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Anyone know of any apps. that can automatically shutdown my system after a set time or at a set time?

As an aside, anyone know a good place for media codecs for SUSE 10? Damn thing doesn't have any preinstalled ones.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:Anyone know of any apps. that can automatically shutdown my system after a set time or at a set time?

cron?

As an aside, anyone know a good place for media codecs for SUSE 10? Damn thing doesn't have any preinstalled ones.

Look for win32codec and libavcodec RPMs - SUSE does not have them preinstalled due to licensing issues.

Humph, guess I have to uninstall the media packs to avoid conflicts.

Thanks for the shutdown advice, guess I could've checked my O'Reilly book as well.

phongn wrote: Look for win32codec and libavcodec RPMs - SUSE does not have them preinstalled due to licensing issues.

Is it true that the win32codecs were actually pulled from windows dlls? People go on a lot about the legal ramifications of their use on the Ubuntu forums.

Yes, they are essentially wrapped Windows DLLs.

The legal problems are about as likely to be resolved as the CSS issue with Linux. No one can enforce it, but no one openly supports it in business. Novell, however, were being bitches not putting anything in SUSE.

You could just compile Mplayer and have everything in one app. It can use win32codecs also (I think you have to tell it where they are in ./configure though).

Oline61 wrote:You could just compile Mplayer and have everything in one app. It can use win32codecs also (I think you have to tell it where they are in ./configure though).

That was one of the first things I tried. I get a compile dependency conflict. Reading a SUSE 9.3 document, it says to delete the original media players (why put a fucking MP3 player in without the codec in the first place?!), which is easier said than done with this selective bunch of apps.

Well the best thing to do would be to switch from SuSE to something else. My experience with SuSE was far to Windows-like for my needs. I have been using Ubuntu, which I enjoy because it just works.

On ubuntu, don't forget the PLF repos.

PLF?

deb ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Lin ... buntu/plf/ breezy free non-free
deb-src ftp://ftp.free.fr/pub/Distributions_Lin ... buntu/plf/ breezy free non-free

Dose wascally French...

Admiral Valdemar wrote:The legal problems are about as likely to be resolved as the CSS issue with Linux. No one can enforce it, but no one openly supports it in business. Novell, however, were being bitches not putting anything in SUSE.

Hah - the Red Hat/Fedora distributions don't even support MP3 out of the box since they don't have a license. It's trivial to add support in, but there you go.

Admiral Valdemar wrote:That was one of the first things I tried. I get a compile dependency conflict. Reading a SUSE 9.3 document, it says to delete the original media players (why put a fucking MP3 player in without the codec in the first place?!), which is easier said than done with this selective bunch of apps.

Licensing. There are some codecs that are unprotected and thus fair game.

phongn wrote:

Admiral Valdemar wrote:The legal problems are about as likely to be resolved as the CSS issue with Linux. No one can enforce it, but no one openly supports it in business. Novell, however, were being bitches not putting anything in SUSE.

Hah - the Red Hat/Fedora distributions don't even support MP3 out of the box since they don't have a license. It's trivial to add support in, but there you go.

Yeah, I thought that was quite funny when I was playing with Fedora.

"Click here to install real player."

Was suprised to find that the linux real player wasn't anywhere near as horrible as the windows release. I actually quite liked.