Flash Insight

All my experimentation with Ubuntu has largely taken place on a fairly old PC. I’ve run Ubuntu on virtual machines using Microsoft’s Virtual PC and VMWare but the only physical implementation has taken place on a PC with an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ CPU and an Asus A7V8X motherboard with 512Mb of RAM. The CPU [...]

The Plot Thickens

My Internet search for problems with Sony’s i.link connection quickly yielded results. Here is what one dissatisfied customer had to say:

BETTER LISTEN UP. I believe that Sony has a defect with the i-link firewire output port. One day I connected my camcorder to my PC and there it was, no device present (like the camcorder [...]

Camcorders

I’ve finally returned to the world of camcorders after leaving it in the mid-90s. Back then, I had a fairly bulky analogue video camera, a relic from the 1980s, but it worked well enough and recorded onto VCR tapes that could be viewed on the television. There was no question of moving video footage to [...]