Full Circle 5: Letters
I'm looking forward to the Compiz Fusion inclusion in Gutsy - but I can't help wondering if my PC will cope. Presumably users will be able to turn off any special effects that they don't want - but is Ubuntu in danger of turning into a resource hog?
Dianne Reuby
First let me congratulate you on the great initiative of creating a *buntu magazine.
If I read your magazine PDF in Windows, the links open in Internet Explorer even if the default web browser is Firefox. Can this be fixed from the next issue?
Tabrez Iqbal
Ed: Not guilty! This is a Windows problem that I used to come across when clicking links in MSN. The solution seems to be deep within the Control Panel > Default Programs.
The suggestion by one of the readers regarding including most of the repositories in one DVD instead of sending a CD in the Uuntu/Kubuntu ShipIt is very good. In India internet connections are not very affordable. The manufacturing cost difference between a CD and DVD may not be that much, and the DVD would be really helpful.
Srinivas Murthy
Ed: I agree completely. Several times I've had people install Ubuntu but remove it since, with no internet connection, they can't access repositories or have basic things like MP3/DVD playback.
In my opinion Full Circle might benefit in terms of overall polish if some small suggestions were taken into consideration:
- standardize issue naming convention (fullcircle-issue04-eng.pdf is a good example). Up to this point it was varying with almost every issue.
- Link the first page titles with articles. If a person wants to quickly see an interesting article - it is just a mouse-click away. Very convenient.
Again, thanks for the magazine, and keep up the good work!
Bartosz
Ed: Ok, guilty on this one, but I blame Linuxgeekery (our web admin) for changing the PDF names, he's good with web stuff but not so good with basic English, sorry about that.
As for links to the articles: the entire Contents page is chock full of hot links to let you jump direct to an article. Another tip: you can zoom in to the screen shots, they are all kept as full size in the PDF and you'll see all the (gory?) detail.
Drivel (see FCM #4) does indeed support WordPress. To do this, append xmlrpc.php to the URL in the Server Address, ie: http://blog.tonyyarusso.com/xmlrpc.php, along with your username and password info. Set the Journal type to Movable Type (although I've heard Blogger works as well) and log in as usual.
Tony Yarusso
I just read issue #4 of Full Circle and I really liked it, and since you accept letters and comments from you readers, I'd like to suggest an article about network administration, maybe some applications that can be used for this, normally at work, when I talk about Ubuntu, my colleagues ask about this kind of stuff and I don't know what to say, you know, wallpapers restriction, session time limits, a domain, a user domain, the usual day to day things a network administrator used to windows active directory could use.
I'll appreciate if you can help me with this... thanks in advance.
Giancarlo Giammaria D.
Ed: Anyone out there want to help Giancarlo (and the rest of us) by writing some articles, or a series, on network administration in Ubuntu?
Please tell Steve Thompson to try using kcron in kde or look at tasche project at http://www.gnomefiles.org/app.php?soft_id=756.
Johnathan H Pienaar
Ed: um... ok.
Seen at my grocery store: Full Circle wine!
Rob Kerfia
Ed: Linuxgeekery, what are you doing at the alcohol counter? Get back to work!
This question is general, so I can understand if you need more details. The problem is basically this: when I try to play a movie that's 1280 x 1024 (or higher), the movie stammers as though my computer can't keep up. My setup is as follows:
- Ubuntu 7.04
- Pentium 4 2.8 GHz
- 1 GB RAM
- Nvidia FX5950 (using the driver installed by Automatix)
When I used to run the same thing under Windows 2000, I had no performance issues. The video formats I typically use are h264 in an AVI or Matroska container.
I have installed Totem, Gxine, MediaPlayer and VLC. None of them made a difference in terms of improving performance.
Walter Brandt
Ed: Can anyone out there in Ubuntu-land help Walter get some smooth video play back at 1280 x 1024 resolution? I'd have thought a 2.8Ghz CPU and 1GB of RAM would be more than enough power.
