About :: Ubuntu 8.10

The latest release, Ubuntu 8.10 (also nicked Intrepid Ibex) is by far the best I have seen from the Ubuntu team. For one, it supports acpi, apm for AMD processors. So, now, I don’t have to install / run Ubuntu with acpi=off or apm=off. Benefit: my system shuts down completely when I ask it to. None of the previous versions supported that.

Upgrade to Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 from Feisty (7.04)

Step 1
change your repositories:
$ sudo sed -e 's/\sfeisty/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list

Step 2
open synaptic:
$ sudo synaptic &

Step 3
Click ‘Reload’ button –> Click ‘Mark All Upgrades’ –> Click ‘Apply’

Notes

• This is a shorter method than first upgrading Feisty and then upgrading Feisty to Gutsy as given here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading
  And the three steps mentioned above work (I have tried).
  
• The Gutsy interface is much better. See here: http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/710tour. (latest gnome, gdm, kdm, thunderbird-2, etc. )
• Above procedure can also be tried to upgrade from ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) to 7.10. For that, step 1 would be:
  $ sudo sed -e 's/\sdapper/ gutsy/g' -i /etc/apt/sources.list

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HTH
Nitin Munjal

[linux] live streaming http videos/songs

most players on linux do not play http streams even after setting no proxy and all. Not to forget mentioning that firefox does not open live streaming sites 90% of the time.

here is how to do this using mplayer [credits: nareshov]

download and install squid

ubuntu: $aptitude install squid

gentoo: $emerge -va squid

fedora: $yum install squid

replace the code of /etc/squid/squid.conf by the following code:
Note: 1. replace username and password by your login-id and password respectively
2. replace 172.31.1.227 (vsnlproxy) to any other (e.g 172.31.1.233 for relproxy)


http_port 3128
cache_peer 172.31.1.227 parent 3128 0 no-query default login=username:password
cache_peer 202.141.43.24 parent 3128 0 no-query default login=username:password
acl all src 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
acl localhost src 127.0.0.1/255.255.255.255
http_access allow localhost
http_access deny all
visible_hostname localhost
never_direct allow all

Restart squid:

$/etc/init.d/squid restart

Export http_proxy

$export http_proxy="http://localhost:3128"

Ready to play streams using mplayer

for ibnlive news(video):
$mplayer http://a1091.l2639552042.c26395.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1091/26395/v0001/reflector:52042
for bbc news(audio):
mplayer
http://a1149.l1305038288.c13050.g.lm.akamaistream.net/D/1149/13050/v0001/reflector:38288