a day in the life of wayne ward….

We held this months lancaster linux user group meeting on the 2nd wednesday of the month this time to fit in with everyones busy schedules! We havent had a meeting for a few months because we have all been to busy hence the change to the second week! Quite a good turn out so thanks to everyome who turned up! Dave brought his open moko and give us a demo of the new OS he had installed which was pretty slick – he connected it to his laptop and updated the phone using wireless from his laptop which worked nicely then he can install the network app and install the updates and proggies straight from the phone nice bit of kit

We talked about installing multiple operating systems on x86 hardware – making it triple boot with linux / mac / windows

We also discussed various laptops – netbooks and using external devices on the units such as external monitors and keyboards etc.

We also talked about video software and capturing video and audio – i mentioned zoneminder which is a opensource Linux video camera security and surveillance solution. Very mature product – with online viewing of cctv

I took a look at a toshiba laptop and used the hotkeys – shift and escape to change the boot order in the bios and kicked of a fedora install – i had to leave before the install finished so ill update the blog to let you know if the install finished ok and the laptop works right!!

we also had a long conversation regarding building web pages and uploading them using a ftp client – we talked about using kompozer aka NVU – cross platform software which can get you bulding web pages in minutes take a look here after the site is finished if you can use various ftp clients I use gftp as its nice and easy and very robust take a look here both items should be installable by apt so i would type apt-get install kompozer gftp  – this should install both apps for you

The linux meetings are held at the brittania pub on ulswater road lancaster on the first wednesday of every month at around 8pm – I would suggest adding yourself to the lug mailing list as some months we may change it to the second wednesday of the month if everyone cant make the first!!!!

Please feel free to come along and talk – newbies welcome!! we cover all areas – linux / mac / windows – servers – laptops – workstations – mobile phones!!! come along and join in – good beer & free wifi!!!!!

here are some of the hot keys i used to do my last blog

screen captures are handy for showing of programs or utilities

Here’s How:

1. To capture the entire desktop, press Command-Shift-3. The screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop.
2. To copy the entire desktop, press Command-Control-Shift-3. The screen shot will be placed on your clipboard for you to paste into another program.
3. To capture a portion of the desktop, press Command-Shift-4. A cross-hair cursor will appear and you can click and drag to select the area you wish to capture. When you release the mouse button, the screen shot will be automatically saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
4. To capture a specific application window, press Command-Shift-4, then press the Spacebar. The cursor will change to a camera, and you can move it around the screen. As you move the cursor over an application window, the window will be highlighted. The entire window does not need to be visible for you to capture it. When you have the cursor over a window you want to capture, just click the mouse button and the screen shot will be saved as a PNG file on your desktop. (The file is saved as PDF in Mac OS 10.3 and earlier.)
5. Add Control to the two shortcuts above to place the screen shot on the clipboard instead of saving it to the desktop.
6. Another method for capturing screen shots in Mac OS X is by using the bundled Apple utility, Grab, located in the Applications > Utilities folder. Grab is useful if you need to include a cursor or a menu in your screen shot, or if you want to save your screen shot to TIFF format. To include a cursor, first go to Grab Preferences and select the cursor icon you wish to have in your screen shot. To capture the screen with Grab, run Grab, then choose of the capture modes from the "Capture" menu: Selection, Window, Screen, Timed Screen.
7. When you choose the Selection mode in Grab, you can capture a specific region of the screen by dragging around it. Grab will display a tooltip showing the size of the region you have selected and the screen shot will open in a window when you release the mouse button. The cursor will not be included.
8. When you choose the Window mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear asking you to select the window you wish to capture, then click the "Choose Window" button. When you click the button, the instructions will disappear and the window you click ill be captured, including the mouse cursor at the position where you click (if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
9. When you choose the Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear asking you to click the screen when you are ready to capture. The mouse cursor will be included in your screen shot at the position where you click (if a cursor was selected in Preferences).
10. When you choose the Timed Screen mode in Grab, an instruction window will appear, allowing you to prepare your screen for capture. When you are ready, press the "Start Timer" button and you will have ten seconds before the screen is captured. This allows you to open menus and sub-menus, if necessary. After ten seconds the entire screen will be captured. The mouse cursor will be included in your screen shot if a cursor was selected in Preferences.

built a hackintosh for testing and had to chuch a 3com nic in it because the nforce drivers during the install didnt work – anyway the 3com died for some reason? so i found this page:

http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=125569&st=0

the pkg driver which was zipped pulled that down unzipped copied to my usb key – installed on the hackintosh – rebooted and het network worked fine

Happy days – more testing…

havent blogged for a while!! but ive decided to give facebook a break for a while

ive got quiet a few macs kicking around the hose and was just looking for another mac mini for the back of the house – i found a old shuttle computer amd 3000 with nforce and a beefy nvidia card so i thought id try some hackintosh just to save a few quid! seeing ive got a couple of grand sat in apple macs why shouldnt i get a treat !! anyway i torrented idenneb 10.5.6 burnt the iso to a dvd and booted of it – selected a few items on the added options – nvidia injector / ac97 audio / nforce drivers. Clicked install and 20 mins later – mac osx running a treat !!! sound works 100% and tested games 3D acceleration no problems !!! gta vice city with crossover games and sims 3 worked fine. I dont t hink its fair just start hacking your boxes to unlicenced copies of apple mac osx but if you have payed quiet a lot of money out why the hell shouldnt you get a treat !

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not a lot of time for blogin lately

but hey i see there is a mac update on the G4′s that seems to like kill em – oh fuk! thats very odd? or is it just a freak thing that’s happend to two of my m8′s who have updated there G4′s at the same time?…. we will see – barmy

got some brushing up to do in the 6 string dept – thats goes for bass and guitar! my first gig with a band playing 6 string this week im used to the duo and other bits of guitar work usually but got a gig this sunday playing guitar.. and no im not moving to the dark side im a bass player through and through just lets me unleash my shit – 6 strings – overdrive and my frustation – flows through the guitar easily !!!

this week i unleash the trace elliot 18×10 cab and the big fat 6 string bass ! with promethium at the well awaited rehersal – they will get to experience real 6 string power through my bitch of a setup – its lets say a experience when it moves your insides and makes your bowel move you may even shit your pants when it flaps your pants – nice – it hasnt helped towards the tinnitus

need to get my ass together with the shop and get this shit finished up ASAP – I will be getting my head into it next week get the last two rom finished up so we can get open and trading

got a clamshell G3 to get tiger mac osx on over a firewire connection – should be interesting!!! …. summet to blog about

also had a play with the tunomatic bridge this week on the new epiphone gibson sg400 custom i bought! – I basically got the action pretty shit hot and it was choking so lifted the action a tad and the strings felt tight – so lifted the tunomatic bridge tuned back up – give the truss rod a twist and tuned again and then dropped the action a touch again and it was perfect – > low action – no chokes – strings feel nice and ready for overbends – tunomatic = coooool – just ordered a graph tech nut – then im doing a full wiring kit mod – then we might go on to swapping out the three humbuckers for three fat seymour duncans !…. we will see ill be blogging about my new axe soon..

just reinstelled another windows laptop because it was not genuine but had a serial number on the bottom which was legit!? yes another one which got pro installed but had a serial for home!!! MS suks

dot 4get your only here once so enjoy this shit while you can

Adios

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I will continue to help linux and mac users with all the tips I can!!!

I know i can post some hurtful items and im sorry if I hurt your feelings but I just post the truth and facts – so if you think your are being blogged about read into more and try and look at the big picture – how can I help you anymore than that?

Also if you havent alreadt got jaunty get it downloaded it rocks!! Ubuntu linux has come a long way with this version – fast boot – very tight and polished operating system – my dist upgrade was a breeze from intrepid ibex – around a hour

The lancaster linux user group is going strong – we have a meeting the first wednesday of every month in the brtittania in lancaster – if your interested in linux – mac osx – html – developing etc then feel free to come along!!

It doesnt matter if your new to linux or just wanting to find out more information. Please feel free to join the mailing list or drop me a email if your interested

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Just installed call of duty 4 on the macbook

The price was very reasonable and delivery was fast – amazon has loads of macintosh games including all the sims2 collection!!

The install was just a breeze and the game runs awsome – ive never seen a game run so smooth !!!!

So if some one tells says "you cant play games on a mac or linux"

A total load of crap!!!

Gaming on the mac and linux is the next step and is happening big now

GAME ON!!!

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Just going to install advanced web ranking tool on leopard but the package doesnt ask for the root password so the install fails. Ive seen this problem with mpkg files before so i checked all my disk permisions etc but still wont install. I assume its a problem with the installer as i say ive seen this happen with other mpkg files so get a terminal – locate to were the app is and tpye the following

installer -pkg <packagename> -target <mountPoint>

IE

installer -pkg packagename -target /Applications

Asks for root password and installs the package