Phrank's Ubuntu Blog

I bought a couple of USB extenders on ebay the other day. It can extend a USB 1.1 device over cat5 cable up to 150 feet!
I was quite please - it worked well for my USB webcams that I'm setting up at the entry doors to monitor activity and see who's at the door when the doorbell rings!

So Video Editing in Linux still has a way to go, but here are my thoughts on what has worked best for me.
The Programs I'm using:
- OpenShot - The best video editor I've found
- Audacity - Audio recorder
- recordmydesktop - Desktop screencast recorder
- mencoder - video conversion tool

OpenShot works pretty well - It still has a few bugs, but doesn't crash as much as PiTiVi, and I was actually able to export my video with it. It works great with .MOV files from my camera.

I've made a video explaining how I've setup monitoring for my washer and dryer.
Parts: Arduino, Photoresistors, LEDs, Resistors (for LED and Pull-down)
Code & Schematic after the break

Just upgraded my servers to Ubuntu LTS - 10.04 (Server edition, of course)

Right now they are:
shark
- Home automation
-- Web interface - apache2/php5/mysql
-- mysql - logs all home automation events
-- Bonjour IM server (Sends messages)
-- Mutt email - to send emails/sms
-- lptout - to control lights via parallel port
-- arduino - attached to usb serial port to monitor doorbell and washer/dryer
-- mgetty - gets caller id info from modem
-- many other things... I'll post updated home automation stuff later

squid
- dhcp
- time server
- dns
- pxe network boot

Got my EEE PC T91SA tablet netbook today.
Throwing Ubuntu 9.10 on it - Will update on how to get things working!

Video (Intel GMA 500): http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1378746&highlight=gma+500
Touch: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:KbvsEge9UmgJ:setupguides.blogspot.co...

Just sold my older EEE PC 701SD and bought a refurbished EEE PC T91SA on ebay.

The T91 has a tablet mode and touchscreen - I'm gonna throw Ubuntu 9.10 on it, of course, and use it for class/ebook/browsing

I'll update this post once I get it and install Ubuntu with recommended apps for touchscreen

I've been working on a web-based homework assignment scheduler/planning system.
Fun stuff - What little time I have to program!

It allows you to enter your syllabus information for each class, and then you can see what assignments you have due each day in at one glance:

It's my first program in php from scratch - try it out @ http://hp.online02.com

I'm going to rewrite it in php/mysql (currently cgi and text files) and hopefully release it soon

So my Dad's computer had a few Trojans on it - Such a pain, so much so, that he install Ubuntu!

But He still needs XP, so here's how to remove those nasty viruses with ClamAV

This would work from a Ubuntu liveCD as well, so you could just boot to a CD, and run these commands

Install ClamAV

Update Virus definitions

Find Windows Partition - You want the partition that is NTFS - That's the root windows partition - /dev/sda2 in this case

A quick walkthrough on setting up scripts in the Nautilus right-click menu