OT tablet readers.

2010-12-05 Thread James Finstrom
So I was wanting a kindle then my interest was sparked by these readers running andriod. Picked up a pandigital novel but turns out they are not that great. After about 4 hours of playing took it back and picked up the velocity Cruz reader. Out of the gate it looks like they want you to hack this

Anyone know how to load DV from a Movie Camera over Firewire

2010-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I have been trying to get dvgrab to work with my setup and I can't seem to get it to grab the video from my camera over firewire. It starts the camera says it is grabbing video, but never writes a file with the video to my hard disk. Running dvgrab as a normal user occaisionally gives me a

Re: OT tablet readers.

2010-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
I am curious about your experiences with tablet readers. I have a Kindle and love it, but I am interested in the greater capabilites of a tablet. Part of the hype that differentiates the tablets from the e-ink devices is the following. E-ink advocates say that reading a tablet can cause more eye

Re: OT tablet readers.

2010-12-05 Thread James Finstrom
I think as far as Just a book the kindle and related devices are the way to go. After spending about 4 hours with each of these devices I think the cruz is a mile ahead of the novel. In the end it is like looking at a computer from the book aspect. I don't like reading off a screen so they both

Re: Anyone know how to load DV from a Movie Camera over Firewire

2010-12-05 Thread Alan Dayley
I have always used Kino and the interface to dvgrab and other tools in my acquisition of video from my camera. I have not seen driver problems like you are describing. And yes, that does look like a driver problem to me. I was always on 32-bit Linux. It appears you are using 64-bit. Are there

RE: Kernel source spoken aloud

2010-12-05 Thread ChasM Marshall
http://www.linux.fm/ How disappointing. eSpeak is silent in my browser. You'd think they'd at least broadcast in stereo... (-: Chas.M. :-) Subject: Re: Kernel source spoken aloud From: technomage.ha...@gmail.com Date: Sun, 28 Nov 2010 13:41:33 -0700 To:

Re: Anyone know how to load DV from a Movie Camera over Firewire

2010-12-05 Thread Mark Phillips
On Sun, Dec 5, 2010 at 5:28 PM, Alan Dayley aday...@gmail.com wrote: I have always used Kino and the interface to dvgrab and other tools in my acquisition of video from my camera. I have not seen driver problems like you are describing. And yes, that does look like a driver problem to me.

Re: OT? why not here?

2010-12-05 Thread der.hans
Am 04. Dec, 2010 schwätzte Lyle Tuttle so: moin moin, http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/mf_algorithmolympics/ That would be really cool. Do we have any high schools that have good programming programs? Richard Whitehouse at ASU has been using an automated grading program for his classes

Re: job board/ Flash Player/Web Page

2010-12-05 Thread Technomage Hawke
don't forget to make it accessible for those of us who are blind musicians. believe me, there's rather a lot of blind musicians. smile -Eric On Dec 5, 2010, at 1:59 PM, Dave Trau wrote: So the concept is to create a flash player that can musicians and there friends can copy a code and imbed