uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread Aidan Gauland
Anyone heard of this: http://www.ubrowser.com/ ? A few of my first thoughts on it... "HTML on steroids" "Ok, great, now we've got 3D graphics designers trying to make the Internet too artistic" (no offense to people who like to give their web pages a little eye candy) ;-) "Hey, they beat Micro

Re: Recommendation for printers

2008-05-19 Thread Martin Wehipeihana
Lexmark E120 Built in networking accessable from linux & windaz works brilliant :-) On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 10:41 PM, Graeme Kiyoto-Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I am looking to buy a new printer. My wife has a Vista Laptop and I want > her to be able to print via our Ethernet hub

Re: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
it looks to me like a standard web page rendered (using gecko) as a texture to a cube, not a 3D web page doesn't look much different than compiz fusion's cube effect. quote from the page "Its primary purpose is to help me integrate Gecko into my company's software - a 3D virtual world called Se

RE: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread David Lowe
Well I for one am waiting impatiently for the day when I can interact with web sites on a 50" screen using hand gestures just Tom Cruise in Minority Report. Maybe this technology takes us a just a little bit closer ;-) - D -Original Message- From: Daniel Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread Jim Cheetham
On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 9:01 AM, David Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well I for one am waiting impatiently for the day when I can interact with > web sites on a 50" screen using hand gestures just Tom Cruise in Minority > Report. Maybe this technology takes us a just a little bit closer ;-)

RE: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread John Blance
Try going to a HITLab open day - they already have this tech available as demo[1], and plenty of other _very_ impressive technology Well worth a visit for all geeks! [1] Was probably this http://www.hitlabnz.org/wiki/MultiTouch_Display John -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED

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2008-05-19 Thread Gabriella Turek
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Fwd: Streaming wma on Hardy Heron?

2008-05-19 Thread Christopher Sawtell
Does anybody know how to persuade the Hardy Heron to play the music in the Naxos library which I am told is a wma stream? http://cccpl.naxosmusiclibrary.com.libezp01.slc.ac.nz/default.asp# You'll need a Library card with a pin to open that url. I have loaded the mplayer essential codecs, and the

Re: Streaming wma on Hardy Heron?

2008-05-19 Thread Nick Rout
1. Try and open it in totem and totem should downlaod any necessary codecs; or 2. use mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile mystream [url] to dump the stream, then use ffmpeg -i and midentify to see what the format and codecs are and report back. Can't find my library card at this juncture. On Tue, May

Re: Streaming wma on Hardy Heron?

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
have you got w32codecs installed? grab them from here medibuntu.org or add this to your sources.list file deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ hardy free non-free 1. Try and open it in totem and totem should downlaod any necessary codecs; or 2. use mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile mystream [url] t

Re: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread John Carter
On Mon, 19 May 2008, Aidan Gauland wrote: Anyone heard of this: http://www.ubrowser.com/ And I thought the tag was irritating! A whole raft of things are emerging that make one say, oooh, cool... at first http://ejohn.org/blog/processingjs/ http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials:Live_Examp

Re: lightweight linux distros

2008-05-19 Thread Cam Mckenzie
NimbleX KDE small - but not sure about RPM http://custom.nimblex.net/ 2008/5/20 Kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi I'm after a fairly specific *nix distro. I want to run a server/test > machine and would like a disto with the following attributes > > Small (the machine only has a 2gb hd) > Runs th

Re: uBrowser

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
Processingjs looks pretty cool still slower than flash tho even in firefox 3 On Mon, 19 May 2008, Aidan Gauland wrote: Anyone heard of this: http://www.ubrowser.com/ And I thought the tag was irritating! A whole raft of things are emerging that make one say, oooh, cool... at first ht

Re: lightweight linux distros

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:27:04 +1200 Kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi I'm after a fairly specific *nix distro. I want to run a server/test > machine and would like a disto with the following attributes > > Small (the machine only has a 2gb hd) > Runs the kde desktop > Uses RPM as a package man

Re: lightweight linux distros

2008-05-19 Thread Daniel Hill
Steve Holdoway wrote: On Tue, 20 May 2008 16:27:04 +1200 Kerry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I'm after a fairly specific *nix distro. I want to run a server/test machine and would like a disto with the following attributes Small (the machine only has a 2gb hd) Runs the kde desktop Uses RPM

Re: lightweight linux distros

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 20 May 2008 17:24:24 +1200 Daniel Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > DSL is debian based last time I checked apt-get install rpm -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: lightweight linux distros

2008-05-19 Thread Steve Holdoway
On Tue, 20 May 2008 18:01:38 +1200 Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 20 May 2008 17:24:24 +1200 > Daniel Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > DSL is debian based last time I checked > > apt-get install rpm Sorry, missed the (: -- Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>