My little piece of peace

[masalai]

Judy, Your production (boat build), is near perfection - and you are way ahead of me in the process - - I am too computer dumb to even consider reducing image size, and I have had some interesting shots I would have loved to put up (with lots of greenery which puts them over the 2MB limit - do not even ask for them to be reduced, but I retain my cheeky attitude with a threat to post 12MB images elsewhere?

Using Linux Mint as I am too lazy/dumb to find the codecs and plugins that I want - I thought they might have stuck a finger at the yanks as mint has done - but seems the philosophy of "free" (unencumbered by patents and copyright) software is stronger in some... - I think I will stick to invasion by my alien entities as photographed with the flash shots as being the cause of the "problems"

The images stay as they are.... even when I am on the boat - If I can upload at sea then everyone can download although the thumbnails will have to be sufficient for the bandwidth challenged - How do you get on with the random picture images - I wish they were thumbnails, but that is another topic....

This is #1 and seems to be behaving for the present? - #2 is being sent to an expert for exorcism...

[judy]

Sorry to hear you've given up on Ubuntu. In case you do decide to give it another shot.....

Ubuntu do not so much stick their finger as politely suggest ways of dealing with the non-free components. They have "Medibuntu (Multimedia, Entertainment & Distractions In Ubuntu) which is a repository of packages that cannot be included into the Ubuntu distribution for legal reasons (copyright, license, patent, etc)."

Click here for instructions on using Medibuntu

I've followed the Medibuntu instructions for the past 40 or so installations I have done, all with total success.

After that, these few more steps mean I've yet to find a video I cannot play:

I install Adobe Flash Player by visiting youtube and attempting to play a video (you are prompted to install).

I install further codecs by attempting to play a .avi file (in the default movie player in the Ubuntu distribution), and following the resultant prompts to find and install necessary codecs.

Then via the menu - Applications, Add/Remove, I make sure the "Show" section has "All available applications" selected, and then search for and install VLC media player and MPlayer Movie Player

[masalai]

Judy, Linux Mint is an offshoot of Ubuntu, which is derived from the Debian development stream so still the same repositories, just all the stuff comes with the downloaded "Mint" package.... so essentially another branch of the same stuff... Synaptic Package Manager is what I use to add clamAV so the windows crowd can feel "secure" when they receive my emails, and K3B for DVD/CD burning, and amorok for music (but I always forget to quit through the menu and just hit the "X" which leaves it playing in the background)...

[judy]

Sorry, I should have looked up Mint (have now). I mistakenly thought it was a different distro. It looks great. You have lots of good info - thanks to you I am using FreeShip under Wine, we are probably (95% sure) going to have a headsail only rig, we'll probably copy your access covers in the wet areas, and I've sent an email to Digitech. Don't think I'll move to Mint though

[Boston]

ya Im fine with the picts as they are Mas
I can "zoom" in on what I want and get a good look at what your up to
I say leave it the way it is

B

oh hey
friend of mine has got a gold mine up in the hills
he is usually kinda funny about telling anyone where its at
but it looks like Im off to do some gold mining tomorrow

Ill let you know how it goes

[masalai]

Boston, Hope you find plenty of that "yellow stuff"...

No worries Judy, Damien at digitech is supposed to be setting up a website for cruising yachties, I have pointed him at some other goodies so he may start producing some of those too...

[Fanie]

I would also prefer the pics the size they are, so don't even think about it !

Judy,

Do you have a thread or web site... ? would like to see/follow your build.

[masalai]

Fanie in my signature area click on the "Bob Oram" link, then on the lower right is a link to "The Scrumble Project" and there you are...

[Manie B]

Hey Fanie - Scrumble is also on my webpage, you better start reading, you are missing beeeeeg time

Mas i also like your BIG pics
i zoom in and drool for hours
learning lots - thanks pal and also big thanks to the dream team

[hoytedow]

[quote=masalai;300641]Boston, Hope you find plenty of that "yellow stuff"...

Ditto...

[Boston]

eh we got snowed out
it was just coming down so hard you could barely see ten feet
that and had we not turned tail we would have likely been dug out in the spring
dam that dig was back in the mountains

[masalai]

Boston, what a weak excuse?, snowed in for the winter and digging gold for warmth and exercise, you would have come out leaner, stronger and richer as well as having built a handsome underground retreat/home with a built in revenue stream.... - - - Think positive man, think positive (and "outside the box" so to speak)...

[Boston]

I suppose I should have said "had our frozen solid corpses dug out in the spring"

we might have one more shot at it before winter really sets in up there
maybe
once the ground freezes my buddy tells me its hell to work the mine

[masalai]

Aaarrrrgh I was only having a dig.... Borrow some of Fanies and Manies "crew" to keep you warm and entertained during those cold dark nights...

[Boston]

thats what the old faithful lodge in Yellowstone is for
getting snowed in with just the right girl
or car load of girls
but
middle of no where Colorado
no bar
no food
and no girls
and im hightailing it outa there at the first sign of trouble