October 2003 - Roundtable

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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Revolution OS on TV
by Michael Doob 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

On October 28, 2003 12:01 pm, roundtable-request(a)muug.mb.ca wrote: > From: John Lange <john.lange(a)bighostbox.com> > To: MUUG Round Table <roundtable(a)muug.mb.ca> > Organization: > Date: 27 Oct 2003 22:16:19 -0600 > Subject: [RndTbl] Revolution OS on TV > > Just a note for anyone interested in seeing Revolution OS; I believe it > will be on the Documentary Channel Wednesday at 8pm and repeating at > 1am. I assume those times are EST but I'm not certain. > > http://www.documentarychannel.ca/schedule/index.asp?myDate=10/29/2003&tz=3 > > A couple of notes: > > - The documentary channel is channel 92 for those with Digital > receivers. It's a subscription service ($2/month). IMHO it is one of the > few channels worth paying an extra $2/month for. It has a lot of good > programming. > > - Revolution OS is also well worth seeing for anyone interested in > OpenSource type software. John -- Could you tape this for later viewing, perhaps at some MUUG meeting? Cheers, Michael ------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael Doob Telephone: (204) 474-9796 Department of Mathematics Fax: (204) 474-7606 University of Manitoba email: Michael_Doob(a)umanitoba.ca Winnipeg, MB, Canada R3T 2N2 ------------------------------------------------------------------

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Revolution OS on the 'big' screen
by Shawn Wallbridge 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

As previously mentioned here, Cinematheque is showing Revolution OS this week. Some MUUG members are planning on going tonight. The show starts at 7pm. thanks shawn

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http://www.knoppix-std.org / Revolution OS
by Ian T. 28 Oct '03

28 Oct '03

http://www.knoppix-std.org/ Has anyone any reviews of this? Revolution OS is available on DVD too and I get my fix on Thursday night at Cinematheque. Cheers! Ian. -- *In light of the ability of some email viruses "eg. SoBig.F" to spoof this address regardless of whether my machine is infected or not (for instance, pulling my address from a Windows user address book to use as a fake return address), if this statement is not included, consider a message from me to be a virus* Open Source is the guillotine, Linux is the blade; IBM gives it weight and Apple sharpens it. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."

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Revolution OS on TV
by John Lange 27 Oct '03

27 Oct '03

Just a note for anyone interested in seeing Revolution OS; I believe it will be on the Documentary Channel Wednesday at 8pm and repeating at 1am. I assume those times are EST but I'm not certain. http://www.documentarychannel.ca/schedule/index.asp?myDate=10/29/2003&tz=3 A couple of notes: - The documentary channel is channel 92 for those with Digital receivers. It's a subscription service ($2/month). IMHO it is one of the few channels worth paying an extra $2/month for. It has a lot of good programming. - Revolution OS is also well worth seeing for anyone interested in OpenSource type software. -- John Lange BigHostBox.com ltd (204) 885 0872 Toll free: 1-866-690-8297

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Revolution OS
by Shawn Wallbridge 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

In case any members are interested, Cinematheque is showing Revolution OS from October 27th-30th. RevolutionOS is a documentary on the Linux operating system. Some MUUG members have expressed an interest in going as a group, so, if anyone is interested, we will be going next Tuesday the 28th at 7pm. See you there. shawn

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Monthly Roundtable Meeting
by Shawn Wallbridge 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

Just a reminder, the monthly roundtable meeting is this Thursday at the Second Cup on Edmonton at Graham. See you there. shawn

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Blackberry and Linux
by Mel Seder 21 Oct '03

21 Oct '03

The software that backs up and restores the Blackberry data to your computer is for Windows, which I rarely run and don't want to run. Is there an application that can backup and restore the Blackberry using linux? ===== 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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Blackberry 950
by Mel Seder 20 Oct '03

20 Oct '03

Please forgive me if this is not appropriate for this mailing list. I purchased the pager in 2000 and stopped the service about a year or two later. Now I want to use it again as an appointment book so I got it out put in a battery and quickly found out that I forgot my password. I tried a few and now I only have 3 tries left. I'd like to completely reset the pager password and all and couldn't find out how to do that. Can anyone help me? ===== 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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fedora
by Mel Seder 17 Oct '03

17 Oct '03

I downloaded the iso's for fedora, burnt them, and did an install. The "everything" download was a bit more than 5 GIGS. Mozilla seems to be much faster. I like using fedora so far (I'm using a beta version). when I installed fedora it seemed to run quite faster right out of the box. I can't get MusicPlayer to play a MP3 because I can't browze for that file using the MusicPlayer. Has anyone played a MP3 yet? ===== 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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