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Read AIFF metadata
by Ranbir 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hi Everyone, I bought some AIFF tracks from Beatport the other day. I prefer them over WAV because the AIFF have embedded album art, song name, etc. I loaded them up in Audacious (F17+GNOME) which played them happily. But, it's not reading any of the metadata. All of the fields are displayed as empty. I tried VLC and mplayer, too. Still nothing. I downloaded the same tracks on to a Windows 7 PC and listened to them with VLC. VLC read the metadata without any problems. Hmmm.... I then installed Kid3 to see if it could read the metadata. Sure enough, it was all there. So, the tracks are clearly not broken. I tried converting the AIFFs to FLAC with ffmpeg and flac, but the metadata was still missing. I'd appreciate a recommendation for an audio player that can read AIFF metadata in GNOME or better yet, how I can convert these AIFFs to FLAC and keep the metadata intact. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 3.7.3-101.fc17.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux 09:55:17 up 6 days, 20:36, 9 users, load average: 0.04, 0.06, 0.05

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kchildlock
by Frédéric Bron 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

Hi, I have installed and configured kchildlock to limit the use time of the computer for some young users. However, nothing happens. Who can help me? I am using fedora. Frédéric

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Logging in to CUPS web UI
by Ian Pilcher 31 Mar '13

31 Mar '13

In prior releases, I was able to log in to the CUPS web UI using the OS root credentials. This doesn't work in Fedora 18. How can I log into the CUPS web UI in Fedora 18? Thanks! -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno(a)gmail.com Sometimes there's nothing left to do but crash and burn...or die trying. ========================================================================

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Window edges
by Beartooth 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

My PCs fall into two classes. One has windows whose every edge and corner I can grab right onto with the greatest of ease, when I want to move one or change its size. The others make these jobs almost impossible, at least for those with trifocal fingers and arthritic eyeballs. Somewhere I picked up an implication that the difference is in an actual setting -- and I can control it. HOW?? -- Beartooth Sciurivore, Curmudgeon On Line Death is not evil. Suffering is evil.

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Limiting .bash_history inputs
by Roger 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

I am using Fedora 18. A long time ago someone asked for a way to stop repeat commands like clear, ls -aFl, and others from going into .bash_history. Can someone please tell me what the command was. Thanks Roger

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Re: yum upgrade
by EGO-II.1 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

I wonder if they'll ever automate the upgrade process?.... to make it easier to go from one version to the next?.... seems like it would help make the process smoother for newbies.... Sent from Eddie's Cell Phone ----- Reply message ----- From: "Reindl Harald" <h.reindl(a)thelounge.net> To: <users(a)lists.fedoraproject.org> Subject: yum upgrade Date: Thu, Mar 28, 2013 5:18 am Am 28.03.2013 05:09, schrieb Richard Vickery: > Sorry for the double-posting: > > I've been to the fedora-upgrade (wiki) sites and got confused. Can someone give me a shortened, simplistic version > for stupid people (ie: myself) of how to use the yum-upgrade command? there is no simplistic way for https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Upgrading_Fedora_using_yum if you do not understand this steps you need to read manuals or avoid a dist-upgrade with yum at all

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nx
by Patrick Dupre 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Hello, I am experiencing some issues with the display when I use nxclient. What ever I choice for the display (in confidure), I get a session which covers all my screen. It looks like that the size of the remore machine sceen size is used and not the one of the local one what ever I say: 1200x800, "available area", etc.. How can I configure the session properly to have the size of the nx session fitting the size available on the local machine? Thank. -- ====================================================================== Patrick DUPRÉ || email: pdupre(a)kegtux.org Laboratoire de Physico-Chimie de l'Atmosphère Université du Littoral-Côte d'Opale || Tel. (33)-(0)3 28 23 76 12 || Fax: 03 28 65 82 44 189A, avenue Maurice Schumann || 59140 Dunkerque, France ======================================================================

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Where does one find yum ps?
by Aaron Konstam 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Recently there was mention of yum ps. I can't find that command sequence anywhere. What am I missing? -- Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam(a)sbcglobal.net

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best fedora solution to securely erase folders/clean free space?
by M. Fioretti 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

Greatings, I started reading online to refresh what I knew about secure deletion of files, and being sure that "free space" on an ext3/ext4 partition is surely "free", that is you can't recover the files that _were_ there. After reading this article: http://techthrob.com/2009/03/02/howto-delete-files-permanently-and-securely… I found that there is a Fedora RPM for srm, and that the source code for sfill is at http://www.thc.org/releases.php I will (re)study these topics in detail in the next days. My first interest is to understand if those (or other) tools are enough to be sure, without reformatting/reinstalling, that, besides the files one DOES want to keep, there really is nothing else recoverable on the drive. I'm very interested to know your opinion/experiences/suggestions about this. TIA, Marco

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Re: difference between output of "yum ps" and "needs-restarting"?
by Georg Wittig 30 Mar '13

30 Mar '13

OP here. Additionally, I just discovered strange behavior of the needs-restarting command, 1. After a "yum update" it usually reads lots of data from the net before outputting anything. I don't have any idea what it's reading, and from where and where it stores that data. Why isn't the info enough that "yum update" has? 2. Sometimes (in the sense of non-deterministically) needs-restarting reports processes I don't expect. Occasionally it even reports 10 to 20 processes immediately after rebooting (i.e. immediately after login and su)! At other times it reports a couple of processes that it didn't report before (no explicit or implicit "yum update" in the meantime), and a couple of minutes later it doesn't report them any longer. Just wondering...

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