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Comment on Squeezebox plus Ubuntu is Heaven by Chris Ramsay

Chris Ramsay — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 08:28:33 +0000

Adam, two things come to mind regarding this problem – either of which may work!
1) Try disabling ACPI on startup
2) I believe that there is an ‘Inhibit Applet’ available in Gnome
Hopefully a Google search on either of the above will yield you an answer!

Regards

Comment on Squeezebox plus Ubuntu is Heaven by Adam

Adam — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 22:16:53 +0000

Chris, great doc. I went with ubuntu as well on an old laptop. All works except one thing; I cant STOP ubuntu from sleeping when squeezeserver is running.

Generally the laptop sleeping when inactive is just what I want. When its 30 mins after playing back music its rather annoying! Ideas anyone!?!?

Comment on Squeezebox plus Ubuntu is Heaven by mushroom

mushroom — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 04:13:28 +0000

hi
i am using linux mint version 8 which is ubuntu base distro.when i try to install squeezeboxserver i get the following error:
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
squeezeboxserver: Depends: mysql-server-4.1 but it is not installable or
mysql-server-5.0 but it is not going to be installed
E: Broken packages

how can i solve this?
i installed mysql-server before squeezebox server but still problem remains

Comment on Django Connection Problems on Remote MySQL Database by Chris Ramsay

Chris Ramsay — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 11:09:54 +0000

@Steven Davidson, @Cheet
No problems, glad to be of assistance.

Comment on Django Connection Problems on Remote MySQL Database by Cheet

Cheet — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 10:39:39 +0000

Thanks a lot! Got into the same problem and now I got my remote MySQL working :)

Comment on Django Connection Problems on Remote MySQL Database by Steven Davidson

Steven Davidson — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:51:02 +0000

Brilliant, thanks for sharing – came up with the same set of symptoms and Google provided me with your answer!

Comment on Add Multiple Items into SVN Repo at Once by David

David — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:08:06 +0000

very handy and it saved me a lot of typing.

thanks!

Comment on Squeezebox plus Ubuntu is Heaven by Chris Ramsay

Chris Ramsay — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:40:25 +0000

Hello James. From your comment I am unsure as to whether you have a squeezebox or not. I don’t know whether just setting up squeezecenter without a squeezebox player will work or not (I’ve never tried it). There is a software version of squeezebox available if: a) you have got squeezecenter server up and running, and b) you have java installed on your client machine. Go to http://squeezecenter:9000 and select ‘extras -> squeezecenter’. I quote…

“SoftSqueeze emulates the Squeezebox and Transporter on Windows, Mac OSX and Unix computers. You can find instructions on how to run SoftSqueeze using Java Web Start or as a Java applet below.”

Hope that helps!

Comment on Getting Weather Information with Python by Chris Ramsay

Chris Ramsay — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 09:34:55 +0000

Thanks for that info Nick – I’d not thought of using that before. I’ll check it out.

Comment on Getting Weather Information with Python by Nick Coleman

Nick Coleman — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 06:50:19 +0000

Another alternative is the pyephem module. If you are familiar with xephem, then you already know the API as it uses xephem’s syntax. It provides astronomy calculations, of which sunrise and sunset are part, as well as astronomical sunrise and sunset which could be more suited to controlling light switches. Astronomical sunrise and sunset aim at showing the amount of brightness in the sky, or how dark it is.

One possible benefit of xephem is that you don’t need an internet connection.

On a side note, if you are also using the weather forecast of yahoo, is it ok in the UK? Its forecast here in Australia is so inaccurate as to be useless. It regularly differs from the official forecast by 5C to 10c, or 9F to 18F.