Alex Turner's Blog (4)

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

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

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!

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Enough said ;)
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