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KDE 4 release and screenshots
by Ian McDonald 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Some nice examples of how KDE 4 looks here: http://www.news.com/2300-7344_3-6225734-1.html?tag=ne.gall.pg -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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ANNOUNCE: WLUG meeting is one week away
by Meeting Reminder Bot 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

The Waikato Linux Users Group have a meeting in one week from today: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Annual WLUG BBQ at Lindsay's place, 3 John Webb Drive, Glenview (http://zoomin.co.nz/?search/index&type=ADDRESS&q=3%20John%20Webb%20Drive%2C…) 3pm until about 7pm BYO steak, beer, etc.. WLUG will provide snacks and soft drinks.

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DNS problem
by Michael McDonald 11 Jan '08

11 Jan '08

Like Jamie, I've been having problems with my Dynalink RTA1320 modem/router. I ended up replacing it with a Linksys AG300. That seemed to fix the problems, but ... about once per day access to the Internet gets cut off. It's easy enough to restore functionality. All I have to do is (a) power off/on the modem/router, or (b) disconnect/connect, or (c) add my ISP's DSN servers to the network tables on my computer. In other words, it appears to be a DNS problem. The question is what's happening? I've put my ISP's DNS addresses in the router/modem's setup (makes no difference). When DNS name resolution via the router fails, all computers on the network fail to access the Internet. The timing of the problem doesn't coincide with the monitored with the monitored burglar alarm "phoning home". Any suggestions on what the problem is or what to try next? Michael

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Linux/VMWare/Windows engineer needed
by Ian McDonald 10 Jan '08

10 Jan '08

If this sounds like you and you'd like to work as part of the new systems team at Datacom then have a look at: http://it.seek.co.nz/users/apply/index.ascx?Sequence=20&PageNumber=1&JobID=… -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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Picasa upgrade and Google repositories for Debian/Ubuntu
by Ian McDonald 09 Jan '08

09 Jan '08

Read more here: http://www.linux.com/feature/123818 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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State of Ogg Theora/Video for Linux
by Ian McDonald 05 Jan '08

05 Jan '08

http://www.linux.com/feature/123869 -- Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Blog: http://iansblog.jandi.co.nz

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DVD creator software
by James Pluck 03 Jan '08

03 Jan '08

Hi all! I'm in a bit of a bind. I'm trying to create a dvd out of some home movies we've made of our foster son so we can give them to his birth parents and his grandparents as part of their Christmas gift. However, the only software I can find is commercial and I can't afford it - let alone know how to use it. I could do with some hints, please I need software that will allow me to create a DVD that is a mix of approximately 10 video clips (in MOV format as that is the only format for video that our digi-cam uses) and a slideshow of approx 50 photos - so it's definitely less than a DVD's worth of footage. FOSS software preferred but I will try shareware or commercial if I have to. Any help that can be provided would be greatly appreciated. Cheers James. -- A Mathematician named Klein Thought the mobius strip was divine Said he "If you glue The edges of two You'll get a cool bottle, like mine!"

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Explanation of Samba/Microsoft deal
by Ian McDonald 27 Dec '07

27 Dec '07

Good article here: http://www.linux.com/feature/123721 -- Web1: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4/ Web2: http://www.jandi.co.nz

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Technology in 2008 (Economist)
by Michael McDonald 23 Dec '07

23 Dec '07

Interesting forecast from the Economist. Predicts more use of Open Source. http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10410912 Michael

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Java or Python?
by Chris O'Halloran 18 Dec '07

18 Dec '07

I am looking for some thoughts/opinions on the merits of these two languages. Over the years I book a few books on Java including Java in Nutshell Java Foundation Class Java for Scientist and Engineers The latter being the most useful to me. However, I've never really got the hang of how it all works. I don't have a formal programming background In recent times, I've come across Python and lately stumbled upon SciPy,ipython, NumPy and matplotlib.sourceforge.net. I've also noticed that Python has PyQt that enables you to use the Qt and poss KDE for widgets and gui interface. KDE is the desktop of choice for me and QT Designer are all "sudo apt-get install " away. Both Python and Java are cross platform which a plus. What I would like to do is put together small applications often using complex numbers and array for the engineering work that I do. Sometimes importing csv text files containing data from measurment devices. I have always thought Java was the tool for this but lately, I've noticed how easy it is to make things work with Python. especially the interactive "try a line of code, did it do what you wanted?, no, try this, ah, that works" I'm thinking that Python might provide the fast feed back approach that gets you enthused about actually coding than the steper learning curve of a more comprehensive language and not actually knowing where to start with a gui or even just how to get the IDE to use the classpath you want. I'd be interested if people had thoughts or comments on the merits. Cheers

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