SNMLug - Linux Support by Linux Users havoc@harrisdev.com RSS feed from SNMLug - Linux Support by Linux Users http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re en RE-RSS spewer Needed update http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=203#203 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=203#203 Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:16:00 MST havoc Ubuntu media script checking out some demo software http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=202#202 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=202#202
Unfortunately, it's Windows-only. Fortunately, I have VMware, and a copy of Win2000 on my machine, so I can fall back to Windows for this type of thing. ]]> Fri, 16 Sep 2005 10:14:37 MST havoc root SNMlug RSS feed http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=201#201 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=201#201
Theoretically, you never have to come to the site again, except to post replies... ]]> Fri, 15 Jul 2005 11:22:45 MST havoc root first submission http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=200#200 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=200#200
This script needs to be run from a root shell. I like to create one with sudo bash. Whatever works for you, but you'll have to have a root shell, so don't even try running it with sudo bash ubu-media.sh (it won't work). ]]> Sat, 11 Jun 2005 10:35:00 MST havoc Ubuntu media script another distro test drive - Damn Small Linux 1.0 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=198#198 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=198#198
I was a little baffled at having to track down the installer through the menus, but I did find it. Once I got it installed on the hard drive, I kept having troubles. One boot would make my mouse disappear, the next, my keyboard failed to exist. The number pad never did work.

After considerable frustration, I rebooted with the Kubuntu CD, and started working on a script to install a bunch of media stuff and basic tools that I think would be handy when I get around to building a media box down the road some time.

Oh, well... I like what I saw. I'm betting that DSL will clear all of these bugs shortly, and 1.1 will become an indispensable part of my gear. Since it's 50MB, and a minimized version of Knoppix, I'm betting it ends up on one of the 210 MB mini CDs and in my pocket. ]]> Thu, 26 May 2005 15:54:20 MST havoc root so good http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=197#197 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=197#197
If you're the least bit interested in Ubuntu Linux, but, like me, have a serious KDE habbit, Kubuntu is easily worth downloading the ISO. If you're a Debian user, there's not much to see here. If you're coming from Slackware, I don't know that you'd be interested. If your a long time user of one of the commercial distros, and you just want to try something else, try Kubuntu.

You'll have to wrap your brain around the Debain way of installing things. The one-CD installation just gets your system up, then it downloads a default set of packages from the net and installs them. After that, you need to learn something about apt-get. Go directly to the Unofficial Ubuntu Starter Guide. Do not pass "Go." Do not collect $200.00.

I was attempting to set up a media box for the living room, so I took a lot of the procedures from the 'guide,' rolled them into a single shell script, edited them to run directly as root (as opposed to running via sudo), got myself a root shell, and ran it. (You should add a "-y" to the apt-get commands to make it almost completely hands-free.) While it was running, I went on about my other business, and checked in periodically. I had to babysit my script and tell it, "Yes, I do want to install those packages," because I didn't give the apt-get commands the "-y" option. (-y = Assume Yes to all queries and do not prompt)

It will play movies and music, but Freevo won't install on this version of K/Ubuntu because of some Python issues. MythTV is in one of the extended Ubuntu repositories (see the Ubuntu guide linked above, it's one of the first things mentioned), but MythTV is limited to PVR, and doesn't address the global "media center" jobs (like viewing movies not recorded by MythTV, music and stuff like that).

I'm actually considering taking down my firewall/router/development server/etc box, and reinstalling with Kubuntu. Why? Well, primarily because DansGuardian is part of one of those repositories, and should be cake to install (sudo apt-get install dansguardian). I haven't tried installing DansGuardian in a long time, but my children are getting to the age that I really need to put a barrier between them and the massive amount of garbage on the net that's actively looking to invade their young minds. ]]> Fri, 13 May 2005 10:06:15 MST havoc root RE: another distro test drive -- Kubuntu http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=196#196 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=196#196
the default user that you create has sudo rights to all root tasks, even setting the root password. I guess that's really not a bad system. ]]> Tue, 10 May 2005 14:19:04 MST havoc root another distro test drive -- Kubuntu http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=195#195 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=195#195 Kubuntu a try. Kubuntu is the now famous, and hugely popular, Ubuntu distribution with all of the KDE goodness installed and set as defaults.

I am not a KDE evangelist. I'm a "desktop agnostic" with a serious KDE habit. I've just used the K desktops long enough that the Gnome desktop is as foreign as a Microsoft or Apple desktop.

I'll keep you posted. ]]> Tue, 10 May 2005 13:12:20 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=194#194 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=194#194
I tried to document it, repeat it, revise documentation and do it to another photo this morning, and it didn't work.

go figure! ]]> Sat, 16 Apr 2005 14:23:58 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=193#193 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=193#193 Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:31:15 MST Joe1138 root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=192#192 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=192#192
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Maybe I'll document what I did tomorrow.

All of the zooms and blurs on the football pics are more "painting" than photograph. I intentionally went overboard on all of them. The problem is, there's really not much in those pics until you take them well over the top.

It's fun. I've never done that kind of stuff before. It's good exercise, fun experimenting. I'm thinking about getting some (small) poster-sized prints of those made for the Memorial Day weekend, Roswell GridIron,

[apathy error: spell check skipped] ]]> Fri, 15 Apr 2005 23:20:40 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=191#191 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=191#191
I must say though I'm not a big fan of the blur effect you used on some of the sports shots but that's just a personal thing. It's one of those Gimp/Photoshop filters that gets WAY overused like emboss.

I was looking at your picture of the buses, I like it. From what you wrote it sounds like you were trying to get that sun-faded, old color photo print look? You might take this high contrast version you have posted and run it through a sepia filter and then on a new layer take a sized copy of the original at a very low opacity to accentuate the colors. Maybe something like this. Seems like how I've seen that done somewhere.

I just realized I don't really have any of my photos anywhere online. Best I can do right now is some photos that I took of the car I bought last year. ]]> Fri, 15 Apr 2005 22:45:40 MST Joe1138 root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=190#190 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=190#190
I don't know if anyone makes a dSLR that will accept your OM10 lenses. Olympus rolled out that new dSLR, but they've rolled out a whole new set of lenses for it. Is it the same lens mount at the old OM10 stuff?

I've also never looked to see if anyone makes adapters for Oly lenses for Canon or Nikon.

Oh, and I've recently discovered how to actually USE the Gimp to fix less-than-perfect images. A layer is a wonderful thing. ]]> Fri, 15 Apr 2005 08:56:28 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=189#189 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=189#189
I don't know if I could catagorize my photography.. maybe general bs. I like doing black and white as well as color, long night exposures. I'd really like to get a telescope I could attach my olympus to for some astronomical photograpy. I'd also love to try my hand at some holographic imagery. ASA 1 film, a low wattage laser, a couple of other easily obtainable items and a location that doesn't have too much heavy traffic going by to blur the image.

How about you? ]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2005 23:32:33 MST Joe1138 root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=188#188 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=188#188
When I first got the camera, ~20 months ago, shooting RAW and running Linux were mostly incompatible. dcraw was rather primative, and there was no information available for color corrections. Since then, Bibble Labs has released Bibble Lite and Pro for Linux, and the Gimp team has rolled a RAW converter (based on dcraw) into the Gimp. The latest version of ImageMagic can also handle RAW files from the 10D.

Still, it's a far from perfect world. The Gimp doesn't do 16-bit (per channel) color images (8-bit only), and while cinepaint (filmgimp) will do 16-bit images, I've never managed to get it to compile on my system.

What kind of photography do you do? ]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2005 22:21:24 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=187#187 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=187#187
... of course it didn't cover my olympus c4000, or at least not by name. ]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2005 21:59:41 MST Joe1138 root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=186#186 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=186#186 shudder!

I'd never considered the tan part! ]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:39:12 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=185#185 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=185#185
"I don't golf. I won't golf. What if I tried it... and liked it!"


Ummmm, you'd have to give up your geek status. It just won't do having a geek with a good tan. ;-) ]]> Thu, 14 Apr 2005 08:19:23 MST Joe1138 root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=184#184 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=184#184
If you're converting a whole directory, it can be shorted with wildcards, but the lists shown were from KimDaBa.

Photography is my hobby. I tend to take my hobbies to extremes, so I try to limit myself to only two or three at a time. "I don't golf. I won't golf. What if I tried it... and liked it!" ]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2005 23:19:10 MST havoc root RE: Learning to love the Bash you live with http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=183#183 http://snmlug.realizationengine.com/cgi-bin/re?message=183#183
I googled for dcraw as well as the other piped commands. It looks like you're pulling raw digital camera image data, manipulating it a bit and saving it as TIFF file format and then as JPG. Is photography your profession or hobby? ]]> Wed, 13 Apr 2005 17:05:56 MST Joe1138 root