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Hometown: Oxfordsire

Primary operating system: Ubuntu

First used Ubuntu: 2006

Where I use Ubuntu: Personal home PC, personal home laptop, office PC, office laptop, server

My primary PC: Dell, Hewlett Packard, Other

About me: Senior Architect with PhD is computational quantum mechanics, technology evangelist, husband, father, Judoka.

Website: http://www.nerds-central.com

I am a: Software developer, Business user, hardware company, Internet service provider, slacker

Top reason I use Ubuntu?: Reliability

Who I loved best: Who are these people?

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Video, Web And Linux

I just spent the day doing media on Linux.

1) Cut and converted 4 videos for my Judo group's FaceBook group.
2) Grabbed frames from video to make stills for the Judo group.
3) Processed those stills to look better.
4) Worked on photographs (extracting parts of images an remerging them) for a presentation on web development.

All this was easy using my humble 1.7Gig PentiumM laptop and Ubuntu. ffmpeg did the video cutting and conversion. mplayer did the frame grabbing… Continue

Posted on August 31, 2007 at 12:36pm — 1 Comment

Finally Broken The Tie

The tie that binds - Outlook - is broken.

Until recently I really suffered working for a MS dominated company but using Ubuntu as my main OS. No longer, I finally figured out (it was easy in the end) how to get Evolution to talk to Exchange. It required the evolution-exchange connector thingy from Novel and Exchange just becomes a connection option in Evolution!

That - and the more stable version of Skye that is out now - and Windows is now 100% only a development platform for… Continue

Posted on August 22, 2007 at 12:18pm —

Just To Prove I Do Use Ubuntu - And Some Of The Stuff I Do With It

Here is my desktop - right now (well 2 minutes ago)

and here is me using tightvnc from Ubuntu (k'ish I'll grant you) to access Windows XPro which is actually running in q Qemu VM on my fedora box. I don't like life to be too simple!

… Continue

Posted on June 29, 2007 at 10:01am —

Why I Use Ubuntu

Enough said ;)

Posted on June 29, 2007 at 9:43am — 2 Comments

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At 3:26pm on January 13, 2008, Steve Richardson said…: Alex:
Kudos for your country and education! Check out my blog at http://sksteve.wordpress.com/2008/01/13/linux-education-britain/

re: a story posted in Information Week Friday.

At 9:57am on August 22, 2007, Alex Turner said…: Steve, Thanks - I get the wall post ones, but I did not get an email when you posted a question about ubunutu servers. That was a shame, because I missed it in my rss reader and so did not post a reply :(

At 8:48am on August 22, 2007, Steve Richardson said…: There is an option in your account settings with Ning to have the system e-mail you when something is posted on your wall. That is how I knew you had sent me that message.

At 10:06am on June 29, 2007, Alex Turner said…: I am going for the recursive post scenario here:
http://nerds-central.blogspot.com/2007/06/just-joined-allaboutubuntu.html

At 9:45am on June 29, 2007, Alex Turner said…: Are - it supports text, embedded videos, photos and widgets does it now? How prey tell? I look but I see no buttons, ships or whatever. Have I my telescope to the wrong eye?

At 9:44am on June 29, 2007, Alex Turner said…: Oh - meet me on twitter
http://www.twitter.com/AlexTurner

At 9:42am on June 29, 2007, Alex Turner said…: I lied - I had to put a quit post in - Oh so addicted!

At 9:33am on June 29, 2007, Alex Turner said…: All, I'm hear - let me know what I can do to help. I'll not be putting anything in a the blog as I already have one - nerds-central.blogspot.com