Roundtable May 2003

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11 participants
13 discussions

CD, VCD & DVD Burning
by John Lange 03 Dec '03

03 Dec '03

At a recent MUUG meeting someone was asking about burning VCDs (Video CDs). I believe the consensus at the meeting was that burning under Linux was comprised of a hodge-podge of various command line tools for converting video formats and burning making it quite difficult at best. I recently stumbled on the following software: http://www.k3b.org/ which seems to bring everything under one roof and claims to do CD, VCD, and DVD burning all in one application (it does not appear to be just a GUI … [View More]

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Re: Hollerith Hijinks
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 30 May '03

30 May '03

According to Michael Doob: > A gigabyte of punch cards? > > I just happen to have a box of cards on my desk (some guys just > *never* get around to cleaning up). I took a batch and > really squished them tight: this gave me 60 cards per centimeter. > That means 60*100*80 = 2^8*3*5^4 = 480000 bytes/meter (I never > use FORTRAN anymore :-)). So our gigabyte > of data stands > > 1024*1024*1024/480000 = 2^(22)/(3*5^4) meters = 2^(19)/(3*5^7) km ~ 2.24 km > > … [View More]

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Re: Roundtable digest, Vol 1 #195 - 6 msgs
by Michael Doob 30 May '03

30 May '03

A gigabyte of punch cards? I just happen to have a box of cards on my desk (some guys just *never* get around to cleaning up). I took a batch and really squished them tight: this gave me 60 cards per centimeter. That means 60*100*80 = 2^8*3*5^4 = 480000 bytes/meter (I never use FORTRAN anymore :-)). So our gigabyte of data stands 1024*1024*1024/480000 = 2^(22)/(3*5^4) meters = 2^(19)/(3*5^7) km ~ 2.24 km tall, at least without gravity to compress everything. Now who is the lucky guy who has … [View More]

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Re: [RndTbl] Hey, old-timers!
by pgraham＠cs.umanitoba.ca 30 May '03

30 May '03

I just did the volume computation but don't have scales here to weigh my card boxes (yes, I still have a few since they are great for grocery lists). Sorry to not be able to provide that bit of trivia. Peter According to Gilles Detillieux: > > According to Glen Ditchfield: > > How big would a gigabyte of punched cards be? > > Well, 2^30/80 is 13,421,773 cards. Anyone remember how many cards fit > in one of those big flat boxes they came in? If it was 5000, it would &… [View More]

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Hey, old-timers!
by Glen Ditchfield 30 May '03

30 May '03

How big would a gigabyte of punched cards be?

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Second Roundtable meeting this week
by Mike Pfaiffer 25 May '03

25 May '03

Last month Sean and I had a nice chat. There was some talk about moving it to Thursday so as not to conflict with an executive meeting. There was also the suggestion to move it to the Second Cup on Graham. Since it's getting to be about that time again, I was wondering what's up? Later Mike

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Linux kernel "Failed to calculate dependencies"
by Brian Doob 16 May '03

16 May '03

I just recompiled my kerne after changing some configurations (removed framebuffer support, changed IDE configuration, some minor things). I'm running Gentoo Linux (the 1.4, gcc3.2.2 variety) with the "gs-sources" 2.4.21_pre7-gss kernel. Now when I boot, I get the following message: * Failed to calculate dependancies My ethernet (8139too) and nvidia modules load properly. Then I run "emerge alsa-driver" (because ALSA needs to be recompiled after the kernel). Now, I can't load ethernet, … [View More]

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Upcoming Python Talks
by Brad Bollenbach 14 May '03

14 May '03

If anyone missed "An Introduction to Python" -- the talk I gave to the MUUG last month -- here's your chance to make up for it; May 21st, Brandon UUG, 7:30 pm. :) My proposal to talk about SQLObject at EuroPython in Charleroi, Belgium June 25-27 got accepted too. Details of the talk are online: http://www.europython.org/sessions/talks/talk?itemId=03108161107 Brandon might be the last chance I have to talk about Python in Manitoba for a long while, because I'm finally relocating to … [View More]

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Call for National Participation
by bill traynor 14 May '03

14 May '03

IMPORTANT! The Canadian Linux Users Exchange (CLUE - www.linux.ca) would like to strongly encourage LUG members across the country to take the time to participate in the following project: This is exactly the kind of project that may help the opensource industry in Canada expand, thereby creating the types of jobs that you/we all long for (if you aren't lucky enough to have an opensource-centric tech job already). *Open Source Business Opportunities for Canada - A Collaborative Fact … [View More]

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Tuxracer and Sound
by Sean A. Walberg 13 May '03

13 May '03

Someone brought up a the last meeting that they were trying to play Tuxracer in RH9, but the sound wasn't working. Lo and behold, the same thing happens to me. So, I check out http://bugzilla.redhat.com, and sure enough: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=77334 "Problem is that tuxracer needs smpeg to have sounds, but smpeg was removed in 8.0 (license problem). You have to rebuild tuxracer with smpeg yourself, it will work again." Sigh. Sean -- Sean A. Walberg <… [View More]

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