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2007

Ubuntu 6.10 Burning Problem

Since I built my new computer a few months back, and installed Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft, I have only been able to burn using sudo. My old machine burned fine without sudo, so I was guessing it was because I’m using a SATA DVD-RW drive.

I found this tip on the Ubuntu forums and it fixed my burning problem – Gnomebaker has no problem working as a normal user after applying this fix.

Step 1:

As root (or in a terminal type: sudo gedit /etc/udev/rules.d/15-local.rules This will create a new file called 15-local.rules. Add a new rule in the file:

# SCSI devices<br /> BUS=="scsi", KERNEL=="sg[0-9]", NAME="%k", GROUP="cdrom"

Step 2:

Reboot.

Step 3:

In a terminal type the following (hit enter after each):

sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdrecord<br /> sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdrecord.mmap<br /> sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/X11/cdrecord.mmap<br /> sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/cdrdao<br /> sudo chmod 4755 /usr/bin/X11/cdrdao

That should fix it, especially if you’re running Gnomebaker. If you’re running K3B, run K3Bsetup and hit the above link for more if you’re a KDE user.

Thanks to wilko on the Ubuntu Forums for posting this fix.

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Games Delayed

Two of the more high profile games to be released this year, with already announced Linux versions, have been delayed. Both stories courtesy of Blue’s News.

Activision’s latest quarterly statement highlights ET: Quake Wars has been delayed to their fiscal 2008 year, which runs from April 2007 to March 2008.

Unreal Tournament 2007 has undergone a name change to Unreal Tournament 3, with part of the name change reflecting the title’s delay until later in 2007, when it was originally scheduled for 2006.

I’ve built my new machine with a fancy Core Duo, and can’t wait to play both with native Linux binaries this year. Let’s hope for no more delays!

PC World reviews Linux audio players

PC World takes a look at the current state of music playback in Linux, reviewing the different music managers available. The features the reviewer was looking for include browsing and searching, playlists, rip and burning, tag editing and playing internet radio streams.

Rhythmbox (B), Banshee (B-), Listen (C+), Amarok (B), and Exaile (C-) are reviewed, with Amarok being the only KDE app tested as the reviewer, like myself, is a GNOME user.

Matthew Newton, the reviewer, notes that he’ll keep an eye on Banshee as the development is much faster paced than Rhythmbox, but has had problems with Banshee’s stability. I’ve run development and stable versions of Banshee, both from the Ubuntu repositories and compiling my own, without the problems he references.

There’s no question that music management in Linux is still early, and is one of the killer applications that will need to be developed quickly to help with user adoption to Linux.

Website Updates

I updated the blog to WordPress 2.1 last night, which has a lots of little updates. The upgrade went perfectly, and my theme and plugins seem to work without any errors.

I finally found the option in WordPress to update the feed to full posts instead of the summaries, which makes the blog much more friendly to RSS readers. A bonus effect is that it fixes the Daily Links post to post in bullet summaries in feedreaders instead of mashing the post in to one paragraph.

In addition, I switched feed management to Feedburner last month, so there should be one clean feed for everyone who subscribes, and gives me some nice statistics on who’s reading.

If anything appears out of the ordinary, let me know!