It’s now about 7 months since I got rid of winXP from my laptop and I thought I’d never need windows again.
I have just brought a new scanner, the Epson 4490 which is supposed to be Ubuntu compatible, but setting it up has proved to be less than straightforward so I have decided to add [...]
March 15, 2009 – 12:51 pm
Yesterday the friendly sky installer turned up to install a Sky HD box which has a lot of benefits such as HD (obviously!) and being able to record one channel whilst watching another one.
What he did not mention however was the effect that it would have on my broadband connection (ADSL).
When the box was ordered [...]
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Tagged adsl, broadband, connection speed, download speed, land line, landline, modem, sky, sky box, sky hd, sky hd box, slow speed
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February 22, 2009 – 9:17 pm
This is quite an intresting “Swan” sculpture that seems to have recently appeared at the Turf Locks, just next to the Turf Hotel.
This hotel is really a pub, but a very good pub which has the advantage of only allowing access via foot or bicycle. The nearest main car park is about 2 miles walk [...]
February 22, 2009 – 12:28 am
From my previous post you will see that I have tried using Skype for VOIP phone calls but I got a bit fed up with Skype for a number of reasons so I have now unsubscribed from it.
Skype is probabaly one of the best known names that people associate with VOIP but I’m not so [...]
January 29, 2009 – 10:30 pm
I have reinstalled Xubuntu from the Xubuntu iso and it seems to be working fine.
The thing that bugged me the most though was that the touchpad on my vaio laptop was set up for “tapping” by default.
Tapping is something that people either love or hate, and I am in the latter category.
Gnome seems to have [...]
January 19, 2009 – 10:34 pm
I have been trying to get Skype set up on my Vaio Laptop running Ubuntu 8.10 and I thought it would be straightforward. I was a bit worried that the Skype download page offered Ubuntu 7.04-8.04 as I’m on 8.10!
Luckily this did not seem to matter as the “.deb” file seemed to install fine [...]
December 28, 2008 – 12:17 pm
I have been trying to find out what is the best way to get a video clip onto the web and I have looked at the H264 codec. This seems to give much better video quality for a given bit rate compared with the older Sorenson codec I had tried.
I have used DVGrab [...]
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Tagged avidemux, dvgrab, flash, flash video, h264, h264 codec, intrepid, moov, moov atom, moov box, mp4, mp4 format, mp4box, stream, streaming, streaming video, ubuntu, video, web video, x264
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December 14, 2008 – 6:16 pm
I have acquired a “legacy” camcorder (a 5 year old Panasonic NV-DS65B) which shoots basic standard definition video (720×576) so it seemed like a good idea to figure out how to get “embedded” in a website.
I have used Youtube and Vimeo, but getting material online this way has its drawbacks.
One very annoying thing is that [...]
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Tagged avidemux, camcorder, dv, dv capture, dv video, embedded video, flash, flash video, flowplayer, flv file, kino, open source, video, vimeo, youtube
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December 8, 2008 – 11:34 pm
Just had a blank screen after starting an xfce session which is a bit annoying. Luckily I could still Alt-F2 to start firefox from terminal.
This handy hint by xerodeth seemed to solve it:
” Re: Xfce Session won’t start
so not sure if anyone still needs help with this… but this is what works for [...]
December 7, 2008 – 10:32 pm
I have been trying out the xubuntu-desktop package today, and I’m actually pretty impressed with it.
To install it in Ubuntu Intrepid the command is:
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
As I have got quite an old laptop I thought I’d give Xubuntu a go as it’s supposedly a good choice for running on “legacy” hardware such as my [...]
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Tagged desktop, flash video, flv file, flv video, hd movie, hd video, tapping, ubuntu, vimeo, xfce, xubuntu
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