I’ve installed ampache 3.5.1 on a machine, and I discovered that it cannot get track numbers from MP4/AAC files tagged by Nero AAC encoder o Apple encoder.

This issue can be solved by writing a script that uses faad to get the track number, and modifying some ampache code.

The scripts is:

$ cat /usr/local/bin/gettracknoaac.sh
#!/bin/bash

if [ -z "$1" ]; then
 echo usage: $0 file
 exit
fi

faad -i "$1" 2>&1 |grep track: |cut -d\   -f2

You need also to edit the file /usr/share/ampache/www/lib/class/vainfo.class.php (this is the ampache debian package path, please change it to match your installation). Locate the function getinfo and add before the line at the end of the function:

unset($this->_raw);

the code:

if($this->tags['quicktime']['track']==0) {
 $this->tags['quicktime']['track']=exec('/usr/local/bin/gettracknoaac.sh '.escapeshellarg($this->filename).'',$retval);
 debug_event('getid3',$this->tags['quicktime']['track'],'5');
 }

Enabling the debug log to level 5 on ampache you can see that it gets the track numbers from the mp4/aac files.

After some tuning I found that to get optimal wifi speed with the madwifi-free driver on my home I had to set:
options ath_pci hal_tpc=1 intmit=1 ratectl=amrr

Bye!

Here is a very simple init script for IBM Tivoli Directory Server V. 6.0.

Bye!

#!/bin/bash
#
#       /etc/init.d/ibmslapd
#
#       IBM Tivoli init script
#       2009 - Emilio Scalise, < emisca at rocketmail dot com >
#
# chkconfig: 345 70 20
#
# description: IBM Tivoli init script

# Source function library.
. /etc/init.d/functions

start() {
        echo -n "Starting ibmslapd: "
        daemon --check ibmslapd /opt/ibm/ldap/V6.0/sbin/slapd
        RETVAL=$?
        touch /var/lock/subsys/ibmslapd
        return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
        echo -n "Shutting down ibmslapd: "
        /opt/ibm/ldap/V6.0/sbin/slapd -k
        RETVAL=$?
        rm -f /var/lock/subsys/ibmslapd
        return $RETVAL
}

case "$1" in
    start)
        start
        ;;
    stop)
        stop
        ;;
    restart)
        stop
        start
        ;;
    *)
        echo "Usage: ibmslapd {start|stop|status|reload|restart[|probe]"
        exit 1
        ;;
esac
exit $?

Today I’ve backported and uploaded pidgin 2.4.3 from lenny.

Enjoy it

I’ve uploaded the new lyx 1.5.4 compiled for Etch on i386 and amd64 architecture.

The lyx 1.4 repository was dropped due to disk space quota limitations. I think that lyx 1.5 is enough mature to replace the 1.4 branch completely. Please contact me if you need the old packages….

I’ve made a black theme for kde using the QtCurve engine (you can use the qtcurve packages in the misc-backports repository..).

http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/other/QtCurveZuneScreenshot-1.jpg

http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/other/QtCurveZuneScreenshot-2.jpg

http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/other/QtCurveZuneKDE.tar.gz

I’ve taken inspiration from the Micro$oft (oh my god…) Zune theme.. i liked it

(http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=75078)

Bye!

You can find here lyx 1.5.3:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/lyx15-bpo ./

and here it is the 1.4.5 version (for the ones who want to stick with the 1.4.x version:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/lyx14-bpo ./

These repositories contain a backported libboost 1.34 library, that could be installed alongside the 1.33 version. Please note that the libboost-dev package of the 1.34 version overrides the libboost 1.33 one in apt.

I have made another repo for compiz fusion, using the official source packages that now, thanks to Sean Finney, are in debian Sid.

This is the apt line:

deb http://download.tuxfamily.org/emiscabpo/compiz-debian-backport ./

Maybe some of you have seen that this repo was here for a while, but I preferred to test a bit those packages waiting that there are in an usable state.

Note that you must completely remove the packages from my old repo before using these packages to avoid problems.

In the misc-backports repository you could find many new backported packages.

I’ve backported amarok 1.4.8, libgpod 0.6.0 and gtkpod-aac 0.99.12 (from debian-multimedia).

 Now I must fight to get my new nano 3g ipod work………..

These should fix the problem.. The new version is 0.6.2-0~emiscabpo+2.

Bye