[SLUG] Re: Re: How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:34:03PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > 1. In what sense am I not listening to what people are telling me ? Who > said anything about using standard guis like nautilus to display audio > files ? The discussion to date was about whether the necessary > functionality to directl

Re: [SLUG] Re: How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Rod Butcher
1. In what sense am I not listening to what people are telling me ? Who said anything about using standard guis like nautilus to display audio files ? The discussion to date was about whether the necessary functionality to directly read audio fioles should be in the kernel or user space, if I under

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi --> theta

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Lake
On Sat Mar 12, Nick Croft wrote: It's the .tex file I send. And sorry, I change it at the other end, because unfortunately I can't get Utopia to work there, the installation at work is more recent and `put' (ps Utopia) is next to impossible to install and make work. Fortunately the home system is a

[SLUG] Re: How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Matthew Palmer
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 04:01:49PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > What I'm getting at is, it's what it means to the user that matters, not > what's going on behind the scenes. MS grasped this brilliantly. You're not listening to what the people are telling you. There *is* magic in the relevant GUI a

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Rod Butcher
While I appreciate there is some technical issue involved here, as a PC user I expect a tool (like e.g. ls, nautilus or whatever) that professes to give me a list of files on a storage medium, to do this for all storage media - and to me an audio cd is just that, with one or more files or tracks or

[SLUG] I wish to lowercase a character in a sed script

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all I have a titles.html file from someone that has several hundred authors listed in a table. e.g. Agrawal, B.M. and Kumar, Virendra At present the above link goes to the top of that file (the contents of that journal issue) but I want the link to directly go to the authors article in that

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Benno
On Sun Mar 13, 2005 at 01:32:58 +1000, QuantumG wrote: >Jeff Waugh wrote: > >>Windows is lying a little bit, to give you a nicer interface. Audio CDs are >>not like data CDs, and cannot be mounted. >> >> > >From a purely philosophical point of view, what would be a good reason >for not have a ker

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread James Gregory
On Sun, 2005-03-13 at 01:32 +1000, QuantumG wrote: > Jeff Waugh wrote: > > >Windows is lying a little bit, to give you a nicer interface. Audio CDs are > >not like data CDs, and cannot be mounted. > > > > > > From a purely philosophical point of view, what would be a good reason > for not hav

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread QuantumG
Jeff Waugh wrote: Windows is lying a little bit, to give you a nicer interface. Audio CDs are not like data CDs, and cannot be mounted. From a purely philosophical point of view, what would be a good reason for not have a kernel module that mounts audio CDs by interpreting the red book format?

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Jeff Waugh
> I have some audio cds I need to edit. How can I mount them so I can open > the audio track in an audio editor, or at least copy the track to .wav ? You need to use an CD ripping program, such as Sound Juicer (a GNOME one which I highly recommend - it's very no-nonsense). > On windows I used t

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Daniel Bush
Rod Butcher wrote: I have some audio cds I need to edit. How can I mount them so I can open the audio track in an audio editor, or at least copy the track to .wav ? I get /dev/cdrom: Input/output error mount: /dev/cdrom: can't read superblock if I try to mount it On windows I used to be able to see

Re: [SLUG] How do I mount an audio Cd ?

2005-03-12 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 08:35:34PM +1100, Rod Butcher wrote: > I have some audio cds I need to edit. How can I mount them so I can open > the audio track in an audio editor, or at least copy the track to .wav ? Use a CD ripper to extract them. Eg, grip (http://nostatic.org/grip/) Cheers, Paul.

Re: [SLUG] Latex question: fi --> theta

2005-03-12 Thread Nick Croft
* Michael Lake ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Fri Mar 11, Nick Croft wrote: > >Having a little trouble here with latex. > > I am not sure when you mentioned mailing them to work whether you > mail the test.tex file or the test.dvi file. Mike, thanks for your thoughts. It's the .tex file I s

[SLUG] Latex question: fi --> theta

2005-03-12 Thread Michael Lake
On Fri Mar 11, Nick Croft wrote: Having a little trouble here with latex. I write things up at home, check in xdvi, then mail the tex files to work for printing. Recently any occurrence of `fi' is rendered by a greek letter. So a word like Office become Of?ce. I'm not sure what to switch off or wha