As you may know I really like Gnome. It’s a dammed fine Desktop. with beagle (almost realtime filesystem search n indexing!), and other cool stuff, it’s way in front of any desktop. Well apart from OSX of course!!
useful SED line
I wanted to comment out a few lines in a config file. This was a result of getting to single user mode on a Tru64 box, because some SCSI drives had gone missing!
Anyway Sed to to the rescue! How do I look for a string then comment out that entire line? Not beign that familar with SED I struggled but:
sed 's/.*sda6.*/#&/g' test
Works nicely!!
The “&” means the entire match, so “#&” means comment out that line! Trying to match the entire line did confuse me, as trying to use a wildcard gave me errors. Until it dawned on me… “*” means “more than one of the previous character. so “.*” means more than one of any character i.e. wildcard!
Cool!
I’ve since been told that there’s a far easier way of doing this. e.g. using the “find” function then an upper case “I”nsert, which means insert at the beginning og a line, rather than at the current location in the buffer.
Making a backup copy of an OSX bootable DVD
Ferg’s gaff – easy peasy DVD copying
Well I knew DD was useful on Linux for backing up DVDs withotu any bother! Well waddayaknow it works fine for OSX bootable DVDs too!!!
Cool or what!!
dd if=/dev/dvd of=DVD.iso
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=./DVD.iso
Gentoo Forums :: View topic – XGL
Gentoo Forums :: View topic – XGL
Been playing with a real eye candy Gnome desktop. Using the XGL X server. This uses pure OpenGl to render everything!
Makes OSX look like a ZX81, although I reckon it will crash pretty soon! 🙂
2.7 kernel out already!!!
GNOME vs. KDE
Excellent. The article is a bit old, but tickled me.
Nonetheless, I’m a Gnome user, and I love it!
I’ve played many times with other WM/DE combos, and always come back to using Gnome. KDE just seems too clean. Also since all my apps are GTK ones, then it seems more logical to run Gnome!
Mind you, when E17Enlightenment, finalyl comes out, i may give it a play. It looks pretty cool now.
MythTV
Well I finally got MythTV working.
It’s pretty cool. A proper hard disc recorder on your computer. It’s really meant to be used as a standalone unit, but mine has just been setup on my workstation, since I have a dammed cool 2405fpw Dell24″ monitor 🙂
The Gentoo Wiki page was very useful in getting this set up. Especialyl the bit in getting ALSA and especially an ALSA mixer device to work.
easy peasy DVD copying
Easy peasy way to copy a DVD, not bothering about whether menus will copy and whether you need to worry about libdvdcss etc…
Simply use dd and growisofs
dd if=/dev/dvd of=DVD.iso
growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=./foo.img
simple
M-Audio 1010lt
Well I finally went for the 1010lt. It looks a funky looking card. With tons of spaghetti coming out the back!
I plugged it in, compiled some new modules (ice1712), and ran alsaconf. Worked first time and I got Rythmnbox outputting direct via SPDI/digital coaxial to my amp. Cool. A little bit of extra work resulted in jack working fine with Mixx and Hydrogen. Funky stuff man!
However, I then tried envy24control. I had to first swithc to using gcc3.4.4 as alsatools willnot compile with gcc4.0.1. However, once compiled I ran it. Eeek! It’s a little bit more complicated than I imagined! There’s more channels in there than on your superduper sports/movies and porn package from Sky! However, I’m buggered if I can get it to output via s/pdif. What is worse is than now nothign works. I can output to a pair of analogue RCA jacks. But that is all.
Anyway i will persevere later!
Being a PC audiophile
I’m looking for a decent sound card.
I’ve got an Audigy 1. This is OK, and works fine for MP3, and DVD viewing. However, I;’ve been recently playing with Mixx and other DJ mixing software (all on Linux of course). In this respect the Audigy is a bit crap. I’m using JACK to link it all together. So far using Jack and ALSA is dead easy to setup on Gentoo.
My current speaker setup is a Logitech z640 5.1 system, with the front two speakers replaced by a pair of Monitor Audio Radius 45 speakers. I’m very impressed with the R45’s and I think these will have to be moved towards the rear, and atriplet of Radius 180s will become the front and center!
Eeek this better quality audio stuff is Expensive!
I was trying to decide between the M-Audio Delta 1010lt or the M-Audio Audiophile 2496. The 1010lt looks very cool, and has lots of praises about it’sLinux ALSA compatibility. But for what I need the 2496 would probabyl suffice, and at less than half the price…..
I eventaully ordered the 1010lt from a German company, as it was the cheapest in Europe.
However, after ordering I found out that there is a shop in Cambridge that actually sells them. To be honest I would have gone locally, even with the extra expense, as I always think it’s best to get local good advice. But I’d already ordered from MusikHaus, so it would be unfair to cancel. MusikHaus rang me as well, and seem a decent company.