tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-212577502012-01-22T19:31:31.387+05:30Mostly work related stuff which I would've entered into my "Log book". Instead of hosting it on an intranet site, outsourcing the hosting to blogger!hn_88http://www.blogger.com/profile/06383464361201526911noreply@blogger.comBlogger7361100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21257750.post-70465389881700720692012-01-22T19:31:00.000+05:302012-01-22T19:31:31.399+05:30

Tested the APC Smart-UPS 5000VA with our projector and sound system load. Lasted for 45 minutes with 2 battery LEDs remaining, out of 5. Charging without load, with output switched off, came back to 5 LEDs within 8 hours.

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Continuing my earlier post. This part of the configuration, for the audio streams, was a series of experiments with Shoutcast v1 and v2 and Icecast2 - from Dec 15 2011 till now. Duplicating our Shoutcast server setup using v1 server as on our earlier server could have been done, but P was keen on improving things, especially the recorded to live (and back) transitions. Shoutcast2 was our

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Struggled for a while with mod-rewrite and all that to redirect one page to another page on the apache server. Finally solution turned out to be simple, as referred to in one line in the page above, "Note that this can also be handled using the RedirectMatch directive". Syntax was, in relevant virtual host file, within the Directory tag, RedirectMatch path/to/url.html http://server.path/to/

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This is an ongoing process, started on 10 Dec 2011. adduser username apt-get install vsftpd Disabled ssh with password using the procedure in the earlier post, copying required keys to .ssh/authorized_keys Started copy process with sftp  from colinux, running under screen from saiwaves. Enabled vsftpd - service vsftpd start To make it useful, had to enable ftp write by vim /etc/vsftpd.conf

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I'm back to the iPhone - the farewell did not work out! Selling it on ebay did not work so well, as the highest bidders seems to be phoneys who bid higher than the Buy Now price, and then did not pay up. Also, the touchscreen on the windows mobile stopped working, making it lose a lot of functionality, like zooming pdfs and images. Showing IRCTC and KSRTC tickets on the mobile then becomes

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A wanted to make their DVD player region-free. Googled to get http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

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B wanted a method to save youtube video to ipad. Googled up this: http://www.ipadtabletcentral.com/?p=2252 Basically using the TagDisk HD app.

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A follow-up to my CDN roundup. Akamai offered minimum commit of Rs. 1.5 lakhs per month. $2000 for 2000 GB, around $1 per GB till 10 TB. Internap offered a free unlimited streaming account till Dec 30th, but pricing was minimum commit $1000 with traffic charged at $2 per GB. Also, using their test account, found: the sample flash player provided by internap was crashing in Safari the sample

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Resurrected a retired PowerMac G5 (1.9 Ghz, 3 GB RAM) for playback of Planetarium video. It was not fast enough to play full HD movies at 30 fps - coming to only 15 fps for a 12 Mbps HD video. So, relegated it to DV capturing duties for archive work - Hi8 to DV using a Sony TRV330E Digital8 camera. iMovie for MacOS X 10.4 Tiger - iMovie HD (obtained with a torrent) seemed to be the last working

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After doing some tests for changing the default player on our website to jplayer, AfriStream stopped working with the jplayer based player, all over the site! But only from my work computer. So, guessed it was some cache problem. Cleared the cache, and it started playing again.

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On the home page of radiosai.org the links to the streams use a flash player from WaveStreaming.com. Trying to substitute it seamlessly using jplayer, found that modifying the size of the player skin requires more CSS skills than I have at the moment. Will think of something later. Edit: Most problems have a brute-force solution! Resized the images by a factor of half, halved all the pixel

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This will be a series of posts about setting up video streaming on our new dedicated server from Voxel. When the Wowza streaming server was serving at around 600 Mbps, that is around a 1000 clients, top reported the following usage of memory and cpu:   PID USER      PR  NI  VIRT  RES  SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+  COMMAND            18825 root    20   0 2009m 1.3g 7892 S  113 17.1   1064:58

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While uploading files to dl.radiosai.org saiwaves reported disk full - unable to write to disk etc. As given at this post, removed some 3 GB from Trash by doing rm -Rf ~/.local/share/Trash/* Later, P removed around 70 GB (!) of old database backups.

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Our schedule page and audio search page stopped working - sometimes the pages would respond with "Could not connect to database" and sometimes they would show 0 records returned. Trying to connect with the phpMyAdmin using Plesk gave the error message MySQL said: Documentation #1 - Can\'t create/write to file \'#sql_abc_0.MYD\' (Errcode: 17) Reported it to nettigritty support, they restarted

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This will be a series of posts about setting up video streaming on our new dedicated server from Voxel.  P wanted the timezone on the server to be set to IST, for ease of recognizing recorded files etc. Did it with dpkg-reconfigure tzdata which is the Ubuntu way of doing it at present. Then: the flv video which we saved on the server seemed to have an NTSC flag set somewhere. Probably

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This will be a series of posts about setting up video streaming on our new dedicated server from Voxel. There are different ways of recording. 1. using live-record as stream type in Wowza. This does not give us control over when recording starts - recording starts as soon as the source gets connected. 2. using the LiveStreamRecord addon module, we can choose when to start recording and when to

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This will be a series of posts about setting up video streaming on our new dedicated server from Voxel. Setting up a download link - I tried to do this by adding the .htaccess file like in dl.radiosai.org with the lines   ForceType application/octet-stream  Header set Content-Disposition attachmentBut this did not work, even when I modified the config file again, as inhttps://help.ubuntu.com/

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This will be a series of posts about setting up video streaming on our new dedicated server from Voxel. After setting up Wowza server as per my earlier post, tried to get the live stream to work on iOS devices - iPad, iPhone, iPod touch etc. To make the stream work with iphone, the encoder settings have to be tweaked. Format has to be H.264 and AAC audio. Otherwise the device gives the message

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This will be a series of posts about setting up video streaming on our new dedicated server from Voxel. First attempt was to replicate my earlier test, and set up the C++ RTMP server. That involved re-compiling from source, since the binary did not seem to run on the Ubuntu machine. 1. Checking cpu type: cat /proc/cpuinfo shows it is Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU X3330 @ 2.66GHz 2. so trying

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Upgrading to the new template on blogger had removed the GA code. Added it back today, going to Edit HTML in the template editing section, and adding the code just above the /body end tag. Actually a related topic, checking if the analytics code is working: http://www.rachaelarnold.com/dev/archive/how-to-check-if-google-analytics-click-tracking-is-triggered this method uses  Firebug, with the

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Just a small study I did about streaming video and quality.Ted talk quality, for eg.www.ted.com/talks/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html - wireshark clocked it at 0.415 Mbps - let's say 400 kbps.(Ted uses variable bit rate streaming - bitrate changes with scene as well as with bandwidth availability)Youtube video at 360p - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1Tbn1GtIGE&feature=

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The Thought for the Day page was giving an Internal Server error if the particular day's entry had not been made. And interestingly enough, putting an if statement to check if the record exists was preventing the TFD from being displayed at all, even if it exists. Nz solved the mystery: the text only version, which showed the TFD even though it had the if statement, had some extra type

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This makeuseof page links to David's Batch Processor. Allows operations on the entire image, like blur etc. Quite fast, even for large images. Is perhaps faster than doing it in Irfanview - though I did not try a comparison. But not really a replacement for Actions on Photoshop. For that, scripting is required, I suppose. Perl, anyone?

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PB got an iPhone 3G for unlocking. Version : 4.2.1 (8C148) Modem Firmware:  05.15.04 Carrier : AT&T 9.0 Model : MB702LL   Jailbreakme.com does not work with 3G - only with 3GS and above, I think. I gave him a link to pwnagetool, but he did it with redsn0w instead. He noted the following: 1. Could not download - redsn0w 0.9.6b6 managed with redsn0w_win_0.9.6rc16 2. http://

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A small gotcha in implementing the "First broadcast on ...." feature on the radiosai schedule page - our local database has the first played values per bcid. So, the first of all those values has to be selected. After some trial and error with group by - which would fail - finally used this technique, SELECT firstplayed FROM play_history_tablename WHERE filename = NameofFile.mp3 order by

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Our German program producers reported bouncing email from office@radiosai.org: A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed: office@radiosai.org  SMTP error from remote mail server after RCPT TO:: host aspmx.l.google.com [74.125.39.27]: 550-4.2.1 The user you are trying to contact is

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I wanted to export the contacts from my Windows Mobile 5 phone. At first I looked at TBexport as given here. But TBexport needed a newer version of .NET Compact Framework. Checked out the procedure given here. That is, basically install it, restart phone, and then go to HKLM\Software\Microsoft\.NETCompactFramework and change the value of the 3.5 version from 0 to 1 and changing the old one's

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This turns out to be not so simple. My first try was using a texture for the World in Blender. Using either Global or AngMap Co-ordinates, and making sure the Influence -> Horizon is checked. Result is not too bad, except that the background image is a bit zoomed in. This was the background image, and after using it, the result was like this: Well, not too bad. Perhaps if I fiddled around

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As mentioned in my last post, tried to get a blurry background effect for the video. Putting a video texture in the Blender World seemed to be the easiest option. As given in this tutorial, the way to do it is to click on World, then on Texture, and then set it to the file which you need. The crucial step is to check all the boxes under Influence: And to get a blurred effect, the simplest

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Tried out the HD flat version of "The Known Universe"  rendering it to the dome using Ron Proctor's fisheye camera. Brought up the flat video real close to the camera, and tilted it so that the video can cover more of the dome, as below. The co-ordinates of the plane were Rotation - X = 125, Y = 0, Z = 0 Location - X = 0, Y = 0, Z = 1.3 This gave an effect similar to the video part in the

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FireSSH and FireFTP - Firefox plugins for SSH and FTP/SFTP right inside firefox. May be useful sometime, when installation is too much of a bother. FireSSH has support for key-based auth as well.

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Instapaper provides a read-later bookmarklet, and using that, a series of web-pages can be made into an ebook fairly easily. Instapaper gives download options in epub, mobi and "printable" (from which one can print to pdf). The thing to note is that the page you want as the first page of your ebook should be the last you click "Read later" on. That is to say, last in first out. So, you have to

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Today I made my first Planet. Instead of creating three spheres etc as given here, (which seems to be the same tutorial as given in Issue 9 of BlenderArt magazine) I made a single sphere, just to see how it comes out. With the default 32 segment 32 ring UV sphere, the aliasing was obvious. I bumped it up to 128 x 128 and then used the Earth texture from here, and the result was not bad for what

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Ron Proctor of the Ott Planetarium very helpfully pointed me to the NASA 3D repository. Checking out the Hubble Space telescope model from there, learnt the following: Textures need to be in UV mapping mode for them to be displayed properly in this model - Mapping -> Co-ordinates -> UV - and I had to manually map the texture bitmaps to the relevant materials in the model. Blender's Textured

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A few days ago I had done a trial with the Starball file from Weber U's Ott Planetarium. Rendering a single frame at 2k, 2048x2048, took around 2-3 minutes on my machine, running AMD X2 Dual core at 1.9 Mhz with Win XP 32 bit. When that was warped and projected on our dome, it looked pretty good. Today, I dove a bit deeper, to take the first baby steps towards making our own fulldome show.

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The first step might be to export frames from Digital Universe - this seems to be clunky, and seems to need linux async as given at this page which has a perl script, which links to this more manual method. But maybe instead I can use the video they give for download.

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The TeluguStream guys wanted to give an internet radio - aka wifi radio - to the local cablewala so that he can easily stream it to his customers. But the Zalip Internet radio seems to be defective. According to this page, the Aluratek AIRMM02F is a similar product, and according to the user-guide of this product, the Favourites saved on the website zalip.vtuner.com should automatically come on

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One of my colleagues had a jailbroken & unlocked iphone 3GS, and he made the mistake of updating it in iTunes. The phone was stuck in recovery mode when it came to me. Googling various terms, the first thing I tried was to use TinyUmbrella to kick the phone out of recovery mode, as given here. That did not work. TinyUmbrella was not able to see any info on the phone, not even ECID. Gathered

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While checking bounce processing, found that krishna's time was off by five minutes. Installed ntp as given here, sudo apt-get install ntp I guessed that the firewall might cause problems, and sure enough, checking the status with ntpq -p found that the peer was not being contacted, the reach was 0. Added a firewall rule for NTP for the DMZ, and all was well.

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Nowadays I keep checking krishna's bounce processing by seeing the phplist messages page - if messages don't show bounces, that means the bounce processing has stopped. And most of the time it is cured by a simple flush of the mbox as given here. Today had to do a flush, after the day of that post - five months.

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Guest post from PB about creating DiscourseStream on schedule page: Steps: 1. Added new BC Broadcast Center Name: DiscourseStream Bcid: 9 2. Modified the changeover time from 5:00AM to 7:00AM to avoid import issues for the schedule database 3. Modified Playlist import script for Discourse Stream and commented out Asiastar 4. Added SIGNATURE_TUNE to the beginning of playlist files that

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Newer versions of IE were not displaying the "Listen Now" page with the jplayer audio player. Found that the page was loading when "compatibility mode was turned on - the broken page icon on the right side of the addressbar. Looking into the code, found a possible culprit in the Twitter embed code. It just said new TWTR.Widget({ ... etc. Changed this to new

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Following up on my previous post, finally got it to do almost everything using a combination of tools. Almost everything, except one of my essentials - call recording. It seems to be impossible to do call recording on the iPhone without third party services calling out to their server due to hardware level limitations imposed by Apple. And apparently Android is also the same. So, I'll have to

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Got a used iphone for Rs. 4k - reason it was going cheap was that part of the touch-screen was not responsive. This happened to be the part just above the lowest line. So, the Call soft-button in the phone keypad does not work! And so on. Trying to get ebooks into it. SSH not working - probably not installed, though Cydia is present. Trying to install SSH gave an error message in Cydia about

hn_88http://www.blogger.com/profile/06383464361201526911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21257750.post-47028917584025120102011-09-06T16:59:00.000+05:302011-09-17T17:10:15.620+05:30

As mentioned in an earlier post, tried out DD-WRT on the Dlink DIR615. What we got was hardware version E4. Quite simple procedure as given at the dd-wrt wiki. Ours was E4 and not E3. Read somewhere on the forums that changing the last number from 0 to 1 in the E3 firmware with a hex editor makes it work with E4. Tried that, it works. Did the Hex editing of the firmware using Free Hex editor

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With MacOSX, the audio directory windows share was not accessible. Reason seems to be the large number of files - seems to get stuck. Workaround - connecting with sftp using Filezilla. In order to connect, have to import a key as given at this page from FileZilla -> Preferences -> Connection -> SFTP In order to navigate hidden folders like .ssh in File -> Open dialog box, as given  here

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Copied some CDs on the Mac using the procedure athttp://www.thinkmac.net/blog/archives/mac-tips-daily-171-copy-cd-and-dvd-discs.html Create an image using Disc Utility, (make a read-only image to make it faster) then burn the image. This method does not work for audio CDs and protected DVDs.

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Last night, power failure and UPS draining caused the servers and routers to go down. The Dlink DFL-210 router did not come back up after power returned. This morning, replaced it with a Linksys WRT54GS - cost around Rs. 3,500 The router which failed yesterday - DLINK DFL-210 - cost around Rs. 22,000 Both these models are no longer available. DFL-260 is a possible replacement, PB checking

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Running Adobe Flash media encoder and C++ RTMP server locally for running tests. First downloaded Wowza server with a free developer license and tested after installing it with the documentation given at wowza forums. Then tested by copying the same html file mentioned above to another system. Then tried stopping Wowza and starting the C++ RTMP server. It asked for a username and pw for the

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Removed the radiosai gmail id from the following scripts which were sending automatic emails: On saiwaves : playlist_import.sh lame*sh On colinux : test_playlist_sgh_africa.sh test_playlist_sgh_america.sh test_playlist_sgh_asia.sh test_playlist_sgh_discourse.sh test_playlist_sgh_bhajan.sh

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The php script to upload csv files automatically had not worked for a while. Checking it out: This page says that with some firewalls you should connect to the firewall and then connect to the host etc. Tried that, doesn't work. I suspect that the problem is with the way in which php handles ftp commands. When a put command is sent on our system, cyberoam responds saying delayed due to scanning,

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PB being out of action, making playlists and doing Telugu database work etc. So, while importing Telugu files, came across ERROR: duplicate key value violates unique constraint "download_filename_file_id_ukey" This causes some files not to be entered into database, so when importing playlist, it complains that some fids are NULL Solution was to import files one by one till the offending file

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While setting up vnc for doing the Telugu files on the telugubc server, found that it was installed but not running. Using the same script as on saiwaves did the trick, only thing was that it needed vncpasswd to be run before running the script to start vnc, so that we set the password to something we know. And editing .vnc/xstartup is required if you want kde - I changed the default twm window

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1. Go to ~/new_telugu and copy mp3 files from relevant folder to ~/ftpsent 2. Copy relevant m3u file to ~/playlist directory. 3. cd to playlist directory and run the sed script modifying the commmandline to relevant date, which converts the extended m3u to simple m3u and appends the audio directory path. 4. run ~/scr*/lame_encoder2422.sh 5. Open playlist from step 2 in kwrite and change / to

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Faced the same problem as given in this earlier post, with the schedule csv/email creating script complaining that SIGNATURE TUNE not found, "PROGRAM NOT FINALISED". The solution is to just search for entries in the playlist table where timestamp is 2011-08-16 06:30:00+05:30 (or whatever date). This can occur at midnight also - as PB pointed out, a bug in the script changes a timestamp of 2011-08

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The MBV files were imported into Telugu stream database without suitably modifying the download filenames. This caused quite a bit of confusion. PB contributed the following post : Steps done for rectification: 1. In sgh database on saiwaves run the following query: select 'UPDATE file_id SET download_filename=' || '"' ||download_filename|| '"' || ' WHERE filename="' || filename || '"' from

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Trying out Stellarium's Mirrordome distortion mode. On the laptop I use, Stellarium cannot use the full screen when in dual-screen mode with different resolutions on each screen, and also refuses overlays like the toolbars on the secondary screen. So, used the Dual-screen clone mode with both displays set to 1280x800. With the default settings, the stars don't look so good on our dome, but some

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To make a panorama viewable on the fulldome, tried the following method as given at this page as a shortcut instead of going through Blender or buying commercial software. At the bottom of this page, the type of fulldome image we need is shown. Basic method is simple - make the pan into a square image by resizing, then convert to polar co-ords. In Photoshop it is Filter -> Distort -> Polar

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CV had a problem downloading list of Google Apps users as CSV - the option was grayed out in the control panel. This post seemed to have the solution: http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid=5a8c21e76144b065&hl=en So, sign in, and then use the following url for the csv file: https://www.google.com/a/cpanel/urdomain.com/DownloadUserData/UserData-urdomain.com-20110727.csv

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PB passed on the following info. cat 26th_JULY.m3u | sed /^#/d | tr '\\' '\n' | tr '\r' '\n' | sed '/\(.mp3\)\|\(.MP3\)\|\(.Mp3\)/!d' | sed 's/^/\/home\/sgh\/audio\//' > 260711.playlist.telugu sed /^#/d Remove the lines starting with # tr '\\' '\n' The windows path backslash (\) is changed to line feed tr '\r' '\n' The Carriage return is changed to line feed sed '/\(.mp3\)\|\(.

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There was some difficulty with using the technique I had used in April for playing an announcement file directly from Finder into the live broadcast. Going through the steps, found that the following sequence is required: First change system audio out to Jack device using Audio MIDI setup utility. Then the Jack setup file which I had created earlier can be loaded.But in general, this is a bit

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We wanted some more ports open on the server firewall, for future expansion if required. The service provider said they have opened the ports, but ShoutCast complained that it could not bind to those ports.Did some troubleshooting by starting the server from the command line.Found that the reason it gives for the other ports not to work is:error opening client socket! FATAL ERROR! Some other

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On stream.radiosai.org I have created services 8002, 8002live, 8020 and 8020live in addition to the services for the other streams. Batch files c:\startlive.bat and c:\stoplive.bat do the work ofnet stop 8002sleep 5net start 8002liveetc(similarly for the 8020 stream, and similarly for stoplive)Shortcuts on desktop for these bat files have been created. So, one minute before the live broadcast is

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Found that only upto SGH M 244 has been imported into SGH database. PB reported that after shifting to the Dell servers, the script that imports the cd into the database failed as it had some gui components in it and not just command line. Checking the code, found the following and modified:1. The script mount_cd.sh had a call to the binary messagewhich basically just displays a message to insert

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There were some issues with our streams skipping files, and the problem seemed to be on the filesystem of stream.radiosai.org. Stopping the webserver on stream.radiosai.org which referenced files on the D drive seemed to solve the issue. PB did some research, and said the following:Yes, the issue could be the windows file system size or its way of dealing with long file names. But the failure in

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Since WorldSpace broadcasting stopped, a lot of queries about ways to listen without a computer. Found that wifi radios are quite cheap in US and UK, but almost double the price in India.This one, for eg. is around Rs. 4.5k in the UK while in India, the listings start from 10k. Other cheaper options in India other than mobile phones are products like this Asus box for around 6k. What you have to

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Was listening to radiosai on my mobile today with wifi for long periods while lying on bed, made the following interesting observations.1. The changeover actually happened at around 6.32 as heard on the stream, but the shoutcast server went into the interruption music for more than ten minutes more, till the signature tune finally came, around 6.44. Meaning the stream is buffered by 14 minutes

hn_88http://www.blogger.com/profile/06383464361201526911noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21257750.post-12912343101393523452011-06-10T10:33:00.003+05:302011-06-10T10:36:32.494+05:30

BSNL online directory enquiry has become centralized, has changed location and needs City to be entered. For Puttaparthi, City needs to be Penukonda. Not too intuitive!

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We had some minor adjustments done to improve the looks of our fulldome projection.Moving the mirror up by a few inches more now allows us to bring the horizon a bit lower in the front area of the tilted dome of the theatre.Moving the projector laterally left-right corrected the tilt in the reflected image, where earlier the left side of the reflected image was around a foot higher than the right

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Today, V had a question: if he deletes a group in Google Apps, will it take 5 days for him to create a user id with the same name. It turns out the answer is no.http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Apps/thread?tid=31213ea23239c903&hl=enWhen you delete the group, you should be able to recreate a user of the same name immediately. The 5 day wait period only occurs when you delete a user

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As noted at the end of this previous post, upload problems persist with sftp. When using GUI tools like filezilla and gftp, we can see that sometimes the server drops the connection, then the tool reconnects and resumes the upload. filezilla is much faster than gftp, but has support for key-based auth under Settings only in later versions which are not available for the particular OS on saiwaves.

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There was some issue with uploading to sssorg3 ftp. Most probably it was due to over-quota.Removed more than 5 GB of material, restarted vsftpd - now able to upload files to sssorg3.

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PB got a Mac Mini server for installing Apple Remote Desktop and remotely administering studio machines. But he did not get a monitor with it, and it had only HDMI and Apple mini display ports, along with HDMI to DVI-D. So, the plan was to use remote login to the server also.Did initial installation using a borrowed Apple Cinema Display from the video studio, which had an Apple mini display port

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R had a funny problem - his video was not playing in full-screen mode any more. He said the only change to his system was to install Logmein. Anyway, he did a system restore to uninstall Logmein, and the full screen videos also got restored.

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Cleaned up the backup scripts on saiwaves and krishna, made them functional.Corrected db pw on the script on krishna's cronCorrected IP address on the script on saiwaves's cronAdded scp with -r option to copy over the krishna backups to saiwaves.Krishna takes around 5 minutes to do the backup with gz option. Saiwaves takes around 20 seconds to do its backup. File copying takes around the same

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Media.radiosai.org (and other websites on fs1 ) web services stopped - on logging in with remote desktop, found D: was full. Emptying recycle bin got 1 GB freed. Wanted to free up more (by moving and archiving old log files) after a restart.After initiating a restart, the machine did not cleanly restart even after 20 minutes. Checking, found it was pinging. Logged in to fs1 using Computer

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Changed the desktop resolution on Developer to match the native resolution of the Viewsonic 1937 which is 1440 x 900.Since it was not listed, I went to NVidia Control Panel -> Change Resolution -> Customize and added this resolution.

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Microsoft Remote Desktop client is directly available for Mac, installed it. Preferences are saved using the File -> Edit a Connection setting.For tunnelled VNC, ssh provides multiple tunnels using the -L option, with the syntaxssh -L 10000:localhost:8080 -L 10001:localhost:8081 name@hostname.comwhere 10000 and 10001 are the local ports and 8080 and 8081 the ports on the remote machine.Checking

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CPU power is abundant on the Macbook Pro, so exploring ways of delivering live broadcast stream directly from the same machine being used for mixing. The Shoutcast DSP is available, but appears to need an input from a file - live streaming disabled? Streaming directly from Reaper is possible only on Windows, since it uses a dll file and there is no Mac port. Then found this thread of posts about

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My previous post about a checklist to solve the upload problems was just a stab in the dark. And turns out it did not work - even when there was no network traffic, uploads would stall and stop. Then I thought there might be some problem with DHCP server assigning IPs which are supposed to be static to random machines. Checked out the DHCP pool, that was all right. Then, Googling found this post

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Got copy-paste to work even on a machine where 'complex fonts' were not installed, using the tips given at this forum post:This is happenning because applications such as "Google Indic Transliteration" use hindi font mangal. Though windows xp comes preinstalled with Mangal Hindi font, one need to ENABLE Hindi (asian layout) support through Control Panel to able to edit documents in Unicode

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Added the top-level domain mobi to phplist as given at this post, in the admin/commonlib/lib/userlib.php file.

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Once again, bounce processing had stopped on phplist. My hunch is that this happens due to mails sent at times when bounce processing is supposed to take place - if the processing fails during the batch, then the next time the spool file is left in a way that processing fails again. So, as usual, the mitigation is to do the following as root: rm /var/mail/the_relevant_spool_file touch /var/mail/

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Finally enabled multiple sign-in for my gmail account, so I can now blog in Firefox instead of shifting to IE as before. But as of now it works with these services only:CodeCalendarFinanceGmailProfilesReaderSitesVoiceDocs (Google Apps accounts only)So turned it off again, since blogger and groups are not supported, and it disables offline gmail.

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I had noted this before, but not documented it - copy-paste into the compose window does not work with (at least my installation of) IE8. Copy-paste only works into the Edit HTML section, but that strips out all links. So, for copy-pasting long posts with links like this one, I used Firefox. Why do I not use Firefox all the time for blogger? Because I have multiple google accounts for different

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The Studio got a Macbook Pro for Mandir recordings along with Logic Express for multi-tracking. According to the Wikipedia, the only differences for me between Logic Pro and Logic Express are the lack of 5.1 mastering and extra content - so Logic Pro is not required for my use. Anyway, when I tried to use it with the Tascam US-1641 and the Korg NanoKontrol and chronicled my adventures. Initially

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N got a Lenovo with Windows 7 pre-loaded. S wanted to be able to share files between his Windows XP machine and this one. I googled and found this technet forum link which basically says these steps: Make sure both are in the same WorkgroupVerify in Advanced Sharing settings on Win7 that Network Discovery, File and Printer Sharing, and Public Folder Sharing are all set to “on” and Password

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Sometimes, the upload script was timing out. My hunch was that this was during times when there was intense network activity from others on the network - mostly http uploads. So this was my checklist to mitigate:Check if the router lights are blinking madly. If not, then you have no problem, you can upload.One more check may be to check in cyberoam if traffic has been dropped in the IDS - in

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A guest post from S:The task I wanted to accomplish : Increase the space in C:\ partition (primary) by shrinking other partitions. I had D & E as Logical partitions. Cleared E to make it empty. It was a 60 GB ATA HDD. C was 12 GB, D & E sharing the rest in an extended partition.I had :a. PING 3.0 CD for backup. (I had used it earlier to restore primary partitions to identical machines/

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The new network is supposed to be 10 Mbps 1:1. The main requirement for this sort of speed would be uploads. Checking out Vimeo upload speed, got 0.27 MB/sec which is around 3 Mbps. 108 MB in around 8 minutes. Probably speed limited by vimeo server, I suppose.In case vimeo upload is slower in the Studio, that will probably be due to filtering being done by cyberoam. We can disable cyberoam

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The studio got a bunch of IP addresses on a different subnet and a single IP address to connect to the ISP. Using the old DLink DFL-210 router to do the routing, steps to get it working were: remove the firewall rules mentioning NAT.add a single firewall rule with all services allow as below. Add appropriate IP addresses at the LAN and WAN end in the 'address book'.Routing is already enabled as

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First I tried the default method given in my earlier post. The thing to remember is, how to navigate to hidden folders in Finder - use the Go Menu -> Go to Folder (Command+Shift+G)Tried by copying the contents of the id_rsa.pub from a Windows machine into the ssh terminal there, to the authorized_keys file. Did not succeed. Permission denied (publickey)Thought it might be some permissions problem

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Googling showed that the procedure for migrating google sites from one account to another is given at this blog post. It has to be done by the "owner" of the site. Share the site as owner with the new GApps account.Log in with the new account, and after clicking on the notification email to go to the site, go to More Actions -> Manage Site -> General -> Copy this site.

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A had sent me a link to a large collection of online apps from techsupportalert,www.techsupportalert.com/content/best-free-online-applications-and-services.htmI've not yet tested all of them, but I created a pan online with www.dermandar.com here.Also tried out a one-page OCR with www.onlineocr.net - that also worked nicely.

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When I ran our usual main_ftp script to import audio files to local database, it gave a strange error: /home/sgh/scripts/question: error while loading shared libraries: libgnomeui.so.32: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory and the same message repeated on and on kept scrolling. Later, realized that three of the files were wav files instead of mp3, that had triggered the

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So we had our first fulldome show - two shows actually. The problems we faced were: projector doesn't switch off with remote - have to lean around to switch off using the button on the unit. Another workaround is to change the input to another non-active input and then power off.avs files give error on first try, intermittently - this seems to be because the machine and or hard disk cannot keep

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After warping with tgawarper, and rendering with virtualdub to make a movie, decided to do non-destructive edits with avisynth for making the credit appear at the beginning (so that the audience wouldn't walk out during the end credits!) and for the intro and outro videos. For the intro and outro videos, it turned out that taking 4:3 video as the source, I could just make the video occupy a

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Tried out MediaWarp3D - had been in touch with one of the guys involved in developing it. Priced at $995. On my machine - Athlon X2 Dual core at 1.9 GHz, 2.75 GB RAM, nVidia GeForce 9100 M G - only one of the two windows could be running for a full fps Real-Time Warping. If both windows were open, drops to 15 fps or so. Has options for 3D, but since I neither have the hardware nor the content,

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This morning, there was a gateway mixup - the SMTP firewall rule was pointing to a disabled gateway, so the emails did not go through. After I changed it, checking the number of mails pending with sudo qshape incoming active deferred found that the mails were going at the rate of approximately 20,000 per hour. Of course, services like yahoo which had rate limiting would queer the pitch, but

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Going offline in three chat apps and coming back online later was a bit of a pain. So, exiting them instead, and made a bat file to start all three of them at once. But for running Windows apps in a BAT file, and to continue execution (similar to putting a task in the background on *nix) the syntax is:START C:\Progra~1\PATH\TO\FILE\IN\DOS\STYLE\file.exe

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