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I thought about the use of kino in the presentation of a screencast and how it could be used to help explain a special feature of GIMP.
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I thought about the use of kino in the presentation of a screencast and how it could be used to help explain a special feature of GIMP.
The second half of the video demonstrates LMMS... I stand amazed and claim ignorance in the past about what LMMS was capable of.. It is really a fun tool to make music and more capable than using Jack and sound software together, but Jack would be better in some ways for a performance medium if it was as stable as LMMS. Jack is what you'd use when wanting to combine tools together, when really needed.. But I think I'd use LMMS for composition and in 90% of the cases where I'd do music composition.. However that's just me..
Someone else would probably rather use Rosegarden and Jack. But that's the freedom one has with open source..
Note I use open source and free software in the same context.. That's because in the past freeware was what you'd call the applications that were not shareware, thus free to use but not intentionally crippled with the intent to make money. But freeware doesn't often come with source code. However Richard Stallman's preferred words are "free software".. IT probably should be called "free source". Or if to be reduced to a single word and made unique.. Fresource.. Or if to be slang'd... Fr33source. Like "free resource".. Which is really what it is. freSOURCE .. Or fREsource.. Or freeSOURCE.. I think it would be better to come up with a slang term for it, because then it will make searching for it on the Internet a lot easier.
BTW, this video was made with a Pentium D Extreme Edition CPU, I purchased from Tiger Direct for 99 dollars, it was overclocked to 4.266 GHz , normally it is 3.73GHz. The motherboard is a NVidia nforce i750 . I have 2 Gigs of Kingston OC-able memory.. I constructed this computer in a video I had previously released, here:
http://www.youtube.com/user/rofthorax...
I'm using Ubuntu 9.04 as my OS. the Screencasting software is gtk-recordmydesktop . I compressed this video from the 960MB file that was produced by gtk-recordmydesktop, to a 240MB OGG theora-vorbis video file that was then uploaded to youtube, with OggConvert. The program used to capture the video from my DV camera is Kino (executed as "sudo kino", in a terminal, that's it, no setup. no drivers, just simply that).. The DV camcorder was connected to the PC with a Firewire cable.
No commercial nor proprietary software were used anywhere in the process of making or uploading this video, aside from the commercial software "Art Rage 2" demonstrated in the video. The Wacom Intuos3 costs about 200 dollars, the mouse is a Dynex wireless optical mouse. The mouse pad is a ALLSOP previously purchased from Circuit City (RIP) before they had gone out of business. The Keyboard is a Silicon Graphics AT-101 keyboard. This video was uploaded over a Qwest DSL line.. I used to use Comcast, but I switched to Qwest after being fed up with downtime and inconsistencies in service. Qwest DSL is almost never down... For instance, I'd often try uploading a file multiple times to get a video on youtube with Comcast, with Qwest, it's never a concern. The Uproute is about the same for both services. Downroute is favorable with Comcast, but I ask myself "which do you want, all the data rate half the time or half the data rate all the time?" I'm not affiliated with any of the companies or software mentioned above, I'm merely presenting what I did and used so others may be able duplicate the results.
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pshapiro favorited a video
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First I demonstrate some features of GIMP with the wacom tablet, and how to configure it..
Ubuntu Linux starting with 9.04 supports Wacom fundament...
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First I demonstrate some features of GIMP with the wacom tablet, and how to configure it..
Ubuntu Linux starting with 9.04 supports Wacom fundamentally.. It has always existed in Ubuntu, but not to the same degree, I show you what it can do now.Somewhat.
Second I discuss an idea I have for the objectionable bidding sites like QuiBids and Haggle.com, that charge a dollar value fro bids and give consumers the perception that they are getting something for nothing, when really the design favors the auction runners, the site themselves, and takes advantage of the addictive gambling nature of some people. Instead of that, use such bidding sites as part of a process to give away items that would otherwise be part of a sweepstakes. Instead turn the entries into bids and give the consumers a fightign chance to win something that is going to be given away, anyhow. To be fair, you could offer free bids to people who email for the bids to the giveaway's management, to guarantee fairness.. But someone would say purchase, in this example, DVD's from Ton Roosendaal, for blender's upcoming movie, then Ton's organization would setup a site, or buy the services of a site like haggle or quibids, to auction off some books.. He'd give the DVD purchaser a code, that would then translate to bids on this special auction. Then the consumer could go and bid on a book about that version blender from say Carsten Wartman. IT's a good idea, I think, and it would give the winners, bragging rights.. Also it would really only attract those people who were interested in winning the gifts.. Whereas a sweepstakes would only reach out to people who may or may not show interest in blender that much.. Say if it was a kid would was bought a DVD of the blender movie, and the kid didn't show as much interest in it as the father. In this way the father, who was really interested in it, could take the bids and go off and bid on the item, and get a book!! Thereby being about to learn about blender, while giving his soon a credit in a movie.. I know that's silly, but you could see it in other ways. IF the kid had gotten the book as a result of a sweepstakes, and the father was not that interested, the kid might not care much either. But with a bidding system, it would permit a kid who would otherwise not have any money to purchase bids, the ability to win a book with some complementary bids provided by the auction oragnizer, Ton and Carsten. The people who care, will bid, the people who don't will be awarded whatever is left.. But those who win will likely be intent on having the winnings. It makes more sense, and it doesn't carrier the moral concerns of using these sites, and it would cause the site designers to really care about the service they offer and not about the cheap scam that it represents. Note, anyone can do what they are doing, what sets them apart from a scammer? Nothing really.. But if they offer such a service for a modest fee, say 100 dollars. Then it is bound to bring them in more business than what they are doing now, and it will use their skill. If they are heartless and soulless, they will continue to do what they are doing. It's their choice, but I'm presenting the idea so they can jump on it now, before someone, like myself does.
Following this a experience with GIMP and Wacom, following the discussion sparks my need to rant about the virtues of open source.
BTW, for the record, I did this all unedited, in Ubuntu 9.04 Linux, using free software: GIMP and gtk-recordmydesktop. I have a Pentium D Extreme Edition PC, I built myself which is also in one of my videos on my channel.. I've got a Nforce i750 motherboard from XFX, they burned the BIOS for Pentium D EE suport (which they no longer support) so that I could use this processor. I've overclocked the processor to 4.2 Ghz, I also have some Kingston Overclockable memory (2GB), it is overclocked to 1Ghz, my FSB is 1.33Ghz .. I also us a Geforce 8600 graphics card. A Wacom Intuos3 tablet was used in the making of this. The OGV video file that gtk-recordmydesktop produced (no kidding) was only 200MB!! This video should speak volumes for the value of open source development, and why people should use Linux and free software and stop kidding themselves that they are doing the right thing by going out and purchasing a tool they may never use. The only way you can make people productive is by offering them the tools for free, and then they will adopt them. It's just that lots of people are not aware that open source software offers any virtues.. Firefox is open source software.. Apache web server is open source software.. Virtues? Are you shitting me?
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