DivisionByZero

April 30, 2005

Disabling spam text in Smart

Filed under: Computers, Mundane Stuff

Since last year, I’ve been trying to figure out how to disable spit (spam text messages) on my cellphone particulary those coming from the 386 number.

If you’re stuck in the same predicament as I was, you can opt not to receive those messages by typing TNS OFF and then sending it to 386.

That information is actually in the message that that number sends. Almost always, I immediately delete them so I didn’t notice that the unsubscribe information is contained in the message.

Fedora Core Rhythmbox and xmms MP3 support

Filed under: Computers

Fedora Core 3 doesn’t come with MP3 support enabled by default (due to licensing issues with the MP3 format). Below are the instructions to enable MP3 playback in Rhythmbox and xmms.

Note: Make sure that yum can find the repositories it needs to download the packages. There are instructions in the Unofficial Fedora FAQ on how to do that.

For rhythmbox:

At the root prompt type:

#yum install libmad
#yum install libid3tag
#yum install gstreamer-plugins-mp3

Then…

#/usr/bin/gst-register-0.8

For xmms:

#yum install xmms-mp3

Happy listening!






















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