[ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Hi, My previous experience with tv cards was not that great! I had a MSI something or other. Ive had cable installed and would like very much to save space by chucking out the tv and use my pc as one-in-all kind of thing. Please suggest some good value (read cheapish) tv cards that i could easily get going without having to run wine or anything! (most cards come with windows software obviously). Regards Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, My previous experience with tv cards was not that great! I had a MSI something or other. Ive had cable installed and would like very much to save space by chucking out the tv and use my pc as one-in-all kind of thing. Please suggest some good value (read cheapish) tv cards that i could easily get going without having to run wine or anything! (most cards come with windows software obviously). Regards Javad Okay it's a bit more involved than just suggesting a card. I presume you want a digital card rather than an analogue card? There are various types you can get depending on how you want to receive the digital signal. Chances are it'll either be via Freeview (using a standard TV aerial) or FreeSat (using a Satellite dish pointed to 28.2 degrees east - same as what Sky Digital points to). This should help you find a supported Freeview (DVB-T) card: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_Devices This should help you find a supported Freesat (DVB-S) card: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_Devices and this should help you find a supported Freesat High Definition (DVB-S2) card: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_Devices I would have thought _most_ Freeview TV adaptors (either USB or PCI) would be supported. Some require a firmware file although I believe a few are included with Ubuntu by default. I can't say about Satellite cards as I don't currently have one. Hope this helps. When you get a card you've got the exciting task of tuning it in. :-) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
ok i will look at those links.! I dont want any of my cards trying to catch the transmission themselves as aerial reception is terrible. Ive got virgin cable so that would be the primary source! I suppose i will look into Regards Javad 2008/10/15 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, My previous experience with tv cards was not that great! I had a MSI something or other. Ive had cable installed and would like very much to save space by chucking out the tv and use my pc as one-in-all kind of thing. Please suggest some good value (read cheapish) tv cards that i could easily get going without having to run wine or anything! (most cards come with windows software obviously). Regards Javad Okay it's a bit more involved than just suggesting a card. I presume you want a digital card rather than an analogue card? There are various types you can get depending on how you want to receive the digital signal. Chances are it'll either be via Freeview (using a standard TV aerial) or FreeSat (using a Satellite dish pointed to 28.2 degrees east - same as what Sky Digital points to). This should help you find a supported Freeview (DVB-T) card: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-T_Devices This should help you find a supported Freesat (DVB-S) card: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S_Devices and this should help you find a supported Freesat High Definition (DVB-S2) card: http://www.linuxtv.org/wiki/index.php/DVB-S2_Devices I would have thought _most_ Freeview TV adaptors (either USB or PCI) would be supported. Some require a firmware file although I believe a few are included with Ubuntu by default. I can't say about Satellite cards as I don't currently have one. Hope this helps. When you get a card you've got the exciting task of tuning it in. :-) Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing default settings for all users
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:10:55 +0100, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, I'm in the process of trying to roll out Ubuntu across one of our offices as a replacement to Windows XP. At the moment on Windows XP we have a standard desktop which includes desktop background, Internet Explorer proxy settings and other tweaks. Now rather than have the hassle of setting up each individual users desktop when they first login I was hoping it would be possible to set a default desktop configuration for each new user. I just wondered if it was possible? What I was looking at doing was setting up Ubuntu to authenticate against the Windows 2003 Server (so I don't have to create a bunch of individual accounts too) and have their home directories mount to their user directory on the server. I vaguely remember reading something about default settings in /etc/skel but after looking in that directory I see there are just some default files for bash. Is it possible to put a set of default files in to /etc/skel and is there any specific configuration files I need? Ta, Rob Lockdown editor introduced in Gnome 2.20 (Feisty) seemed to have that kind of ability. Is anything in http://library.gnome.org/admin/deployment-guide/ any use? You could put scripts in /etc/skel/.bashrc that get run on first login to perform certain actions. (Check a .firstrun file exists, if so run the scripts which deletes the file). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing default settings for all users
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 14:10 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: Hi folks, I'm in the process of trying to roll out Ubuntu across one of our offices as a replacement to Windows XP. At the moment on Windows XP we have a standard desktop which includes desktop background, Internet Explorer proxy settings and other tweaks. Now rather than have the hassle of setting up each individual users desktop when they first login I was hoping it would be possible to set a default desktop configuration for each new user. I just wondered if it was possible? What I was looking at doing was setting up Ubuntu to authenticate against the Windows 2003 Server (so I don't have to create a bunch of individual accounts too) and have their home directories mount to their user directory on the server. I vaguely remember reading something about default settings in /etc/skel but after looking in that directory I see there are just some default files for bash. Is it possible to put a set of default files in to /etc/skel and is there any specific configuration files I need? /etc/skel can contain files to go in the users home directory, so many things will be able to be customised via that mechanism. Some applications have other ways to set defaults. For instance you could configure the layout of the panel etc. in a GNOME desktop by setting up gconf defaults. This is probably easier than crafting the appropriate file for gconf and dropping it in /etc/skel/. Thanks, James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
THank you all for your help and advice. 2008/10/15 Eddie Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cheers, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:17:41 +0100, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well it depends exactly what you want to do. To give you an idea... I have put a TV card in my kids PC after their TV blew up. The original idea was to install MythTV and use a Freeview TV card so they could record their favourite programmes. However the actual Freeview card would only pick up a handful of channels. So in the end I just put in an analogue TV card (Pinnacle PCI PC TV Card) and plugged in a Freeview box. I decided to just use TV Time to view the output from the Freeview box and their games consoles on the monitor. So I'd say if you want to just watch TV on the PC, a basic analogue card will probably do the job. Just get a SCART to Phono cable so you can plug the Virgin box into the PC. You'll also probably need something for audio (some boxes have stereo photo outputs on the back, others don't so you'll need a 3.5mm to 2 x Photo cable and optionally a dual phono to phono coupler if you don't have audio output on the box, so you can connect the audio from the phonos on the SCART cable to the line in on your PC sound card). I haven't had a Virgin Media box in a while so I can't remember what outputs it has. Another alternative if your box supports it is to use an S-Video cable from the Virgin box to the PC. That'll give a better quality picture. Or you could get a Freeview card and use MythTV. That way MythTV will be able to record the Freeview channels to your hard drive. With multiple Freeview sticks/cards you'll be able to record more than one channel, or watch one channel while recording another but you'll need an aerial connection as a minimum, and possibly depending on your setup, a Freeview aerial on the roof (you may be lucky and get away without this). Rob I'm currently setting up a MythTV network at my house and I've been trying out various technologies and angles of attack to get the best possible performance and widest choice at the lowest cost. I started with Freeview as thats the easiest route hardware wise. A decent DVB-T TV card from a decent aerial and thats pretty much it. However the digital reception in my area isn't very good and I had to have a 16 ft pole extended fully on a TNK bracket at the highest point of my house to get all the muxes and even then Ch.4 was poor in some atmospheric conditions. Reality dawned that DVB-T wasn't going to be the best solution. Plus I was worried about aeroplanes hitting it. At about the same time Freesat starting hitting the headlines so I started looking into that. It's basically Sky's FTA channels rebranded because whoever is driving the digital switchover has started to realise there's no way we can all switch over in 2012 using only DVB-T. Quick deal with the devil later and they can save face. So my next plan involved buying a quad output LNB for my Sky dish and a DVB-S USB tuner eBay special. I fitted the LNB, fed a cable to my server and plugged the USB DVB-s tuner in. Ubuntu Hardy wouldn't recognise it as a video device and neither would MythTV. There's nothing about that particular device on the V4L or MythTV site so I've given up with that. My latest venture involved getting a 2nd hand Sky box (£3 off eBay :-) ) and hooking it up via composite to a Hauppauge PVR150, going down the well beaten track. Just waiting for the PVR150 to arrive. Finally the Freeview thing isn't quite Sky's FTA channels like many claim. If you look at which channels on Sky are actually FTA there aren't many. All the BBCs and ITV's are unencrypted as is Ch4, but not Ch5. Almost everything else is encrypted. You need to buy a card from Sky to receive all the Freesat extra channels which costs £20 and so far I'm not having much luck getting them to sell me one. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? 2008/10/15 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i will look at those links.! I dont want any of my cards trying to catch the transmission themselves as aerial reception is terrible. Ive got virgin cable so that would be the primary source! I suppose i will look into Regards Javad Ahh in that case you'll need a standard analogue TV card. I'm pretty certain that Virgin Media don't allow any third party equipment to be attached to their network (so you'll have to use their cable box plugged into a TV card using analogue output from the box). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 10:03 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:49 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? 2008/10/15 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i will look at those links.! I dont want any of my cards trying to catch the transmission themselves as aerial reception is terrible. Ive got virgin cable so that would be the primary source! I suppose i will look into Regards Javad Hi, Wanting to use virgin i.e. cable RF input has more than one issue. 1. QAM demod and decode. Yes you can get cards that will do this. 2. Nagra decoding. Subscriber coding used by NTL and Telewest now Virgin. You are very unlikely to find a card that will support this and have the necessary card reader. This is very protected technology! Regards Phil Hi, You can take input from your STB RF (non F connector) out if available, but that will be a purely analogue signal. Regards Phil signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Remastersys
Has anyone been having trouble lately with making backups with remastersys? (I know there are a few Ubuntu UK'ers that like this tool) e.g. When installing a distro from a disk created with the Backup option, GDM is failing to start etc... Thanks! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Changing default settings for all users
Hi folks, I'm in the process of trying to roll out Ubuntu across one of our offices as a replacement to Windows XP. At the moment on Windows XP we have a standard desktop which includes desktop background, Internet Explorer proxy settings and other tweaks. Now rather than have the hassle of setting up each individual users desktop when they first login I was hoping it would be possible to set a default desktop configuration for each new user. I just wondered if it was possible? What I was looking at doing was setting up Ubuntu to authenticate against the Windows 2003 Server (so I don't have to create a bunch of individual accounts too) and have their home directories mount to their user directory on the server. I vaguely remember reading something about default settings in /etc/skel but after looking in that directory I see there are just some default files for bash. Is it possible to put a set of default files in to /etc/skel and is there any specific configuration files I need? Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
I believe that you need an analogue card like rob says. You then plug the virgin box into into and tv into it in the same way that you do a tv. You will then have the issue though that you can only change channels by using the virgin remote control (which also stuffs up being able to automatically record programmes). You won't be able to change channels using the pc or pc card remote without installing an IR blaster to relay the signal. However some virgin boxes are very picky about IR blasters. A quick google found this page http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=643455 And a bit more googling will pull up info about IR blasters and the like -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Rob Beard wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? How is all this going to be affected by analogue broadcasts being stopped soon? Eddie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Javad Ayaz wrote: I only want to view the channels on my virgin subscription. Not really planning on recording anything. I just wana get rid of the tv because its taking up space. Im planning on geting a bigger monitor soon so id just the monitor as my primary tv viewing method. In that case, chances are that this will probably work (Hauppage WinTV Express PCI): http://www.ebuyer.com/product/48062 If you get something like this to go with it... http://www.ebuyer.com/product/137225 Then you'll be able to connect the SCART output from the Virgin Media box to the TV Tuner. You'll need these cables too for the video and audio... http://www.ebuyer.com/product/124532 - This will plug into the Line In on your sound card (usually a blue socket on the back of the PC) and into the Red/White connectors on the SCART adaptor.. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/130888 - One of these will do for the video, you'll just need to plug one connector (say the red one) into the yellow socket on the SCART adaptor, and the other end (again red one) into the yellow input on the TV card. This will give you stereo audio and a decent (i.e. better than RF) quality picture. Then just install something like tvtime to view the TV. You should get the sound through your PC speakers. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i will look at those links.! I dont want any of my cards trying to catch the transmission themselves as aerial reception is terrible. Ive got virgin cable so that would be the primary source! I suppose i will look into Regards Javad Ahh in that case you'll need a standard analogue TV card. I'm pretty certain that Virgin Media don't allow any third party equipment to be attached to their network (so you'll have to use their cable box plugged into a TV card using analogue output from the box). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Eddie Armstrong wrote: Rob Beard wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? How is all this going to be affected by analogue broadcasts being stopped soon? Eddie Well the majority of analogue tuner cards have at least composite video input and some have S-Video so chances are you can plug in a Freeview box assuming the box itself has composite video output (which is usually the case). Some (although not all) Freeview boxes also have RF modules in them so they can output an RF signal (a bit like a VCR does). If all else fails, a Freeview box plugged in via SCART to an old VCR which is in turn plugged into the TV tuner via RF would probably work. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
i dont have an aerial. im only using virgin (freeview only) to watch tv! 2008/10/15 Eddie Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rob Beard wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? How is all this going to be affected by analogue broadcasts being stopped soon? Eddie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Darren Mansell wrote: I'm currently setting up a MythTV network at my house and I've been trying out various technologies and angles of attack to get the best possible performance and widest choice at the lowest cost. I started with Freeview as thats the easiest route hardware wise. A decent DVB-T TV card from a decent aerial and thats pretty much it. However the digital reception in my area isn't very good and I had to have a 16 ft pole extended fully on a TNK bracket at the highest point of my house to get all the muxes and even then Ch.4 was poor in some atmospheric conditions. Reality dawned that DVB-T wasn't going to be the best solution. Plus I was worried about aeroplanes hitting it. I have a similar problem in my area. My TV and freeview boxes pick up all the channels fine but the DVB-T card I have won't pick everything up. I've got to wait until about April/May next year for the switch over. At about the same time Freesat starting hitting the headlines so I started looking into that. It's basically Sky's FTA channels rebranded because whoever is driving the digital switchover has started to realise there's no way we can all switch over in 2012 using only DVB-T. Quick deal with the devil later and they can save face. This is where it gets confusing, there's FreeSat and FreeSat from Sky. FreeSat uses the FreeSat or Free To Air boxes and FreeSat from Sky uses a Sky box. Saying that, the majority of what you can get on Freeview is now Free to Air on Freesat anyway. From what I understand Channel 5's channels are currently encrypted and can only be received with a Sky box. Sods law I can't get Sky where I live because of some trees blocking the signals and I can't afford to get the dish moved. So my next plan involved buying a quad output LNB for my Sky dish and a DVB-S USB tuner eBay special. I fitted the LNB, fed a cable to my server and plugged the USB DVB-s tuner in. Ubuntu Hardy wouldn't recognise it as a video device and neither would MythTV. There's nothing about that particular device on the V4L or MythTV site so I've given up with that. That's a shame. I guess support is a bit patchy at the moment with generic 'e-bay specials'? My latest venture involved getting a 2nd hand Sky box (£3 off eBay :-) ) and hooking it up via composite to a Hauppauge PVR150, going down the well beaten track. Just waiting for the PVR150 to arrive. Ooh they're good cards. I have an Adaptec VideOh PCI card which is based on the same chipset. When it's detected and working (mine currently doesn't work on 8.04.1 for some reason) you can literally cat the output from /dev/video0 to an MPEG2 file (well, once you set the parameters such as source and TV format). It's great for quick easy transfer of old home videos to MPEG2 video for editing too. Finally the Freeview thing isn't quite Sky's FTA channels like many claim. If you look at which channels on Sky are actually FTA there aren't many. All the BBCs and ITV's are unencrypted as is Ch4, but not Ch5. Almost everything else is encrypted. You need to buy a card from Sky to receive all the Freesat extra channels which costs £20 and so far I'm not having much luck getting them to sell me one. Hmm, that's strange, I'd have thought they'd be happy to sell one. Maybe they just want to get you to subscribe to Sky instead? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
On Wed, 15 Oct 2008 10:37:07 +0100, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i dont have an aerial. im only using virgin (freeview only) to watch tv! As said below your best option is to get an analogue TV card as they have composite and s-video in. Generally Hauppauge (pron. hop-hog, not haw-parsch!) PVR-150, 250, 350 etc work very well with Video4Linux (V4L) which is what MythTV uses and I assume almost anything else that uses the TV card on Linux. You can connect the Virgin box to your TV card using a SCART to composite converter, where you get 1 yellow phono for video, 1 red phono for right audio and 1 white phono for left/mono audio. If your cable box sends s-video out via the SCART socket (unlikely, almost every Sky box doesn't) then you can get a SCART converter with an s-video output too so you can get a better picture. You will have to change channel using your Virgin remote control and then just watch the picture on the screen. If you ever want to record or time-shift TV (pause live TV, rewind, FF etc like Sky+) you will be better getting a PVR TV card as they have hardware MPEG-2 encoders so the computer doesn't have to work very hard to encode video before storing it on the hard disk. If you plan on just watching TV then any analogue Hauppauge card should be fine on Linux. The audio output from your Virgin box is likely to be coming out of the SCART and out of 2 audio phono connectors. You can use either but you will need a 3.5mm stereo jack to twin RCA phono cable to go into the audio input of your sound card on your PC. Or just take the sound direct to an amplifier / speakers. HTH Darren -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 09:49 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? 2008/10/15 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i will look at those links.! I dont want any of my cards trying to catch the transmission themselves as aerial reception is terrible. Ive got virgin cable so that would be the primary source! I suppose i will look into Regards Javad Hi, Wanting to use virgin i.e. cable RF input has more than one issue. 1. QAM demod and decode. Yes you can get cards that will do this. 2. Nagra decoding. Subscriber coding used by NTL and Telewest now Virgin. You are very unlikely to find a card that will support this and have the necessary card reader. This is very protected technology! Regards Phil signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)
This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took the Metro, making it the first newspaper in space. It also mentioned some other space tourists including our very own Mark Shuttleworth! -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Catch me on #ubuntu-uk and #ubuntu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)
2008/10/13 Josh Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took the Metro, making it the first newspaper in space. It also mentioned some other space tourists including our very own Mark Shuttleworth! We had a couple of Ubuntu spots recently. My daughter 5 year-old was on the way to school in the car when she shouted Mummy Mummy! Ubuntu!. She pointed to a lad of about 16 who was wearing an Ubuntu T-shirt. Also last Friday Clare and I went to the BBC Television Centre to see the filming of episode 6 of a TV programme called 'Genius' with Dave Gorman. There was one segment in it where I was behind the presenter with my big Ubuntu logo jumper on. Dunno if it will be spot-able when it's on next year. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
I only want to view the channels on my virgin subscription. Not really planning on recording anything. I just wana get rid of the tv because its taking up space. Im planning on geting a bigger monitor soon so id just the monitor as my primary tv viewing method. 2008/10/15 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? Well it depends exactly what you want to do. To give you an idea... I have put a TV card in my kids PC after their TV blew up. The original idea was to install MythTV and use a Freeview TV card so they could record their favourite programmes. However the actual Freeview card would only pick up a handful of channels. So in the end I just put in an analogue TV card (Pinnacle PCI PC TV Card) and plugged in a Freeview box. I decided to just use TV Time to view the output from the Freeview box and their games consoles on the monitor. So I'd say if you want to just watch TV on the PC, a basic analogue card will probably do the job. Just get a SCART to Phono cable so you can plug the Virgin box into the PC. You'll also probably need something for audio (some boxes have stereo photo outputs on the back, others don't so you'll need a 3.5mm to 2 x Photo cable and optionally a dual phono to phono coupler if you don't have audio output on the box, so you can connect the audio from the phonos on the SCART cable to the line in on your PC sound card). I haven't had a Virgin Media box in a while so I can't remember what outputs it has. Another alternative if your box supports it is to use an S-Video cable from the Virgin box to the PC. That'll give a better quality picture. Or you could get a Freeview card and use MythTV. That way MythTV will be able to record the Freeview channels to your hard drive. With multiple Freeview sticks/cards you'll be able to record more than one channel, or watch one channel while recording another but you'll need an aerial connection as a minimum, and possibly depending on your setup, a Freeview aerial on the roof (you may be lucky and get away without this). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 19:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: 2008/10/13 Josh Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED]: This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took the Metro, making it the first newspaper in space. It also mentioned some other space tourists including our very own Mark Shuttleworth! We had a couple of Ubuntu spots recently. My daughter 5 year-old was on the way to school in the car when she shouted Mummy Mummy! Ubuntu!. She pointed to a lad of about 16 who was wearing an Ubuntu T-shirt. Also last Friday Clare and I went to the BBC Television Centre to see the filming of episode 6 of a TV programme called 'Genius' with Dave Gorman. There was one segment in it where I was behind the presenter with my big Ubuntu logo jumper on. Dunno if it will be spot-able when it's on next year. Cheers, Al. Those would be good first words! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Cheers, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a ubuntu compatible TV-CARD
Javad Ayaz wrote: now that you understand my setup...would an analogue tv card be better than a digital one or vice versa? Well it depends exactly what you want to do. To give you an idea... I have put a TV card in my kids PC after their TV blew up. The original idea was to install MythTV and use a Freeview TV card so they could record their favourite programmes. However the actual Freeview card would only pick up a handful of channels. So in the end I just put in an analogue TV card (Pinnacle PCI PC TV Card) and plugged in a Freeview box. I decided to just use TV Time to view the output from the Freeview box and their games consoles on the monitor. So I'd say if you want to just watch TV on the PC, a basic analogue card will probably do the job. Just get a SCART to Phono cable so you can plug the Virgin box into the PC. You'll also probably need something for audio (some boxes have stereo photo outputs on the back, others don't so you'll need a 3.5mm to 2 x Photo cable and optionally a dual phono to phono coupler if you don't have audio output on the box, so you can connect the audio from the phonos on the SCART cable to the line in on your PC sound card). I haven't had a Virgin Media box in a while so I can't remember what outputs it has. Another alternative if your box supports it is to use an S-Video cable from the Virgin box to the PC. That'll give a better quality picture. Or you could get a Freeview card and use MythTV. That way MythTV will be able to record the Freeview channels to your hard drive. With multiple Freeview sticks/cards you'll be able to record more than one channel, or watch one channel while recording another but you'll need an aerial connection as a minimum, and possibly depending on your setup, a Freeview aerial on the roof (you may be lucky and get away without this). Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Authenticating against Samba/NT 4.0 domain
Hi folks, As part of the change over from Windows XP to Ubuntu I'm trying to get the Ubuntu machine to authenticate against a domain. At the moment we have a Windows 2003 SBS server which is going to be _hopefully_ replaced with SME Server 7.3 which provides a domain via Samba. Now I've got this working before on earlier versions of Ubuntu (6.10, 7.04) but not tried it in a while. What I'm trying to do is get the Ubuntu box to authenticate against the domain so when a user comes along, they can login using their Windows login details (saves me hassle of creating extra accounts and keeping passwords up to date). Previously I was able to follow this guide to authenticate the users... http://tech.canterburyschool.org/tech/UbuntuWorkstations_2fAuthenticationSetup The problem is, I'm trying this on Intrepid and some of the configuration files (where it relates to pam) have changed and not being an expert on pam, I don't know what to alter. I see that in some of the palm config files it now uses pam_permit.so rather than pam_unix.so. I just wondered if pam_permit.so looks in another config file? Before anyone asks too, I have tried Likewise Open which appears to be great if you're running Active Directory which at home (where I'm doing the testing) I'm not and eventually we're not going to be running Active Directory at all on the site, well not until Samba 4 is released. Anyone got any ideas? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)
On 15 Oct 2008, at 19:00, Alan Pope wrote: Also last Friday Clare and I went to the BBC Television Centre to see the filming of episode 6 of a TV programme called 'Genius' with Dave Gorman. There was one segment in it where I was behind the presenter with my big Ubuntu logo jumper on. Dunno if it will be spot-able when it's on next year. Cheers, Al. That's awesome! Should the podcast be giving away a prize for the best product-placement of this type, I wonder...? All the best, Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)
On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 Oct 2008, at 19:00, Alan Pope wrote: Also last Friday Clare and I went to the BBC Television Centre to see the filming of episode 6 of a TV programme called 'Genius' with Dave Gorman. There was one segment in it where I was behind the presenter with my big Ubuntu logo jumper on. Dunno if it will be spot-able when it's on next year. Cheers, Al. That's awesome! Should the podcast be giving away a prize for the best product-placement of this type, I wonder...? All the best, Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I don't think that Alan can win on his own podcast :P Although I may have an entry... Do it! When is the next podcast arriving anyway? It seems like ages since the last one. Mj -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)
2008/10/15 Matt Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't think that Alan can win on his own podcast :P You honestly wouldn't believe the lengths to which we go to ensure the competition winner is a) not one of us (not actually that hard to do), b) random. Buy me a pint at the Intrepid release party and I might just divulge the details. :) When is the next podcast arriving anyway? It seems like ages since the last one. We had a scheduling problem last week so it was recorded at the weekend (a week late). It should be out this week. (It's all recorded, edited and mixed, we just need to all listen to and check the preview mix, decide on an episode name, encode it, upload it, sync the mirrors and create the web pages, then announce it) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
