What is "beam"?

[dedanna1029]

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13308 dedanna   20   0 40128  12m 1776 S  3.3  1.3  25:08.07 beam

When I try to query it:

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$ whereis beam
beam:

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$ pacman -Q beam
error: package "beam" not found

Thanks.

[viking60]

Hmm... do you have anything in the clouds?
I mean that is what it looks like when the program is on a different server. Probably some music or something. It is a service from mp3.com.
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/article.c ... _for_linux

[dedanna1029]

Interesting. All I've been doing is scrobbling to last.fm what I'm listening to.

Wonder if I might have hit up a video or something that uses it?

[viking60]

It is a script apparently; http://www.linux.org/apps/AppId_7556.html
Do you have a portable mp3 player? You might be right about the video or some other program?

Here is yaourt beam output:

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:) yaourt beam
1 aur/beamerthemediepen 20070108-1 (5)
    A beamer theme with a background image and a white transparent layer
2 aur/beamerthemeprogressbar 0.41-1 (1)
    an alternative theme for latex beamer
3 aur/gaussianbeam 0.4-1 (0)
    Gaussian optics simulator
4 aur/gaussianbeam-svn 134-1 (0)
    Gaussian optics simulator
5 aur/gettransitions 20070610-1 (0)
    a script to use beamer with impress!ve, and specify transitions inside the
    .tex file
6 aur/latex-beamer 3.07-3 (Out of Date) (120)
    The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer
    presentation.
7 aur/python-rst2beamer 0.6.6-1 (5)
    A docutils writer and script for converting restructured text to the Beamer
    presentation format
8 aur/python-yml2tex 1.2-1 (3)
    yml2tex is a Python script which will generate a LaTeX Beamer presentation
    out of a YAML file.
9 aur/reia-git 20090311-1 (3)
    A Ruby/Python-like scripting language for the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM)
10 aur/solarbeam 1.0-1 (1)
    An application for drawing solar diagrams
11 aur/solarbeam-git 20091206-1 (1)
    An application for drawing solar diagrams
12 aur/wiki2beamer 0.8-2 (9)
    wiki2beamer is a small tool to create LaTeX Beamer presentations from text
    files with a wiki-like syntax. Thus, it enables the user to create beamer
    presentations in a less time-consuming way

[dedanna1029]

Interesting. I have an mp3 player, but it hasn't been hooked up in a couple days.

Thanks.

[viking60]

You could try a

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whereis beam-back.py

Or a search for the file.

[dedanna1029]

Okay, will run that in a sec.

What's really strange about this, is none of these show as "installed":

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epen 20070108-1 (5)
    A beamer theme with a background image and a white transparent layer
2 aur/beamerthemeprogressbar 0.41-1 (1)
    an alternative theme for latex beamer
3 aur/gaussianbeam 0.4-1 (0)
    Gaussian optics simulator
4 aur/gaussianbeam-svn 134-1 (0)
    Gaussian optics simulator
5 aur/gettransitions 20070610-1 (0)
    a script to use beamer with impress!ve, and specify transitions inside the
    .tex file
6 aur/latex-beamer 3.07-3 (Out of Date) (120)
    The beamer class is a LaTeX class that allows you to create a beamer
    presentation.
7 aur/python-rst2beamer 0.6.6-1 (5)
    A docutils writer and script for converting restructured text to the Beamer
    presentation format
8 aur/python-yml2tex 1.2-1 (3)
    yml2tex is a Python script which will generate a LaTeX Beamer presentation
    out of a YAML file.
9 aur/reia-git 20090311-1 (3)
    A Ruby/Python-like scripting language for the Erlang virtual machine (BEAM)
10 aur/solarbeam 1.0-1 (1)
    An application for drawing solar diagrams
11 aur/solarbeam-git 20091206-1 (1)
    An application for drawing solar diagrams
12 aur/wiki2beamer 0.8-2 (9)
    wiki2beamer is a small tool to create LaTeX Beamer presentations from text
    files with a wiki-like syntax. Thus, it enables the user to create beamer
    presentations in a less time-consuming way.
==> Enter n° (separated by blanks, or a range) of packages to be installed

[dedanna1029]

You could try a

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whereis beam-back.py

Or a search for the file.

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$ whereis beam-back.py
beam-back:

[viking60]

Could be that a simple script would not turn up. A traditional search for files gives the same result?

[dedanna1029]

What files would I search for, specifically? Thanks.

[viking60]

beam-back.py -only that one.
There must be something on your box to trigger the activity.

[dedanna1029]

Yeah, but when I ran the whereis for it, it came back negative?

I guess I'm not sure what exactly you want me to run on it (beam-back.py).