Monthly Archives: November 2006

The President and Elvis are not the same person

November 8, 2006

I have proof! Pin It There have been suggestions from LUG Radio and Nik Butler that the lug.org.uk project needs a President. The further suggestion is that Alan Pope is the man for the job. Whilst Alan has all manner of personal qualities that would suit a leadership role, the wider question is whether such [...]

Ubuntu Edgy and DV Cameras

November 8, 2006

I use Kino to capture DV from Alan’s DV camera when I’ve used it to record the talks given at our LUG. It worked pretty well under Dapper. However, when trying to capture DV using Ubuntu Edgy, Kino returned an error saying WARNING: raw1394 kernel module not loaded or failure to read/write /dev/raw1394! Actually the [...]

Ubuntu Edgy and VMWare Workstation not a problem

November 7, 2006

Contrary to some people’s experience, I’ve not had any serious problems upgrading to Ubuntu Edgy. I upgraded my desktop a couple of days after Edgy’s release and it’s great. I had to run “aptitude dist-upgrade” a few times, but I just accepted the suggestions each time and after three or four iterations, I had a [...]

Popey power!

November 6, 2006

My good friend Alan Pope is interviewed on the latest episode of LUG Radio talking about UK LUGs. Alan did a very good job of representing the current state of LUGs in the UK. Download it and have a listen! I had been due to go on the show to talk about the recent goings-on [...]