My Son Caolan is into making films. He is currently in Young Irish Film Makers in KIlkenny. This is is web site http://www.yifm.com/ and this is one where he is an Actor… http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6041491331317799341&q=yifm&hl=en
This one is where he is the cameraman.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2844728563643070646&q=yifm&hl=en
One of the not so sweet problems I had was being able to watch a DVD on my SUSE Linux Laptop. The issue was mainly that the DVD decoder was not installed. Also for SUSE 10.2 under GNOME, the underlying technology for TOTEM was gstreamer – which by all accounts (google anyway) not so good. I can confirm this.
Best thing to do is just XINE – dont bother with TOTEM – cant see the benefit anyway.
This fellow has very kindly put everything together – so just visit his nice site. It all works I can tell you.
http://cambuca.ldhs.cetuc.puc-rio.br/xine/
If you have problems getting to this site the just follow this:
http://packman.links2linux.org/search?scope=name&q=xine
Step 1 – Download the LIbrary xine-lib and any dependencies
Step 2 – Download the UI part and any dependencies
Step 3 – Download the CSS stuff from http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
Lessons – I thought I would share this with everyone – and hopefully someone can learn about Linux.
I had to travel to Ireland for the week so I took my laptop along. For reasons that I am still unware of the OS went belly up with a corrupt CONFIG/SYSTEM file error on boot.
Nothing seemed to fix it and I didnt have my OS disks with me – although I suspect it would have been a rebuild anyway.
So I went down to local book shop and bought a copy of Linux Format and Linux User. The Kilkenny Bookshop is an excellent shop if you ever find yourself in Kilkenny with nothing to read.
They always have a distro handy, so I booted Open SUSE 10.2. Within an hour, I was online with Wireless, had figured out XINE so that my kid could watch a DVD and was able to work on Excel and Word documents.
Shall just keep SUSE on – seems better anyway and I can blog away too.
This is my Son’s Caolan new room. He wanted to see it so I blogged it.
If your interested in using FAST then you are going to need the system admin page. Its at
http://hostname:%5Bstart port + 3000]
When you are installing an Index Agent – you will be asked for the start port – default 13000. I have to use 26000 because systems here clog up 24000 with monitoring stuff so for exampel I use
http://ukblgel025.rd.astrazeneca.net:29000
And that displays the admin page – none of which is documented as far as I can gather.
Swell
Another one restored. I thought I would put this one up. I love GPO Old style phones, especially bakelite ones. I restore 3 types – 120, 162/200 and 300 styyle phones.
In terms of restoration – bakelite repairs are themost tricky and to be honest, I’ve not fond a way of doing it yet myself – so I dont bother. If find a good way, I shall post it for searching.
Lots of good information exists about these phones – I’m not going to copy it – so here you go.
Restoring these phones is a relaxing way to spend a Sunday afternoon and as such – thats what I do. They are particualrty nice objects and look good in a modern or period styled home.
This is one I did earlier – earlier yesterday that is.
I am usually an Oracle bod. This is why. I loaded up Documentum V 5.2.5 last week – more legacy reasons and I wanted to use SQL server. Installed SQL Server 2000 and SP4. All went well until the Documentum installer balked and told me it wanted a database that was case sensitive.
Holy tables – Not case sensitive – well of course windows isn’t. So I had to resinstall SQL Server with Case and Accent sensitive.. A waste of an hour of my life. Make sure you do it when the installer asks you when setting up.
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