[SLUG] Reminder: linux.conf.au 2010 Call For Papers closing soon!

2009-07-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
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Re: [SLUG] White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

2009-07-20 Thread Erik de Castro Lopo
Mary Gardiner wrote: > 2. Listen to the WAV files using any of the following tools: >- totem >- Squeezebox/Squeezecenter >- Rhythmbox > >All of them render about 1/4 second or so of white noise at the very >end of the playback. Further, this is preserved by "flac" when I >

[SLUG] Re: White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

2009-07-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, Jul 21, 2009, Mary Gardiner wrote: > 3. Think "oh well, I guess I can edit the white noise off with >Audacity!" > >Open WAV file in Audacity, discover that the white noise is not there >in Audacity (not in the waveform, not present when I use Audacity itself >to play it bac

[SLUG] White noise at the end of a WAV file that only Audacity can't see

2009-07-20 Thread Mary Gardiner
I am trying to re-encode some music files from Apple Lossless to FLAC[1] and there is a very short burst of white noise at the end of the file that every music player *except* Audacity can see. Here's what I am doing. 1. Convert the ALAC music files to WAV (I was originally going straight to F

[SLUG] kernel oops help

2009-07-20 Thread Daniel Bush
Hi Folks, I just had a whole bunch of kernel oopses on my laptop. I'm running Debian 5.0; kernel is 2.6.26-2-686 I get a dialogue in gnome telling me my kernel has just failed and lines in /var/log/messages like: kerneloops: Submitted 2 kernel oopses to www.kerneloops.org Everything appears t

Re: [SLUG] Hanging &/or random reboot probs

2009-07-20 Thread Dion
Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I have just installed lenny on a machine with 800MHz AMD Duron chip, 1Gb RAM, 63.3 GbB /usr, & 320Gb /home yet get hanging and/or rebooting after opening applications in two screens (usually update/upgrade as root and mutt or a browser). My previous etch system with 73

Re: [SLUG] Hanging &/or random reboot probs

2009-07-20 Thread Ben Donohue
Sounds like bad memory. Replace memory or pull out all memory chips bar one if possible. See if you can isolate which chip it is. I've had this before. Ben Adam Bogacki wrote: Hi, I have just installed lenny on a machine with 800MHz AMD Duron chip, 1Gb RAM, 63.3 GbB /usr, & 320Gb /home yet g

[SLUG] Hanging &/or random reboot probs

2009-07-20 Thread Adam Bogacki
Hi, I have just installed lenny on a machine with 800MHz AMD Duron chip, 1Gb RAM, 63.3 GbB /usr, & 320Gb /home yet get hanging and/or rebooting after opening applications in two screens (usually update/upgrade as root and mutt or a browser). My previous etch system with 733 MHz PIII and 733 Mhz

[SLUG] July SLUG meeting - Friday July 31, 2009

2009-07-20 Thread James Polley
== July SLUG Monthly Meeting == You can read the full version of this announcement at http://slug.org.au/node/116. When: 18.00 - 21.30, Friday, 31 July, 2009 We start at 18.30 but we ask that people arrive 15 minutes early so we can all get into the building and start on time. Please do not arriv