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Martin

That suggests it hasn't actually found it then. Looking around, it sounds like Sweex cards use the ISL3886 chip for which it seems there isn't actually a finished Linux driver. There is a hack to use the Windows driver in Linux, but it's a bit fiddly to set up: http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/software...

Martin

If it's found the card you don't need to get any drivers - Ubuntu's got its own.

Martin

This guy runs an optical slave flash through an SLR backwards, to project images into other people's photographs at exactly the moment they take them:

http://www.juliusvonbismarck.com/fulgurator/idee.html

Seems like the sort of device the Forest should have!

Martin

I'd like to come to this too. I quite often get asked to help out with the stuff since people know I do techy stuff, and then I wind up tracing cables and figuring something out on the spot. It would be good to know how everything's actually supposed to work.

Martin

I was at the last one and will be at this one too.

If people with an interest in the computer situation can attend, we can come up with a solution. I have a few ideas.

Who's dealing with balcony stuff?

Martin

There was a place in Glasgow for a while some years ago, on Albion St. I know one of the people who was involved in it is still in Glasgow. If you're starting a list let me know and I'll see if she's interested.

Martin

I don't think it's ever going to be possible to run Premiere acceptably under Linux. It will load in a virtual machine (VMWare) but I expect video performance would be poor because it's not going to be accessing the video card directly. Give Cinelerra a try - read the tutorials etc as it might work ...

Martin

Found now - it was hiding amongst some stuff in the darkroom.

Martin

Has anyone seen my camera? I lent it for use in the photography workshop Meghan ran last month. Meghan thought Xabina had it but that was actually a different one. Mine is a Minolta X-700 that once looked like this picture, but it's missing the front panel that says MINOLTA, so you can see some wire...

Martin

No, I told him before I'd look for one at home but the one I gave him was found at dorkbot while rummaging in the stash.

Martin

Um. This might have accidentally wound up with Pitor. Dorkbot were scouring the stashes of old power supplies looking for a 15V one for the old laptop Pitor found in the free shop, also a Toshiba. One got found, but maybe it was yours...

Martin

Greg from Dorkbot had volunteered to get a distro running on the WRT54GL router that has been gathering dust in the action room, but he wasn't going to replace the existing router yet. Maybe he's set it up and left it running, giving a new "forest" network that has a password on. If you see a box lo...

Martin

Not me.

Martin

On oak there were some filesystem errors, sufficient that the system wouldn't mount the root filesystem. Booted from a CD, fscked it, and then it was fine. On willow there were I/O errors. I opened it up to look at the cable which seemed to be well attached at both ends. I took it off and reattached...

Martin

Fixed.

Martin

Weekdays are best for me, yeah, so long as it's not dorkbot night.

Martin

The gauge is cool but not essential. Don't tell Tim I said that about his plumbing though.

Martin

Feck, forgot the power connectors.

I have SATA data leads and all the screws you can eat. The power connectors should be obtainable from a computer shop in town for a couple of quid, or at Maplin.

Martin

I'd be interested.

Martin

Martin

The SATA card is now in the top of the blue cabinet in the action room.

Go go go.

Martin

Any particular reason to use that rather than the old Infoseed dual-P3 server?

Martin

I've bought a SATA card for a tenner so we can just get on with things as planned. If we score a better machine off freecycle then fine, but it seems a dumb thing to be waiting on.

Martin

This may be of concern to some users of our printer. Like many color printers, ours prints a hidden watermark with the time, date and serial number of the printer. This watermarking system was developed to help trace counterfeiters, but the encoding has now become public knowledge, which means that ...

Martin

Electrical tape is your friend.

Martin

Think we'd better tape these on.

Martin

Would need to make sure we can actually secure the desktop machines effectively with that. Laptops have a standard slot to take a security cable like that, I don't think these cases do. The cases came with little metal clips that you can put through a slot on the back and put a padlock through, but ...

Martin

AFWG meeting 1/5/08 Present: Meghan, Martin L, Ryan, Lauren. Apologies: Nix Agenda: 1. Minutes from last meeting. 2. Screen printing. 3. Darkroom. 4. Swapping PAs. 5. Computers. 6. Golden Hour book. 7. Publishing task force. 1. FOLLOW UP. Computers - new stuff bought, 4th machine built, fileserver s...

Martin

This looks fucking sweet, bring it on.

Martin

Hmm. Maybe the counter period is not the same as the specified lifespan.

Martin

I'm confused now, looking back through old threads for projector stuff.

This thread suggests we bought a new projector in July '07:

http://www.theforest.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=2930

Martin

I don't think we can have used it that much.

My bet is that the lifetime counter didn't get reset when the bulb was replaced last time. We may have not needed this replacement. Did we keep the old one?

Martin

When was the last time we needed a new bulb?

Martin

I'll be doing some printing tonight. Come along if you wanna know how.

Martin

Seems to have randomly fixed itself. I didn't change anything so I'm going to go with the hypothesis that the problem was at the ISP end.

Martin

How much was the bulb, is that the only purchase? The way the budgets were worked out was thinking through everything that needed to be bought in a typical year. I don't recall projector bulbs featuring in the discussion so this might be considered an oversight. Then again, we shouldn't need to buy ...

Martin

Remote storage in user accounts on the server is the only thing we need I think. For client machines it's easiest if they all just log in as forest. I don't think people will want to log out and log in all the time, it just creates more ways to set things wrong. Also this means we can use stock ubun...

Martin

You can put this on the agenda for the meeting on Thursday. There's already a thread about it, go there and suggest this be discussed: http://www.theforest.org.uk/bb/viewtopic.php?t=4493 Better still come along. This is how decisions get made, not by posting stuff on the BB and assuming everybody ha...

Martin

The ADSL is playing up, it connects okay but then stops working shortly after. I don't know if the problem is with our modem, or some issue with the phone line here, or if it's a problem at the other end. That modem has been rock-solid since I bought it and everything was working fine a few days ago...

Martin

can we still have free will if we are living in a materialist world?

Daniel Dennett gave an excellent lecture on this topic at Edinburgh last year, which I believe may have been recorded.

Martin

Thoughts: Purpose-built CCTV systems will be expensive, and designed for always-on and record-everything, probably hard to adapt to what we want. Also frankly the quality is shit and this is continuously reflected in court cases where they're not up to scratch as evidence. I think we're best off wit...

Martin

Okay, how do we choose what to buy?

Martin

It's 640x480, 30fps. Gets motion blur in low light. But we'd need to spend Actual Money for better.

Martin

Okay. I have the webcam that I bought already as requested by the last FWG meeting. Shall I bring that in and plug it into the kitchen machine and start testing things?

Martin

Another option is to have a rolling loop of say 10 minutes footage. If something's just happened, you hit a button and the last few minutes are saved for reference. If you don't, they're lost forever...

Martin

Polaroid is the ideal barred cam. Take photo, put in book. Everything else is a faff.

We should stock up on polaroid film though, it's going out of production.

Martin

Sorry - have had to cancel as I'm going to be leaving town this evening

Martin

Think I'll be doing this around Friday lunchtime now, actually.

Martin

ACTION WG MEETING 13/4/08 Present: Nix, Martin L, Meghan, Graeme, Gandolf, Olivier, Ras, Amelia Agenda 1. Use of action room 2. Workshops 3. Bikes 4. Knockengorroch 5. Action room door USE OF ACTION ROOM Poster now in action room explaining use of room. Kudos to whoever did it. Cleaning rota for act...

Martin

Ah, I see. Wrote the comment between your two posts.

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