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Cook Up Tasty Custom Ubuntu Live CDs With UCK
by JDP 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Sent to you by JDP via Google Reader: Cook Up Tasty Custom Ubuntu Live CDs With UCK via Linux Today on 9/10/08 Linux.com: "The Ubuntu Customization Kit, tastefully called UCK, lets you add your favorite applications into the distro. If you're not happy with the factory-installed Ubuntu apps, here's your chance to spin up your very own Ubuntu live CD without too much effort." Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Linux Today using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites

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Re: Flash alternatives
by Luke -Jr 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 13:40:22 you wrote: > Awesome! I didn't know FF supported it yet. Are you sure that FF isn't > launching a 3rd party app, like Luke suggested? If it truly is being > rendered by the browser and not a proprietary plugin (even if it IS MPlayer > :-P) then that's awesome. Monolithic browsers are stupid anyway. Konqueror uses a "plugin" for everything, including HTML. There is no reason to have a proprietary or embedded implementation of a codec in a web browser.

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Re: Flash alternatives
by Luke -Jr 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

On Wednesday 10 September 2008 13:47:51 Nathan Cerny wrote: > That's fine, but there's a distinct difference between loading a "plugin" > or module designed for the browser and loading a 3rd party app. The only real difference is that sometimes 3rd party apps use a different toolkit. But KDE's video players are themselves wrappers around 3rd party frameworks-- either Kaffeine (Xine-based) or KMPlayer (MPlayer-based). > I want to see support for streaming media just like browsers support images > now. Sure, the Mozilla team wrote their own image library from scratch, but I suspect most browsers use shared libraries for this. > I don't want a browser to have to load MPlayer, WMP, Quicktime, Flash, etc. > THAT is stupid IMO. Now you're contradicting yourself a bit... WMP is about the closest thing to a native browser plugin as you can get for Windows.

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Flash alternatives
by Sean Crago 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

The recent posts asking about Adobe reminded me of an issue I've been having for some time. The bundled reader in Mac OSX is nigh-infinitely faster (even on arcane 300mhz G3 processors) than anything I've ever seen for Windows and Linux. The only thing I've seen that comes close in terms of performance is the Windows shareware Foxit Reader. Evince et al have certainly made great strides in terms of speed, and it's certainly simpler and sucks less than Adobe's Reader, but it's still not nearly as fast, responsive, and easy to use as Apple's Preview. I still see "Loading...." far too often on an Athlon X2. Using Evince or the bundled PDF reader in Maemo, on an N800 with specs that really aren't all that different from the old Mac I used to have, I'm forced to waste so much time reading a PDF that I have to go all old-school and run pdf2html and read it with fbreader. Is there anything out there that's substantially faster than Evince? Thanks, Sean Crago

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Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 now available
by Justin Dugger 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

I know a few people on the list were considering running the development version of Ubuntu to see if driver bugs were fixed. Now is a great time to grab the newly released alpha 5 and test, for both people who's hardware might be fixed and for people worried it might regress during development. Read more and get download it via: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/alpha5 Justin Dugger

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WARNING: DELETE THIS IMMEDIATELY! POLITICS and WEB STANDARDS
by David Nicol 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

http://www.idolhands.com/personal/obama-is-restful/

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Re: Adobe flash in Ubuntu 7.10
by Craig Aldinger 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Was a model of k.i.s,s. Went back through my memory of audio streaming places I've used in the past until I hit on one that did the download w/o any intermediate steps, happened late last night and don't remember which one came through w/ the goods, could have been WNCW out of Spindale, NC or KRCL out of Salt Lake City or any other of a dozen fm stations that I like to listen to. Somewhere in that mess is a tech person who set up a seamless download as part of their website. Whoever they are, thanks! Now I have my audio streaming capability back. On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 2:19 PM, <billycrook(a)gmail.com> wrote: > You're welcome. But the best way to thank me is to take a couple > seconds to post to the thread what you did to get it to work. That > way you wrap up the thread, and make the knowledge available to the > next guy. > > On 2008-09-09, Craig Aldinger <gonzogone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > Thanks for the assist, between what you & Jon said, I did some mental > > muddling (biological memory not being as organized/efficient as computer > > memory) and started hunting a bit and got it loaded without too much > pain. > > Now I can stream my audio stuff again. > > Once again, thanks! > > Craig > > >

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Fluke Remote not working
by Kelsay, Brian - Kansas City, MO 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

I've got a Fluke DSP-100 LAN Cablemeter that someone here at work said I could fiddle with and try to use it for troubleshooting. The device sends a signal to a remote to figure out cable length and attenuation, check for breaks, etc. I'm thinking that the remote is not working. I put a known good cable between the devices, charged up the Fluke and put a fresh 9V battery in the remote, but none of the lights on the remote come on. Remote is a DSP-R Standard Remote and h as 3 lights on it (Pass, Test, Fail). The remote has no switches or buttons on it, but since the battery back is taped on, it may have been dropped at some point. Any ideas on getting this sucker to work? Brian Kelsay

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Adobe Flash in Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10
by billycrook＠gmail.com 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

On 2008-09-08, Craig Aldinger <gonzogone(a)gmail.com> wrote: > Had a number of misadventures w/ my system at home (mostly hardware) that > resulted in Oren building me a new tower. I did the load of Ubuntu 7.10 from > my canonical disc, downloaded all the available updates and brought it home > and am currently up to almost 24 hrs without any running problems..... > except getting an Adobe Flash player loaded, something needful for me to do > a variety of audio streaming things. Oren indicated that there was some kind > of Firefox/Ubuntu/Adobe breakdown he had gotten wind of, am wondering if you > have any advice/shortcuts/hacks that I can use. If you think it potentially > productive, feel free to pass this to the list for consideration. > > Thanks! I have relatively little luck and patience for Adobe flash on GNU+Linux. I've found that ies4linux is usually more stable for flash than anything else because at least Adobe *wants* flash to work with IE on Windows. I find the unpredictable stability of flash player an excellent excuse to abstain from all flash content whenever possible. If a website "requires" flash, it is broken. You you wouldn't scamper around installing browsers and plugins if you got a 404 error would you? While I am not familiar with doing it at all in Ubuntu. Ubuntu supposedly had a package called ubuntu-restricted-extras which was a quick and dirty way to get common proprietary software installed. The common culprits are not having libflashsupport or nspluginwrapper instaled, but the latter has more to do with bringing 32bit plugins to a 64bit FireFox, and I doubt the stamped cd from Ubuntu you have is 64-bit. You're going to hear "Install Ubuntu 8.04 instead", and that's not a bad idea. If you don't have a cd of it, I will bring one to the next meeting. If I were you, and had to use Ubuntu, and Adobe flash, I would - Have to agree to its license at http://www.adobe.com/products/eulas/ - Download the .tar.gx file from adobe at http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/get/flashplayer/current/install_flash_play… - Extract it (tar xf install_flash_player_9_linux) - cd in to it - run ./flashplayer-installer from the command line.

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Re: Which CD to burn enmasse for ITEC? (was Re: Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 now available)
by Sean Crago 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

>From: "Kendric Beachey" <kendric.beachey(a)gmail.com> >Having a machine or two on site to burn more is also a good idea, although >I'd say if it looks like the pre-burned stash is going quickly, just start >burning those babies non-stop rather than waiting for someone to ask. Then >hopefully you can just stay ahead of demand and there'll always be some >ready to go right away. I can't help much, but I'd suggest having ISOs on hand for multiple distros, if you go this route. You could burn-on-demand with Ubuntu 8.10, Knoppix, Mythbuntu and/or the Knoppix equivelant, Fedora, Mint, CentOS, the UBCD (ships with a couple of mini-distos), DSL, DragonFly BSD, and FreeBSD. All told it wouldn't take but 5-8gigs of space. Post a list of what's available and two or three sentences about each. If you're better able to hit the user with niche distros, and appeal to a few more than you would otherwise (I'm sure not many, but some, and you get more face time while the disc is getting thrown together). Also of interest: http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=880 If you can roll Damned Small Linux and the troubleshooting tools from the UBCD into a single ISO, it would make quite the tool. Something of value even to seasoned Linux users. Just an idea, Sean Crago Kathmandu

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