Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Apple Mac's

2008-06-02 Thread Hardeep Singh
Mac is a bigger devil than windows, its one big overpriced steve jobs merchandise advertisement that does only what it wants to and what makes more money for Steve Jobs (read itunes). Why aren't there any decent third party apps for Mac, macboys use an excuse that it has everything inbuilt an

Re: [ubuntu-in] Retrieving Track details from Audio CD's

2008-06-02 Thread Kingsly John
+++ Ramnarayan.K [2008-06-03 10:11:31]: > AFAIK even when winamp or other windows media players have been > offline they are still able to get / show the trackand album details > (basically name of the song etc) Even in the days when we (as in where > i am) did not have internet we got the track d

[ubuntu-in] Searching for Ubuntu Hardy CD /DVD

2008-06-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi was wondering where i could get Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy CD's , and / or the entire DVD repository. Could not find any link to the usual request CD on the http://www.ubuntu-in.org:81/wiki/Main_Page thanks ram PS am not in any city and would need to figure a way of getting the cd/ dvd maybe this is

Re: [ubuntu-in] Retrieving Track details from Audio CD's

2008-06-02 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue Jun 03, 2008 at 10:11:31AM +0530, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > Second (maybe unrelated) why can't i browse an Audio CD like a > regualar disc ?? You can. cdfs: Homepage:http://www.elis.rug.ac.be/~ronsse/cdfs/ Description: A file system for Linux systems

Re: [ubuntu-in] Ubuntu on Apple Mac's

2008-06-02 Thread Ramnarayan . K
Hi On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Linux Lingam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what do you think suddenly inspired the massive improvements in the > user-interface of gnu/linux?! > hehehe just joking > So what are the great differences between MacOs X and say the best GUI linux distro - i assu

Re: [ubuntu-in] Retrieving Track details from Audio CD's

2008-06-02 Thread Ramnarayan . K
Thanks Onkar, Niyam On Mon, Jun 2, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think winamp and windows media player have facility to retrieve > details from servers. Look for something called CDDB in preferences. > But it has been really long time since I used windows so can't

Re: [ubuntu-in] Retrieving Track details from Audio CD's

2008-06-02 Thread Linux Lingam
[snip] a) i prefer freedb over CDDB. you may web-search to find out the differences between them. b) almost all lookup client software tend to look up a local subdirectory first, and then go to freedb or whatever you've set, next. somehow, i tend not to like the idea of my client software doing