[HLUG] Herefordshire Digest, Vol 811, Issue 1

[Christopher Evans]

Greetings all!I was interested to read Matt's experiences with MythTV, as this is another of my 'projects' - I've installed it on my favourite distro (Mint Elyssa), but probably because of my own ineptitude I'm having difficulty getting it to run - I have the How To to study, so I'm sure I'll get there when I can give it my full attention! VirtualBox is presently ahead of it in the 'queue', and I'm also busy with my (used) IBM Thinkpad X40 which I've partitioned for dual-booting Windoze XP Pro & Mint Elyssa - Ultimately I would like to have it as a 'dedicated' Linux machine, but until I can get VB working, I don't want to overwrite Windoze - Not just yet, anyway! Also, conforming to my usual inquisitiveness, I've started to look at OCRopus which as most of you probably know is being 'sponsored' by Google?! - Their interest bodes well for the future of this application I think. From what I've learnt so far, scanning at 400dpi brings the highest accuracy for most apps, and in Binary (not Greyscale) - Any more information LUG-ites have about this or any of my other 'projects' will be gratefully received of course!Best wishes,Chris.OCRopus> From: herefordshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk> Subject: Herefordshire Digest, Vol 811, Issue 1> To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:00:02 +0000> > Send Herefordshire mailing list submissions to> 	herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit> 	https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire> or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to> 	herefordshire-request at mailman.lug.org.uk> > You can reach the person managing the list at> 	herefordshire-owner at mailman.lug.org.uk> > When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific> than "Re: Contents of Herefordshire digest..."> > > Today's Topics:> >    1. Re: Lingen as a possible venue (Julian Robbins)>    2. CentOS (matt stone)>    3. Re: CentOS (Malcolm Herbert)> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------> > Message: 1> Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:47:06 +0100> From: Julian Robbins <joolsr at fastmail.fm>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] Lingen as a possible venue> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."> 	<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>> Message-ID: <48B5BD4A.3040203 at fastmail.fm>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252> > Christopher Evans wrote:> > Hi Julian!> >> > As you seem to be inviting suggestions for the next meeting, can I suggest Lingen?! - Although this is in the far North-West corner of the county, there is a lovely pub there - The Royal George, and a Resource Centre with plenty of laptops and a good wireless connection!!! If we decided we wanted to use the Resource Centre, I would appreciate some warning, so I can book it? - There will be a small charge too, but it has very modern facilities and loads of free parking needless to say! > Hi Chris> > Thanks for your mail. Although Lingen sounds great with the wifi,> laptops for use and pub, its probably just a bit too remote for most of> our group. Sometimes it seems difficult to get to from Shobdon !!> > Perhaps we can go there sometime later on in the year, but I think in> fairness to the group we need a more central venue for next meeting.> > Julian> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 2> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:35:18 +0100> From: "matt stone" <stone.matthew at gmail.com>> Subject: [HLUG] CentOS> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."> 	<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>> Message-ID:> 	<7b86ecae0808280435te8df6d9l4d74d35f19f42ce at mail.gmail.com>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1> > Howdy folks> > My mythtv machine has gone horrendously bonkers and i've decided it's> time for an update to it. It's currently running fedora core 6 which,> by my calculations is three versions behind current despite it only> being a year and a half old! So, to try and get out of this kind of> hell i'm looking to move to a redhat based system with a bit of a> longer support cycle and think CentOS may be a likely candiate. Is> anyone on the list using it?> > I'll also be looking at a minimal install with no fancypants kde or> gnome as my current install is hogging around 9 gig of disk space and> i'd like to half that if poossible so i'm also considering running a> lightweight window manager such as ratpoison or fluxbox so if anyones> got any experience of installing and configuring something similar i'd> like to hear about it.> > Cheers> Matt> > > > ------------------------------> > Message: 3> Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:39:10 +0100> From: Malcolm Herbert <mherbert at redhat.com>> Subject: Re: [HLUG] CentOS> To: "Herefordshire Linux Users Group."> 	<herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk>> Message-ID: <1219923550.3418.34.camel at localhost.localdomain>> Content-Type: text/plain> > greetings;> > > My mythtv machine has gone horrendously bonkers and i've decided it's> > time for an update to it. It's currently running fedora core 6 which,> > by my calculations is three versions behind current despite it only> > being a year and a half old! So, to try and get out of this kind of> > hell i'm looking to move to a redhat based system with a bit of a> > longer support cycle and think CentOS may be a likely candiate. Is> > anyone on the list using it?> > i sticking with Fedora 8 for the moment, F9 has a version of xorg with> some significant API changes which may impact graphics support.  You> should have the repo's you need and updates for 18months or so> > CentOS as you may know is a direct clone of RHEL and as such is more> focused on enterprise / server products, though there is a RHEL desktop> version. > > For MythTV or desktop usage I'd go Fedora. > > > > > I'll also be looking at a minimal install with no fancypants kde or> > gnome as my current install is hogging around 9 gig of disk space and> > i'd like to half that if poossible so i'm also considering running a> > lightweight window manager such as ratpoison or fluxbox so if anyones> > got any experience of installing and configuring something similar i'd> > like to hear about it.> > > interesting; not played with that too much, but surprised it takes that> much space....> > Malc> > > Cheers> > Matt> > > -- > ---------------------------------------------> Dr Malcolm Herbert> Regional Services Manager, Red Hat EMEA> +44 7720 079845> ---------------------------------------------> > > > > ------------------------------> > _______________________________________________> Herefordshire mailing list> Herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/herefordshire> > End of Herefordshire Digest, Vol 811, Issue 1> *********************************************
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