[PLUG] Cfengine 3 Introduction: June 18

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
Aleksey Tsalolikhin, alek...@verticalsysadmin.com, made us an outstanding offer to introduce us to Cfengine version 3 the weekend following this year's USENIX conference. Introduction to Automating System Administration with Cfengine 3 Presented by Aleksey Tsalolikhin Saturday, June

Re: [PLUG] Cfengine 3 Introduction: June 18

2011-06-03 Thread Paul Heinlein
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: Hosted by Galois: 421 SW 6th Ave (Commonwealth Bldg, between Washington and Stark) Suite 300 Portland, OR Some notes on our location for folks who rarely venture into this part of town: Since it's a morning meeting, I'll note the local

Re: [PLUG] Cfengine 3 Introduction: June 18

2011-06-03 Thread Michael R
Paul Heinlein wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Paul Heinlein wrote: There's some on-street parking in the area, but it's sometimes hard to find an open spot even on Saturday mornings. In that case, there's a parking garage just across Washington from our office, though its entrance is on Alder,

[PLUG] Digital Video Camera

2011-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
I'm considering buying a digital video camera. I've no idea what software supports transfer from the camera to the linux host. Are there any brands/models known to not be supported by linux? Is there a Web site similar to sane-project.org or linux-printers.org specific to video cameras? TIA,

Re: [PLUG] Digital Video Camera

2011-06-03 Thread Michael Rasmussen
On Fri, Jun 03, 2011 at 04:24:47PM -0700, Rich Shepard wrote: I'm considering buying a digital video camera. I've no idea what software supports transfer from the camera to the linux host. Are there any brands/models known to not be supported by linux? Is there a Web site similar to

Re: [PLUG] Digital Video Camera

2011-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Larry T wrote: Logitech HD720P was a reasonable price, worked out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04 With Skype video Conference we only had to find the correct sound source. I'm not a 'techie' at 64, but I do a fair amount with computers and the sound thing was pretty easy

Re: [PLUG] Digital Video Camera

2011-06-03 Thread Rich Shepard
On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Michael Rasmussen wrote: Get one with SD card storage and just move the card back and forth. Simple. Michael, Gotcha', thanks. I guess they're all in .mp4 format so I can use the installed players to view them. Much appreciated, Rich

Re: [PLUG] Digital Video Camera

2011-06-03 Thread Matthew Gates
Some years ago I had luck getting video off a Sony Handycam using some command line tools (dvgrab?). Used the firewire interface. That particular camera is totally antiquated now, but I expect firewire stuff works pretty much the same in modern devices. On 3 June 2011 16:45, Rich Shepard

Re: [PLUG] Digital Video Camera

2011-06-03 Thread nathan w
On 06/03/2011 04:44 PM, Rich Shepard wrote: On Fri, 3 Jun 2011, Larry T wrote: Logitech HD720P was a reasonable price, worked out of the box with Ubuntu 10.04 With Skype video Conference we only had to find the correct sound source. I'm not a 'techie' at 64, but I do a fair amount with