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Video editing in Ubuntu Intrepid
I spent several hours experimenting with open source video editing software. My verdict? Kino (1.3) is good enough for my basic needs. More specifically, I was able to add a clean title, have simple (but good) transitions, a soundtrack as well as original sound, and lots of separate clips joined together. I was disappointed that [...]
Solving Ubuntu printer “broken pipe” problem (DocuPrint C525A)
Are you having a problem with your printer under the latest versions of Ubuntu (perhaps it worked under an older version)? Are you able to print short documents, but not longer, or more graphics-intensive, documents? (e.g. the unfortunate people at http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=625493). Do they sit there as Processing for ages and then switch to Held? If [...]
winmail.dat – how to open in Thunderbird/Ubuntu
Once in a while you may receive an email with an attachment called “winmail.dat”. How do you open it? Short answer: The LookOut addon for Thunderbird: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/4433 Long answer: Microsoft wanted to offer “rich” text features in their emails. The approach they took was to send a plain text version of the message and a [...]
Win98, WinXP, and Intrepid Partitions
I needed one of the computers in my home network to have a small partition for experimenting (e.g. installing Jaunty alphas etc), a large working partition using stable Intrepid, a small swap partition, a small Windows 98 partition for running legacy children’s games (there are multiple that Windows XP cannot run even in legacy mode), [...]
Deleting photos from Canon Powershot G2 using GTKam
In Ubuntu, at least in Intrepid, it is easy to open a USB camera like the Canon Powershot G2. You just plug it in and it mounts on the desktop, attractive icon and all. But I couldn’t delete photos from the DCIM card on the camera. [update – although a friend could delete files from [...]
Using cfdisk to prepare a USB HDD to store backups
I bought 2 1TB hard drives to use as backup storage. These couldn’t be mounted immediately because they had not been formatted. So what to do next to prepare them for use? NB the convention for labelling devices has apparently changed and may differ between kernel versions – so what is true for me now [...]
7zip in Ubuntu using WINE
The problem – I needed to combine 6 split 7z files: file.7z.001, file.7z.002, , file.7z.003, file.7z.004, file.7z.005, and file.7z.006. I was unable to do this using p7zip although perhaps someone could explain how. Anyway, I have two solutions: Solution 1: The command line As per: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=859596. e.g. cat file.7z.001 file.7z.002 file.7z.003 file.7z.004 file.7z.005 file.7z.006>> file.7z [...]
Eclipse in Ubuntu with PyDev and Pydev Extension
Installing eclipse and pydev is done from synaptic and is straight-forward. Installing pydev extensions happens from Help > Software Updates > Find and Install > Search for new features to install. Have a remote site of http://pydev.sourceforge.net/updates/ NB we only want pydev, not the optional pydev mylyn integration (if you get nagged for things about [...]
Ubuntu, Samba, and Sharing Folders and Printers
Sharing a Printer The easiest way of sharing the printer was to hook it up to the router with its own ethernet cable. Then it was a case of System > Administration > Printing and clicking on New. The networked printer was identified correctly as the first item with the IP address and Port No. [...]