[Herts] Next Meeting: Herts LUG - Wednesday 9th September 2009

[nigelg.net]

Here are 9 of my favourite apps:

1 - Thunderbird
2 - Firefox
3 - F-Spot
4 - GIMP
5 - Quanta+
6 - GNUcash
7 - Quantum GIS
8 - VLC
9 - SME Server

In no particular order.

I've just built a new home server based on an Asrock mini-ITX Atom 330. 
I might bring it along.

be happy
:¬} Nigel

Steve Clark wrote:
> On Thursday 03 Sep 2009 17:54:17 nicolas wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> Next Meeting: Herts LUG - Wednesday 9th September 2009
>>     
>
> Hadn't realised that we were meeting on 09/09/09. So can we think of a number 
> 9-related feature? e.g. What are you 9 favourite applications? Mine would be 
> (in random order):
>
> 1. Firefox
> 2. Amarok
> 3. Kate
> 4. Gwibber (Twitter/Identi.ca client)
> 5. K3B
> 6. MythTV
> 7. Konqueror
> 8. VLC
> 9. Picasa. I know it's closed source, but it's a good photo manager
>
> I don't have much to report. I still haven't set up my audio recording PC. 
> I've done some audio work on my main PC, but that has some sound issues. The 
> main one is that that sometimes lose sound. This often happens when we have 
> several family members logged in, but can also happen spontaneously. I get a 
> notification that my nVidia Analog is not working and it is 'falling back' to 
> digital. That is no good as I don't have anything hooked up to the digital 
> output. This is on Kubuntu 9.04. I've found various references to this 
> problem, but none of the solutions has worked for me.
>
> My reason for setting up a dedicated audio PC is that it will have a minimum 
> of applications installed and I can tweak it for optimum audio performance. I 
> plan to use one of the dedicated audio distributions, e.g. Studio 64 (well the 
> 32 bit version for my old Duron).
>
> I did have a good experience of installing my latest hardware, a Microsoft (!) 
> keyboard. Some of the extra function keys (e.g. volume) worked straight away 
> and I was able to set up others easily.
>
> See you next week.
>
>