Installing Ubuntu Studio 7.04 - Linux For The Creative

From Digg: Ubuntu Studio is a multimedia editing/creation flavour of Ubuntu, built for the GNU/Linux audio, video, and graphic enthusiast or professional. It is an official derivative of the Ubuntu open source operating system and comes with many applications as well as a beautiful dark theme. This walkthrough shows how to install it.

Unfortunately the ubuntustudio site has been down since the announcement, but the post on Digg has various links to torrents etc so you can download it from other sources. I am downloading as we speak, using this torrent and will certainly make a post (or two) about this flavour of Ubuntu !

read more | digg story

Tech Tags: linux ubuntu ubuntu+studio

Catholics and Candles

What's the deal with Candles and Catholics ? Find out on That Catholic Show #2, another SQPN quality production.



The rss feed offers a better quality video than youtube provides. You can subscribe at sqpn.com.

Tech Tags: sqpn, catholic, video

Sunrise New Zealand

Sunrise New Zealand
Originally uploaded by kiwimission.

The 24hrs on Flickr has begun with this wonderful photo !

Secrets of Star Wars

This is starting to look like an sqpn Link blog, but I have to link to this one ;). They have released another interesting podcast series named the Secrets of Star Wars. Sqpn has been very busy lately with the release of quite a few new series.

Here is a quote from the press release:

“The new podcast series can give Star Wars fans new insights into the saga, and they can learn something about the Christian faith in the process,” says Fr. Roderick, a long time fan of the Star Wars films. “The podcast will make you look at these well known movies with new eyes, helping you enjoy them even more when you know how many interesting religious and moral themes are hidden below the surface.”

Tech Tags: star+wars,sqpn,podcast

That catholic show

Even though I am not a Catholic, I thought this new SQPN video podcast was very entertaining and very well produced ! The rss feed provides a high quality video than the Youtube video below, so you might want to check that out

Video on YouTube

That Catholic Show

Tech Tags: sqpn, catholic

Dell chooses Ubuntu

Dell will be offering a choice of XP, Vista and Ubuntu when you buy a new pc from them ! Very interesting move by Dell. This is a big step for Linux on the desktop.

Article at Desktoplinux.com

Tech Tags: linux, ubuntu, dell

Brandy Hall

Brandy Hall
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

A wonderful sight in LOTRO, the Brandy Hall, on the east river bank of the Brandywine river.
http://aboutlotro.info

Technorati tags: lotro, mmorpg

Lord of the Rings Online

Field of Flowers
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

Opened up a new site at http://www.sobaseki.com/drupal about LOTRO. Also added some screenshots to my flickr account ;).

Technorati tag: lotro

Summer in april

sunny1
Originally uploaded by Morphisat.

It's 25 degrees celcius here in Holland and probably even warmer in the sun. As you can see not a cloud in the sky.

Technorati tag: april

Technorati Tags

Found a nice site which lets you easily create technorati tags, for those blogs that dont natively support them and where you cant upload plugins etc., like blogspot and wordpress.com.

http://www.marketwest.co.uk/tools/index.php

Technorati tags: technorati, technorati+tags

Cooking Priest

Another enjoyable video in the Healthy Catholic series. And I am not even catholic :).



Full article at sqpn.com.

Technorati tags: sqpn, cooking.

Windows Vista Desktop Wallpaper

Amazing shots at http://www.hamaddarwish.com/. The photographer that took some of the shots for the Vista desktop wallpaper put up some 'outtakes' at his site. They are really breathtaking :). Like this one.

Vista review

Nice review here at windley.com.

Just recently installed it on my new Core2duo with 2Gb and I must say it's really nice on such a machine. Very responsive and nice looking. Hope it stays that way when times goes by ;).

Saddam's Hanging

Excellent article on this ugly affair on BBC.CO.UK.

Altogether, the execution as we now see it is shown to be an ugly, degrading business, which is more reminiscent of a public hanging in the 18th Century than a considered act of 21st Century official justice.

 

Technorati tags: saddam, iraq, politics

Vista Overview

PC Magazine posted a nice Vista overview.

So far I have been using the media center on an Amd 2500xp with 756 (or so) RAM and wasnt very impressed. Sure it looks nice, but not THAT impressive. Also tried readyboost, and though the usb stick's light was constantly flashing it didnt make a bit of difference. Furthermore the harddisk always seems to be busy. And this was just while browsing the web with FireFox (cant stand IE7's interface or lack thereof). So on that particular PC i am back with MCE 2005, which works like a charm :).

And on my main pc, that i use to game / email / surf etc, I am not going to try it for a long time. It's pretty stable with XP sp2 and I havent seen any features on Vista that I care for...

Microsoft missing the podcast boat

Good article over at Geeknews. I have to agree. It's curious why Microsoft has left off any podcast support off the Zune and Windows Media Player 11. Even their new feedreader in IE7 doesnt support automatically downloading RSS enclosures, supposedly for security reasons. And now that podcasting is really taking off, it seems like Microsoft is missing the boat.

tags: microsoft, zune, podcasting

FireFox 2.0

Firefox 2.0 has been released ! I was already running RC3 and without even noticing it went to 2.0 ;). Very nice improvement, I already wrote about it in a previous post. There are also a bunch of new banners and buttons available, like the one below,  to put on your site and/or blog at the affliates page.

Cnet review 

PC Magazine

Yahoo News Link

The power of blogging

Jan Pronk has become a Persona Non Grata in Sudan, thanks to his blog ;). This goes to show how powerful blogging has become, when governments are afraid of the opinions expressed in blogs !

Jan Pronk's blog

Expel UN envoy, Sudan army says

 

Technorati tags: jan pronk, sudan, blogging, human rights

IE7 released

It's now available on yahoo (so you get all the yahoo 'extra's', like the toolbar etc). And it will be availble without it (I hope ;)) from microsoft at the Microsoft IE site. If it's like IE7 in Vista, it's a lot better than IE6 (and it should be), though it has some really odd interface quirks. Firefox has a way more logical interface I think.

Their 2.0 release is right around the corner !

 

Technorati tags: IE7, Microsoft

Windows Live Writer

The new version that can be found at http://windowslivewriter.spaces.live.com/, does support Blogger Beta, using a workaround from http://jcheng.wordpress.com/2006/09/28/blogger-beta-workaround. Though livewriter says it can't retrieve my template. So you can use LiveWriter to post, but it's not as 'WYSYWYG' as it is, when you use say, Wordpress. This is more a Google fault i'd say, for not just using a standard method to allow posting and retrieving posts and categories.

Windows live writer is very nice though, much better than the standard blogger edit window. If you're posting from windows to your blog, you should definately check it out. Especially love the easy way you can now add technorati tags, something that cant be done through the blogger interface, unless you type out the technorati tags, which is a cumbersome process.

Update: A new build (145) now offers correct Blogger Beta support , it even retrieves the correct template.

 

Technorati tags: windows_live_writer, blogger_beta