Roundtable July 2003

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5 participants
6 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 front end to command line tools). However, I do not currently have a burner to test it with so I was hoping someone from the group could give it a whirl and report back on success? Thanks. -- John Lange BigHostBox.com ltd (204) 885 0872 Toll free: 1-866-690-8297

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Canadian LUGs and SCO
by bill traynor 25 Jul '03

25 Jul '03

In light of the recent response by the Australian Open Source community to the SCO issue, talks have been taking place at the Ottawa/Carleton LUG whether the Canadian Open Source community should respond as well. I recently received the following from Dave, at OCLUG: Over on OCLUG's board-of-directors mailing list, we have been discussing changing the LUG's approach to SCO's nonsense -- see http://oclug.on.ca/archives/oclug-board/2003-July/004550.html . I'm wondering if other Canadian LUGs might collectively be thinking along the same lines? If so, perhaps our LUGs can cooperate on some sort of action(s) to oppose what the SCO Group are doing. If we need *one* place to meet and discuss this, may I suggest #clue-talk on irc.freenode.net ? So, if anyone wants to join us on Freenode, channel #clue-talk and/or join the discuss(a)linux.ca mailing list here: http://www.ss.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss/ I'm sure the discussions will be good. There is also a WIKI page in the works. Thanks Bill Traynor Canadian Linux Users Exchange

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Free Apple Seminar: Unix Inside, Mac Outside
by gedetil＠cs.umanitoba.ca 15 Jul '03

15 Jul '03

Howdy folks! I received the following from Doug Hamilton (who has given a couple presentations at MUUG meetings on Mac OS X), and thought it would be of interest the the Mac fans in the group. Please contact Doug (and not me) if you have any questions about the seminar... -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Dept. of Computer Science Web: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~gedetil/ University of Manitoba Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg, MB, CANADA R3T 2N2 Fax: (204)474-7609 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 13:40:28 -0500 Subject: Please forward to MUUG ... From: Doug Hamilton <hamilto(a)cc.UManitoba.CA> To: Gilbert Detillieux <gedetil(a)cs.umanitoba.ca> Hi Gilbert, If you feel its appropriate, could you please forward the following to the MUUG mailing-list (see below) ? Thanks, Doug ### Well its official, the BookStore and Apple Canada are pleased to be able offer a FREE Apple seminar entitled "Unix Inside, Mac Outside". This seminar will take place on: July 22nd, 2003, and will run from 1:00PM to approximately 4:00PM; in room 343 Drake Centre at the University of Manitoba - Fort Garry campus. This seminar will be of value to professional and casual programmers, as well as directors and managers, who wish to understand what is possible with modern development tools. Steve Hayman, based out of Toronto but employed by Apple Computer, Inc. (Cupertino, California), is a National Consulting Engineer and has worked for Apple for 10 years. He will demonstrate Mac OS X and what its Unix core coupled with powerful object oriented developer tools can offer. Steve comes highly recommended as a presenter, and as a programmer. His been developing applications on Mac OS X since it was called NeXTSTEP. While Mac OS X development seminars have been previously presented in Winnipeg, none of them have been provided by a developer. This seminar will be kicked off by Randy Kokesch, who will be providing an brief overview of successful Canadian Foundation for Innovation (CFI) grant applications, which have requested Apple hardware and software solutions. This will be followed by Steve Hayman's presentation, "Unix Inside, Mac Outside", to be concluded with a Q&A period. If you would like to register for this seminar, please use the URL below to jump to the Apple Seminars listing for this event: http://www.seminars.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/ASPRegistration.woa/3/ wa/eventsByStateAndCity?state=MB&city=Winnipeg If you have any questions or concerns, please contact me. ###

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Mandrake 9.1 and fbdev
by Mike Pfaiffer 10 Jul '03

10 Jul '03

I want to start off by saying I did RTFM (or at least did a google search on the topic). Also what I want to do was working three weeks ago (before some errors and a reinstall). After a solid few days of reading I think I'm a little closer to understanding what I need to do. What I want it to be able to display video on an NTSC monitor/VCR from text mode. I have a Radeon 7000 card with s-video. The radeon driver is installed. I also installed the fbdev driver. To get the graphics working the way they were I think I have to have both installed (I didn't do this before). Mandrake should be able to pick up the other monitor port and install the stuff necessary for fbdev automatically (as it did the for first few reinstalls). So far it looks as though everything is the way it should be except the /dev/fb0 file is missing. My current thoughts are I need to have the NTSC monitor actually connected and turned on for the install for it to be detected (it worked without doing this before). Any thoughts before I decide to do yet another reinstall? Later Mike -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Digital Civilization magazine: http://www.digitalcivilization.ca | | http://members.shaw.ca/pfaiffer = Mike Pfaiffer (B.A., B.Sc.) | | See my web page before you think about spamming me. I charge cash. | +----------------------------------------------------------------------+ ----- BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK ----- Version: 3.12 GCS/G/IT/PA/SS d s+:- a? C++ UL L++ W++ N++ o+ K- w(---) O+@ M++@ V PS+ PE !PGP t+ 5+ X R tv b+ DI+++ D++ G e++* h! r-- !y-- UF++ ------ END GEEK CODE BLOCK ------

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recording 78 to digital
by millward 05 Jul '03

05 Jul '03

http://www.tappin.me.uk/Linux/audio.html There's a program called gramofile that was specifically made for 78s. The programmers advise you to get a particular kind of turntable I could never find. The last time I saw a turntable that could play 78s was at a small company called Columbus Radio Ltd. I think that if you want to do a realy good job you have to buy an audio mixer board, like those Behringer Eurotrack devices at Mother's Music. The cheapest one , the UB502, is $98. I have recorded a couple of 33 rpm tracks, and some audio tape, to hard drive using Linux sox. and software mixer, with the back of the sterio cabled to the sound card. It turned out OK but not good enough to burn to CD. I think getting a hardware mixer would help. It's important to have the correct sterio connector from your source to the sound card. I got mine at Radio Shack ( I'd give you the specs but the its been packed away somewhere ). For a week or two I couldn't get anything to work. The problem was a defective cable! It was gold and brand new. You can't trust anything these days. Good luck!

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recording 78's onto a digital format
by Mel Seder 04 Jul '03

04 Jul '03

I purchased some Jim Crow blues songs on 78's on eBay and would like to put them on a CD. I'd be glad to pay someone that knows what they are doing for help. Has anyone done this before? ===== The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good. -Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784)

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Roundtable July 2003