BLUG: April 2007

Sunday, April 29, 2007

Re: [BLUG] personal music server

The only music sharing server I've played with is gnump3d, which was
simple, easy, and functional.

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Re: [BLUG] personal music server

well as an alternative to shoutcast can i recomend icecast or the distro http://dynebolic.org/

On 4/29/07, Weldon Sams <wsams@indiana.edu> wrote:

I don't know what you all think about a shoutcast server, but I set one up a couple years ago on my linux box and it streamed 128kbps fine over insight or sbc/yahoo dsl -- i can't remember which one. It's free and you can lock it down. Just thought I'd through that one out there. It's been a while, so I don't know what it's like now.

Weldon

On 4/28/07, Ben Shewmaker < benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:

First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/ ) and Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any better ones?

Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them open to the public.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben

Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
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Saturday, April 28, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

Mark Krenz wrote:
> Wow, that was great. We had 7 people total turnout. We had 5 playing
> at once and most of the time 4 where playing. So it was quite a bit of
> fun and we ended about 12:30.

I just got home a few minutes ago but if I'm not busy and anothe BZFlag
session is scheduled sometime I'd be happy to participate. It was a lot
of fun last time I played it (2001-2002 iirc).
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Re: [BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

Wow, that was great. We had 7 people total turnout. We had 5 playing
at once and most of the time 4 where playing. So it was quite a bit of
fun and we ended about 12:30.

I've put some more games on the schedule in advance so that you have
more time to prepare. When I have time, I'll put up instructions for
the other games. I think that there is obviously more demand for more
accessible games. But we'll still do some commercial games too.

On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:18:59AM GMT, Mark Krenz [mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
> There are 4 BLUGers logged into the BZFlag game right now. I'd like
> to see more.
>
>

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions
>
> Its actually a lot more fun that I expected with this game.
>
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Re: [BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

Same here, the first time I tried this game a good while back, I didn't understand it and just deleted it after playing one round. After tonight, I'm ready to play again.

On 4/28/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

  There are 4 BLUGers logged into the BZFlag game right now.  I'd like
to see more.

  http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions

  Its actually a lot more fun that I expected with this game.

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Re: [BLUG] personal music server

I don't know what you all think about a shoutcast server, but I set one up a couple years ago on my linux box and it streamed 128kbps fine over insight or sbc/yahoo dsl -- i can't remember which one. It's free and you can lock it down. Just thought I'd through that one out there. It's been a while, so I don't know what it's like now.

Weldon

On 4/28/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:

I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:

First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/ ) and Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any better ones?

Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them open to the public.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben

Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.

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[BLUG] Having a BLAST with Bzflag

There are 4 BLUGers logged into the BZFlag game right now. I'd like
to see more.

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions

Its actually a lot more fun that I expected with this game.

Re: [BLUG] personal music server

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Ben,
I'm a big fan of ampache. Simple setup, nice random playlists, works
with a very diverse set of players, and you get to lock it down by
login. I use it any time I'm not at my desk and need some music.

Rich

Ben Shewmaker wrote:
> I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my
> music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing
> with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when
> I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:
>
> First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There
> are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/) and
> Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any
> better ones?
>
> Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu
> box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I
> could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and
> how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this
> type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared
> hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would
> take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I
> worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them
> open to the public.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
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> Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
> Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.
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Re: [BLUG] personal music server

I've tried this before with iTunes, but my upload on my Insight
connection did not provide enough bandwidth to do this without a lot of
audio skipping. I'd check on this first with regards to your home
connection.

You might want to look at something daapd based, particularly if you
have a savvy client you like using (such as iTunes, likely Songbird, etc.)

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[BLUG] personal music server

I want to set up a web based music streaming app so I can listen to my music from anywhere. I don't want to get myself into trouble by sharing with everyone, just a way for me to listen to my music collection when I'm away from my computer. I have two questions:

First, does anyone have a recommendation on software for this? There are two I am looking at, Jinzora (http://jinzora.com/) and Ampache(http://www.ampache.org/). Are these any good, or are there any better ones?

Second, I have two options as to where to host this. I have an Ubuntu box I use as a print server/file backup that is on most of the time. I could set it up here, but I don't know much about apache/php/mysql and how to keep it running smoothly and securely. Is it safe to run this type of web server at home? I could also install it on my shared hosting account. This would be faster and more reliable, but it would take a really, really, really long time to upload my music here, plus I worry about somebody hacking open my music directories and leaving them open to the public.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,

Ben

Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell?
Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.

[BLUG] BZFlag multiplayer game tonight at 9pm

I setup the BZFlag server and put instructions for how to connect and
play at:

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/BZFlag_instructions

Its actually a rather easy game to setup and will work fine on older
3D cards. So I hope to see a lot of you playing tonight. Even if only
for 10 minutes. The session will start at 9pm.

I've also rearranged the gaming page on the wiki a bit to have a
schedule and point to instruction pages for each game. It will grow as
we get closer to trying each game:

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/Weekly_BLUGers_gaming_session

Friday, April 27, 2007

[BLUG] No instructions for bzflag yet

I'm sorry, I've been very busy this week and haven't had time to setup
a bzflag server yet. I'll get it up by tommorow night. For now just
remember to check the page on the website and use the same hostname as
we are for ut2004.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Tonight?

Interestingly enough, I think I'll be able to make to the meeting
tonight.

It will be my first BLUG meeting. I'm looking forward to meeting those
of you that make it!

Cheers,
Steven Black

On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 13:23 -0400, Scott Blaydes wrote:
> Yup. Unfortunatly I don't have a lot a equipment to use for your demo
> (i was hoping I would), but I do have a laptop running Edgy if you want
> to demo the upgrade. I don't have a projector though and I think Ana
> might have class.
>
> If nothing else, we will do a BYOB (Bring your own Bugs) and just
> general Linux discussion.
>
> and then dinner...
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Blaydes
>
> Simón Ruiz wrote:
> > We're having a meeting tonight, right?
> >
> > Unless appropriate hardware can be brought (and I have none, now that
> > I don't work at the high school), I don't think my Systemimager
> > presentation can actually happen.
> >
> > Maybe I could show off some of the new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
> > shininess? If someone brought a laptop, a projector, and a long
> > ethernet cable (Scott?), that might be worth a show.
> >
> > What do you all think?
> >
> > I'm running a load of stuff up to Fort Wayne, and plan to be back in
> > time for the meeting (yeah, short trip).
> >
>
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Re: [BLUG] Tonight?

Yes, I do have class. But next week is the last week of that...until
next fall...

Ana

On 4/24/07, Scott Blaydes <sblaydes@sbce.org> wrote:
> Yup. Unfortunatly I don't have a lot a equipment to use for your demo
> (i was hoping I would), but I do have a laptop running Edgy if you want
> to demo the upgrade. I don't have a projector though and I think Ana
> might have class.
>
> If nothing else, we will do a BYOB (Bring your own Bugs) and just
> general Linux discussion.
>
> and then dinner...
>
> Thank you,
> Scott Blaydes
>
> Simón Ruiz wrote:
> > We're having a meeting tonight, right?
> >
> > Unless appropriate hardware can be brought (and I have none, now that
> > I don't work at the high school), I don't think my Systemimager
> > presentation can actually happen.
> >
> > Maybe I could show off some of the new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
> > shininess? If someone brought a laptop, a projector, and a long
> > ethernet cable (Scott?), that might be worth a show.
> >
> > What do you all think?
> >
> > I'm running a load of stuff up to Fort Wayne, and plan to be back in
> > time for the meeting (yeah, short trip).
> >
>
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RE: [BLUG] Tonight?

Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
> I can bring a projector (and ethernet cable), but I'm not 100%
> positive I'm going to be able to make it to the meeting tonight,
> though I am going to try. I should know in an hour or two whether I
> will be able to make it and I'll let you guys know.

My apologies, but I'm not going to be able to attend the BLUG meeting.
I was expecting something to come up, and it did. Sorry.

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RE: [BLUG] Tonight?

Scott Blaydes wrote:
> Yup. Unfortunatly I don't have a lot a equipment to use for your demo
> (i was hoping I would), but I do have a laptop running Edgy if you
> want to demo the upgrade. I don't have a projector though and I
> think Ana might have class.
>
> If nothing else, we will do a BYOB (Bring your own Bugs) and just
> general Linux discussion.
>
> and then dinner...

I can bring a projector (and ethernet cable), but I'm not 100% positive
I'm going to be able to make it to the meeting tonight, though I am
going to try. I should know in an hour or two whether I will be able to
make it and I'll let you guys know.

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Re: [BLUG] Tonight?

Yup. Unfortunatly I don't have a lot a equipment to use for your demo
(i was hoping I would), but I do have a laptop running Edgy if you want
to demo the upgrade. I don't have a projector though and I think Ana
might have class.

If nothing else, we will do a BYOB (Bring your own Bugs) and just
general Linux discussion.

and then dinner...

Thank you,
Scott Blaydes

Simón Ruiz wrote:
> We're having a meeting tonight, right?
>
> Unless appropriate hardware can be brought (and I have none, now that
> I don't work at the high school), I don't think my Systemimager
> presentation can actually happen.
>
> Maybe I could show off some of the new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
> shininess? If someone brought a laptop, a projector, and a long
> ethernet cable (Scott?), that might be worth a show.
>
> What do you all think?
>
> I'm running a load of stuff up to Fort Wayne, and plan to be back in
> time for the meeting (yeah, short trip).
>

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Re: [BLUG] Tonight?

Ya hear that everyone? Someone is coming all the way from Ft. Wayne
to the BLUG meeting tonight. Wow. Thanks, I'll be here until Thursday,
tip your waiters.

On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 03:28:31PM GMT, Simón Ruiz [simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com] said the following:
>
> I'm running a load of stuff up to Fort Wayne, and plan to be back in
> time for the meeting (yeah, short trip).
>
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>
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[BLUG] Tonight?

We're having a meeting tonight, right?

Unless appropriate hardware can be brought (and I have none, now that
I don't work at the high school), I don't think my Systemimager
presentation can actually happen.

Maybe I could show off some of the new Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
shininess? If someone brought a laptop, a projector, and a long
ethernet cable (Scott?), that might be worth a show.

What do you all think?

I'm running a load of stuff up to Fort Wayne, and plan to be back in
time for the meeting (yeah, short trip).

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Monday, April 23, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

I stand corrected and edumacated

On 4/22/07, Michael Schultheiss <schultmc@cinlug.org> wrote:
> Jeff Welty wrote:
> > PS: is it Hasenfroch or Hasefroch?
>
> My 5 seconds of internet research says Hasefroch. Apparently that's
> what I learned today ;)

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Re: [BLUG] random wallpaper in Ubuntu

FYI: You don't need to be root to do that.

There is no reason to use 'sudo' for that command. The script can be
installed in ~/bin. Of course, your cron daemon may not recognize the ~
in pathnames, so you should probably use $HOME explicitly there.

The script can reference $HOME/Pictures or the $1 argument, removing
the requirement for hard-coded paths. (All cron programs work properly
with arguments to the commands that they run.)

Additionally, even if you wanted the script available for everyone on
your system, it is bad practice to put it in /bin. It would be better
to put in in /usr/local/bin. (Or perhaps in /usr/local/stow with the
proper symlinks.)

Truthfully, though, such a mechanism would be wasteful to allow as-is
in a multi-user system. A better approach would be something that can
be started from the session manager so that it only runs for the active
user -- and only when users are logged in.

Cheers,
Steven Black

Quoting Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com>:

> I wish Gnome had an option to easily set it to randomly select a new
> wallpaper every x minutes, but, alas, it doesn't. I'm sure this is
> nothing new to most of you, but it took me a little while to figure
> this one out, so I thought I'd share in case anybody didn't know.
> And if you know of a better way to do this, please let me know!
>
> 1. sudo gedit
>
> 2. copy this, but replace /home/ben/wallpaper/ with the directory
> where you have your wallpapers:
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> # Set your folder with the pics
> picsfolder="/home/ben/wallpaper/"
>
> # Go to your folder with the pics
> cd "$picsfolder"
>
> # Get the name of a random file
> randomfile=`ls *.jpg *.png |sed -n $((RANDOM%$(ls *.jpg *.png |wc -l)+1))p`
>
> # start of gconftool command and set the desktop
> gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename
> "$picsfolder$randomfile"
>
> 3. save as changewallpaper.sh in /bin
>
> 4. 'sudo chmod +x /bin/changewallpaper.sh'
>
> 5. 'crontab -e'
>
> 6. add these lines:
> */15 * * * * changewallpaper.sh
> @reboot changewallpaper.sh
>
> 7. save and exit
>
> And that should be it. At least it was for me. That changes the
> wallpaper every boot and every 15 minutes. I also added a custom
> application launcher to my panel with the command
> '/bin/changewallpaper.sh' and I can click that button to randomly
> select a new wallpaper if I don't like the current one. Oh, and I
> like http://interfacelift.com/ for good wallapapers. Also, I didn't
> write that little script, I stole it from this thread:
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=329164&highlight=random+wallpaper
>
> ben
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [BLUG] BZFlag next week

Weldon Sams wrote:
> That sounds good. I've never played that game officially, but I've
> messed around a little bit with it. Is the learning curve very high, I
> can't remember what it was like?

Unless it's totally changed since I last played it (several years ago)
BZflag does *not* have a high learning curve. You basically drive
around in a tank and shoot stuff and capture flags iirc.
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Sunday, April 22, 2007

Re: [BLUG] BZFlag next week

That sounds good. I've never played that game officially, but I've messed around a little bit with it. Is the learning curve very high, I can't remember what it was like? I got ut2004 earlier this week, but fell asleep around 8:30 saturday evening and woke up around 1:30am. Hopefully I can make it this Saturday.

On 4/22/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:

  We had a lot of fun playing ut2004 last night.  We'll try playing it
again some other time.

  Next week we're going to play BZFlag, which is an open source (and
free) first person tank game.  Its a little simplistic, but it is very
configurable and there is a large community for it.  I hope that the
lower system requirements will allow more of you to join.  You can find
more information about it here:

   http://www.bzflag.org/

  You'll actually find that bzflag is in many of the application
repositories that come with your distribution.  So you probably can just
do an apt-get install bzflag, yum install bzflag, emerge bzflag, etc.
to install it.

  I'll setup a bzflag dedicated server on the same machine and we can
all play this coming Saturday the 28th at 9pm.

  Mark

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:17:54AM GMT, Mark Krenz [ mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
>   Chris Walker and I are playing UT2004 on the server right now if
> anyone else who has it working wants to join.
>
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

Jeff Welty wrote:
> PS: is it Hasenfroch or Hasefroch?

My 5 seconds of internet research says Hasefroch. Apparently that's
what I learned today ;)
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[BLUG] BZFlag next week

We had a lot of fun playing ut2004 last night. We'll try playing it
again some other time.

Next week we're going to play BZFlag, which is an open source (and
free) first person tank game. Its a little simplistic, but it is very
configurable and there is a large community for it. I hope that the
lower system requirements will allow more of you to join. You can find
more information about it here:

http://www.bzflag.org/

You'll actually find that bzflag is in many of the application
repositories that come with your distribution. So you probably can just
do an apt-get install bzflag, yum install bzflag, emerge bzflag, etc.
to install it.

I'll setup a bzflag dedicated server on the same machine and we can
all play this coming Saturday the 28th at 9pm.

Mark

On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 01:17:54AM GMT, Mark Krenz [mark@slugbug.org] said the following:
>
> Chris Walker and I are playing UT2004 on the server right now if
> anyone else who has it working wants to join.
>
> --
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

In the past the Firefox browser was accused of having a pretty bad
memory leak... and I believe Firefox uses up quite a bit of memory
regardless of what OS it is running on. Of course I justify the use of
such an app with the features Firefox offers as well as what it stands for.
Jeff
PS: is it Hasenfroch or Hasefroch?

Simón Ruiz wrote:
> I just tried it for the first time myself, definitely a thumbs up. And
> since I have an Intel graphics card on the laptop I tried it on,
> Compiz worked right out of the box (I had to do something like go to
> Preferences -> Desktop Effects). All it had was wobbly windows and the
> cube, but still nifty to have it right out of the box. Resolution I
> had to fix by installing 915resolution and Ctrl-Alt-Backspacing, but
> I've gotten used to doing that on widescreen laptops already.
>
> The only thing that bugs me about it (and not just Feisty, but Linux
> Desktops in general) is how possibly the most used application on the
> computer (at least for Desktop computers) is the buggiest. Firefox is
> single buggiest piece of software on that computer. I was using a
> school laptop at home for a while and Firefox would regularly have a
> conniption and slow my whole system to a crawl; I could often
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a command prompt and killall firefox-bin, though even
> that took forever, but sometimes I had to simply force shutdown by
> holding in the power button. And just now when I was playing with
> Feisty Firefox did some weird stuff when I maximized it while using
> Compiz, so I had to restart it.
>
> This is simply unacceptable.
>
> Now, granted, I seemed to experience this more than my fiancee did for
> example. I'm guessing it may be exacerbated by the fact that I use the
> same profile directory on Ubuntu as I use on Hasenfroch (I use
> PortableApps on a USB stick on Windows and link the
> ~/.mozilla/firefox/jumble.default directory to my FirefoxPortable's
> data/profile directory).
>
> However, it runs smooth as silk on Hasenfroch.
>
> Well, enough of that rant...
>
> BTW, I posted some photos from the IU LinuxFest on my blog (hosted on
> my flickr site), so check out http://indianalinux.blogspot.com if
> you're interested. (Jeremy, I put your biplane computer on there. btw,
> is it still alive?)
>
> On 4/20/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Each Ubuntu release just keeps getting better. I'm loving 7.04 at the
>> moment. This has been the easiest install and setup I've ever had
>> with a
>> linux distro. Everything from installing video card drivers to flash
>> for
>> firefox to extra codecs is really, really easy. Getting a screen
>> resolution
>> beyond 1024x768 wasn't as extremely easy, but with a quick search in the
>> ubuntu forums I was at 1280x1024 quickly. So I like what I've seen
>> so far.
>> Anyone else have an opinion on Feisty?
>>
>> ben
>
>

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Re: [BLUG] random wallpaper in Ubuntu

Thanks for the link. They have some pretty decent wallpaprs, there!

On 4/22/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Oh, and I like http://interfacelift.com/ for good wallapapers.
>
> ben

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[BLUG] random wallpaper in Ubuntu

I wish Gnome had an option to easily set it to randomly select a new wallpaper every x minutes, but, alas, it doesn't. I'm sure this is nothing new to most of you, but it took me a little while to figure this one out, so I thought I'd share in case anybody didn't know. And if you know of a better way to do this, please let me know!

1. sudo gedit

2. copy this, but replace /home/ben/wallpaper/ with the directory where you have your wallpapers:

#!/bin/bash

# Set your folder with the pics
picsfolder="/home/ben/wallpaper/"

# Go to your folder with the pics
cd "$picsfolder"

# Get the name of a random file
randomfile=`ls *.jpg *.png |sed -n $((RANDOM%$(ls *.jpg *.png |wc -l)+1))p`

# start of gconftool command and set the desktop
gconftool-2 -t str --set /desktop/gnome/background/picture_filename "$picsfolder$randomfile"

3. save as changewallpaper.sh in /bin

4. 'sudo chmod +x /bin/changewallpaper.sh'

5. 'crontab -e'

6. add these lines:
*/15 * * * * changewallpaper.sh
@reboot changewallpaper.sh

7. save and exit

And that should be it. At least it was for me. That changes the wallpaper every boot and every 15 minutes. I also added a custom application launcher to my panel with the command '/bin/changewallpaper.sh' and I can click that button to randomly select a new wallpaper if I don't like the current one. Oh, and I like http://interfacelift.com/ for good wallapapers. Also, I didn't write that little script, I stole it from this thread: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=329164&highlight=random+wallpaper

ben

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Saturday, April 21, 2007

[BLUG] Playing UT2004 in Linux right now

Chris Walker and I are playing UT2004 on the server right now if
anyone else who has it working wants to join.

Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

Michael Schultheiss wrote:

Ben Shewmaker wrote:

Anyone else have an opinion on Feisty?

 I upgraded to the Feisty beta late last week.  I continue to remain impressed with each successive Ubuntu release.   _______________________________________________ BLUG mailing list BLUG@linuxfan.com http://mailman.cs.indiana.edu/mailman/listinfo/blug

I definitely like Feisty, as it recognized my sound card automatically and I finally have sound! I did everything I could in 6.04 and 6.10 to get sound, without success.

Feisty has definitely become my primary OS. I had Ubuntu 5.(04?) dual booted on my other XP notebook a while back and really liked it, so when I got a new laptop - with Vista, which didn't stay there long - I went right to work doing a fresh Ubuntu install. The lack of sound was a definite drawback, but that's fixed. :)

Happy Feisty user,
Matthew

Friday, April 20, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Weekly gaming fest continues tommorow

Ack! This week I don't even have a computer to play it on :-(

Try me again after I get a computer.

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[BLUG] Weekly gaming fest continues tommorow

Tommorow night we're going to try Unreal Tournament 2004 again. Last
week a few people couldn't make it and a few didn't have it yet, but I'm
told that this week more people will sign on.

Join us on the server tommorow, Saturday April 21st at 9pm or later.

For instructions on how to connect, check out this page:

http://www.bloomingtonlinux.org/wiki/Weekly_BLUGers_gaming_session

Next weekend we'll try a free open source game. Probably BZFlag.

Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

Ben Shewmaker wrote:
> Anyone else have an opinion on Feisty?

I upgraded to the Feisty beta late last week. I continue to remain
impressed with each successive Ubuntu release.
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

I just tried it for the first time myself, definitely a thumbs up. And
since I have an Intel graphics card on the laptop I tried it on,
Compiz worked right out of the box (I had to do something like go to
Preferences -> Desktop Effects). All it had was wobbly windows and the
cube, but still nifty to have it right out of the box. Resolution I
had to fix by installing 915resolution and Ctrl-Alt-Backspacing, but
I've gotten used to doing that on widescreen laptops already.

The only thing that bugs me about it (and not just Feisty, but Linux
Desktops in general) is how possibly the most used application on the
computer (at least for Desktop computers) is the buggiest. Firefox is
single buggiest piece of software on that computer. I was using a
school laptop at home for a while and Firefox would regularly have a
conniption and slow my whole system to a crawl; I could often
Ctrl-Alt-F1 to a command prompt and killall firefox-bin, though even
that took forever, but sometimes I had to simply force shutdown by
holding in the power button. And just now when I was playing with
Feisty Firefox did some weird stuff when I maximized it while using
Compiz, so I had to restart it.

This is simply unacceptable.

Now, granted, I seemed to experience this more than my fiancee did for
example. I'm guessing it may be exacerbated by the fact that I use the
same profile directory on Ubuntu as I use on Hasenfroch (I use
PortableApps on a USB stick on Windows and link the
~/.mozilla/firefox/jumble.default directory to my FirefoxPortable's
data/profile directory).

However, it runs smooth as silk on Hasenfroch.

Well, enough of that rant...

BTW, I posted some photos from the IU LinuxFest on my blog (hosted on
my flickr site), so check out http://indianalinux.blogspot.com if
you're interested. (Jeremy, I put your biplane computer on there. btw,
is it still alive?)

On 4/20/07, Ben Shewmaker <benshewmaker@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Each Ubuntu release just keeps getting better. I'm loving 7.04 at the
> moment. This has been the easiest install and setup I've ever had with a
> linux distro. Everything from installing video card drivers to flash for
> firefox to extra codecs is really, really easy. Getting a screen resolution
> beyond 1024x768 wasn't as extremely easy, but with a quick search in the
> ubuntu forums I was at 1280x1024 quickly. So I like what I've seen so far.
> Anyone else have an opinion on Feisty?
>
> ben

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[BLUG] Ubuntu is Yummy

Each Ubuntu release just keeps getting better. I'm loving 7.04 at the moment. This has been the easiest install and setup I've ever had with a linux distro. Everything from installing video card drivers to flash for firefox to extra codecs is really, really easy. Getting a screen resolution beyond 1024x768 wasn't as extremely easy, but with a quick search in the ubuntu forums I was at 1280x1024 quickly. So I like what I've seen so far. Anyone else have an opinion on Feisty?

ben

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Check out new cars at Yahoo! Autos.

Thursday, April 19, 2007

Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

On 4/19/07, Jeff Welty <jtwelty@indiana.edu> wrote:
> There is a report that Linden Labs are using around 4000 servers now...
> if that's true, buy this person's calculations, they consume as much
> electricity as all the people in Brazil:
> http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php
> Second Life is really amazing - you can do almost anything there.
> Therefore, it's almost as good as zombo.com, where you can do literally
> anything.
> Jeff

Except that zombo.com does it much more efficiently, less electricity
to do the same thing. Zombo, the green alternative to Second Life.

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Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

For comparison, there are a few webhosting companies that claim to
have as many as 26,000 servers. Google supposibly has over 100,000
servers. And those are 1 or 2 year old figures.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:43:09PM GMT, Jeff Welty [jtwelty@indiana.edu] said the following:
> There is a report that Linden Labs are using around 4000 servers now...
> if that's true, buy this person's calculations, they consume as much
> electricity as all the people in Brazil:
> http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php
> Second Life is really amazing - you can do almost anything there.
> Therefore, it's almost as good as zombo.com, where you can do literally
> anything.
> Jeff
>
>
> Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
> >Mark Krenz wrote:
> >
> >> http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142
> >>
> >> I mentioned during a BLUG meeting that I thought someone needs to
> >>develop and open protocol 3d distributed network. I can't believe
> >>that Linden Labs is choosing to do that. But that's great.
> >>
> >
> >There was an article in Baseline magazine a few months ago about Linden
> >Labs, talking about their infrastructure. At the time of writing, they
> >had 1800 Debian servers running their databases, a handful running their
> >Internet-facing web servers, and said they were adding an average of a
> >rack full (42) of 1U servers a week to keep up...
> >
> >
> >
>
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Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

There is a report that Linden Labs are using around 4000 servers now...
if that's true, buy this person's calculations, they consume as much
electricity as all the people in Brazil:
http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2006/12/avatars_consume.php
Second Life is really amazing - you can do almost anything there.
Therefore, it's almost as good as zombo.com, where you can do literally
anything.
Jeff

Jeremy L. Gaddis wrote:
> Mark Krenz wrote:
>
>>

http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142
>>
>> I mentioned during a BLUG meeting that I thought someone needs to
>> develop and open protocol 3d distributed network. I can't believe
>> that Linden Labs is choosing to do that. But that's great.
>>
>
> There was an article in Baseline magazine a few months ago about Linden
> Labs, talking about their infrastructure. At the time of writing, they
> had 1800 Debian servers running their databases, a handful running their
> Internet-facing web servers, and said they were adding an average of a
> rack full (42) of 1U servers a week to keep up...
>
>
>

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Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

I mean there will undoubtedly be a project that is more open than the
Linden Labs one. Its a trend that happens time and time again.

1. Company releases product as open source
2. Some people work on product in step 1.
3. Another group of [paranoid] coders take algorithms from step 1
and make a community project.
4. Majority of users go with community project in the end because the
FLOSS religion considers non-community projects taboo.

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 07:16:20PM GMT, Simón Ruiz [simon.a.ruiz@gmail.com] said the following:
> Neat! I must say I didn't expect them to do it.
>
> The client has been open sourced for a while though, Mark, or do you
> mean a different client?
>
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Re: [BLUG] BLUG + RSS = Cool linux website...

I got it so now as soon as people send messages it posts it and you can sort by day.

RE: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

Mark Krenz wrote:
>

http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142
>
> I mentioned during a BLUG meeting that I thought someone needs to
> develop and open protocol 3d distributed network. I can't believe
> that Linden Labs is choosing to do that. But that's great.

There was an article in Baseline magazine a few months ago about Linden
Labs, talking about their infrastructure. At the time of writing, they
had 1800 Debian servers running their databases, a handful running their
Internet-facing web servers, and said they were adding an average of a
rack full (42) of 1U servers a week to keep up...

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Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

Mark Krenz wrote:
> I'm sure there will be an open source 3d client project for it very
> soon. And some ancillary projects.

Linden Labs already opensourced the Second Life client. People were
wondering if/when they were going to open source the server.
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Re: [BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

Neat! I must say I didn't expect them to do it.

The client has been open sourced for a while though, Mark, or do you
mean a different client?

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[BLUG] Open Source Second Life!

http://blogs.zdnet.com/social/?p=142

I mentioned during a BLUG meeting that I thought someone needs to
develop and open protocol 3d distributed network. I can't believe that
Linden Labs is choosing to do that. But that's great.

If you want to get involved in the future, open source distributed 3d
evironment protocols are where its at.

I'm sure there will be an open source 3d client project for it very
soon. And some ancillary projects.

RE: [BLUG] BLUG + RSS = Cool linux website...

Simón Ruiz wrote:
> I make heavy use of RSS, myself, (too heavy, really) but with a
> mailing list it's always nice to be able to hit "Reply" when the fancy
> strikes. :-)

Yeah, I wonder how functional it will actually be. There's an online archive available, I believe, and having an RSS feed sorted by date of posts doesn't really "thread" well. It's not often that there's multiple threads on the list active at the same time, but it does happen. As a proof of concept, though, it is kinda neat. =)

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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu 7.04

Hey, thanks! I'll forward that on to the Indiana LoCo Team.

I'm getting almost 1 MB/sec sitting here on the MCCSC network!!!

On 4/19/07, Matt Standish <mstandish@gmail.com> wrote:
> If you are looking for a fast mirror look no further than here:
>
> http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/7.04/
> http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/7.04/
> http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/edubuntu/7.04/
>
>
> We are stressing our server and it is still rockin. Feel free to
> point people here.
>
>
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu 7.04

I might be able to grab some towards the end of the day. I'll talk to
the guy who admins it.

On 4/19/07, Mark Krenz <mark@slugbug.org> wrote:
>
> I'd be curious to see some numbers if you can share them. How much
> load is it putting on your server? How fast is the server?
>
> On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:35:28PM GMT, Matt Standish [mstandish@gmail.com] said the following:
> > If you are looking for a fast mirror look no further than here:
> >
> > http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/7.04/
> > http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/7.04/
> > http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/edubuntu/7.04/
> >
> >
> > We are stressing our server and it is still rockin. Feel free to
> > point people here.
> >
> >
> > --
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> > Yahoo Messenger: mattstandish@yahoo.com
> > Google Talk: mstandish
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Re: [BLUG] Ubuntu 7.04

I'd be curious to see some numbers if you can share them. How much
load is it putting on your server? How fast is the server?

On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 02:35:28PM GMT, Matt Standish [mstandish@gmail.com] said the following:
> If you are looking for a fast mirror look no further than here:
>
> http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/7.04/
> http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/7.04/
> http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/edubuntu/7.04/
>
>
> We are stressing our server and it is still rockin. Feel free to
> point people here.
>
>
> --
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> Yahoo Messenger: mattstandish@yahoo.com
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[BLUG] Ubuntu 7.04

If you are looking for a fast mirror look no further than here:

http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/7.04/
http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/kubuntu/7.04/
http://ftp.ussg.indiana.edu/linux/ubuntu-releases/edubuntu/7.04/

We are stressing our server and it is still rockin. Feel free to
point people here.

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Re: [BLUG] BLUG + RSS = Cool linux website...

Heh, neat. It took me a little while to figure how you'd done that.

I make heavy use of RSS, myself, (too heavy, really) but with a
mailing list it's always nice to be able to hit "Reply" when the fancy
strikes. :-)

You should remove that first post, though, since it has your private
publishing e-mail address exposed.

;-)

Welcome to the list!

On 4/18/07, Michael Reynolds <michaeltmjk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> i created a blog that gets BLUG messages and posts them...
> http://bloomingtonlinux.blogspot.com/

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