[ubuntu-uk] Empathy and Unwanted Contacts
Hi Everytime I log into Empathy I get a barrage of requests from the same people I don't know on my Yahoo Messenger. I decline the contact request and 5 mins later I am pestered again by the same user. How to sto Jon Farmer Tel 07795 118140 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu compatible digital voice recorder
I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent digital voice recorder that is compatible with Ubuntu. I am heading off on fieldwork where i will need to record interviews for subsequent transcribing. The recorder need not be too sophisticated and ideally fairly cheap. It just needs do the basics of recording, have a decent battery life and memory (i will be working in rural Ethiopia so away from power points for extended periods) and be small enough to make it easy to carry around (long walks across farmers fields in the mountains) and not intrusive in interviews. From what i can tell most people suggest the Olympus or Sony models but both of these appear to have compatibility issues with Ubuntu. If anyone has any ideas, they'd be very much appreciated. Thanks, James. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu compatible digital voice recorder
On 29 September 2011 15:24, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent digital voice recorder that is compatible with Ubuntu. I am heading off on fieldwork where i will need to record interviews for subsequent transcribing. The recorder need not be too sophisticated and ideally fairly cheap. It just needs do the basics of recording, have a decent battery life and memory (i will be working in rural Ethiopia so away from power points for extended periods) and be small enough to make it easy to carry around (long walks across farmers fields in the mountains) and not intrusive in interviews. From what i can tell most people suggest the Olympus or Sony models but both of these appear to have compatibility issues with Ubuntu. If anyone has any ideas, they'd be very much appreciated. Thanks, James. I would have thought a cheap mp3 player which supports voice recording would be ideal. They just dump the recording to the SD card as a wav or mp3 or whatever. -- Regards, Kris Douglas. www.krisd.eu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu compatible digital voice recorder
On 29 September 2011 15:24, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent digital voice recorder that is compatible with Ubuntu. Any Zoom one will. They record WAV/MP3. The Zoom H1 is quite plasticy and cheap looking but has decent microphones. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu compatible digital voice recorder
Hi James, I use the Sony ICD-UX200 http://www.sony.co.uk/product/dic-voice-and-music-recorders/icd-ux200. I haven't come across any compatibility issues with it. It's got good sound quality and, importantly, a USB port which hides away very neatly. When plugged in you can drag and drop sound files as if it were a normal USB stick. The battery life is good and it has 2Gb of memory. It's maybe a bit more expensive than other similar devices (around £80), but it seems to do the job very well. I mainly use it for writing articles and notes. The main thing missing from it is a decent rewind button whilst recording; once it's recorded you can't re-record the last few seconds if you've made a mistake. It sounds like that wouldn't be too much a of a problem for your sort of work. For transcription I use Express scribe software: http://www.nch.com.au/scribe/index.html. There is a free linux version, but I couldn't get it to work. However the windows version works well in wine. If you find a better open source alternative please let me know! Alternatively, the voice recorder itself has a playback function where you can slow down the speed for easier transcription, or you can play the recordings in any mp3 player (but without the ability to slow it down effectively in the ones I tried). At work I've used various olympus voice recorders, which have the advantage of a better rewind to re-record function. However, as you say I'm not sure what the compatibility is like and they tend to be a lot more expensive. I've also tried a Philips voice recorder (I can't remember which one) but it was a lot more fiddly to use and didn't have the inbuilt USB or slow playback functions. All the best with your work in Ethiopia, it sounds interesting. Kind regards, Tim On 29/09/11 15:43, Alan Pope wrote: On 29 September 2011 15:24, James Morrisseymorrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: I was wondering if anyone knew of a decent digital voice recorder that is compatible with Ubuntu. Any Zoom one will. They record WAV/MP3. The Zoom H1 is quite plasticy and cheap looking but has decent microphones. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free Software Foundation re-launches its Free Software Directory, with over 6500 programs listed
In case it is of interest. Por si es de interés. -- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents plain txt or pdf are prefered. - Mensaje original - BOSTON, Massachusetts, USA -- Thursday, September 29, 2011 -- The Free Software Foundation (FSF) today announced the re-launch of its Free Software Directory at http://directory.fsf.org. The Directory lists over 6,500 programs that are free for any computer user to download, run, and share. It was first launched nearly a decade ago, but the new version brings a host of new features designed to make it a more useful and current resource for users, developers, advocates, and researchers. Since its inception, the Directory has been one of our most popular and important resources. Its careful curation has made it a reliable place to find applications for any purpose that are free -- as in freedom -- for everyone. Users can find programs they need, and advocates can find programs to recommend. But with so much free software being written and shared now, we wanted to update the technology we use for the site so that contributors can participate in examining and posting new entries, and users can more easily search them, said John Sullivan, FSF's executive director. Because each entry is individually checked and tested, users know that any program they come across in the Directory will be [free software](http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html) with free documentation and without proprietary software requirements. Programs that run on proprietary operating systems like Mac and Windows are listed, but only if they also run fully on GNU/Linux. The new version of the Directory will continue to provide users these same assurances, but it has been rebuilt so that members of the free software community can become familiar with the criteria and then work together to curate and grow the catalog. The new site is based on MediaWiki, free software most famously known for powering Wikipedia. It also uses a set of extensions called Semantic MediaWiki that add advanced search and presentation capabilities, structured to be useful for reading by both humans and data-mining programs. We're empowering contributors to improve every aspect of the site, from its look and feel to enabling more types of information and multimedia to be associated with each individual listing, states campaigns manager, Joshua Gay, who adds that we also have plans to collaborate around sharing data with GNU/Linux distributions and other free software projects. To most users of the Directory, the key aspect of the new software is that it will make it easier for them to find the program they need. An extensive and flexible category system, plus over 40,000 keywords and more than 40 different fields of information, enhance both simple and advanced searching. Yaron Koren, one of the free software developers behind Semantic MediaWiki, gave support and help in the re-launch effort. I created the Semantic Forms extension in order to allow for sites that combine the collaborative nature of a wiki with the structure and queryability of a database; so it's heartening to see Semantic MediaWiki and Semantic Forms being used for that purpose, and so comprehensively, in the Free Software Directory, he said. To learn more about the Directory, visit http://directory.fsf.org. To find out how you can get involved in helping the Directory, or suggest improvements, visit http://directory.fsf.org/wiki/FSD:Participate or send email to bug-direct...@fsf.org. Further technical behind-the-scenes details about the re-launch of the Directory can be found in a blog post by Sullivan at http://www.fsf.org/blogs/directory/behind-the-scenes. ### About the Free Software Foundation The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux. Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA. -- Follow us on identi.ca at http://identi.ca/fsf | Subscribe to our blogs via RSS at http://fsf.org/blogs/RSS Join us as an associate member at http://www.fsf.org/jf Sent from the Free Software Foundation, 51 Franklin Street Fifth Floor Boston, MA 02110-1335 United States You can unsubscribe to this mailing list by visiting the link http://crm.fsf.org/index.php?q=civicrm/mailing/unsubscribereset=1jid=125230qid=526550h=d867f6d0a75a3365. To unsubscribe from
