[ydl-gen] Re: mp3 player

rev rob houseofshame at gmail.com
Sat Feb 4 11:26:15 MST 2006 

here is my edited yum.conf file
 Thanks again
     rRob
[main]
cachedir=/var/cache/yum
debuglevel=2
logfile=/var/log/yum.log
pkgpolicy=newest

[base]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Base
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.0/base/

[updates]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Updates
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.0/update/

[extras]
name=Yellow Dog Linux 4.0 Extras
baseurl=http://ftp.yellowdoglinux.com/pub/yellowdog/yum/4.0/extras/

[packman]
name=Packman
baseurl=http://packman.links2linux.de/


On 2/4/06, rev rob <houseofshame at gmail.com> wrote:
> Derick,
>   I find adding more url's to yum.conf file fascinating. What a great idea!
> I went to the yum website and tried to understand all the necessary
> things to edit my
> yum.conf file. Could you please send me a copy of your yum.conf file
> so I may find my error. I'll send mine in the following e-mail
>    Thanks again
>       rRob
>
> On 2/3/06, Jurvis LaSalle <lasalle at bard.edu> wrote:
> > Derick,
> >
> >         You have made me more upset with your last email than any
> anonymous
> > internet persona has in my few years on the net.  Your willful
> > spreading of misinformation (and the smug tone you take when you
> > falsely believe you are correct) incenses me greatly.  I have gone
> > through several revisions of this response, attempting to tone down the
> > venom and leave just constructive information.  Forgive me if I go
> > astray here or there at some point.  Like I said, my utter failure to
> > educate you has had me seeing red this morning.  Let's begin...
> >
> >         I realize that wikipedia doesn't have a sterling reputation.  I
> very
> > well could have put that information there to make you look wrong.  If
> > you check the history page, you can see I obviously didn't.  But if you
> > believe this wiki page to be a hoax because you "guessed" that Apple
> > ripped off GOOM based on similar behavior, you are incorrect.  Similar
> > solutions to the same problem is only correlation, not causation.
> > Furthermore, if you had even followed your own link, you would have
> > found that the software that you link to is a plugin for iTunes- NOT
> > the included iTunes visualizer.
> >   "iGoom is a wonderful visual effect plug-in for iTunes for Mac OS X. A
> > mac standalone version is now also available. This is the Mac version
> > of Goom, originally written by Jean-Christophe Hoelt "jeko"
> > (jeko at ios-software.com) and ported to iTunes by Guillaume Borios "gyom"
> > (gyom at ios-software.com)"
> >
> >         However, your assertion that we won't have any more proof than
> your
> > "successful guess" is also wrong.  Apple has licensed the software and
> > credited its developers.        If you're booted into  Mac OS X, launch
> > iTunes, select iTunes -> About iTunes from the menu and read from whom
> > they licensed their visualization engine.  If you're in YDL, mount your
> > OS X partition, navigate to
> > /<osx-mnt-pt>/Applications/iTunes.app/Contents/Resources/ .  Open
> > Localized.rsrc- it's a binary file, so I recommend you use the strings
> > utility piped to less to get the info.  You will find this text string
> > in the file: 'G-Force visualization engine licensed from Whitecap
> > Technologies, Inc.'  If you surf here:
> > http://www.soundspectrum.com/about.html (the very website linked from
> > that "dubious" wiki page), you can read that Whitecap Technologies,
> > Inc. (now SoundSpectrum, Inc.) is indeed the heart of iTunes
> > visualization.
> >         QED.
> >
> >         Far from suspecting you work for Apple, I read your initial post
> and
> > saw an accusation of GPL violations- defamation in a word.  Not
> > something an Apple employee would do lightly.  More akin to the
> > careless words of linux zealot.  Indeed, it is your careless choice of
> > words and incessant posting that has driven me to hound every
> > misstatement you make.  You must take more care to help build up
> > knowledge or else this list and it's newer members will find themselves
> > on a shaky foundation.  It is OK to be wrong once in a while, but you
> > post so much and are wrong or misleading far too often for me to stand
> > idly by.
> >
> > Have a nice weekend,
> > Jurvis LaSalle
> >
> > ps no world class encyclopedic reference will ever have an entry on
> > such a trivial topic.  wiki + references is the best we have atm.
> >
> > On Feb 2, 2006, at 8:09 PM, Derick Centeno wrote:
> >
> > > Of course, it is easy to be mistaken as no one really knows what Apple
> > > is doing.
> > >
> > > However, my guess or rather why I came to believe that GOOM is
> > > implemented within iTunes, is based upon how the visual portion of
> > > iTunes behaves when the visualization feature which adapts images to
> > > music spontaneously is activated.   My "guess" is based upon long
> > > observation of how GOOM behaves within xine within the YDL environment
> > > as far back when YDL was in version 2.0.  I didn't discover iTunes and
> > > it's visualization feature until I received a powerbook as a gift last
> > > year and ran OS X.  I was able to recognize certain commonalities in
> > > how the visualization engine behaved, my "guess" is based on those
> > > observations.  And Jurvis it's really ok to be wrong now and then ...
> > > you do know that Wikipedia is hardly the bedrock of accurate
> > > information... right?  Wikipedia is however functional as a cheap and
> > > fast lookup when one doesn't have access to a quality and
> > > authoritative encyclopedic tome such as Britannica or other world
> > > class encyclopedic reference.
> > >
> > > Check this out:
> > >
> > > http://www.ios-software.com/?page=projet&quoi=1
> > >
> > > I'm sure you'll have better luck, next time..
> > >
> > > Always, fondly....DC
> > >
> > > To answer your other question, or implied question, I don't work for
> > > Apple and really have no way of knowing what they installed or how
> > > apart from carefully observing how the software in question (here
> > > iTunes) behaves when it is activated to visualize music or present
> > > images which "move to music".  As I explained, my success in this
> > > situation (the guess I made) stems from very close observation of how
> > > software behaves and what is implemented when.
> > >
> > > Ciao!!
> > >
> > > On Feb 2, 2006, at 6:17 PM, Jurvis LaSalle wrote:
> > >
> > >>
> > >> On Feb 2, 2006, at 10:19 AM, Derick Centeno wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>  I'm convinced that GOOM is implemented within Apple's iTune's, they
> > >>> are just not going to admit it to anyone.
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> I'm convinced that you are mistaken once again.
> > >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SoundSpectrum
> > >>
> > >> Maybe, just maybe you saw someome who had installed the GOOM plugin
> > >> for iTunes...
> > >>
> > >> htsys,
> > >> JL
> > >>
> > >
> > >
> > > ===============
> > > Mitakuye Oyasin -- A saying of the Lakota Sioux meaning "We are all
> > > related".
> > >
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