For anyone interested in setting something up for Software Freedom Day
2009 - which is on Saturday 19th September.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Cheers,
Al.
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Date: 2009/7/5
Subject: [SFD-discuss] We have
2009/7/8 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
Haha. A blow to Linux - it IS Linux!
A blow to linux distros..
How many OEMs ship Ubuntu as an easily available option on
netbooks/laptops/desktops/ right now, and how many will in 2010 when
Google OS releases?
How many will Google have?
Will this
Hi David,
Thanks for the mail.
2009/7/8 David King linux...@avoura.com:
Interesting podcast, entertaining as usual.
Thanks for that, it certainly motivates us to have positive feedback!
However, I did not hear any references to the Stolen Earth, which title
I assume you took from a recent
2009/7/9 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
Can I have the URL.I dont have it. Is this something to do with Ubuntu?
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/
:)
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2009/7/10 Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com:
Nope and nope, it just seemed to load a server kernel for little/no reason :)
There will be a reason, we just don't know with the detail you've
provided what that reason is yet.
Did they install from the repo or from sun.com, did they download the
2009/7/15 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
I use firefox and thunderbird, i know evolution does not take up much
space, but by removing it I can save a few hundred kilobytes, then why
not, removing un used packages keeps systems un cluttered.
Depends on your definition of 'clutter'.
what do
2009/7/15 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
programs that I will never use, i guess.
Programs you know of, that you will never use. Bet there's a zillion
command line programs that you wont use :)
Ok thanks, seems rather odd that removing something like evolution can
cause so many issues.
2009/7/16 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
I subscribed to a podcast from the bbc websitei then accidently moved the
podcasts to my music library.
i have deleted them from the music lib section in banshee but now cant
subscribe to them again...i can subscribe to others just fine though.
2009/7/16 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
I saw today that Micro Mart and Computer Active both feature Linux on
the front cover, seemed aimed at beginners or those who haven't tried it
before. Computer Active had Ubuntu 9.04 and another distro on the CD.
There is special Computer Active in
2009/7/17 Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com:
If Mark was to sally forth to the land of the French and bought this item,
apart from the keyboard, which might be en Francais, to change the
localisation would you have to do a fresh install?
Depends if the language packages for -en had
2009/7/17 Chris Weaver ch...@resonancefm.com:
Wow that sounds incredibly opportune! I'm down in London sadly but would
certainly appreciate a video link.
A while ago Tony Whitmore made some screencasts showing how we edit
and mix the audio for the podcast using free software on Ubuntu. It
2009/7/18 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
...which worked fine, however the next update I did crashed half way through.
The computer will still boot but gives an error message after logging in
saying 'unable to initialize HAL' and it will not connect to the internet. I
made a bootable USB
2009/7/18 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
Thanks for that, it was the pci=noacpi I had forgot to do. Xubuntu then
failed while booting anyway, something about X terminal I think it was? But
I made a new usb stick with ubuntu server on which installed but it would
only give me the option to
2009/7/19 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
I have followed that up to the modprobe bit. It says 'FATAL: Module
pata_cs5535.ko not found.'. The command issued was /sbin/modprobe
pata_cs5535.ko. The .ko file is in /lib/modules/2v6v28-11-generic
Cannot work out from google what I am doing wrong
2009/7/19 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
That worked! The OS has installed to the hard drive, but it will only boot
with the usb stick plugged in.
Sounds like grub didnt get installed properly.
Without it grub fails saying 'Error 2'. Also,
once logged in, the home directory does not
2009/7/21 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
I suppose it is possible that one or other of the items plugged into the
hub may be the cause of the problem but I wondered if anyone could be
kind enough to comment.
The quick and easy test for that is to yank everything except the card
2009/7/21 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:06 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Another thing to do is see what messages appear in System -
Administration - Log File Viewer, at the point when you plug it in.
This may indicate what the problem is.
That's a good idea
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
Another thing to do is see what messages appear in System -
Administration - Log File Viewer, at the point when you plug it in.
This may indicate what the problem is.
I had a look at the sys log but it might just as well have been in
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
The log has been copied to http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/55502
Thanks for that, but it looks like the log file is truncated, it ends
at 08:49 and cuts off.
You should be able to select all from the edit menu and then copy
and paste again into
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
You should be able to select all from the edit menu and then copy
and paste again into the pastebin.
Sorry about that but that is what I did. Do you want me to try again?
Please.
Looks
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
I have now tried again and on 2 occasions the message and the icon
appeared. Also the mouse did not stop working.
http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/55536
Looks good:-
Jul 22 14:19:56 digital-darkroom hald: mounted /dev/sdc1 on behalf of uid
2009/7/23 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
I don't mind buying a new one but it feels a bit like you know who,
change the operating system and you need to change some hardware.
Who?
Alluding to Microsoft Windows I suspect.
2009/7/22 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
Where did you notice it out of interest?
Cheers,
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2009/7/23 Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com:
heres a link for linuxworld expo:http://tinyurl.com/mrfjfn
+3 points for using lmgtfy
+2 points for obscuring it via tinyurl
-5 points for top posting
-10 points for not noting that that the subsequent results don't
actually link to any official
2009/7/23 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
I must admit I was slightly surprised to see it, but here is what I saw:
http://www.bvents.com/event/172935-linuxworld-expo-uk-2009
Looks like a duff business events site to me. They seem to have just
scraped data from around the place. They even
2009/7/23 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com:
Not really liking to let things die gracefully be at peace, I wondered if I
could perhaps install just the basic, command-line parts of Ubuntu (linux
with all the package managers, I guess) see if I can get it running as a
little server for cron
2009/7/27 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Is there an equivelent of a calender / personal information manager (so
I can store what I am doing at a time / date and get reminders) for
gnome as I am usign ubuntu,
Evolution is preinstalled and does exactly this.
Hi Rob,
2009/8/7 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
I'm thinking maybe syncing between the phone and Evolution for
calendars, and maybe transferring music and videos between them - I'm
guessing that the phone will appear as a mass storage device, but if not
I can always pop out the memory card and
2009/8/12 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com:
Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of
Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets
updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko
come from anyway?
2009/8/13 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Liam Wilson wrote:
For those who haven't seen them, the new boot/login screens have been
unveiled by the art team. I think the do look rather darn sweet!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo
Ooh I like that, very polished.
From
2009/8/13 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
But DKMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
- ) requires lots of skills to install and use, as I recall from having
considered it to deal with my non-default interface driver problem.
It doesn't for apps like
2009/8/16 William Anderson ne...@well.com:
Whoever named that newsgroup needs a slap; British != UK.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
ubuntu-uk -- British Ubuntu Talk
I brought this up nearly 3 years ago on this list:-
2009/8/16 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com:
Hey, I'm using Thunderbird as my default mail application for my
Emails (As opposed to Evolution), and as I am subscribed to a number of
Mailing Lists, I thought it would be a lot simpler to organise the Lists
into folders, so each list has a
2009/9/8 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but
have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program.
It's a terminal based program. Open a terminal (Applications -
Accessories - Terminal) and run:-
sudo powertop
The
2009/9/10 Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com:
However I have not received anything from ubuntu-uk since Vol 52, Issue
30 on the 23/08/2009. Is there a problem?
I don't subscribe to the digest, so don't know of this problem.
Perhaps someone else who does can confirm it? (Assuming they get
2009/9/15 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
How well has this been implemented in the Ubuntu Environment? A pc
controlled by voice (especially its media) is what im thinking of here!
Seems a popular idea:-
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1826/
Cheers,
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Hi,
In the recent past I've wanted to take apart a couple of laptops to
increase their RAM, or change storage. Some are easy enough with a
simple flap, or removal of the keyboard to access the RAM slots.
Others seem to be more of a krypton factor style task. The Intel
Classmate seems to be one of
2009/9/19 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
This may give you some pointers, it covers VirtualBox on Windows XP (and
Ubuntu 7.10 I believe) but the principal is the same...
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox
The Ubuntu doc site has some good pages about it too.
2009/9/23 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Not really an answer but I went through this recently and I've ditched
iTunes completely, even on Windows. There are so many other legal music
download sites now that do not have the restrictions and DRM of iTunes
and some are considerably cheaper.
It's
FYI: Please read.
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From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com
Date: 2009/9/23
Subject: New LoCo Council Members sought..
To: Ubuntu local community team (LoCo) contacts
loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com
Hi LoCo teams!
A little while ago Nick Ali stepped down from
2009/9/28 Rik Boland rik_bol...@btinternet.com:
Nokia is releasing a new phone the runs Linux?
It runs Maemo which is based on Debian Linux as I understand it.
What model is it?
N900.
http://maemo.nokia.com/n900/
Cheers,
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Hi James,
2009/9/28 James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com:
Waiting on others responses. If there are no other takers for the Sunday I
will just do the Saturday and attend another myself.
I'd recommend you promote this via other means than just the -uk list.
Here's some ideas, to help you
2009/9/29 Chris Weaver ch...@resonancefm.com:
Does anyone have a system or app in place where they get the Windows style
disk is nearly full alerts? I realise it's an old bug/idea
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/17590/ but there doesn't (to my limited
knowledge) seem to be a viable solution.
2009/9/30 Adam Bagnall bagna...@googlemail.com:
Sorry for spamming the mailing list but I figured it's sort of relevant
as it's a linux job.
There's a UK linux jobs mailing list.. :)
https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/linuxjobs
Cheers,
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2009/10/7 Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com:
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Popey bought a Aspire Revo from eBuyer IIRC for about £150 (naked) that
is based on that board.
But prompts for a Vista CD (I sourced one, to use with MythTV) :)
SNIP
:p
Mine came completely blank, well, aside from
Hi all,
If any of you are around in Wolverhampton on the 25th October then you
might want to come along to OggCamp. It's an event created by the
people behind Ubuntu UK Podcast and Linux Outlaws Podcast. We're
hosting an 'unconference' where everyone is welcome (first come, first
served). It's
2009/10/10 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
I'm after a replacement battery for a Dell Inspiron 1525, hopefully for
less than the £80 Dell charge (25% of the cost of the laptop!). Anyone
have experience of a reliable supplier for OK low-cost latptop batteries?
I have bought a battery from
2009/10/11 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
If I were to buy an Apple iPod Nano, would I be going against all my
OSS beliefs and values?
Without knowing what your beliefs and values are that's an impossible
question to answer.
We can of course make some assumptions. But doing that
2009/10/14 Jamie Bennett ja...@linuxuk.org:
I have one an it runs fine on the O2 network, I have my iPhone sim in
it at the moment.
Overall impressions of the device?
And then again, impressions of it, if you'd had to pay £450-500 for it ;)
Cheers,
Al
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2009/10/14 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com:
Downloading ISOs on the day over wifi is always going to have issues.
Last time we had plenty of people bring CDs to the event. Must
remember the 64-bit Desktop ISOs next time though!
The loco can host a special private mirror which wont be flooded by
2009/10/14 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
How can I update these things? I dont remember this happening when I
updated to 9.04. That seemed to happen automatically, or I am not
remembering.
You're not remembering. It's standard procedure in the last 4 or so
versions to disable third party
2009/10/15 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com:
In the Software Sources applet, click on the Third Party tab.
The repositories that were disabled by the upgrade will not be ticked
in this list. You can re-enable them by ticking the box next to each.
This might be unwise. Those repos
2009/10/16 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Oh dear. I'm sure it was discussed a week or so ago about upgrading
between versions. I gather it's not a good idea to upgrade from more
than one version to another at a time, so I guess from Hardy, you'd need
to upgrade to Intrepid, then Jaunty.
2009/10/17 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com:
Can anyone suggest anywhere else it should be advertised?
upcoming, fossevents..
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Hi,
I've been asked by Belinda Lopez (who works for Canonical in Training)
to pass this on.
Belinda is looking for 2-3 people to fill up a pilot run of an Ubuntu
9.04 Cloud Course.
Dates: Mon 19th Oct - Tue 20th Oct.
Time: 09:00 - 17:00
Location: Skills Matter, London -
2009/10/20 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
and just to add to your comment, although not all of it...but some of the
walls along which the wire will run are facing the east..so sunlight maybe a
problem!
Tape will provide near zero protection for near zero amount of the
lifetime of the cable in
2009/10/22 David King linux...@avoura.com:
That's a good way to describe it -- Software with Secrets. Including a
backdoor so that US govt agencies can spy on you,
[[citation needed]]
as well as the WGA
tool to report back any activity on your PC to Microsoft.
[[citation needed]]
I'd be
2009/10/22 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com:
There was a story (poss. last year or earlier) about a FBI(or Police)
conference in the US where MS apparently handed out a USB key to all
delegates that had backdoors into Windows. If I get chance I'll try to
search for it.
Interesting, I'd
2009/10/27 Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com:
This is due to the inclusion of drive monitoring tools in Karmic. They
weren't present in Jaunty, which is why you only found out when you
installed Karmic. I've had a warning up about one of my drives, but it
is pretty much brand new, and
2009/10/27 John Levin technola...@gmail.com:
What tools are these? And are they available for Jaunty, if not
installed by default? OS X has something similar (the name escapes me
atm) which has saved my proverbial bacon before.
gnome-disk-utility. I don't believe it's in Jaunty, only karmic
2009/10/27 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
I've already signed up for an account, I just can't be bothered to enter
my login details every time I login. I'd have thought it would just
remember the details in the application itself (like how Network Manager
remembers my wireless network key).
2009/10/28 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
So this app needs to work in ubuntu...something with a nice easy GUI would
also help!
unetbootin
It's in the repo.
Cheers,
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2009/10/29 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
Just wondered when Koala was due out. Have tried a forced upgrade using
altf2 it is still showing a beta version. Is that correct or will it be
changed today.
Today is the day, yes. I'd recommend you subscribe to the Ubuntu
Announce mailing list so
2009/10/29 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Great, just in time, I'm just about to sort a PC out and was going to
install 9.04. Guess it'll get 9.10 instead :-)
Use the torrents if you can:-
http://popey.com/karmic_torrents/
Cheers,
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2009/10/29 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Yep, I've plumped for that option. I was hoping for a speedy download
via torrents but I'm getting about 100k a sec, far cry from the 2 Meg a
sec I normally get. Oh well, I'll make some lunch and have a cup of
tea, it should be done in an hour or two
2009/10/29 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
I did wonder, now you can do a full disk encryption on the Alternative
CD,
You could do that in previous releases too.
does that cover the Server install too, and is it possible to use
software raid and full disc encryption?
I don't see why not.
2009/10/29 jim murphy murpc...@gmail.com:
I recall downloading a stick image rather than an iso...(many netbooks
do not have cd drives)
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/
http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/releases.ubuntu.com/9.10/ubuntu-9.10-netbook-remix-i386.iso
2009/11/3 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
Sean Miller wrote:
Maybe it is time to ask the question again -- is the 6-month cycle too
ambitious?
You do have to wonder about the PR cost, don't you?
Note that there are also people saying their upgrade went smoothly..
2009/11/3 Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com:
this is a perfectly reasonable expectation. When this expectation is not
met the correct response is to file a bug and work with others on fixing it.
That may be the desired response, but often it's not what actually
happens. What often
2009/11/3 Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com:
an upgrade advisor is an excellent idea, in fact a hardware testing tool
that scans PCI and USB bus and summarises the level of support for each
item by looking it up on the web would be an excellent tool. Thinking
about it there is no
2009/11/3 Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk:
Once done, is this sort of ugrade useable? To test if the upgrade
works on the target machine? Then committed or rolled back? Or
can it just be rolled back if someway into the upgrade process there is
a failure (eg lack if disk space)?
Interesting.
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Date: Nov 11, 2009 8:20 AM
Subject: [LUG] [Fwd: Computer for the elderly launched]
To: DC LUG l...@dcglug.org.uk
'A new computer aimed at people aged over 60 who are unfamiliar with PCs and
the
2009/11/11 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
It could possibly be based on an Atom CPU, that way it could well
possibly be fanless.
Rough specs are on the site..
simplicITy : model 100 - energy efficient, cool and quiet running
Onboard graphics, sound and network connection
Sempron LE-1250 socket
2009/11/11 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
So that leads me to my next question, is it possible to forward the port
to say, a virtual machine and then have another PC connect into the
virtual machine to pick up the port forwarding. Sort of a proxy as such.
Yes :)
Imagine a network consisting
2009/11/11 Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com:
The cases are made from an old shoe box, two toilet roll inners and some
sticky-back plastic. :-))
I wonder if they prepared them earlier.
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2009/11/20 Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com:
The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on
Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this?
There are common components in Google Chrome OS that exist in Ubuntu.
The system boots to a logon screen and once
2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com:
There is an Ubuntu-based distro that bundles Chrome. It's link-bait,
You're thinking of the one made with the SuSE builder. That's not the
same as the real thing.
The BBC are _right_. Google Chrome/Chromium OS _is_ based on some
Ubuntu
It is possible. Install firestarter and use the wizard to share out the
connection.
On Nov 25, 2009 8:38 AM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
thats correct...i want to use my internet connection from my ubuntu pc
(which has wifi). I want to connect my android phone to it and then use the
2009/11/25 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
yes my phone has wifi...but i dont have a wifi router or modem...
so i want my laptop to dump its wifi signal which i can then use to do my
internet browsing on my phone.
I did this the other way around over a year ago at an Ubuntu Developer
Summit.
2009/11/26 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
i played with this but couldnt get it to work...plus why isnt there a button
that just switches on the wifi.?
Without knowing exactly what you did, it's difficult to figure out
what to do next.
Switching on the wifi is not exactly what you want, you
2009/11/26 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
I will try again soon and post details of it here...
but it does not appear to be that easy
Depends on your definition of easy :)
Right click network manager, create network, give network a name.
Open firestarter and follow wizard to share
2009/11/26 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
my experience was slightly different...it was asking me to enter a ssid..
Yes, that would be this bit...
Right click network manager, create network, give network a name.
SSID = network name.
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2009/11/26 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Russell Hay wrote:
+1 for hosted gmail
Hasn't Gmail had one or two major outages recently?
Define major.
I have two google apps for domains accounts, and have had a bit of
outage on them, but nothing I'd consider major.
In contrast when I ran my own
2009/11/26 dan attwood danattw...@googlemail.com:
Ideally the server will have around 1gig of ram, 30 gig of disk space, a
nice fat pipe the conect it to the web, a static IP and run Linux (I'm
prefer Ubuntu but open to others)
I wondered if the leaner'd members of this list might have any
2009/11/26 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
ssid: name
mode: infrastructure
^^ Should be ad-hoc
ipv4
method: auto (dhcp)
Give it a fixed IP - like 10.0.0.1 or 192.168.0.1
security wpa wpa2 personal
password: *
Leave it unencrypted.
Try that.
Cheers,
Al.
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2009/11/29 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
I'm still tempted to go down the PS3 route, although I may just put
together an old PC with a newer NVidia graphics card for media playback
(other than Bluray).
I use an acer aspire revo 3600 for this. 1.6GHz Atom + nVidia ION GPU.
Plays HD stuff fine.
Pretty sure there is no way to play blue ray on Linux yet.
On Nov 30, 2009 5:31 PM, Steve Holmes bouncyst...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
Anyone got any recommendations for a (portable) USB blu-ray drive that works
with Ubuntu? It doesn't need to be a writer, I just want it for playing
movies.
2009/12/8 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
Im a film person so will probably need more than 100mhz.
I think you mean 100Hz which refers to the refresh rate of the TV.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Refresh_rate
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2009/12/8 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
looking at various peoples opinion on dlna it appears to be in its infancy
as there seems to be a lot of problems.
Maybe the easiest solution is the best. Put a pc in the living room and
connect to the tv
Or get a media playback box such as a
Fixing your top posting so it makes sense...
2009/12/8 Joseph Hughes josephhug...@gmail.com
Sorry to stick my oar in without an introduction, by the way. Hello!
I've used one of these http://www.ebuyer.com/product/167153 with the
latest beta of XBMC live, plugged into a Samsung LCD with
2009/12/8 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
and no problems with the unit heating up when playing hd?
It has a fan on the GPU, which spins up when under heavy load. I don't
hear it because it's behind the telly. If you put your ear near it
you'll hear the sound of the fan but nothing major.
2009/12/8 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
thats cool. So far this looks like the best option for me!
So for something totally unrelated, for those of you who have hung your tv's
on a wallhow do you hide the wires so that nothing is visible?
Chase them into the wall, cover, fill, paint.
2009/12/9 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
Slightly off topic Andy, but is Hulu currently working on boxeee?
No, but then Hulu doesn't work outside the US anyway, so it's kinda moot.
Cheers,
Al.
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2009/12/9 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
should i buy it from ebuyer or ebay? :)
I bought mine from ebuyer. There are other devices like this
available. The Acer Revo 3600 is just one of the first. There are
quite a few devices which also sport an ION GPU. The Acer has a 1.6GHz
single core
2009/12/9 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
Question about connecting it to my pc!
I use Devolo Ethernet over power devices to get wired network to the
Acer sat behind the telly.
http://www.devolo.co.uk/consumer/7_dlan-200-aveasy_starter-kit_product-presentation_1.html?l=en
Should i install a
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Hi,
2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com:
I finally realised I needed
to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used:
ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi
ceilidh_item.avi
You sure you want flac as your audio codec when
Mplayer supports VDPAU.
On Dec 18, 2009 2:21 PM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
I know VLC doesnt support hardware acceleration graphics.
Are there any that can?
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ok stupid question but do i have to switch the hardware acceleration bit
on? Is it automatic?
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Mplayer supports VDPAU. On Dec 18, 2009 2:21 PM, javadayaz
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On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 10:57:52AM +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
I've a budget of about £500, and my research so far has hilighted 3
possibilities:
Of the three you've listed I'd only consider Samsung, based on 2nd hand
opinions from trusted friends and podcasters.
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