Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Like the knew sig? The quote at the bottom I mean. Anybody know who / what I quoted?

2013-12-05 Thread Pete Wright
Okay, Alex, best I can do is the Ubuntu philosophy, but the what we are part is not in the official Ubuntu stuff, at least not where I can find it. And my second guess would be Pogo. (I have met the enemy and it is us) How lucky to have so many LUGs close by. (none around here, here being the far

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Is Libre an acceptable substitute for MS office for college student? (long; sorry.)

2013-11-07 Thread Pete Wright
can... Almost. And for the purpose of college it most certainly can. Hell, you should see some of the garbage graphs that Minitab produces and they are the industry standard in the real world. -- ©raig ®au On Nov 6, 2013 3:23 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: I know what the answer

[ubuntu-studio-users] Is Libre an acceptable substitute for MS office for college student? (long; sorry.)

2013-11-06 Thread Pete Wright
I know what the answer to that question should be, but I am old enough to know how ignorant I am (plenty), so this is a legitimate serious question, not troll-bait. My 16-year-old high school junior is in a State of Washington program (Running Start) that lets students start college early, which

[ubuntu-studio-users] 64 bit Intel version?

2013-10-25 Thread Pete Wright
Is there a 64 bit version of the new 13.10 UbuntuStudio for Intel-based machines? If so, where do I get it? Thanks Pete -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] 64 bit Intel version?

2013-10-25 Thread Pete Wright
is for intel 64bit.. On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 7:13 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a 64 bit version of the new 13.10 UbuntuStudio for Intel-based machines? If so, where do I get it? Thanks Pete -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list ubuntu-studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Ubuntu Studio 13.10 released

2013-10-18 Thread Pete Wright
Kudos to Ho and the rest of the crew! I used the update in the ordinary way and everything works just fine, which is a very big deal because foolproof is the hardest thing to achieve, and that is the thing I am the testbed for. grins Pete On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Rick Green

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] ubuntu-studio-users Digest, Vol 78, Issue 11

2013-10-13 Thread Pete Wright
Yes, Gord, you and I are in agreement on most of this. I would, however, remind you that for some of us the studio is a bigger room than the sound-only places where I was a client in the days when I ate my lunch at the South Street dive in Nashville (is it still there?) 30 years ago. I was then a

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Question about 13.10

2013-10-13 Thread Pete Wright
-lowlatency ubuntustudio-audio then, add yourself to audio group: $ sudo usermod -a -G audio $USER reboot. On Sun, Oct 13, 2013, at 03:11 AM, Pete Wright wrote: I am currently running Ubuntu 13.04 on a hand-me-down machine (my old one on which I was running ubuntu Studio has quit, perhaps

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] A moment of peace and clarity.

2013-10-12 Thread Pete Wright
I haven't seen the user friendliness discussion on Blender, but one senses similar feelings on Gimp discussions and elsewhere. The thing is that ease of use and ease of learning are not only not the same thing, but they tend to be mutually exclusive. On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 4:24 AM, reSet

[ubuntu-studio-users] Question about 13.10

2013-10-12 Thread Pete Wright
I am currently running Ubuntu 13.04 on a hand-me-down machine (my old one on which I was running ubuntu Studio has quit, perhaps forever). This hand-me-down has my artist wife's Windows on one partition, and she is not yet certain she has everything going right on her replacement, so until she

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] A moment of peace and clarity.

2013-10-11 Thread Pete Wright
Personally what I like best about Ubuntustudio is the obvious dedication of the team to making a great collection of tools for creative humans of all types. Visual artists ought to feel at home here; certainly I do (writer,film-maker, and photographer). Tied for first place is the group of users

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Supercollider a fork?

2013-10-06 Thread Pete Wright
Hi, Gord and Howard, I think the fact that all sorts of creative folks can use Ubuntu Studio out of the box is a great thing. Special tools and emphases can be added by the user. Unless one is running really ancient hardware, there should be no need to subtract anything; Howard, et al, do a great

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] What needs to be said.

2013-10-06 Thread Pete Wright
Yeah, Alf! Add my thanks to Kaj and all On Sun, Oct 6, 2013 at 12:10 PM, Alf Haakon Lund a...@mellomrommet.nowrote: What problem? ;-) I think it's a great gift that we have a special flavour of Ubuntu packed with all sorts of media tools. Heading towards free choice of DE and metas it will

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Sock drawer

2013-09-23 Thread Pete Wright
Holy socks, Gord! Thanks to you and Bing I threw out all the holey ones, and now my feet have to go commando. As to the night stand, Google and Bing are both too late: everybody put the contents on xHamster years ago. Onward and upward. Pete -- ubuntu-studio-users mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Sock drawer

2013-09-23 Thread Pete Wright
a new thread of its own. Not really off-topic on a list by and for creative types. On Mon, Sep 23, 2013 at 7:32 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 06:39 -0700, Pete Wright wrote: xHamster When I quoted something about a xSheep from http://yro.slashdot.org

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-21 Thread Pete Wright
Monster crawler: http://monstercrawler.com/ gives spartan but useful results distilled from main engines. Duckduckgo: https://duckduckgo.com/ also claims privacy, gives decent results But (dare I say it?) richest result seemed to be from Bing (and this morning it also gave me a wonderful

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, all. Good to hear that things are as automatic as I had come to believe. I generally ignore everything Adobe, and would have this time, but the nag came from the Mozilla folks, and I tend to trust them. Again, thanks to all for the guidance. This is a great group. cheers Pete On Fri, Sep

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-20 Thread Pete Wright
Many can. _I suspect that YouTube videos that start with a commercial, can't be played without flash._ On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 9:26 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 08:59 -0700, leo wrote: [Ralf wrote]: The best thing to do, is to ignore home

[ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Pete Wright
Mozilla newsletter today said check plugins so I did. It said adobe shockwave plugin was out of date. I downloaded the tar.gz file, but now I don't know what to do with it. (couldn't make head nor sense of the instructions on Mozilla support.) I thought Linux was going to become easier than

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Pete Wright
thanks, Mike Problem is Mozilla says it is vulnerable whatever that means. Might this just be a MS Windows issue I can safely ignore? On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:21 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Mozilla

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] not smart enough to update adobe

2013-09-19 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Mike On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 4:48 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 19, 2013 at 7:32 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, Mike Problem is Mozilla says it is vulnerable whatever that means. Might this just be a MS Windows issue I can safely

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Default search engine

2013-09-14 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Ralf; clearly the new 2cent gold coin (which I am herewith proposing) should bear your likeness. cheers, Pete On Sat, Sep 14, 2013 at 11:48 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: Hi :) I recommend to use https://startpage.com as the default search engine. Read more:

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Update question, untrusted packages

2013-08-21 Thread Pete Wright
, Aug 21, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Ralf The list is reproduced below. BTW, how do I uncomment if I choose to? I can't think of anything I changed since the last update, so I am still confused about getting this warning now. Pete pete@pete-GM5457E:~$ cat

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Update question, untrusted packages

2013-08-21 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, all. I am now pretty clear on what to worry about or not. I am now in full Alfred E. Neuman mode (What, me worry?) and proceeding with incaution. Thanks again for all the insights. Pete On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 11:57 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Wed, 2013-08-21

[ubuntu-studio-users] Update question, untrusted packages

2013-08-20 Thread Pete Wright
Today's update is telling me that to update it will have to install untrusted packages and download from unauthenticated sources. The list looks like the usual suspects. On a scale of 1 to 5 how worried should I be (where 1 is flat-out paranoia and 5 is fuggeddaboudid)? Pete (constantly being

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Update question, untrusted packages

2013-08-20 Thread Pete Wright
Hi, Ralf I don't know how to tell which. I unchecked Chromium and tried again and got the same message. Do I have to do the whole list the same way, one at a time, to find out? On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:55 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: Which packages, from what

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Update question, untrusted packages

2013-08-20 Thread Pete Wright
, Aug 20, 2013 at 3:53 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Today's update is telling me that to update it will have to install untrusted packages and download from unauthenticated sources. The list looks like the usual suspects. On a scale of 1 to 5 how worried should I be (where 1 is flat

Re: [ubuntu-studio-users] Libre Office for Ubuntu Studio

2013-08-02 Thread Pete Wright
I think I agree with Ralf -- not a rare thing. When I first learned about Ubuntu Studio I took the for creative humans line seriously and I guess literally. I am a film-maker and writer (sort of not-very-retired) and a serious amateur fine-art photographer. Oddly, I never thought of Studio as

Re: OT: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-24 Thread Pete Wright
Hi Ralph This paragraph of yours (pasted below) really resonates with me, and I suggest you post it as a standalone to the whole Ubuntu community; the whole Linux community, for that matter. I actually treat myself as a noobie, because stuff keeps changing all the time. Everybody should remember

Re: Help with WIFI on HP Mini 110-1030CA

2013-07-23 Thread Pete Wright
Don't know if this may make you feel better or just muddy the water further, but I have had similar problems with more than one HP laptop (including one mini) with only Windows installed. In fact the first time I used Linux for work was during a desperate effort to revive the WiFi on an HP lap.

brushes for Gimp

2013-05-25 Thread Pete Wright
Almost through the process of getting weaned from PaintShopPro after many happy years with it. Now I can do pretty much everything in Gimp I could do with PSP. I can make my own brushes and use them. But so far I can't get any of the zillions of free brushes from sites like Noupe. How do I get a

Re: Error I don't understand

2013-05-24 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Tim and Pablo! That was quick. Pete On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 12:21 PM, Pablo Fernandez pablo.f...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 9:10 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: The error says Check Internet Connection. Clicking details give the results pasted below. All

Running big Open Source applications in the cloud?

2013-05-20 Thread Pete Wright
What, if any, progress is being made to running GIMP, Blender, et all, in the Cloud? Anybody doing this? If so, how can we help? If not, why not? Pete -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at:

Re: Distros and Desktops, almost OT

2013-05-20 Thread Pete Wright
at 9:40 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Mon, 2013-05-20 at 09:15 -0700, Pete Wright wrote: I think I have chunk of bad memory, and Linux seems to know it and avoid it. Possible, but Linux doesn't do black magic ;), take care to repair your machine, if it's important

Re: Running big Open Source applications in the cloud?

2013-05-20 Thread Pete Wright
they'll implement it (I saw a few experiments made by the GNOME team in that respect though). As for sync between different devices and the such the article mentions that (that must come from the user though) I hope this helps solve your doubts. El lun 20 may 2013 11:17:32 COT, Pete Wright

Re: Distros and Desktops, almost OT

2013-05-19 Thread Pete Wright
2013 19:54, Pete Wright wrote: Nobody has asked a dumb/weird question in quite a while, so I guess it is up to me again. As part of some research I am doing (either for the TED talk I will never give or the book I will never publish, haven't decided which yet) I want to play around with some

Distros and Desktops, almost OT

2013-05-18 Thread Pete Wright
Nobody has asked a dumb/weird question in quite a while, so I guess it is up to me again. As part of some research I am doing (either for the TED talk I will never give or the book I will never publish, haven't decided which yet) I want to play around with some different distros, particularly

Re: Distros and Desktops, almost OT

2013-05-18 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Q and Ralf, I will chew this over and let you know what happens. Really appreciate the info. Pete On Sat, May 18, 2013 at 11:56 AM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Sat, 2013-05-18 at 20:45 +0200, Ralf Pete, my machine was a *nix multi-boot, several Linux distros and

Failing Repositories? What is that all about?

2013-05-11 Thread Pete Wright
I keep getting a message to manually update. When I do it shows software up to date. But it keeps saying information out of date and when I try to fix it says check internet connection. All my other software is connecting okay; Firefox, Software Center, etc., so obviously my connection is working

Re: Failing Repositories? What is that all about?

2013-05-11 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Mike! On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 11:58 AM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: I keep getting a message to manually update. When I do it shows software up to date. But it keeps saying information out of date

Re: Party like it's 13.04

2013-04-30 Thread Pete Wright
Yeah, Set, I pretty much agree. Thunar seems pretty good, but I haven't figured out how to get multi panel (f3 in Nautilus). I know, RTFM, but oops, I have come to believe this forum IS TFM, at least for me. Cheers to all who bring us Linux goodies. On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 7:04 AM, Set

Re: Party like it's 13.04

2013-04-30 Thread Pete Wright
there was multi panel in nautilus, so i always used tabbed windows with ctrl+t. It seems to work in thunar too. Perhaps this can be usefull to you until you find the right FMP?? :) *Set On 2013-04-30 16:59, Pete Wright wrote: Yeah, Set, I pretty much agree. Thunar seems pretty good, but I

Re: Party like it's 13.04

2013-04-30 Thread Pete Wright
Hi, Set and Eduardo I find I miss being able to set bookmarks in Thunar the way I did in Nautilus. Is there a way? Set says he finds Thunar has become deliciously good. I haven't pushed Thunar very hard yet (no huge directories moved between machines or onto external drives) but I assume from

Re: Searching within documents

2013-04-27 Thread Pete Wright
://docfetcher.sourceforge.net/en/download.html Regards, Fredd Oliveiras Em 26-04-2013 19:36, Pete Wright escreveu: Any suggestions about the best way to search for documents based on key words inside them? (Back in earlier times, on Windows, I used Copernic, but there doesn't seem to be a Linux

Re: Upgraded to 13.04, now display can't set to 1680x1050

2013-04-26 Thread Pete Wright
, Apr 25, 2013 at 7:35 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Everything else seems to work fine, so far. But my eyeballs are going to go all wonky if I have to keep looking at 1280x1024 on a 1680x1050 screen. Went to help page; it says work in progress and shows the dialog box with 1680x1050

Searching within documents

2013-04-26 Thread Pete Wright
Any suggestions about the best way to search for documents based on key words inside them? (Back in earlier times, on Windows, I used Copernic, but there doesn't seem to be a Linux version.) I am happy with my ability to search filenames. Just that sometimes I am not bright about filenames I

Re: Searching within documents

2013-04-26 Thread Pete Wright
, Apr 26, 2013 at 5:36 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Any suggestions about the best way to search for documents based on key words inside them? (Back in earlier times, on Windows, I used Copernic, but there doesn't seem to be a Linux version.) I am happy with my ability to search

Upgraded to 13.04, now display can't set to 1680x1050

2013-04-25 Thread Pete Wright
Everything else seems to work fine, so far. But my eyeballs are going to go all wonky if I have to keep looking at 1280x1024 on a 1680x1050 screen. Went to help page; it says work in progress and shows the dialog box with 1680x1050 on top. Very frustrating. Should I try to fix, reinstall, or

Re: Anybody here using Linux Multimedia Studio?

2013-04-14 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Richard. On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 7:59 AM, Richard lrspare...@aol.com wrote: On 14/04/13 15:36, Pete Wright wrote: I've had it running on my ancient Dell ok without an RT kernel - now using the real time kernel from Tango Studio so I don't know what the current state of play

Re: Anybody here using Linux Multimedia Studio?

2013-04-14 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Rivera On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 9:21 AM, Rivera Valdez riveraval...@ysinembargo.com wrote: I've used it without problems. Maybe not powerful enough, but still a great piece of FOSS :) On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 12:26 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks, Richard

Re: Anybody successfully using Miro 5.04 yet?

2013-04-12 Thread Pete Wright
Thanks, Mike Are you using Miro 5.04? What do you think of it? On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 4:52 PM, Mike Holstein mikeh...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:42 PM, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: Software Centre still showing v4 with lots of instability... comments. Miro site

Re: Desktop change consequences

2013-04-10 Thread Pete Wright
on the production machine. Good luck! Ben On 04/10/2013 10:07 AM, Pete Wright wrote: Thanks, Andrew. You and Alf are elevating my self-confidence to dangerous levels. cheers On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 7:00 AM, Andrew Huys musiek.sparta...@gmail.comwrote: I get something from the repository I do

Re: Desktop change consequences

2013-04-08 Thread Pete Wright
wrote: On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 19:45:40 +0200, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.compnwri...@gmail.comwrote: If this question is too “newbie” or worse, heretical, please forgive and then ignore me. It isn't, you should asked what ever you want, sure, you also should search the web yourself a little

Re: Desktop change consequences

2013-04-08 Thread Pete Wright
or glitch specific to my wheezy old computer, not the OS. grins Pete On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 12:14 PM, Alf Haakon Lund a...@mellomrommet.nowrote: On 08. april 2013 19:45, Pete Wright wrote: If this question is too “newbie” or worse, heretical, please forgive and then ignore me. I changed from

Re: Desktop change consequences

2013-04-08 Thread Pete Wright
Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Mon, 08 Apr 2013 21:11:50 +0200, Pete Wright pnwri...@gmail.com wrote: I have been at it 75 years now. I'm 46 years old and have never seen an Arriflex when working. We used analog video before the Betacam was released and later with the Sony