Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

[Philip Stubbs]

2008/9/15 Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi Folks
>
> Being at the leading edge of the rear of the crowd, I'm starting to look at
> chaging out my trusty CRT monitor to one of those new fangled LCD thingys!
>
> I don't mind doing the research, but would appreciate some pointers to what
> people consider reliable and trustworthy makes, as it's been a number of
> years since I have had to look at the monitor market.
>
> My only constraints are that it's >= 17", not wide screen, and has good
> contrast ratios.
>
> Help appreciated

Make sure it has Digital inputs. I tried a bigger monitor at work that
only had Analog inputs, and went straight back to the Digital one.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

[Sean Miller]

I'd personally buy a Samsung Digital TV, has VGA input and
particularly impressive colour range.  I use a 32" widescreen one for
presentations and it works well (I know you don't want widescreen, but
I'm sure they do other ratios too).

You also have the benefit that if you're waiting for something to run
or download you can always check News 24 to see what the weather would
be like outside if you weren't chained to your PC, lol!

Sean

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

[taufanlubis]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 16:36 +0100, norman wrote:

> I am thinking of buying a scanner which would be used mostly for
> scanning text. I have looked at
> 
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/printing/C/scanning.html
> 
> and would very much appreciate some advice based on experience.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 
> 

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[ubuntu-uk] OT: Monitors

[Ian Pascoe]

Hi Folks

Being at the leading edge of the rear of the crowd, I'm starting to look at
chaging out my trusty CRT monitor to one of those new fangled LCD thingys!

I don't mind doing the research, but would appreciate some pointers to what
people consider reliable and trustworthy makes, as it's been a number of
years since I have had to look at the monitor market.

My only constraints are that it's >= 17", not wide screen, and has good
contrast ratios.

Help appreciated

Thanks

Ian



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

[Bruce Beardall]

Hi Norman

I've got a HP Deskjet F380 printer/scanner combo and if memory serves, I've
had it since round about Dapper Drake time. From that time until now,
Ubuntu's never had a problem with either printing or scanning. So much so,
that my other half prefers to print from my laptop as hers (running XP with
official HP drivers) tends to freeze after just a couple of pages. Almost as
if it's made for Ubuntu. Couldn't be happier although, in fairness, I've yet
to put it through a heavy workout so don't know what it would be like in,
for instance, a busy office environment. From my point of view, though,
couldn't be happier.

Regards

Bruce

(PS - current price seems to range from £23 - £30)

On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 4:36 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am thinking of buying a scanner which would be used mostly for
> scanning text. I have looked at
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/printing/C/scanning.html
>
> and would very much appreciate some advice based on experience.
>
> Norman
>
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[ubuntu-uk] DVD & Xvid playback with zoom/crop facility?

[Andrew Oakley]

I'm looking for DVD & Xvid playback software with a zoom function, under 
Ubuntu 8.04. At minimum, the ability to zoom in to a 16:9 video which 
has been recorded as a 4:3 aspect ratio with black bars at the top & 
bottom ("letterbox"). Ideally, the ability to zoom smoothly in small 
increments to whatever level I wish.

VLC has this ability (it calls it "crop") but unfortunately its DVD 
playback ability is very poor - doesn't seem to be able to cope with 
moving forward/backwards through the DVD nor navigating to chapters.

MPlayer, Totem and Xine do not appear to have this facility at all, 
although they do play back DVDs very well.

Has anyone got any alternative suggestions, or config advice to fix the 
above?

I recorded a whole bunch of widescreen programmes from Sky+ onto my DVD 
video recorder, for playback on holiday abroad, only to discover they'd 
been recorded in letterbox format. Since I have a widescreen laptop, 
this meant not only black bars at the top & bottom (letterbox) but also 
black bars at the sides (padding 4:3 to 16:9). This drove me nuts!

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[ubuntu-uk] scanner

[norman]

I am thinking of buying a scanner which would be used mostly for
scanning text. I have looked at

https://help.ubuntu.com/8.04/printing/C/scanning.html

and would very much appreciate some advice based on experience.

Norman



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] proggrame

[Jason Liquorish]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:18:00 +0100
James Westby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 13:05 +0100, Fintan Gaughan wrote:
> 
> > On my ubuntu box at home there are three users wife ,mine and the
> > kids.
> > I instaled a programm called Dropbox  www.getdropbox.com/  and it
> > pops up for me to enter  user name and pass word etc and was happy
> > with it. 
> > how ever logging into kids or wife account same thing happens and
> > they have no use for it clicking cancel and it keeps coming back up.
> > How do i disable it?
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm just guessing here, but it probably installs an autostart session
> entry.
> 
> If you go to System->Preferences->Session, is it listed in "Startup
> programs"?
> 
> If so, then you can disable it on each account where you don't want
> it.
> 
> If you want to disable it by default then you need to find
> the .desktop file, it may be in /etc/xdg/autostart, where you can
> edit to add
> 
> X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false
> 
> to the end. I don't know how to do this for other DEs.
> 
> You could also talk to the dropbox people about having a better system
> in place to handle this.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> James
> 
> 
I tried the session options but it does not turn up there
unfortunately, I think dropbox are planning to add more advanced
options soon although it is still in beta. 

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] proggrame

[James Westby]

On Mon, 2008-09-15 at 13:05 +0100, Fintan Gaughan wrote:

> On my ubuntu box at home there are three users wife ,mine and the
> kids.
> I instaled a programm called Dropbox  www.getdropbox.com/  and it pops
> up for me to enter  user name and pass word etc and was happy with it.
>  
> how ever logging into kids or wife account same thing happens and they
> have no use for it clicking cancel and it keeps coming back up.
> How do i disable it?

Hi,

I'm just guessing here, but it probably installs an autostart session
entry.

If you go to System->Preferences->Session, is it listed in "Startup
programs"?

If so, then you can disable it on each account where you don't want it.

If you want to disable it by default then you need to find the .desktop
file, it may be in /etc/xdg/autostart, where you can edit to add

X-GNOME-Autostart-enabled=false

to the end. I don't know how to do this for other DEs.

You could also talk to the dropbox people about having a better system
in place to handle this.

Thanks,

James


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] proggrame

[Jason Liquorish]

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:05:38 +0100
"Fintan Gaughan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> I am at work writing the quickly before boss comes :-)
> 
> 
> On my ubuntu box at home there are three users wife ,mine and the
> kids. I instaled a programm called *Dropbox*
> www.get*dropbox*.com/  and
> it pops up for me to enter  user name and pass word etc and was happy
> with it.
> 
> how ever logging into kids or wife account same thing happens and
> they have no use for it clicking cancel and it keeps coming back up.
> How do i disable it?
> 
> Fintan
> 
> 
> 
Hi Fintan,

I am also currently using dropbox and find it is great although it is
missing some obvious options such as this one. As far as I can tell
there is no way to specify which users should be using dropbox from
within dropbox itself.

I think your only hope here is to hope some clever soul has a
suggestion that will make the program only run for specified users from
within ubuntu.

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[ubuntu-uk] proggrame

[Fintan Gaughan]

I am at work writing the quickly before boss comes :-)


On my ubuntu box at home there are three users wife ,mine and the kids.
I instaled a programm called *Dropbox*
www.get*dropbox*.com/  and
it pops up for me to enter  user name and pass word etc and was happy with
it.

how ever logging into kids or wife account same thing happens and they have
no use for it clicking cancel and it keeps coming back up.
How do i disable it?

Fintan



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