Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF
On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote: [1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure? For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices you aren't even thinking of buying? As over half the content of modern manuals are content free text such as this === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. === ...a rapid scan and skip approach is called for rather than cover to cover. Reading them word for word causes extreme high blood pressure and me Old Grannies revolutionary songs spring into mind. If I'm thinking of buying, the how you do X part of the reference manual is usually the fastest and most reliable indicator of the exactly what it is and the degree of reality of an advertized feature. And no, I haven't read the manual on the netbook cover to cover yet, since it mostly refers to software that doesn't exist on there anymore. :-) But I did read all (content) in my camera manual. :-) John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand
Going off on a wild tangent.. was Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF
On Thu, 19 Feb 2009, John Carter wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote: [1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure? For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices you aren't even thinking of buying? Of course the flip side is I _strongly_ believe we should.. * write our software so simply and clearly that nobody needs to read the manual! * write our manuals so that they are a pleasure to read, so they read them anyway. * where possible use webish interfaces so the software and (portions of the) manual is the same thing. (You should _never_ have to lookup up in the manual what a widget does, the context sensitive help should tell you all and more.) * write our code so no one needs to read the comments. * write our comments in a manner that makes our spirit and intention clear. * keep our spirits and intentions so simple and direct that our work may be reused for purposes we never dreamed of. ...leastways that's where I'm aiming. John Carter Phone : (64)(3) 358 6639 Tait ElectronicsFax : (64)(3) 359 4632 PO Box 1645 ChristchurchEmail : john.car...@tait.co.nz New Zealand
Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:42 AM, John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009, Stephen Irons wrote: [1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure? For devices you don't own, but are thinking of buying? For devices you aren't even thinking of buying? ...a rapid scan and skip approach is called for rather than cover to cover. Reading them word for word causes extreme high blood pressure and me Old Grannies revolutionary songs spring into mind. If I'm thinking of buying, the how you do X part of the reference manual is usually the fastest and most reliable indicator of the exactly what it is and the degree of reality of an advertized feature. And no, I haven't read the manual on the netbook cover to cover yet, since it mostly refers to software that doesn't exist on there anymore. :-) But I did read all (content) in my camera manual. :-) Mostly they sem to contain drivel about interference with other devices, the evils of inserting your VCR in a bathtub or leaving your 46 inch TV outside in the rain.
Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF
Mostly they sem to contain drivel about interference with other devices, the evils of inserting your VCR in a bathtub or leaving your 46 inch TV outside in the rain. And never clean anything with benzene! A (Actually, I do like reading manuals. From cover to cover.)
RE: Remove a watermark from a PDF
Manuals are more reassuring than useful, it's kind of like a technical comfort blanket...most companies never actually expect anyone to read them hence why most lack basic proof reading for clarity and seem to have been translated from the japanes to English via cyrillic and klingon. -Original Message- From: Andrew Errington [mailto:a.erring...@lancaster.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, 19 February 2009 10:24 am To: linux-users@it.canterbury.ac.nz Subject: Re: Remove a watermark from a PDF Mostly they sem to contain drivel about interference with other devices, the evils of inserting your VCR in a bathtub or leaving your 46 inch TV outside in the rain. And never clean anything with benzene! A (Actually, I do like reading manuals. From cover to cover.) ** This electronic email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. The views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender and may not necessarily reflect the views of the Christchurch City Council. If you are not the correct recipient of this email please advise the sender and delete. Christchurch City Council http://www.ccc.govt.nz **
Movies from a still camera (was: Remove a watermark ...)
Nick Rout wrote: On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Stephen Irons stephen.ir...@tait.co.nz wrote: Canon have shown themselves to be pretty moronic Or perhaps other movie player software pretends that the audio sample rate is 11025, and adjusts the frame rate to 30.0027 fps by repeating one frame every 368 (12s)? /OT_RANT On the other hand, the camera plays with Linux very nicely over USB... Stephen Irons I'll check the video on my Canon S2IS. What is your camera Stephen? My camera is a Canon S1IS. I have made several short videos with it. Just tested 2. VLC reports the video codec as MJPG, frame rate 30.000300 and the audio at 22050 hz, 16 bits/ sample and bitrate 325 kb/s mplayer vlc play them quite nicely, xine is a dead loss. For a friemd I made 3 movies into a dvd (pal) using kino. It works ok [1] Does anyone else read instruction manuals cover to cover? For pleasure? For my camera I browse from time to time, it still intrigues me with its capabilities. Barry
Re: Movies from a still camera
Barry Marchant wrote: For my camera I browse from time to time, it still intrigues me with its capabilities. Barry I have a nearly five year old camera - I seem to recall it being called a 'Prosumer' or something. It is still pretty good by today's standards if don't think about the cost. I still look through the manual occasionally and find new things it can do - particularly as the memory cards now are not expensive. But as a former black and white enthusiast, I wind up going back to manual exposure and manual focus. It's much more fun to mess up photos *my* way :-) begin:vcard fn:Don Robertson n:Robertson;Don adr:;;;Christchurch;;;New Zealand email;internet:d...@robertson.net.nz tel;cell:64 021 294 1452 version:2.1 end:vcard
Re: Movies from a still camera
Barry Marchant wrote: What is your camera Stephen? My camera is a Canon S1IS. I have made several short videos with it. Just tested 2. VLC reports the video codec as MJPG, frame rate 30.000300 and the audio at 22050 hz, 16 bits/ sample and bitrate 325 kb/s mplayer vlc play them quite nicely, xine is a dead loss. For a friemd I made 3 movies into a dvd (pal) using kino. It works ok Canon A720IS -- the cheaper range. Video is MJPEG 640x480 at 30 fps. Audio is 1 channel (mono) 8-bit PCM at 11024 Hz with a bitrate of (obviously) 88 kbps. Its microphone is such that anything else would be wasted bits. After copying videos to the PC, I use ffmpeg to convert them to H.264 video with AAC audio (no free codecs for me :(. The converted files take 1/3 of the disk space on average, with the best-compressed using only 2% of the original, and the worst about 70%. The best compressed video was a long sequence of a person doing 3D stunts with a radio control model aeroplane -- the camera was on a tripod, he was standing still, the sky was a uniform overcast grey, and the only moving thing was the tiny plane moving around him. I have also used Kino to create a movie and found it stable and easy to use. I just hate the idea of converting everything to DV format first. OpenMovieEditor is my recent favourite, but the version in the Ubuntu repositories does know about enough video and audio formats, so I had to compile my own. Unfortunately, it got broken in the cross-grade from Hardy to Intrepid and I have not recompiled it yet. Stephen Irons === This email, including any attachments, is only for the intended addressee. It is subject to copyright, is confidential and may be the subject of legal or other privilege, none of which is waived or lost by reason of this transmission. If the receiver is not the intended addressee, please accept our apologies, notify us by return, delete all copies and perform no other act on the email. Unfortunately, we cannot warrant that the email has not been altered or corrupted during transmission. ===
