I discovered that Windows will import videos from my camcorder as in .wmv format as well as .avi. This makes a big difference because one hour of mini-DV tape takes up about 2Gb in wmv format but about 14Gb in avi format (which is just too big), you’d need a Blu-ray disc to store it). [...]
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In my university days, HD stood for High Distinction but nowadays it’s come to be associated with High Definition and it is the direction is which technological devices such as digital cameras, camcorders and televisions are all heading. Below is a shot of a newly released HD Sony digital camera.
The number that can be seen [...]
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My implementation of Ubuntu 8.04 on my Toshiba Satellite laptop has been trouble-free. On startup, I get the opportunity to boot to Ubuntu (the default) or Windows Vista. The Ubuntu startup is much faster than the Windows and is the ideal solution if I’m mainly wanting to connect to the Internet and don’t have any [...]
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My Firewire adventure had a happy ending after I bought another cable for Rp100,000 from another shop. Later I found a cheaper cable in Gramedia for Rp89,000 but no matter, all I hoped for was that it would work and it did. The lesson learned was that all cables are not created equal and the [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Yep, Flash and Firefox in Ubuntu are a toxic combination. Earlier this evening I was on my Ubuntu PC and visiting an online quiz-making site called MyStudiyo, which has a lot of interactive flash content. It was a disaster. Crash, restart browser, crash etc. I’ve now withdrawn to my trusty Windows Vista laptop in despair. [...]
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No, I haven’t had an epiphany but I am using a web browser called Epiphany. I’ve done this in response to the repeated crashes of Firefox in versions 2 and beta 3 while running Ubuntu 8.04. The download of the browser was simple enough using the Add/Remove software feature in Ubuntu but that was the [...]
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The penny has finally dropped. All my software updates for Ubuntu have been coming from an Indonesian server, not the main server. My problems with the NVidia driver derived from the fact the driver was simply not on the Indonesian server. When I accessed the main server, the driver downloaded without any problem and after [...]
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