Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy Eft - WMV Video

I have Ubuntu 6.10 running a
spare laptop. I am testing out this Linux distribution to see if I am comfortable
moving my daily activities to Linux. (Ultimately our XP machines through out our
home are going to be be replaced with Macs or Linux workstations.)

I have a XP session running in a VM on my VWMare server.
This particular XP session downloads and manages the various podcasts that I follow
on a regular basis. (I time shift a lot of content to my car via MP3 CD and to my
MP3 player at work in addition to playing the on my home network.)

I have been able to update Ubuntu 6.10 to play all of the audio podcasts but not the
video podcasts. I stumbled across this post: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=384897 
which pointed me in the right direction.

The solution turned out to be installing the VLC
Media Player. (I had previously tried the gstreamer codecs and various codecs.)
The only complaint that I have about the VLC Media Player is that it will not let
me open the files from a SMB point
on my network. I ended up having to copy the files to local machine. (I will need
to look at using the mount command to make it look like local disk and see if that
solves with problem.)

Maddog via Podcast

Yesterday on my drive home I listened to a timeshifted FLOSS podcast.
This was the first one that I had ever listened to and it turned out to be very interesting.
Their guest was Jon
"Maddog" Hall who is a mover and shaker in the Linux world.
It was interesting to hear Jon talk about Linux from 10-15 years ago and some of the
early days of what became the Open
Source community. 

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March 24th, 2007

FLOSS Weekly 17: maddog

Hosts: Chris DiBona and Leo
Laporte

Guest: Jon 'maddog' Hall,
Linux evangelist, and executive director of Linux International.

Scoble's Podcasts

I spent the last hour of my life trying to weed through my backlog of Scoble's
podcasts.  I wish that he would provide a separate feed for the


"short version of his content" then another one for the interview, then another one
for the "demo."



He currently has one feed with all three of these components. I just went through
over 2gb of content.   Argghhhh.

New Soldersmoke Podcast #51

I am very excited to see another new episode of Soldersmoke sitting
on my network this morning.  I enjoy listening to Bill and the group of people
that following this.

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from www.soldersmoke.com

SolderSmoke51.mp3


March 25, 2007 Moj's e-music. AmateurLogicTV#12. PiccoZ Helo. WA7MLH's site.

1.6 Mhz IF as a transmitter trick. Chinese listeners? .rss files fixed. My evolving
HB,Class A, feedback amp, CW, .5W transmitter.  BANDSWEEP: On 17 meter SSB with
EA8EQ. MAILBAG: Pete, W6JFR, describes a realworld troubleshooting problem. Arv, K7HKL,
updates on BITX20 kits.  Thomas, LA3PNA, describes current projects.  

Clipmarks

I was going through my backlog of podcasts this morning. I am trying to be better
about listening to them in the car and at work to try to stay more current on the
content. It is amazing how much content I have setup to come down automatically.

Scoble's podcasts are
huge and come in every couple of days. There is so much content that I rarely have
the time to get through all of his podcasts.



Today I discovered Clipmarks in
his podcast and this is my first test post using that tool.

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from clipmarks.com

Forget
bookmarks! Now you can

clip the best parts of the page.

Save what you clip, post it on your blog, send it to your

friends or share it with everyone on the Clipmarks site.

If I were 100 years old....

Here is an interesting school project from Ben's kindergarten class:

Cool Contact - CU2JT

I made a cool 30m RTTY contact
a few days ago... CU2JT. 
Gary lives in the Azores but is
originally from Sweden. Take a look at his website as
it has some great pictures from the Azores.

SolderSmoke Podcast

I have been listening to the SolderSmoke podcast by
Bill Meara - M0HBR 









It is an interesting mix of technical talk along with QRP and homebrewing. It primarily
will appeal to Radio Amateur (HAMs) but that works fine for me.. NG0R.

Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand

While working on a project at work I am listening to music on my MP3 player.


Neil Young - Cowgirl in the Sand  





-Wow... great song with lots of instramental space. I love the sound of the guitars
and the amps. Talk about an old school sound with warm fuzzy tube amps!

OpenDNS

Here is an interesting idea. (Scott's
blog generally has a lot of interesting stuff long before it gets posted else
where.)








It is a DNS platform that tries to correct misspelled requests before they get sent
to Phishing sites. I think that idea is interesting, I think that it will scale fine
under a small load but will provide scalability issues since it has to be scaled horizontally
since every request is a live query vs. getting cached.



I dislike it because I am not a fan of my requests being intercepted and then interrupted
with what someone else thinks I am requesting. Just because they think it is misspelled...
is it really misspelled... or is it another legitimate web site?



http://www.opendns.com/share/