Forget about Black Friday; I’m calling this Saturday and Sunday “Green Weekend,” because of Dublin’s many seasonal events and selection of unique holiday gifts.

The annual Chili Cook-off is today in Historic Dublin from noon to 4 p.m. For $5, you can sample nine Dublin residents’ recipes at La Chatelaine, J. Liu, and the Dublin Village Tavern. Vote for your favorite, and the top three will compete in the finals, 4:15 at La Chatelaine.

From 10 to 3, all three Dublin high schools are coming together at Sisters Sweet Shoppe (also in Historic Dublin) to auction off homemade gingerbread houses. The proceeds benefit the Ohio State School for the Blind’s Marching Band, which is performing in the Rose Bowl parade on New Year’s Day. It’s a great opportunity to celebrate the season in Dublin.

As for holiday shopping, check out these locally owned stores!

The Shoppes at River Ridge:

• Bliss
  Classic handbags, jewelry, greeting cards, home decor, and more.
  My favorite things: Spartina 449 handbags (a line started by my aunt and uncle!) and Grandmother’s Buttons jewelry.

• Audacious
  Trendy purses, scarves, watches, and jewelry.
  My favorite things: Miche bags, which have interchangeable covers for any occasion; OSU rhinestone beads; the selection of sparkly rings. (I just can’t resist sparkle!)

Historic Dublin:

• Ha’penny Bridge Imports of Ireland
  Irish gifts of all kind: clothes, pottery, jewelry, decor, even kilts!
  My favorite things: Celtic crosses, Irish nativity scenes, Belleek pottery. (This is one of the only places outside Ireland you can find it!)

• Create
  Children’s apparel and unique gifts, personally chosen by mother-daughter owners.
  My favorite things: Adorable sweaters (some of these make me wish I was still a little girl), uniquely adorned stockings and ornaments.

• Thalia & Dahlia
  Fine gifts and home appointments, from china pieces to handcrafted wreaths. New to Historic Dublin!
  My favorite things: Pretty picture frames, holiday serving dishes, handcrafted wreaths and other floral arrangements (made by Chris, one of the owners).

• Sisters Sweet Shoppe
  Sweets for all ages: gourmet truffles, candied nuts, peanut brittle, and the sisters’ signature homemade fruitcakes.
  My favorite things: New chocolate-dipped fruitcakes and their stocking stuffers, which are the perfect gift for anyone who loves chocolate. (But let’s be honest, practically everything in there could be considered my favorite.)

Hope your weekend is Green!

- post by Kelly

mpg321 is a command-line mp3 player.

Why & when to use it?
* On old computers
* If your GUI stops working and you need some music while you are solving the problem
* Play music from your server
* Learn command line and practice it
* For fun

How to install it on Ubuntu?:
Open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

Key in Y and press Enter when you’re asked to install other required packages.

How to use?
Access the help menu:
Open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

You will get a list of codes which you can use with mpg321.

--verbose or -v Increase verbosity
--quiet or -q Quiet mode (no title or boilerplate)
--gain N or -g N Set gain (audio volume) to N (0-100)
--skip N or -k N Skip N frames into the file
--verbose or -v Be more verbose in playing files
-o dt Set output devicetype to dt
[esd,alsa(09),arts,sun,oss]
--audiodevice N or -a N Use N for audio-out
--stdout or -s Use stdout for audio-out
--au N Use au file N for output
--cdr N Use wave file N for output
--wav N or -w N Use wave file N for output
--test or -t Test only; do no audio output
--list N or -@ N Use playlist N as list of MP3 files
--random or -Z Play files randomly until interrupted
--shuffle or -z Shuffle list of files before playing
-R Use remote control interface
--aggressive Try to get higher priority
--help or --longhelp Print this help screen
--version or -V Print version information


Example:

This code allows you to play a song without any details.

This code allows you to play a song with information of the file.

Of course it would be ridiculous to play music one by one file so we have to create playlists:

Open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

(Find the location of your mp3 files by the command dir, cd, and cd...)
dir : Shows a list of all the files available in that directory
cd folder: Goes to folder directory (Replace folder with the name of a folder that you want to access)
cd.. Goes to previous directory

Example: Your music is located in /home/yourusername/Music so you should type cd /home/yourusername/Music

Then, create a playlist of all songs in this folder:

or create a playlist based on artist(Example abz)

*Tips: Replace abz with the artist name

To play the playlist:

Play it randomly:
*Little shuffle mode (Plays every file once in a random order)

*Big shuffle mode (Plays a random file and then plays another random file. mpg321 will go on until you stop it.)

Resources:
Command Line Warriors
Linux Dev Center

Its alternatives:
1. Amarok (If you’re using KDE/Kubuntu as it suites the theme and environment)
2. Songbird – My favourite, read the review.
3. Audacious – Lightweight and Winamp like, read the review.
4. Rhythmbox – It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu
5. Listen Audio Player
6. Exaile – Music Player for GTK+
7. Banshee – Play music and videos. Sync your ipod and G1.
8. orpheus – another Command-Line Interface(CLI) audio player

Audacious:
* Lightweight & Simple
* Multiple audio support
* Old Winamp alike
* Shorcuts similar as Winamp
* Streaming support & more
* Last.fm Scrobbling

To install it on Ubuntu:
open the Terminal (Applications → Accessories → Terminal) and type the following command:

Key in Y and press Enter when you’re asked to install other required packages.

Its alternatives:
1. Amarok (If you’re using KDE/Kubuntu as it suites the theme and environment)
2. Songbird – My favourite, read the review.
3. Rhythmbox – It comes pre-installed on Ubuntu
4. Listen Audio Player
5. Exaile – Music Player for GTK+
6. Banshee – Play music and videos. Sync your ipod and G1.
7. mpg321 – a Command-Line Interface(CLI) audio player. Read the review.
8. orpheus – another Command-Line Interface(CLI) audio player

AL entrar hoy en la pagina principal de Archlinux vi, en la lista de los paquetes recientemente actualizados, que se encontraba la versión 2.2 de Audacious, un reproductor de audio al estilo de lo que es XMMS o Winamp, entonces me fui a la pagina principal de proyecto y vi que el 22 de este mes lo habían actualizado. (que grande Arch, lo mejor para los que tienen versionitis)

Skin por defecto de Audacious

Para instalarlo en Arch es lo mas facil, basta con abrir la terminal y pegar:

sudo pacman -Sy audacious

Si se fijan en el menu de aplicaciones tenemos dos Audacious, el normal, y otro que dice al lado gtkui. Este ultimo es audacious pero con una skin hecha en GTK (no me gusta en absoluto).  Voy a ver si en algún momento jubilo a xmms y uso Audacios XD.

En el caso de que tengas problemas con el audio, mas precisamente con el volumen lo que se puede hacer para solucionarlo es ir a Preferencias->Replay Gain y donde dice Preamplificación ponemos 0.10, y a Default Gain le ponemos 0.00, con lo que el volumen quedará arreglado, no le den mas de eso, porque , por lo menos a mi, ya me sonaba feo.

En el caso de ser un fanatico empedernido de las notificaciones de Ubuntu y querer usarlas en este reproductor lo que hay que hacer es ir a Preferencias->Complementos->General y activamos Song Change. Ahora vamos a Preferencias->Song Change y en el primero de los comandos ponemos:

notify-send "Reproduciendo" "%s" -i audacious2

y con eso esta listo.

Audacious y Notify-OSD

Enlaces: Fuente 1 | Fuente 2 | Audacious Homa Page

OSD Lyrics è un nuovo progetto in launchpad che permette la visualizzazione del testo della canzone ascoltata direttamente nella scrivania, una specie di karaoke che fa scorrere il testo man mano che il brano musicale viene eseguito

Per l’installazione basta aggiungere i repository launchpad del progetto, quindi eseguiamo in un terminale il comando:

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

(su kubuntu sostituite gedit con kate) e nella finestra di testo che si apre aggiungiamo alla fine i repository:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/osd-lyrics/ppa/ubuntu karmic main

salvate il documento e sempre al terminale aggiungiamo la key pgp per l’accesso:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:osd-lyrics/ppa

lasciamo lavorare il terminale e una volta importata la chiave aggiorniamo il sistema e installiamo il programma:

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install osdlyrics

quando ha finito il terminale chiudiamolo.

Il programma si trova su Applicazioni>>Audio e Video e una volta lanciato si posiziona sulla  tray ed è possibile configurarlo in vari modi. Per il momento dispone di due motori di ricerca canzoni(sogou e quianquian) ma altri ne verranno implementati nel futuro e supporta i seguenty player:

Amarok 1.4(con uso cpu elevato)

Amarok 2.0

Banshee

Audacious

Exaile

Rhythmbox

The ravenous rapture of repulsive, disgusting raindrops that were soaked in the clouds of infamy prior to their journey down to earth is all I can perceive from where I float above and within the fog of their collective minds.  Audacious as it may seem, pride is the driving force behind their insignificant thoughts and visions of grandeur.  What could possibly motivate us to collectively follow the moanings and groanings of those who preceed us?  Perhaps the question is actually rhetorical in nature, or perhaps not.  Some things are not for the knowing, but only for legendary calculations.  Bonafide as they may be, things below and things above seem trivial by comparison.  Of course, comparison is but a foreshadowing of things that were but may never be again.  And things that may never be again only serve to discourage those who ironically were planted there to encourage the rest of us.  And these stages of necessary encouragement always seem to follow the same pattern:

1) Abundance.  2) Desire for more.  3) Over-abundance.  4) Wilderness.  5) The edge of nowhere.  

So here we stand at the edge of nowhere, yet desiring more.  Perplexed, mortified, paralyzed and morose individuals are useless in such an undesireable frame of reference.  Neither from the vantage point of the plains nor the high places have given any relief in our attempt to recount the journey thus far.  The prior inhabitants set the boundaries and everyone who follows is powerless to change them within the depths of their minds.  A schism results from such shenanigans and all who read of it can only stand by, helplessly, powerless, pathetically forlorn in the midst of  the shapeless thorns and thistles.  ”It’s never been done before”, they whisper.  “Therefore it can never be done again for the first time”, again in a whisper, but this time with their eyes darting to and fro as the western sky becomes darker and darker. 

 With no conscience, it is neither right nor wrong.  With no law, there is no lawbreaker.  With no artist, there is no art.  The ability to distinguish between the inner self of conclusions and the outer being of distinct principles and/or ideas has long since departed the valleys of multiple indecisions.  Choose now or choose never are the only remaining options beyond the reach of their disposal.  Obviously, with a new found sense of identity, neither inheritance was intended to reproduce in such a frivilous manner.  But, who knew?

Hi,

The Puppyditiditin development has been started. I am preparing the 0.1 Alpha version, that includes IceWM as window manager. It’s based on Puppy Linux 4.2.1. It includes Pstreamvid, GMiMMS, ChmSee and Audacious. I bring us more info about soon. Sorry for my bad English, I speak Spanish.

I was using xmms as the music player in my ubuntu 8.04 box. Recently I heard about a plugin in audacious using which we make the now running song as the pidgin user status/comment. So I switched to it. But when I tried to play any audio files with it, it doesn’t play.

After running audacious in terminal, I got these messages.

After seeing the XMMS, in the output, I thought it is due to the presence of the old XMMS in the system. So i uninstalled it. Still the problem persists…..

I googled the complaint and at last I understood the problem is due to the missing of pulseaudio. Audacious generally uses pulseaudio as the default audio device.

It is very simple to cover this problem.

• Open audacious.
• Press Ctrl+p to open the preference window.
• Move to the audio tab.
• Change the Current Output plugin from PulseAudio Output Plugin to ALSA Output Plugin.
• Close the preference window.

Now onwards audacious will play without any errors.

In July 2009 3 members of the club joined a group of divers on the Loyal Watcher for a week of trimix diving around the northern coast of Ireland. The plan for the week was to dive the “classics”, that is the Justicia, HMS Audacious, Emprire Heritage and the Laurentic along with one or two others thrown in for good measure.

Loyal Watcher

Once the crew had all arrived in Ayr and loaded the boat we left for a long overnight crossing to Loch Swilly. This would be our base for the week, assuming the weather was with us and we wouldn’t have to make a run for home earlier than planned. Sunday was to be our first day of diving and our target was the HMS Audacious, the first major warship casualty of WWI and an absolutely enormous wreck. Realistically (without a scooter) you can’t get round this wreck in a single dive as it is almost 600 ft long and at a depth of 65m, so the plan was to tie the shotline in at the stern then for us to swim for as long as possible before turning back to ascend the shotline and decompress on the deco station.

Arriving on site I got out of my bunk to find the weather was good with flat seas and a bit of sun and the water was the dark blue/black colour that suggests good visibility. After sorting a small rebreather problem just before I was about to kit up I was finally ready to jump in. On getting to the shot line and starting my descent I could see the visibility was excellent with the monstrous propellers looming into view in about 40-45m. Once my eyes had adjusted the viz on the bottom was over 20m – just spectacular. The stern of the ship is upside down so the props stick out allowing divers to swim around them. After having a look round here I started heading forward following the line of the ship along the starboard side to try and get to the guns, but there is so much to see on this wreck that I decided to just take my time and not rush. After trying to bag myself a nice little pressure gauge I carried on heading forward and finally got to the gun turrates, just as it was time to turn and start heading back to the shot line.  They are a magnificent site with munitions lying scattered all over the place, unfortunately I just didn’t have time for a really good look around.

Heading back down the port side towards the stern I bumped into some of the other divers and before long came to the shot and started an uneventful ascent.

Monday’s dive was to be the Justicia, a wreck I had been wanting to dive for a very long time. She was one of the largest ships sunk in the great war at 32500 tons and make for a very special dive. Again the visibility was excellent as we descended to the bows where the shot was tied in. The bow section is very intact with the winch gear and capstans in place on the foredeck and anchors still in place. Even the railings at the very tip of the bow still in situ! She slopes back towards the 70m seabed before breaking into a flatter area. Here portholes lay around and the fireman’s tunnel is accessible. I had a good mooch about looking for artefacts but was mostly breathtaken by the size. Swimming back off the bow for this view is one of the highlights of my diving career. This is another wreck that is too big to get round in a single dive unless you have a scooter so I concentrated on the bow area and after an all-too-short bottom time started my ascent. 

Decompressing after diving the Justicia. The magazine makes the deco fly by!

As always seems to be the way with UK diving trips the weather was to play its part. We were blown out on the Tuesday and Wednesday meaning that we missed diving the Laurentic and making a return trip to look at the middle section of the Justicia.

Thursday came and the weather had brightened so we made the trip out to the Empire Heritage, a WWII transport ship that at the time of it’s loss was carrying a cargo of Sherman tanks. I was first in on this dive so was tasked with tying in the shot. We had got used to the good viz by now (20m+ again…) and so after tying in took off to explore. The tanks are scattered about like toys and are remarkably intact. For me this was probably the best dive of the trip. There is just so much to see – tanks, engine, props etc and it is a more “doable” size than the Justicia or Audacious. We swam forward zig-zagging between tanks and ship machinery for about 10 minutes before turning back past the shotline to have a look round the engine and head to the stern to have a look at the props. Time went far too quickly again and it was time to ascend. Most of the other divers were only just hitting the wreck, so Rick and I had the shot to ourselves. At about 15m I noticed some movement just on the edge of the visibility, swimming about 2om away was the very obvious sillouette of a shark!!! I shouted through my mouthepiece to Rick who was a metre or two below be and pointed it out. I thought he had missed it until it swam in to have a look at us. It was a Blue Shark about 3m long and it swam between us, close enough to touch – quite amazing and a fantastic end to one of the best dives I’ve even done.

Divers heading up the shotline

Post dive we started the trip back home. We tied up in Ballycastle overnight and on Friday dived a wreck in the Clyde called the Empire Adventurer in about 60m. Viz was only about 4m and the wreck was large, but that’s about all I could tell you. We had been spoilt with the viz on the 3 previous dives, so this one was a bit of a make-weight before returning to Ayr.

This week gave me 3 of the best dives I have ever done and should certainly be on every divers “must do” list. The dives are deep, but the rewards for making the effort are out of this world.

Useful stuff:

• Croydonbsac.com gallery
• Deep Image pictures
• Diver magazine article
• Loyal Watcher

Paul Brown

RPM Fusion depolarını ekliyoruz;

# su -

# rpm -ivh \

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

# rpm -ivh \

http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm

# yum update

Audacious’u kuruyoruz;

# yum install audacious

Eklentilerini kuruyoruz;

# yum install audacious-plugins-nonfree-aac audacious-plugins-nonfree-mp3

Audacious ben buyazıyı yazarken takılma problemi yaşıyordu.Problemin çözümü için Rhythmbox‘ın kaldırılması öneriliyor.Ama bu yöntemi henüz denemedim.Bir diğer öneri ise;Buffer Size değerini değiştirmek…

Audio>Current Output Plugin>PulseAudio Output Plugin seçilmeli…

In Terminal

wget http://www.xmms.org/misc/winamp_presets.gz

gunzip -c winamp_presets.gz > ~/.config/audacious/eq.preset

De por sí Ubuntu me suena bajo, pero además de esto Audacious suena más bajo que los demás reproductores. Esto me había hecho en cierta medida desecharlo y ocupar otros reproductores más pesados, pero la nostalgia por winamp y la necesidad de un reproductor ligero me han hecho buscar una solución.

Bueno, la solución es muy simple. Abren Audacious, se van a Preferencias y ahí a Replay Gain. Luego alli en Preamplificación ponen 0.10 y en Default Gain 5.00…

Y eso, ya suena a un buen volúmen.

No podía reproducir los mp3, así que instalé los pasos fueron los siguientes:

1º – Primero instalé todos los paquetes de gstreamer (plataforma de desarrollo multimedia open source).

Seguía sin andar.

2º- Instalé libxine1- y ya logré hacer reproducir en Amarok los mp3. Pero no me gusta Amarok, prefiero estilo winamp, instalé Audacious, aunque sin éxito alguno en reproducir.

3º- Googleando páginas en inglés encontré que faltaban los paquetes restringidos. Así que instale kubuntu-restricted-extras

Lo mismo, seguía sin reproducir nada en Audacious.

4º- Había que entrar en preferencias de Audacious y seleccionar en complemento de salida actual en vez de Pulseaudio output plugin, Alsa output plugin. Listo problema solucionado. A escuchar los mp3.

Enlace: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1001521

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