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Display Video Thumbnails in DigiKam
November 3, 2009 - 2:10 pm
Tags: digiKam, images, video
Posted in photography, sysadmin, video | Comments Off
Digikam is working great for me and I’m diligently tagging all my old photos. I was disappointed that, although DigiKam could play them, it wouldn’t display thumbnails for video files in my albums. Turns out that I just needed to install the mplayerthumbnails package and now I have thumbnails. In Ubuntu Jaunty, ignore instructions which […]
Virtualbox Setup to Run Windows XP Inside Ubuntu Jaunty
November 2, 2009 - 6:17 pm
Tags: virtualbox, windows xp
Posted in sysadmin, windows | Comments Off
I had no trouble with the initial virtualbox-3.0 install from Sun’s repositories. I popped in my old Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 1a CD and installed the software on a virtual disk — all of this was easy to do and required no special tricks. I did learn something important, however: I tried to […]
Hauppauge WinTV-HVR 950Q USB TV Tuner
November 1, 2009 - 11:22 am
Tags: capture, ubuntu, usb, video
Posted in sysadmin, video | 3 comments
I purchased a USB TV tuner device hoping to be able to do two things: a) receive (and possibly record) analog NTSC TV broadcasts, and b) accept analog input from a VCR to digitize some old VHS media. After a lot of red herrings and attempts to install drivers, I finally understood that the device […]
Installing VirtualBox to Run Windows XP Home Edition on Ubuntu Jaunty
October 31, 2009 - 11:39 pm
Tags: ubuntu, virtualbox, windows xp
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VirtualBox allows you to run a nested operating system on top of Linux. I want to use it with Windows XP (which I have an old copy of) in order to run the imaging software which came with my new Epson Perfection V500 Photo scanner. It may also come in handy if I want to […]
Scanning via USB from a Brother MFC-8500C
October 29, 2009 - 7:45 pm
Tags: command line, scanner, ubuntu
Posted in command line, scanning, sysadmin | 1 comment
I’m still working on digitizing all my old media, including paper. I have an old Brother laser multi-function with an automatic document feeder that I’ve only ever used as a printer and fax. I tried to set it up for scanning years ago, but had no success. Times have changed and I had no problem […]
Creating a Shared Photo Directory
October 25, 2009 - 8:06 pm
Tags: command line
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In order to allow my wife and myself to both have access to our common photo directory, I created a folder called /home/photos and set permissions as follows: As root, create a new group and add users to it: addgroup photos adduser user1 adduser user2 Create the folder: mkdir /home/photos Set the group: chown root:photos […]
And the Winner Is: digikam
October 25, 2009 - 6:47 pm
Tags: images, photo managers, photography, ubuntu
Posted in photography, sysadmin | Comments Off
I’ve decided to proceed using the KDE application digikam. It seems to do everything I want (plus lots more) and is open source and easy to use. It looks like it integrates with various web services, including facebook and flickr, without difficulty. The only disadvantage I can find is that the image editor doesn’t automatically […]
Managing Photos
October 25, 2009 - 4:22 pm
Tags: images, photo managers, photography, ubuntu
Posted in photography, sysadmin | Comments Off
We have too many photographs! I’d like to get them under control so that we can enjoy them now and preserve them for the future. We have a dozen albums and a couple of big boxes of old negatives and prints, including some that I developed myself and a few old family photographs that go […]
Ripping My CD Collection
Years ago, I ripped all of the CDs in my collection. I’m now considering finally packing away all of the physical CDs or getting rid of them. Naturally, I figured I should sort through all of them to make sure I have digitized them properly. I ended up with a box full of a few […]