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Indexing home videos
by brad＠bradandkim.net 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Does anyone know of an existing system for indexing home videos? I could throw together a small db and set up some frontend for searching and entering videos but if there is something out there it would save me time. I plan on converting the raw dv to dvd, burning a copy and also keeping a copy on disk. A way of naming and then searching them for content would be really nice. Thanks, Brad

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RE: Smartphone w/ Linux?
by Jared Jennings 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

Did anyone see this news article? http://www.mono-project.com/news/archive/2007/Apr-09.html Jared On Tue, 2007-04-10 at 08:51 -0500, Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO wrote: > I found out that SyncML would probably work on my phone, but Sprint > seems to be blocking it. Try https://zyb.com/ for online sync. Luke > was talking about a Zaurus, by the way.

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RE: Smartphone w/ Linux?
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 10 Apr '07

10 Apr '07

I found out that SyncML would probably work on my phone, but Sprint seems to be blocking it. Try https://zyb.com/ for online sync. Luke was talking about a Zaurus, by the way. _____ From: Kyle Sexton Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 5:33 PM On 4/9/07, Luke-Jr <luke(a)dashjr.org> wrote: On Monday 09 April 2007 10:02:40 pm Kyle Sexton wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 09:30:36PM +0000, Luke-Jr wrote: > > On Monday 09 April 2007 07:27:36 pm Kyle Sexton wrote: > > > Does anyone have a smartphone/PDA that works well with Linux? The only > > > ones that I really know of are the Treo's, and Palm OS is getting a > > > little long in the tooth. If you have a success story or > > > recommendation of a phone let me know! > > > > Zaurii run Linux. > > Is that a phone? It can be if you add a headset and cell CF card (or 802.11 for a wifi phone) :) Heh, I think I may have found a solution. Looks like with SyncML and services like www.scheduleworld.com <http://www.scheduleworld.com/> you can pretty much sync any phone OTA. In addition there are Evolution plug-ins for SyncML. :) -- Kyle Sexton

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Hey look, Debian 4.0 is out...
by Jon Pruente 09 Apr '07

09 Apr '07

http://www.debian.org/News/2007/20070408 I'm sure the Debian fans around here noticed, but for those not watching for it it's now official. It's a tad late from the projected Apr. 2 release. At least at this rate their release schedule should inspire fewer jokes... I have run Testing as recently as 2 weeks ago, and what I saw was pretty nice. I may wipe the Ubuntu 7.04 beta on my P4 and give this final Debian 4.0 release a go again. Jon.

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This may be of interest.
by Oren Beck 08 Apr '07

08 Apr '07

A good reading as to the Zen of Linux is this: http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html which is a slightly wandering tome on the divergences between Operating Systems and the why/how those came to be. HtH Oren

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Free Online Taxes
by Billy Crook 07 Apr '07

07 Apr '07

There's some IRS program called Freefile. If you make less than $52k a year, you can choose any of these companies ( http://www.irs.gov/app/freeFile/jsp/index.jsp) and do your federal return for free online. I used HR block online the last two years, so I was going to again, and I got THIS: We've detected that you're using an operating system that is currently not supported by TaxCut Standard Software. TaxCut Standard Software has been optimized for the following operating systems. Win2000, WINXP, Win Vista, MAC OS 10.2.8, MAC OS 10.3.9 and MAC OS 10.4.8 WTF, Why do they care what OS I run? It's a damn web application. All they need to do is optimize for the only real browser platform, Mozilla, and It'll work anywhere someone has a web browser. Their inflammatory remarks have angered me, and I want to choose some other company now. Any suggestions?

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RE: Distro for Older Hardware
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

As I said in IRC, DamnSmall, Puppy, straight Debian, a trimmed Ubuntu, Xubuntu or Fluxbuntu. The last two are Ubuntu that has already been trimmed for use on older systems. Fluxbuntu is not an official Canonical project, but it looks pretty good. It is like DamnSmall with some extra graphical smoothness. You probably don't have enough RAM to run Xubuntu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xubuntu Looks like fluxbuntu.org is currently offline for a redesign, but I could copy the .iso for you from my machine. http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=fluxbuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fluxbuntu Also lightweight is nUbuntu http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NUbuntu for network penetration testing. Also uses Fluxbox.

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RE: Distro for Older Hardware
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

Regarding your sound problem. I had one of these laptops for a while and it had a Yamaha sound chip in it. YMF Solo-1 or something like that. Back when I got it working I was using the sound system that preceded alsa. It was a royal pain to get working. If you have a LiveCD that makes your sound work, check the settings it uses. I know there is something that can auto detect these chips, but let me tell you, they are a PITA to set up manually. I'm pretty sure that DamnSmall got it right and working. The chip communicates over an ISA bus. >-----Original Message----- >From: Jonathan Hutchins >Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2007 12:08 PM >I have an old laptop, IBM ThinkPad 380 Z, that had Mandrake >9.1 installed and running reasonably. It's a low-power >system, with only a 300MHz PII, 96M of ram, and a 3G hard >drive, but it ran Mandrake reasonably well. >

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Distro for Older Hardware
by Jonathan Hutchins 05 Apr '07

05 Apr '07

I have an old laptop, IBM Thinkpad 380 Z, that had Mandrake 9.1 installed and running reasonably. It's a low-power system, with only a 300MHz PII, 96M of ram, and a 3G hard drive, but it ran Mandrake reasonably well. Unfortunately, support for 9.1 is no longer available (with good reason, great advances have been made), and that means I can't set up either of my wireless cards, at least not easily. I decided to try Kubuntu on it, and used the Alternate CD that's supposed to allow for older. less powerful systems. The results are pretty poor. The install didn't check to see that I'd passed a custom option to the kernel so it could boot (ide=nodma). It didn't detect the sound system at all (ubuntu seems to be having some serious problems with sound these days). It failed to detect the CardBus ethernet card at boot, although I was able to configure it. It doesn't appear to have adjusted it's package selection by much; I had to remove OpenOffice to get enough space to run the initial package update. The install took around eight hours to complete, the package update just finished after over an hour. I really haven't had a chance to give the system a fair chance yet, but looking at how long the text-mode update took, I'm not optimistic. I have the CD for DamnSmallLinux, and I will probably try that next. I know some of you have built linux systems on older hardware, and I'd like to know what you'd recommend for a system of this vintage. Surely there's something as capable today as Mandrake was five (?) years ago?

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The Old Laptop
by Jonathan Hutchins 04 Apr '07

04 Apr '07

kubuntu is frustratingly slow on this thing. Even running from CD, DSL is faster. I haven't been able to get my wg111t USB Wireless Adapter to work. It "just worked" in Mandriva without any tweaking, just straight forward install. Searching the net, it seems a lot of people have had this problem with debian-branch distros. There is some confusion on what version of ndiswrapper-utils should be installed, and of course manual compiles seem to work better, but I'm thinking that the ancient USB chipset in this box may be the culprit. Unplugging the dongle after loading ndiswrapper causes the system to lock up. There is no sign of a sound system being detected; even lspci doesn't show anything. Sure wish I'd copied the configuration from the Mandrake 9.1 install! That eliminates use as a garage jukebox. Given that I can buy a brand-new laptop from Micro Center for less than $500, there's only a certain amount of head banging that's worth doing for a laptop with no battery.

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