[NMLUG] LVLUG Meeting Friday 6:00 pm at the Outfit

[brians.outfit at gmail.com (Brian Rodgers)]

	Regular LVLUG Meeting at Brian Rodgers' Outfit Friday at 6:00 PM
	
	The Outfit is at 801 Douglas Ave. Suite #1, Las Vegas, NM 87701 454-9661
		

Dear Las Vegas Linux Users Group
Sorry for the short notice on the next meeting, nevertheless it is
this Friday at 6:00 pm at the Outfit. We hope you can make it. This is
the first meeting since the very successful Linux Install Fest, which
our group sponsored at NMHU last month. This time we we focus on
tweaking our systems and learning the ins and outs of linux. Bring
your questions and your PC too. The Outfit has plenty of workstations
including Cat 5 Internet connection, power cables, monitors, mice and
keyboards. The session will last until 8:00 pm.
The Outfit is at 801 Douglas Ave. Suite #1, (across from Beales
department store) you can call Brian at 454-9661. Email me at
brians.outfit@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Brian Rodgers

Brian, here's a new use for any extra cooking oil you've got lying
around . . . .

With such a setup I'd think that you could build just about the
hottest BZFlag server known to man.

http://www.tomshardware.com/2006/01/09/strip_out_the_fans/

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/01/09/1657251

Here's a link to how to get MPlayer up and running.

http://www.linuxquestions.org/linux/blog/tw001_tw/2006-01-21/A_quick_step_by_step_on_installing_MPlayer

I think the important part, for me is in the 4th paragraph, the bit
about the codecs.  I use 'xine' and the point the config file to where
the codecs are. It handles a pretty large # of files including all the
*.wmv clips of Paris Hilton still floating around the web.

For downloading really big big files, I like the old command line
program called prozilla.  From the home directory start downloading 
with

'proz <URL to that large Tracy Lords file you've been mulling over>'

Break it off with ^r and restart it with -r as the argument to proz. 
The thing bulds a 4 part connection to the file, downloads it in 4
pieces using the anonymous email address of 'bgates@hotmail.com' and
then recontructs the pieces on your machine.  Great for downloading
all 4 discs of Slackware 10.2 for example.

Lasly, I like to use a script to start firefox which strips cookies
and history each time.
do as user

mkdir $HOME/bin

then add $HOME/bin into the path section of the .bashrc

put this script into a file called ffox and stick it into $HOME/bin

#!/bin/sh
cd $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/*.default/
rm -f history.dat cookies.txt formhistory.dat
cd $HOME
/usr/bin/firefox &

type 'chmod +x $HOME/bin'

Firefox now starts clean at the command with 'ffox'.  You can always
build an icon for it in most common desktops.  I did this after I
noticed all the porn-ads coming up on the screen after visiting
several hacking sites in a row and after I heard that the feds had
been busted for setting cookies at the NASA website which then
'tracked' the viewer for the next 12 websites.  I don't know what they
were using the info for but I din't relish the thought of them
following me through www.blowupbush.net to my next Tracy Lords
megadownload. . . .

Just some thoughts for Mon. AM,
bil
Hi, all-

I am running the latest Mepis, 3.4.3, and am trying to get OCR working. I am
not having a great deal of success.

Kooka wants to use OCRAD even when GOCR is selected. Even when OCRAD is not
installed. I now have both OCRAD and GOCR installed, and the results using
OCRAD as the OCR application are not useable. Kooka with OCRAD probably has
at least a 50% error rate recognizing characters even on a good high
resolution scan.

Can any of you direct me as to how to get Kooka functioning for OCR? Can any
of you recommend a Linux OCR application which functions better?

Lee