Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion
I haven't tried that many players, but I recently threw out Amarok in favour of cmus, which is a terminal-based music player. http://cmus.sourceforge.net/ Fantastic! I like running a music player in the terminal, and there's quite a lot of functionality. It's up and running in a split second, and I've got music without soaking up megabytes of my precious RAM! --- On Sun, 8/2/09, Matthew Hannigan wrote: > From: Matthew Hannigan > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Music player opinion > To: "Simon Rumble" > Cc: slug@slug.org.au > Received: Sunday, August 2, 2009, 9:48 PM > On Mon, Aug 03, 2009 at 10:22:19AM > +1000, Simon Rumble wrote: > > [ ... ] > > Yep, I want something that mimics the old > WinAmp. Dumb, just plays the > > bloody music files I point it at. No bells, no > whistles. > > If you want winamp-ish, then perhaps Zinf is for you (Zinf > is not freeamp, freeamp is not winamp) > > vlc might also fit the bill. > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html > __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] A LaTeX problem, with Word.: not quite there.
Hi, I'm currently writing a massive document in LaTeX, and I get about 20 of the same warning messages that you do. In my case, it's because I include diagrams made in Inkscape - somehow the export to PDF produces documents that pdflatex doesn't quite like. Regardless, it doesn't seem to affect the output - so I ignore the warning message. Is pdflatex producing an acceptable document in your case? Cibby --- On Mon, 5/11/09, wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au wrote: > From: wbenn...@turing.une.edu.au > Subject: [SLUG] A LaTeX problem, with Word.: not quite there. > To: slug@slug.org.au > Received: Monday, May 11, 2009, 7:59 PM > The pdfpages package works. > > I've exported the relevant document as a .pdf > > and used > > \includepdf(word-appendix.pdf} > > in the LaTeX document. > > All Ok, as long as I stay in [draft]. > > When I try the full document, I receive > >Page Group detected which pdfTeX can't handle. > > My first reaction was to amend the command thus:--- > > \includepdf[15-20](word-appendix.pdf) > > (It's a 20 page document) and work myself backwards > until I find what's > stopping pdfLaTeX. > > Anyone with a better idea? > > Regards, > > Bill Bennett. > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html __ Make your browsing faster, safer, and easier with the new Internet Explorer® 8. Optimized for Yahoo! Get it Now for Free! at http://downloads.yahoo.com/ca/internetexplorer/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed?
Hi Erik, Sorry, I arrived at this thread late and may have missed most of it. I purchased an Acer Aspire 4315 for $500 here in Sydney - it came with Ubuntu preinstalled, but I wiped it and installed Kubuntu. It runs great, but there were some wireless driver issues - the latest versions of Ubuntu seem to have no problems with that now. I'm only having other, smaller problems with it now. Cibby --- On Sun, 4/19/09, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote: > From: Erik de Castro Lopo > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Laptops with Linux pre-installed? > To: slug@slug.org.au > Received: Sunday, April 19, 2009, 8:40 PM > Meijer, Luke wrote: > > > Sounds like you got it all sorted then. > > Well actually no. > > I have so far found one company (and only one) that does a > true > Linux pre-installed machine (ie machine with Linux is > cheaper > than one with windows): > > http://pioneercomputers.com.au/ > > Since these do not seem to be name brand machines, I will > have to > take extra time and effort to assess the hardware quality > of the > machines and the after sales service of the company itself. > I > would not really have to do either of these if I bought > from > Dell or HP. > > Erik > -- > -- > Erik de Castro Lopo > http://www.mega-nerd.com/ > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html __ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Load MatLAB .fig files into Octave
Hello, I'm an enthusiastic user of LaTeX and open source apps in Linux... for my numerical simulations, I've been pretty happy with Octave, even using GNUplot. I've previously posted an Octave script that I wrote to produce beautiful, LaTeX-ready PDFs from an Octave plot (http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~cibby/fig2gle.htm). But now I've got another problem: many of my older figures are stored as MatLAB .fig files, from a more reckless time, before I thought that I would ever abandon MatLAB. Luckily, I've cranked out an ugly solution: I wrote another script to load the .fig file, then strip the data from it, plotting it in Octave. Check it out here: http://www.ee.usyd.edu.au/~cibby/OCTread_FIG.htm Hopefully, it's of some use to other Sluggers! Thanks, Cibby __ Looking for the perfect gift? Give the gift of Flickr! http://www.flickr.com/gift/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] KDE party
Hi, I noticed that the KDE developers are encouraging users to throw release parties with the upcoming release of KDE 4.2 http://wiki.kde.org/tiki-index.php?page=KDE+4.2+Release+Party Anyone interested in a KDE release party in Sydney? Cibby __ Get the name you've always wanted @ymail.com or @rocketmail.com! Go to http://ca.promos.yahoo.com/jacko/ -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6
I only hope that it's as high energy as this notorious performance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvsboPUjrGc --- On Sat, 11/1/08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Steve Ballmer live rally Sydney November 6 > To: "Gerard Kelly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: slug@slug.org.au > Received: Saturday, November 1, 2008, 10:12 PM > On Sat, 1 Nov 2008, Gerard Kelly wrote: > > > "Make a note in your diary now and be watching at > the dawn of a new age of > > freedom." > > > may I be the first to say "ROFLMAO". > > > "None are so hopelessly enslaved as those who > falsely believe they are free." > > Johann Wolfgang von Goethe > > > > > > -- > Rachel Polanskis Kingswood, Greater Western > Sydney, Australia > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.zeta.org.au/~grove/grove.html > The price of greatness is responsibility. > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Creating LaTeX figures in Octave
Hi, After a couple of weeks messing around scripts and psfrag with MatLAB, I found an easy way to generate beautiful, font-consistent figures in LaTeX. It turns out that the latest version of Octave, an open-source MatLAB-like environment, allows gnuplot figures to be exported in several LaTeX friendly formats. Using the command print(filename,device), figures can be saved in EPS, PS or other formats: http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/doc/interpreter/Printing-Plots.html#index-print-805 Specifying the device as 'depslatex' produces two files: one EPS file with the graphics, and one TeX file which overlays the axis labels and annotations, ensuring the fonts will be consistent with the rest of your document. Even more remarkable, using 'depslatexstandalone' generates one TeX file that includes the data from your figure. I found this to be amazing - you've got full control over your figures at this point. I apologize if this is commonly-known information, but I didn't find any readily available information on the web, and thought I'd pass it along. Beautiful figures, huzzah! Cibby Pulikkaseril __ Connect with friends from any web browser - no download required. Try the new Yahoo! Canada Messenger for the Web BETA at http://ca.messenger.yahoo.com/webmessengerpromo.php -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless?
I'd just like to add an anecdote on pseudo-random number generation: several years ago, a group of Canadian comp. sci. students were arrested for fraud. A casino made the charges, claiming the students 'hacked' into their computer which dealt the numbers for one of their random-draw games. Naturally, everyone suspected that the boys had done something nefarious, since they were in the black magic arts of computing. The boys came away with several thousand dollars in winnings. When they arrested the college kids, they sheepishly explained how they did it: the computer, which drew the random numbers, used the last few digits of the clock as the pseudo-random number. This is a standard method of picking random numbers, though it's awfully insecure. The computers were started, every day, automatically, at precisely the same moment. Due to the nature of the game, the draws were fixed in time, as well, for example, a draw would occur exactly every 15 minutes. The boys realized that the same numbers appeared at the same time of day, and simply bet on them. I can't seem to find a link to this story, though. Is it bogus? Cibby 20/20 Filmsight http://moviecritic.com.au --- On Mon, 6/23/08, Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > From: Rick Welykochy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [SLUG] Is someone is snooping my wireless? > To: "Glen Turner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "Jonathan Lange" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, slug@slug.org.au > Received: Monday, June 23, 2008, 7:57 AM > Glen Turner wrote: > > > They avoid number at the extremes > > and avoid repeated digits (a 60 byte string would have > > a run of 6 repeated digits about one time in five). > > The result is very non-random. > > Yes indeed. I've read about complaints from consumers > about seemingly non-random behaviour in the shuffle > function on iPods. Apple tries to explain that yes, > the iPod can easily play 3 songs in a row by the same > artist when in random mode. This is the nature of > randomness. Usually falls on deaf ears. > > cheers > rickw > > -- > > Rick Welykochy || Praxis Services || Internet Driving > Instructor > > A lie can travel halfway around the world > while the truth is putting on its shoes. > -- Mark Twain > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - > http://slug.org.au/ > Subscription info and FAQs: > http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html __ Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail. Click on Options in Mail and switch to New Mail today or register for free at http://mail.yahoo.ca -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
