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Comment on Trying to compile gspca on Ubuntu 9.04 or another recent Linux distribution? We have the way! by Pepe

Pepe — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 12:48:40 +0000

Doesn’t work with 2.6.31.20-generic

/home/jariza/Escritorio/webcam/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:122: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function

Comment on How to create an iTunes/iPod compatible audiobook (MPEG4 m4b) on Linux using MP4Box and mp4v2 v1.9.1 – it can be done! by PG

PG — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:31:45 +0000

I thought a sample workflow might be useful:

- decode MP3s
cd /home/music/directory
for i in *.mp3; do lame –decode “$i” “`basename “$i” .mp3`”.wav; done

- combine wavs into one mp4 file (repeat -if file.wav for each wav)
neroAacEnc -cbr 64000 -if file1.wav -if file2.wav -of out.mp4

- convert chapters
mp4chaps –convert –chapter-qt out.mp4

- add tags
neroAacTag out.mp4 -meta:title=”book name” -meta:artist=”author” -add-cover:front:cover.jpg

- rename to m4b
mv out.mp4 finalBookName.m4b

Comment on How to create an iTunes/iPod compatible audiobook (MPEG4 m4b) on Linux using MP4Box and mp4v2 v1.9.1 – it can be done! by PG

PG — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 11:11:35 +0000

Thanks for this useful blog.

I just wanted to let you know that the free (as in beer but not as in speech) Nero encoder has an album mode which combines multiple input files into one output file and automatically adds chapter marks, so you don’t have to create a chapter file. You do still need to run mp4chaps to convert the chapter types though.

The downside is it only takes wav files as input so you have to decode your MP3s first, but as a bonus it also comes with a tagger which can set album titles and also add cover art. I believe it is a much better quality encoder than faac too, but I’m no expert on that!

Comment on Did you write an article for ISUG’s Technical Journal and either haven’t been paid or refused payment? by Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:51:38 +0000

Yes, I was on the board of directors for a couple years. There are several articles I was never paid for and the President of ISUG refuses to discuss them. I’m not the only author that the ISUG “Executive Committee” have cheated. Sybase is unwilling to get involved as Sybase considers it an internal matter to ISUG.

If I would have known I wouldn’t get paid prior to writing the articles, I could have written them off on my taxes as donations. I think I would have been okay with that. However, an agreement was made on a sum of money for each article I wrote and had published in the ISUG Technical Journal.

It’s a sad day when agreements that were made are broken.

Comment on Did you write an article for ISUG’s Technical Journal and either haven’t been paid or refused payment? by Mark Gearhart

Mark Gearhart — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:17:13 +0000

I thought you were on the ISUG board, or something like that? That’s pretty strange not getting paid. I was thinking about writing an another article, not so much for money but more for exposure. I am curious, do you have an numbers on the circulation? If people arn’t getting paid, maybe its time to raise a flag with Sybase, Inc.

Comment on Getting err = -39 with Apple’s iTunes? by Catherine

Catherine — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:02:12 +0000

Thank you! That was so easy. I Googled err 39 and your site was the first and most helpful result. The error was driving me bonkers; I never would have figured it out.

Comment on ASE 15 stored procedure “sp_tables” doesn’t work with SQL UDFs by Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:02:11 +0000

I’ve opened a case with Sybase TechSupport for status and a time frame we can expect this simple fix.

Comment on ASE 15 stored procedure “sp_tables” doesn’t work with SQL UDFs by Ranko

Ranko — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 00:52:02 +0000

Well, a few years later and sp_tables is still broken in ASE 15.5

Comment on Trying to compile gspca on Ubuntu 9.04 or another recent Linux distribution? We have the way! by Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:49:57 +0000

Pretty much expected.. Linux kernel 2.6.9 is pretty old. You may want to use 2.6.26 or higher

Comment on Trying to compile gspca on Ubuntu 9.04 or another recent Linux distribution? We have the way! by Nikhil Padala

Nikhil Padala — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 18:27:00 +0000

Error:

nik@nik:~/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224$ sudo ./gspca_build

REMOVE the old module if present
ERROR: Module gspca does not exist in /proc/modules

CLEAN gspca source tree
rm -r -f *.o decoder/.gspcadecoder.o.cmd decoder/*.o \
.gspca.o.cmd *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i \
*.symvers *.err

COMPILE gspca Please Wait ….!!

INSTALL gspca in the kernel binary tree
mkdir -p /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/spca5xx.ko
rm -f /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/media/video/gspca.ko
install -c -m 0644 gspca.ko /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/usb/media/
install: cannot stat `gspca.ko’: No such file or directory
make: *** [install] Error 1

LOAD gspca in memory
FATAL: Module gspca not found.

PRINT COMPILATION MESSAGES if ERRORS look kgspca.err
make -C /lib/modules/`uname -r`/build SUBDIRS=/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224 CC=cc modules
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-19-generic’
CC [M] /home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.o
In file included from /home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:845:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h: In function ‘spca5xxRegRead’:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h:95: error: implicit declaration of function ‘info’
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h: In function ‘spca_set_interface’:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/utils/spcausb.h:278: error: implicit declaration of function ‘warn’
In file included from /home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:853:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h: In function ‘sp5xxfw2_init’:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:122: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:136: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:141: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:148: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:176: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h: In function ‘sp5xxfw2_start’:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:214: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/Sunplus-jpeg/sp5xxfw2.h:230: error: called object ‘info’ is not a function
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: In function ‘spca5xx_ioctl’:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2463: warning: passing argument 1 of ‘video_usercopy’ from incompatible pointer type
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:298: note: expected ‘struct file *’ but argument is of type ‘struct inode *’
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2463: warning: passing argument 2 of ‘video_usercopy’ makes integer from pointer without a cast
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:298: note: expected ‘unsigned int’ but argument is of type ‘struct file *’
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2463: warning: passing argument 4 of ‘video_usercopy’ makes pointer from integer without a cast
include/media/v4l2-ioctl.h:298: note: expected ‘v4l2_kioctl’ but argument is of type ‘long unsigned int’
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2463: error: too many arguments to function ‘video_usercopy’
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c: At top level:
/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.c:2615: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
make[2]: *** [/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224/gspca_core.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [_module_/home/nik/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.31-19-generic’
make: *** [default] Error 2
nik@nik:~/Desktop/2.6.9/gspcav1-20071224$ sudo make clean
rm -r -f *.o decoder/.gspcadecoder.o.cmd decoder/*.o \
.gspca.o.cmd *.o *.ko *.mod.* .[a-z]* core *.i \
*.symvers *.err

Comment on Avoid Edgewater Walk Apartments in Tinley Park, IL! by Myrna Chapman

Myrna Chapman — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:31:07 +0000

I was sad to hear these comments, I used to be a manager there
and it was a lovely place. I wonder if it is the same owner as
it used to be privately owned by Southwest Construction but
maybe he sold it, which is really hard to believe since he
put so much work into building it and every detail had to
be perfect.

Comment on Getting “Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authentication protocol attempted”? I have the answer :) by Daniel Helm

Daniel Helm — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 00:09:37 +0000

HECK YES!
$$$

Comment on For those of you that don’t know, last week I had my wisdom teeth removed. There were a few complications.. by Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 02:00:15 +0000

Found out what the actual cause is. It’s the Tylenol-3. The symptoms match up perfectly and since Tylenol-3 can take 5 to 6 days to flush out of the system, I have a couple more days of this and I should be back to normal. You see, I rarely take medicine (except for colds) but when I do, I generally don’t need the full dose. The Tylenol-3 was such a high dose and I was taking it three times a day as per the instructions. I should have taken Ibuprofin instead.

Comment on For those of you that don’t know, last week I had my wisdom teeth removed. There were a few complications.. by Daniel J. Doughty

Daniel J. Doughty — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:16:02 +0000

Hope you feel better soon. Outpatient surgery of any sort is never very much fun.

Comment on How to create an iTunes/iPod compatible audiobook (MPEG4 m4b) on Linux using MP4Box and mp4v2 v1.9.1 – it can be done! by Jason L Froebe

Jason L Froebe — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 15:28:50 +0000

That’s wonderful Benny! Great work!!!!!

Comment on How to create an iTunes/iPod compatible audiobook (MPEG4 m4b) on Linux using MP4Box and mp4v2 v1.9.1 – it can be done! by Benny

Benny — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 10:41:59 +0000

Everything works now.
Thanks to your post I created a python script and posted it here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1418085

Comment on Did you write an article for ISUG’s Technical Journal and either haven’t been paid or refused payment? by Kevin Sherlock

Kevin Sherlock — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:21:40 +0000

So…. how many articles where you denied payment for?

Comment on Getting “Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authentication protocol attempted”? I have the answer :) by GPx

GPx — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 22:56:02 +0000

One more detail
The recent 10/2009 release of Solaris (x86) requires the “ForwardX11 yes” entry in the client config file (/etc/shh/ssh_config) not the daemon config file (/etc/shh/sshd_config).

sshd will reject it as a bad configuration option in the daemon config file

Comment on Neumann Homes files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy by Joseph Then

Joseph Then — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:54:44 +0000

I wonder what would be the bankruptcy procedure for this type of chapter.

Comment on Getting “Xlib: PuTTY X11 proxy: wrong authentication protocol attempted”? I have the answer :) by Benor

Benor — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 16:41:36 +0000

I got the same error message, but I already entered the key from xauth some weeks ago. The last day I connected was yesterday. The problem was that no space was left. I deleted some files from /home/…/Downloads/ and restarted the server.

By “df -h” you get left space on your system.
[http://setaoffice.com/2009/09/19/xlib-putty-x11-proxy-wrong-authentication-protocol-attempted/]

Thank you!