>>> import os,time
>>> time.time()
1226392970.4683549
>>> time.gmtime(time.time()).tm_mday
11
>>> time.gmtime(time.time()).tm_mon
11
>>> time.gmtime(time.time()).tm_year
2008
>>>
veveo@shreyas:work$ date +%s" <--> "%c
1226393170 <--> Tuesday 11 November 2008 02:16:10 PM IST
veveo@shreyas:work$ date -d "-1 month" +%s" <--> "%c
1223714775 <--> Saturday 11 October 2008 02:16:15 PM IST
veveo@shreyas:work$ aMonthBefore=`date -d "-1 month" +%s`
veveo@shreyas:work$ echo $aMonthBefore
1223714816
veveo@shreyas:work$ date --date=@$aMonthBefore +%c
Saturday 11 October 2008 02:16:56 PM IST
veveo@shreyas:work$ date --date=@1223714816 +%c
Saturday 11 October 2008 02:16:56 PM IST
Are you feeling safe using internet, anymore ??
Two places to read from, when you own your first DSLR. Immensely helped me in understanding the tech bits!
Software's to assist the photographer in you!!
--more to come soon!
I always had these thoughts
I was always shying away from installing the firmware, building from the source. But when I found no other way, I ventured to get things done with sourceforge.net and here is how.
Step 1:
Step 2:
Remember, most important step is the "less INSTALL' and reading through the instructions.
Finishing it off:
Thank your lucky stars, thank the developers who got these packages for you and last but not least thank sourceforge.net for hosting the ipw3945 page.
PS: If you have followed the 'INSTALL' file precisely you should see the wireless networks in your 'nm-applet' list, when you click on it.
I had to use sudo every here and there, especially when i do the './load' within the 'ipw3945-1.2.2' directory. So use it at abundance, shouldn't hurt you much !
This will only get you started with perfecting the wireless interface configuration. Once the mentioned procedure is completed, you might want the wpasupplicant and other accompanying packages like wpa_gui also for completing the setup.
Update:
After updating my Debian etch DVD's to lenny using jigdo, I installed lenny on the laptop. Once done, I modified the sources.list as below and did a "sudo apt-get dist-upgrade"
deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb-src http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main contrib non-free
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
deb-src http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free
This updated my kernel to 2.6.24 and it got me the correct wireless drivers (iwlwifi, this is the next life of deprecated ipw3945 driver). Wireless was working fine after the update and the networks were showing up in the nm-applet.
apt-get install syslog-ng syslog-summary
In the source s_all{}, uncommented "udp();"
under the default destinations, added "destination df_netscreen { file("/var/log/netscreen.log"); };"
Under the default filters, added "filter f_netscreen { facility(LOCAL0); };"
Added to the end of the configuration file, the meat of the new log entry,
log { source(s_all); filter(f_netscreen); destination(df_netscreen); };
sudo /etc/init.d/syslog-ng restart
| "f_netscreen" & "df_netscreen" These are mere identifiers and since I am setting this up to get my Juniper Netscreen25 logs to be accumulated here, I gave the name "*netscreen*". "LOCAL0" This is the log facility I used on the Juniper Netscreen25 for setting it up to send the logs to the newly set up log server. Hence the string "LOCAL0" appeared in the facility description in the filter syntax. |
/var/log/netscreen.log {
rotate 6
weekly
compress
missingok
notifempty
}
filter f_messages {
level(info,notice,warn)
and not facility(LOCAL0,auth,authpriv,cron,daemon,mail,news);
};
#log { source(s_all); filter(f_cron); destination(df_cron); };
When we speak of Free Software, we mean freedom, not price.
There in the web, I found a GUI wrapper for ffmpeg and mencoder for windows called Media coder. This is an open source software distributed under GPL license. Download it and try it (I have done some basic conversion _single files | not in batch_ and it worked okay) and do not forget to convey your gratitude to the author/developer of the application if it helped you in any way.
Below is how I have installed and used ffmpeg to convert avi and wmv files to 3gp format so that I can store and play them in my mobile phone. I have a very rough guide, but hope that will help you in understanding more about the procedure by doing your own research. Consider the below scribble as a pointer to get things started. Now that being said, lets get started..
Download the source for amr_nb (nb stands for narrow band; amr is for the 3gp support). If you can find the sources for both you can use both of them. I was not able to find the source for amr_wb and at last I had to beg in irc://irc.freenode.net (#ffmpeg) to get the source from a fellow who had it uploaded in some file sharing site for me.
For mp3 support, get the lame codec from sourceforge
Download faac, faad2 from sourceforge.net and get them installed.
get the amr and lame codecs compiled and installed.
Get the source for ffmpeg from the svn or search for the tarball.
svn://svn.mplayerhq.hu/ffmpeg/trunk
Get things going with the configure, make & make install.
./configure --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libvorbis --enable-libamr-nb --enable-libamr-wb --enable-gpl --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-shared
voila.. you are ready to convert video files for your mobile ~smile~
Below is the way I use ffmpeg to convert. Figuring out the options for ffmpeg is your job (hint: man ffmpeg)
./ffmpeg -i /home/old_desktops/sabarish.old/laptop_backup/Azureus\ Downloads/Kylie\ Minogue\ -\ Spinning\ Around\ \(xvid\ K-rip\).avi -f 3gp -vcodec mpeg4 -acodec faac -ar 8000 -ac 1 -ab 12.2k -y Kylie.3gp
I have used options, -acodec libamr_wb also but had some issues with the sound in the video, so rolled back using faac audio codecs. You can experiment around and use the best to get things done.
What would you do when you want to see the new Rs. 1 Lakh car which was presented to us, Indians by TATA Motors ? What if you want to see the video of the car to find the look and feel of it ?
vtap.com also provides your mobile (iphone, windows mobiles (source available here), large number of web enabled phones and itouch) with this search facility where you can use either a downloadable client or by going to vtap for mobile (http://m.vtap.com). Alas, one feature missing in vtap for mobile is the incremental search, so you have to go "clicky clicky" each time you want to see the results. Over the gprs in India this will really test your patience, talking about rigorous testing. Though at office or home, with those wifi enabled mobile, its a virtue.
Latest news is that vTap is bundled with Motorola mobile phones starting from their latest model MOTO Z10 onwards. I bought a Motorokr E6 recently and now I feel I should have waited a little while more so that I can buy MOTO Z10 with vTap bundled.
If you have a mobile which is supported by vtap and have a data plan activated, do try out vTap. Even with a PC you can use vTap to do more precise search than any other video search feature provides.
Below are two quotes from their home page which caught my eyes.
uno:
CamStudio is able to record all screen and audio activity on your computer and create industry-standard AVI video files and using its built-in SWF Producer can turn those AVIs into lean, mean, bandwidth-friendly Streaming Flash videos (SWFs)
Due:
You can download and use it completely free - yep - completely 100% free for your personal and commercial projects as CamStudio and the Codec are released under the GPL (for more details on this license, click here.)
This was all I wanted to know about CamStudio and there ended my search for a screen capture utility. After installing and trying, CamStudio left me with no reason to hit Google.com for more software of similar nature. I wanted this for giving a video demo configuring route based VPN on our Juniper Netscreen NS25. This proved to be a very handy tool for creating demos and short video tutorials for people who need support beyond voice. I have not tried any feature in CamStudio other than creating a screen shot video. But that was all I wanted and CamStudio did it extremely well in with very simple steps.
I suggest you download and install it. You will never know when you want to tell a video story to someone who has no receptive ability enable by default on his/her ears when it comes to technical trouble shooting.
~
In honour of "nickthegeek" and "windycity" (Project Admins)
The best way of finding the IP address using python, that I have seen so far. Look for "Jean Paul Calderone's" post in the below link.
Clean way to get one's network IP address? - comp.lang.python | Google Groups
Here is what he posted.
>>> from socket import socket, SOCK_DGRAM, AF_INET
>>> s = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM)
>>> s.connect(('google.com', 0))
>>> s.getsockname()
('192.168.1.113', 43711)
I bought this mobile after a very brief survey on the net. First I bought it for my fiancee and then when I saw it, without thinking much went and bought one for myself. The facts that made me like this phone are,
Well its been 1 month+ that I am using this phone. I have not done much with this phone except, flashing it once and put a modified firmware which enable a few features in the phone. The firmware which I used is AhMan's Hybrid. You can see the release info and features added in his forum thread. One feature that made me smile wide was that I was able to edit the shortcuts in the home screen. I always wanted to change the FM shortcut to Alarm shortcut.
Should I have bought this phone for the reason that it was running Linux and hence its open source ? Well Motorola is not a sweet and user friendly company as they seems to be (more). Motorola has set up a nice web page which has a FQDN http://opensource.motorola.com. It looks like only the web site has the name open source, not that they have released the source for E6 which, seems from the forum conversation, is licensed under GPL. A Motorola spokesman repeatedly assures that its their obligation to release the code as per the GPL terms blah blah, but seems to be "working on it for eternity". The commitment Motorola has shown in releasing the source for E6 puts me off from thinking that Motorola is a customer/community friendly company. They seems to be more committed to working on newer versions after releasing the E6 and hence there is no update firmware from Motorola for E6. Guess I made a mistake in buying this model without a proper research.
My phone works as a phone. I can make calls, I can use the camera, I can listen to songs and FM, I can browse the web. So I am not at a great loss, after all, features are a fantasy come true for a day and then you just go back to 'using it as a phone'.
Jai Hind |
Lets get started.
If you can un-mount the partition which needs the change, perfect. Else you can remount it in
read-only mode
mount -o remount,ro /dev/xxx
If you want to un-mount the partition and it complains that the device/resource is busy, you can use a little brute force to get things done if you are sure nobody else is using it.
lsof | grep "<mount point>" | awk '{print $2}' | xargs kill -9
The above command may disturb other users logged in and if they are using the machine. You should be sure that the machine is not shared with anyone else, hence make sure before you do. If the above trick does not work, you know what it does I hope, hence you can try do it yourself some other way. Once done, you can un-mount the partition. Next step is
tune2fs -j /dev/xxx
This will create ext3 file system in the partition specified. Once this is over "without any errors" you should change the "file system type" in /etc/fstab and make it ext3. Then do a
mount -a
To check whether its mounted properly and the file system type, do
mount
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