OOXML: nice little standard?

Got to see this to believe it. Yes, it's authentic!

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Convert YouTube Videos To Simulated Stereo MP3s

This article provides a Linux Bash command-line version and a GUI version for converting a Google YouTube video to a simulated stereo MP3. (YouTube stores their videos in mono sound.) The GUI version was written in XUL, Javascript, and Bash.

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Steve Jobs' iPhone open letter: What he says and what he *means*

In response to the furore from avid, but out of pocket Apple fans, Jobs was compelled to write an open letter to the masses... So we read between the lines.

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OOXML, the past. ODF, the future.

[although Romania voted yes with some kind of bribe involved we all can say now goodbye ooxml and thank for all the poison]There have been many lessons learned in the last few months. Let’s use that knowledge to improve how we make standards. Let’s innovate. Let’s write some great new code. Let’s give our users a superb choice of applications that can all share the same information, no matter who writes the software.

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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #55

Ubuntu Community Marketing Team is proud to release the 55th issue of its Community Weekly Newsletter. In this issue we cover: Introducing Hardy Heron 8.04, Full Circle Magazine - Issue #4, Month Of Screen Casts 2007, Kubuntu was represented at the FrOSCon 2007, Ubuntu HQ: Community powered News, Gutsy Release Parties, and much more.

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another one

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the most fsked up registration form

i put there year 1910
You must enter your real birthday to register.

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they forgot poland

Poland voted against closed and propietary standards
Poland against OOXML?

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another way to hate flash/adobe

yet another upgrade to an propietary extension , (h.264) they give you a little full screen but they keep the servers closed and small details and now the crashes will
be fully accelerated

# I am not in a position able to explain to you why we will not allow 3rd party streaming servers to stream H.264 video or AAC audio into the Flash Player. What I can tell you is that we do not allow this without proper licensing. Refer to Adobe's friendly Flash Media Server sales staff for more information.

kaourantin.net: What just happened to video on the web?

technorati tags:hate, flash, adobe, macrobe, h.264, youtube, linux, streaming, mpeg4

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old ubuntu breezy repository changed it's name

So just change the lines e.g. "archive.ubuntu.com ..." to "old-releases.ubuntu.com ..." in your /etc/apt/sources.list or using the GUI in Synaptic/Adept.

Seems like old Ubuntu repositories are gone [Archive] - Phoronix Forums

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old ubuntu breezy repository changed it's name

So just change the lines e.g. "archive.ubuntu.com ..." to "old-releases.ubuntu.com ..." in your /etc/apt/sources.list or using the GUI in Synaptic/Adept.

Seems like old Ubuntu repositories are gone [Archive] - Phoronix Forums

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extracting mp3s from youtube's videos

install the unplug plugin for firefox

install mencoder
$sudo apt-get install mencoder

download the video with unplug (right click and choose the unplug from menu)
in my case i have this video
extract the mp3 from the flv (audio is MP3-encoded in the movie file)
ffmpeg -i doors_when_the_music_is_over.flv -vn -acodec copy doors_when_the_music_is_over.mp3


The audio codec "copy" tells ffmpeg to use the same codec for encoding as was
used for decoding. Also, since we're not overriding any of the other audio
parameters such as sample rate or bit rate, we should be retrieving the sound
track exactly as it was multiplexed into the movie file.

you can read more about working with ffmpeg

Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #52

Ubuntu Community Marketing Team is proud to release the 52nd issue of its Community Weekly Newsletter. In this issue we cover the release of Tribe 4, promoting Ubuntu through the use of viral videos, progress of the US Loco Teams Project, security breaches in community hosted servers, and much much more.

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Lord

Lord
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drinks beer , and he likes it

Qloud Facebook App is Live

Qloud Facebook App is Live
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Qloud Facebook App is Live

You can check it out here: www.facebook.com/apps/application.php?id=2376424094

i use it mainly for playing youtube related tags (let's say doors)

how to fix office@example.com locked inbox (pop3)

got one large email - 300M from ioana
mv office office.old
csplit office.old /From ioana/
cat xx00 > office

i have added flamerobin to boxlinks
i like the site a lot (ovi's site )
http://www.boxlinks.ro/link/FLAMEROBIN-1492.html

We use vmware to escape spyware , to run ubuntu and then kubuntu
in parallel machines and without adware
When memory is small is time for xubuntu , also sometime
we try gobuntu.
Is like running an os in an bottle , viruses can't escape if you try windows vm
is good to reduce the number of servers needed for testing, and trying new stuff (ubuntu gutsy gibbon) or weird operating systems reactos , vista
or antique stuff : redhat, or centos
with vmware server we run many operating systems in parallel , each os distributed for one cpu
is good also for migrations from windows to linux and running both
just one good step to world domination and and fixing the bug #1 https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1
http://mshiltonj.com/software_wars/current/
http://homepage.sunrise.ch/mysunrise/ekeller00/EricKellerUbuntuPage.html
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
http://www.oszoo.org/wiki/index.php/Category:OS_images

installing typo3 - 4.0.x with ftp
In order to set up a new site, you will need to combine both, the source AND the dummy package by extracting them to the same folder.)

download the dummy with source zip
unzip typo3_src+dummy-4.1.5.zip

Run these commands as root in the dummy directory:

# chmod -R g+w,o-rwx fileadmin typo3conf typo3temp uploads


upload files with ftp (ftp in my case)

7 In your browser, visit
http://[your.site.name]/cms/

8 Follow the instructions in the 1-2-3 install tool

9 From this point, you can access the backend through
http://[your.site.name]/cms/typo3/
with the username "admin" and password "password".




typo3.org: Packages

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3gp, 2gp , mp4 conversion issues with ffmpeg

ffmpeg accepts only encoding 3gp , 2gp , mp4 files (E- means encoding D-deconding)
ffmpeg -formats | grep 3gp

E 3g2 3gp2 format
E 3gp 3gp format
DE amr 3gpp amr file format
D mov,mp4,m4a,3gp,3g2,mj2 QuickTime/MPEG4/Motion JPEG 2000 format
ffmpeg -formats | grep mp4

E mp4 mp4 format
E psp psp mp4 format


so it is needed that mencoder to be used to decode the
3gp,2gp,mp4 files



mencoder example.3g2 -nosound -ovc lavc -lavcopts
vcodec=mpeg4 -o example.avi
mplayer -vo null -ao pcm -af
resample=8000,volume=+4db:sc example.3g2
ffmpeg -i example.avi -i audiodump.wav example.flv