Playing with Linux
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johnridleyWell, I'm trying Ubuntu 7.1RC. It's going better than any Linux has for me in the past.
I hit some trouble trying to install a Linux version of Password Safe. Never really got it going. Finally I figured "Well, I'm going to need Wine anyway" and installed that. Ran the Windows Password Safe installer under Wine, did a quick .psafe3 association, and it's running like a champ. Heck, you'd think it was a native Linux app. It minimizes to the task bar and everything.
Then I tried installing and running TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 2.0, the editor that I use ALL the time for editing commercials out of stuff that comes from the Myth box. It couldn't kick in overlay mode. I don't know if there's a way to do that or not. In any case, it ran anyway. The slider pointer on the timescale didn't move, but I could still drag the mouse around and everything actually worked fine. A little slow since it's painting rather than using overlay mode.
I need to try installing my astronomy software. I suspect that will work fine, AFAIK it's using pretty much standard WIN32 APIs.
The Canon printer (i960) I had to install as a BJC8200. That works pretty well actually but it's very slow; it prints about 1/20" with every pass. I saw some reference to i9xx linux drivers on a japanese canon site, so I may play with that later. This is the first time Linux has just printed right to a printer plugged into another (windows) box on the network, so that's encouraging.
I have a flatbed scanner that I need to see if I can get going under SANE. I am pretty sure the slide/film scanner (Nikon) will work but not with the full features (it has some proprietary dust/scratch removal technology that I'm pretty sure won't be supported). That will probably be the one thing I keep a dual boot for if I do go to Linux. However, I scan slides perhaps one week every year, and I may try doing that at work, since it's a lot of "push button and wait" - like ripping CDs, I can do it during work without really affecting productivity.
This might actually work.
I hit some trouble trying to install a Linux version of Password Safe. Never really got it going. Finally I figured "Well, I'm going to need Wine anyway" and installed that. Ran the Windows Password Safe installer under Wine, did a quick .psafe3 association, and it's running like a champ. Heck, you'd think it was a native Linux app. It minimizes to the task bar and everything.
Then I tried installing and running TMPGEnc MPEG Editor 2.0, the editor that I use ALL the time for editing commercials out of stuff that comes from the Myth box. It couldn't kick in overlay mode. I don't know if there's a way to do that or not. In any case, it ran anyway. The slider pointer on the timescale didn't move, but I could still drag the mouse around and everything actually worked fine. A little slow since it's painting rather than using overlay mode.
I need to try installing my astronomy software. I suspect that will work fine, AFAIK it's using pretty much standard WIN32 APIs.
The Canon printer (i960) I had to install as a BJC8200. That works pretty well actually but it's very slow; it prints about 1/20" with every pass. I saw some reference to i9xx linux drivers on a japanese canon site, so I may play with that later. This is the first time Linux has just printed right to a printer plugged into another (windows) box on the network, so that's encouraging.
I have a flatbed scanner that I need to see if I can get going under SANE. I am pretty sure the slide/film scanner (Nikon) will work but not with the full features (it has some proprietary dust/scratch removal technology that I'm pretty sure won't be supported). That will probably be the one thing I keep a dual boot for if I do go to Linux. However, I scan slides perhaps one week every year, and I may try doing that at work, since it's a lot of "push button and wait" - like ripping CDs, I can do it during work without really affecting productivity.
This might actually work.
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Date: 2007-10-14 03:01 pm (UTC)There may be a command line fix for this, bit it *should* just work within the GUI.
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Date: 2007-10-14 03:26 pm (UTC)This morning I got the VPN to work up (Cisco VPN client) and the RDP client working, connecting to my XP box at work. The funny bit is that I actually have Vista to thank for being able to use Linux at home. They used to have the Cisco VPN locked down to only work with the Windows client. However, Cisco isn't yet supporting Vista, so they had to relax that rule, so now I can connect with Linux.