[SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
(totally off topic) I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas? Reason I ask - not for any secret squirrel stuff - it's just that at sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, then Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of messy... -- Sonia Hamilton. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
Magnetic tape gets easily erased by strong magnets. Ben Sonia Hamilton wrote: (totally off topic) I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas? Reason I ask - not for any secret squirrel stuff - it's just that at sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, then Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of messy... -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
Kino has a function to write back to the tape, via the Export/IEEE1394 option. This might be marginally better than recording the inside of your lens cap. Marghanita Sonia Hamilton wrote: (totally off topic) I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas? Reason I ask - not for any secret squirrel stuff - it's just that at sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, then Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of messy... -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] network-manager-0.7 and 3G Huawei E180 USB stick on Three Network
On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 23:59 +1100, david wrote: That's great.. just a shame that my E160G doesn't work :( mine does number: *99# username: a leave it blank password: a your account PIN APN: 3netaccess 3services network: blank PIN: blank your account PIN PUK: blank -- Regards Peter Miller pmil...@opensource.org.au /\/\*http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~millerp/ PGP public key ID: 1024D/D0EDB64D fingerprint = AD0A C5DF C426 4F03 5D53 2BDB 18D8 A4E2 D0ED B64D See http://www.keyserver.net or any PGP keyserver for public key. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
Cool, I'll give that a go. S. * Marghanita da Cruz marghan...@ramin.com.au [2009-03-12 20:13:04 +1100]: Kino has a function to write back to the tape, via the Export/IEEE1394 option. This might be marginally better than recording the inside of your lens cap. Marghanita Sonia Hamilton wrote: (totally off topic) I'm doing lots of video stuff at the moment, and I'm wondering how to wipe/format mini DV video tapes. My camera doesn't have such a function, and at the moment I'm doing it by leaving the lense cap on and just leaving the video camera to record over the whole tape. Any ideas? Reason I ask - not for any secret squirrel stuff - it's just that at sports comps I tend to record lots of short scenes (3-5 mins), and sometimes review them immediately with my team mates, then record again, then Old and new stuff gets mixed up easily, and it gets kind of messy... -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Defining automount points for USB and SD devices in Ubuntu
Greetz all, long time no write - another story. I have switched to Ubuntu from Fedora, at least for desk/lap top use and I have hit a small snag. When I stick in a USB or SD storage device with an explicit device label, it automagically mounts the device at /media/device_label, which is great except that it's not where I want a device with an explicit label to be mounted. What config file defines where such a device gets automounted? TIA, Howard -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Defining automount points for USB and SD devices in Ubuntu
Howard Lowndes wrote: Greetz all, long time no write - another story. I have switched to Ubuntu from Fedora, at least for desk/lap top use and I have hit a small snag. When I stick in a USB or SD storage device with an explicit device label, it automagically mounts the device at /media/device_label, which is great except that it's not where I want a device with an explicit label to be mounted. What config file defines where such a device gets automounted? Possibly /etc/fstab or /etc/mtab Marghanita PS. Absence and return noted. -- Marghanita da Cruz http://www.ramin.com.au Phone: (+61)0414 869202 -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Defining automount points for USB and SD devices in Ubuntu
Howard Lowndes wrote: Greetz all, long time no write - another story. I have switched to Ubuntu from Fedora, at least for desk/lap top use and I have hit a small snag. When I stick in a USB or SD storage device with an explicit device label, it automagically mounts the device at /media/device_label, which is great except that it's not where I want a device with an explicit label to be mounted. What config file defines where such a device gets automounted? I haven't checked, but you're probably looking a a udev event being notified to hal which then sends a udev message which gets picked up by a listener in the desktop which then runs gnome-mnt or equivalent. These are guesses based on observed behaviour (such as the lack of automatic mounting from text mode). udev runs some name cleaning scripts, so that the volume name isn't a covert channel for a exploit, and drops the volume name into a variable. I imagine /media is coded into the desktop mount utility. I wouldn't fight it myself. Simply because it's nice and it works and stuff like SELinux is going to try and enforce the standard location. -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] [OT] how to wipe a mini dv tape?
Hi Sonia, If you have a stack of tapes it might be worth the ten minutes seeing if Tech Rentals or an office equipment supplier to military contractors similar has a tape degausser in their rental stock. These are big electromagnets, usually intended to erase low-level classified e-waste. For example: http://www.veritysystems.com/degaussers/degausser.asp?id=1240 They'll easily wipe a big box of tapes in a day's rental. They're designed to wipe traditional 1/2 reel tapes, so they'll certainly work for MiniDV. Cheers, Glen -- Glen Turner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
Hi, Until recently I've been using a palm-based PDA and jPilot on the desktop. My palm alas has died. So now I want to use my Nokia E65 phone instead to track appointments, TODos, and PIN numbers (via gnome-keyring). It has a much more horrible user interface, but I can cope for now. The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight, simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and can sync with a Nokia? I looked at Evolution but it wants to do email as well, and with only 256M memory it's far far too big and slow. Any ideas? I'm running Xubuntu (not particularyl light weight, I'm thinking of switching back to plain old Debian with a custom setup, and throwing away all the Gnome/HAL/Udev resource hogs) -- Dr Peter Chubb http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au peterc AT gelato.unsw.edu.au http://www.ertos.nicta.com.au ERTOS within National ICT Australia A university is a non-profit organisation only in the sense that it spends everything it gets ... Luca Turin. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au writes: Until recently I've been using a palm-based PDA and jPilot on the desktop. My palm alas has died. So now I want to use my Nokia E65 phone instead to track appointments, TODos, and PIN numbers (via gnome-keyring). It has a much more horrible user interface, but I can cope for now. Hah. Wait until you have suffered from it for a month or two. The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight, simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and can sync with a Nokia? Nothing. opensync is the closest to a working project you are going to find, but it sucks, and can't really cope with talking to Symbian devices terribly well anyhow.[1] I looked at Evolution but it wants to do email as well, and with only 256M memory it's far far too big and slow. ...also, sucks at syncing anyhow. Any ideas? Buy another Palm Pilot, since nothing else out there is really going to give a lot of joy in terms of sync with Linux at the moment. Regards, Daniel Footnotes: [1] Well, perhaps things have radically improved in the last month, but I really doubt it. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
(Sorry I deleted the original without reading, and just realised I can help here so I'm quoting from the quotes here) Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au writes: The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight, simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and can sync with a Nokia? I use GooSync to sync my Google Calendar with my mobile. Basically you should be able to sync (over the air GPRS or 802.11x, rather than having to use a cable) with anything that supports SyncML. No idea about any free software stuff, but there's a few services online that do it. Google Calendar has a beta offline version (using Gears) if you need that. That will sort your appointments and back up your contacts. Don't know about tasks, memos or keys though. I don't use the Nokia stuff for any of that on my crappy old phone. Buy another Palm Pilot, since nothing else out there is really going to give a lot of joy in terms of sync with Linux at the moment. Depends if you'll be happy with online services. http://www.goosync.com/ -- Rev Simon Rumble si...@rumble.net www.rumble.net The Tourist Engineer Nerds need vacations too. http://engineer.openguides.org/ The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Somerset Maugham -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
I recently migrated our mail and stuff to Zimbra network edition. The nokia mail for exchange is a a great sync tool, and I get email synced in as well, crackberry style. This is using Zimbra mobile, which is a heavy handed and probably non-free solution to your problem. Just wanted to mention it, as I have found the Zimbra web interface and Zimbra mobile the only decent thing that syncs to my Nokia fully. Doesn't do tasks at all yet though. dave - Original Message - From: Peter Chubb pet...@gelato.unsw.edu.au To: slug@slug.org.au Sent: Friday, 13 March, 2009 10:34:00 AM GMT +10:00 Canberra / Melbourne / Sydney Subject: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM The quastion is, what do I use on my laptop? What's light weight, simple, can track appointments, contacts, TODOs, memos and keys, and can sync with a Nokia? -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
David Kempe d...@sol1.com.au writes: I recently migrated our mail and stuff to Zimbra network edition. That is the for-money Zimbra version, including extra money for the Zimbra Mobile side. Nice, but probably outside the budget of most home users at ~ USB $500 for Zimbra Mobile alone. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Looking for a desktop PIM
Well i didn't want to plug myself, but we have pricing on our site if you are interested in the hosted version. You can get started for like $15/month easy. There are other Australian hosting providers linked off the Zimbra site as well, all with pretty similar pricing, so there is plenty of choice. Thanks Dave - That is the for-money Zimbra version, including extra money for the Zimbra Mobile side. Nice, but probably outside the budget of most home users at ~ USB $500 for Zimbra Mobile alone. Regards, Daniel -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
