Intro and a few questions

Hello
	I am quite new at Linux, very much a Nuby, so you all
please bare with
me as I've only been up for about a day now.  I have a
couple of
questions if someone would be ever so kind to assist me.

1.  I am currently running Ubuntu with Orca.  I am trying to
find out if
anyone knows in Evolution what the keyboard shortcut is in
order to
allow me to simply use my arrow keys to move freely through
the content
of my e-mails.  A friend told me he or she thought it was
F9, however I
treid that, with no luck.  Actually, it appears that F9 is
the shortcut
to send and receive all mail.  Yes, I did think to try alt,
or shift, or
control, with no luck.  The only way so far I've found to
get around
this, which isn't really a big deal, as much as it's kind of
annoying,
is to use my review commands, go down to the actual body of
the message,
then do a left mouse button click.  Then Orca seems to move
focus and I
then can up and down arrow just fine.  Apparently though,
according to
this friend, that isn't really necessary.

2.  My next question is, has anyone had any experience with
abcde?  If
so, basicly the deal is, that I looked in /etc/abcde.conf
but I cannot
find the part of the file that I need to either modify or
uncomment in
order to allow the program to encode into mp3.  I do have
the
gstreamer0.10-plugin-bad and the gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
codecs.  So
I know that I should, at the very least have a decoder, if
not an
encoder, although, yeah, I know, a decoder isn't really
going to help in
this case since I'm trying to encode from CD.  I tried using
Audio
Juicer, which may I add, I love, except that I'm only in the
format box
under preferences, seeing flack, lossless, or some other
form, can't
recall exactly, but I assure you that it isn't mp3, nor is
it vorbis.
It's actually ripping by default in vorbis, which I don't
have a problem
with per say, but some times it is nice to have a regular
mp3 file.

3.  My last question is, is there any program that will
allow me to use
my computer as an alarm clock.  Yes, I do know I could set
up a kron
job, but I don't quite feel ready yet to tackle kron.  I've
been told
for beginners, it's somewhat complicated to start with.


Sorry for all the questions, but let's start with these, and
then we'll
go from there.


Thanks in advance,

Chris.


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Chris Gilland wrote:

> 3.  My last question is, is there any program that will
allow me to
> use my computer as an alarm clock.  Yes, I do know I
could set up a
> kron job, but I don't quite feel ready yet to tackle
kron.  I've been
> told for beginners, it's somewhat complicated to start
with.

One solution I ran across (I don't actually use it much) is
a plugin
for XMMS called "Alarm". I have v0.3.7 installed
via 'apt-get
xmms-alarm' but I'm not sure which repository it comes from.
Or...

http://fresh
meat.net/projects/xmmsalarm/

You'll of course need XMMS up and running for it to "go
off", but it's a
pretty nicely featured "alarm clock". Configurable
on a per-day basis,
can be set to "fade in", shuts off after a number
of hours/minutes if
you like, custom playlist (I use use one with just 'Time' by
Pink Floyd
in it when I do use it), and has the ability to issue
"Additional
Commands" to XMMX whatever those might be.

There's also the 'at' command, a one-time-deal scheduler
that accepts
it's directives in a more human readable syntax. You set it
up by
typing 'at [time] <ENTER>' at the command prompt,
entering jobs, then
hitting <CTRL+D> when you're done. It will look
something like this
in action...

  userhost$ at 4:30 AM
  > mplayer /path/to/some/music/file/my.mp3
  > <EOT> 

This would cause my.mp3 to play at 4:30 in the morning,
assuming of
course it exists and you have mplayer in your path. You
could always
use 'play' and a .wav file or something. Whatever you have
available to
make noise in a terminal window.

Here's a link to a quick 'at' tutorial I just ran across if
you're
still confused...

http://w
ww.hccfl.edu/pollock/Unix/AtDemo.htm

Beyond those two options, cron isn't really all *that*
difficult to
master for simple jobs. It gets a little dicey when you want
to schedule
something for every other Tuesday only during odd numbered
months at
4:30 am and every half hour after noon if it's a full moon,
but for a
Monday-Friday 4:30 wakeup I'd create a text file named
cron.txt in my
home directory, add the line...

30 4 * * 1-5 /command/to/exexute

...where /command/to/execute is however you make noise as
above. Save
the file and issue the command 'crontab ~/cron.txt'. Simple
as that.

The 30 is the minutes, the 4 the hour (0-23), and the 1-5 is
the days
of the week with Sunday being '0'. The two '*' are place
holders for
'day of the month' and 'month of the year'. The command
'crontab -l'
'lists your scheduled jobs, and 'crontab -r/ nukes them all.
If you need
to make changes/additions/whatever edit the cron.txt file
and re-issue
the command 'crontab ~/cron.txt'.

I'm sure there's tons of other ways to do it, maybe even a
slick Gnome
Panel applet or something, but that should get you to work
on time this
week at least. ;)

Enjoy!

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Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:

Addendum:

I just realized that I forgot to tell you if you use 'cron'
or 'at' the
output of whatever command you invoke will be mailed to you.
This can
get quite large for something like mplayer that updates the
screen like
it does. To fix this add '>/dev/null 2>&1' to then
end of your
commands. Like this...

   userhost$ at 4:30 AM
   > mplayer /path/to/some/music/file/my.mp3
>/dev/null 2>&1
   > <EOT>

And this for "cron.txt"...

30 4 * * 1-5 /command/to/exexute >/dev/null 2>&1

Also, I stumbled across this...

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Software/Produc
tivityTools/Timers/index.shtml

The top entry looks interesting. 


> Chris Gilland wrote:
> 
> > 3.  My last question is, is there any program that
will allow me to

<pruned>

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Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> 
> Addendum:
> 
> I just realized that I forgot to tell you if you use
'cron' or 'at' the
> output of whatever command you invoke will be mailed to
you. This can
> get quite large for something like mplayer that updates
the screen like
> it does. To fix this add '>/dev/null 2>&1' to
then end of your
> commands. Like this...
> 
>    userhost$ at 4:30 AM
>    > mplayer /path/to/some/music/file/my.mp3
>/dev/null 2>&1
>    > <EOT>

    Just for grins: someone over in the community section
contributed a
great idea for mplayer.  See this:

ssh -Y ws02 "mplayer tv:// -tv
driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0"

    This is under my icon with an "eye" on it. 
It'll ssh to my machine
upstairs, start mplayer from the webcam, and show me on the
local
machine.  It's very nifty!

    The original link:

https://help
.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam


    Enjoy!
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Brian Fahrlander wrote:

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> Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> > Jeffrey F. Bloss wrote:
> > 
> > Addendum:
> > 
> > I just realized that I forgot to tell you if you
use 'cron' or 'at'
> > the output of whatever command you invoke will be
mailed to you.
> > This can get quite large for something like
mplayer that updates
> > the screen like it does. To fix this add
'>/dev/null 2>&1' to then
> > end of your commands. Like this...
> > 
> >    userhost$ at 4:30 AM
> >    > mplayer /path/to/some/music/file/my.mp3
>/dev/null 2>&1
> >    > <EOT>
> 
>     Just for grins: someone over in the community
section contributed
> a great idea for mplayer.  See this:
> 
> ssh -Y ws02 "mplayer tv:// -tv
>
driver=v4l:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video0"


Mmmmm... that is nifty. I wish I had more time to dabble in
the black
arts of SSH forwarding and tunneling. I've been lusting
after a down
and dirty "on demand web cam" security system sort
of thingy for a
while now but hadn't considered SSH. A permutation of the
above looks
like a solution. 

/sez me, wondering if I'll have to install X on my server
now.... ;)

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Chris Gilland <chrisandrachelcarolina.rr.com> wrote:

> 3.  My last question is, is there any program that will
allow me to use
> my computer as an alarm clock.  Yes, I do know I could
set up a kron
> job, but I don't quite feel ready yet to tackle kron. 
I've been told
> for beginners, it's somewhat complicated to start with.

cron is for jobs that youewant to start regulary (like every
day or
every week). For a job you just want to start once there's
at. It's
usage is quite easy:

dieschvogon:~% at 7:00 tomorrow
warning: commands will be executed using /bin/sh
at> play ~/sound/alarm.mp3
<Ctrl-D>


If you wan't a GUI there's gnome-schedule




   Florian
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