and I do not know the GNU Project's official policy regarding this till I receive an answer from RMS. If anybody can help it would be really great. In the meanwhile, I will keep googling... Thanks a lot, Debarshi

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Re: Linuxers Digest, Vol 39, Issue 37
by अिनकॆत (Aniket) 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

> Umm...so the modem's web interface is accessible to the entire world or > is it that its listening only on the private interface? > -- > Regards, > Dinesh A. Joshi > Well the D-Link 502T modem interface is open to the world. But I have seen at a friends place that the UTStar modem accepts connection to web interface only from the private LAN port. -- The Future is Open...The Future is LINUX

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Re: [ILUG-BOM] Ogg Vorbis tag reader.
by Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

>>> Regarding mp3 files, the mp3 codec in patented, but >>> ID3 is not. Though it's OK to read ID3 tags from mp3 files, it's better >>> if you entirely drop support for mp3 in your tool. >> Do not take it otherwise, but I would wait for RMS' opinion on this >> issue. There are a few GNU packages which flaunt MP3 support too. > I know what RMS is going to tell you. Seriously? Then why dont you do the favour of letting me know? Regards, Debarshi

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Unable to display colour tv in Linux.
by Kaushik U Banerjee 12 Jul '06

12 Jul '06

I have been trying to use tvtime to watch tv on debian/fc5 system (kernel 2.6.15 loaded with bttv module 0.9.16.). I am using a PlayTv Pro2 PixelView PV-M4500 which uses the bt878 module. kauv4:~# cat /etc/modprobe.d/bttv install bttv /sbin/modprobe rtc; /sbin/modprobe --ignore-install bttv options bttv card=37 tuner=5 kauv4:~# dmesg | grep bttv bttv: driver version 0.9.16 loaded bttv: using 8 buffers with 2080k (520 pages) each for capture bttv: Bt8xx card found (0). bttv0: Bt878 (rev 17) at 0000:05:00.0, irq: 58, latency: 32, mmio: 0x30001000 bttv0: using: Prolink PixelView PlayTV pro [card=37,insmod option] bttv0: gpio: en=00000000, out=00000000 in=009fc0ff [init] bttv0: using tuner=5 bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9875 @ 0xb0... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA7432 @ 0x8a... not found bttv0: i2c: checking for TDA9887 @ 0x86... not found bttv0: registered device video0 bttv0: registered device vbi0 bttv0: PLL: 28636363 => 35468950 .. ok bttv0: PLL can sleep, using XTAL (28636363). Since I dont have a cable connection at home, I am using a settop box's composite output to connect to the composite input of the tuner card. The problem is that eventhough I am getting a very good display of the tv, everything is in black and white. In the TV input type I am using PAL-NC (note that Indian standards are Pal-BG, which is not in the list of availabe). I've tried connecting my video camera's composite output, but the display is always in black and white. There is no problem with the card since on windoze OS I am getting proper colour display.

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[Fwd: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Off Topic] Request for blog feeds for Planet FLOSS India]
by Baishampayan Ghose 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hello guys, Forwarding this mail from ILUG-Cal. I thought it could be useful. Regards, BG - -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Ilug-cal-discuss] [Off Topic] Request for blog feeds for Planet FLOSS India Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 18:29:52 +0530 From: Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay <sankarshan.mukhopadhyay(a)gmail.com> Hi, I provide hosting space to a smallish planet called Planet FLOSS India (http://planet-india.randomink.org). Not much as you will see except a few regular folks who blog and whose feeds get syndicated (planetised so to speak). I keep on bumping across blogs of various folks in India who do FLOSS - advocate, code, provide artwork, zap bugs and anything that comes to your mind and now and then I try and pull the feeds into the planet. I would like to get this Planet growing (check www.randomink.org as to why it started) and so would request for blog feeds (yours or your friends) which can be aggregated. Oh !! a nice hackergotchi would also be cool although it is optional. Regards Sankarshan - -- Baishampayan Ghose <b.ghose(a)ubuntu.com> Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings http://www.ubuntu.com/ 1024D/86361B74 BB2C E244 15AD 05C5 523A 90E7 4249 3494 8636 1B74 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEs7WqQkk0lIY2G3QRAiI2AJ0TU/HezehGfMombuDWbta0l9tmRwCgi54J zBFIhwbcw4HLtyc8/WXutZ4= =XR6p -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

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Re: MTNL ADSL router
by Roshan 11 Jul '06

11 Jul '06

> And > the crappy > internal webpage does not render in FF / Konqueror. It does in firefox, but certain specific functions do not work. Don't know about Konqueror. Did not try it. For example, When you logout, it confirms whether you wish to close the window, and irrespective of what you click, "Yes" or "No", the window would still be open! But I too, would recommed Dlink 502T Router. Though, I couldn't configure it for using it through USB port, I managed to connect to the internet through Ethernet. Also, if you are planning to buy an ethernet card, incase you don't have one, buy a DLink Ethernet card. __________________________________________________________ Yahoo! India Answers: Share what you know. Learn something new http://in.answers.yahoo.com/

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