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I have just been trying my Geniatech dvb usb stick with "me-tv". The picture is very jerky, annoyingly jerky. Strange thing though; If I record a few minutes, just to test it, the playback is smooth, but the brightness is up.
A few years ago now, I bought a Bearcat hand held scanner for listening to radio hams etc. While scanning in the 135mhz band, I came across a noise rather like a clock ticking and a faint bell sound.I couldn't work out what it was so I bought a book with all the frequencies in. It turned out I was hearing NOAA sun synchronous Weather satellites.
I only ever heard these signals rarely, just by chance, because they had to be very close before you could pick them up, and at the time...
I never thought I would like using the command line; But, I tried ccrypt and I couldn't believe how easy it is to use. Say I had a file called "me.txt" in my documents folder. I open a terminal, navigate to my documents folder (I always type "ls" to list whats in there, because then I can copy and paste), I then just enter "ccrypt --encrypt me.txt" It asks for a password which I create,it asks again, then thats it; me.txt.cpt.
I just had a try at printing a photo with my Canon ip4000 colour printer. Linux found the printer easily enough and also found a driver! The photo I tried to print was very clear sent to me from someone by email.
When I tried to print, the photo came out looking very pixelated, as if it came from a newspaper. The resolution was set high, so I can't see whats wrong? I will delve a bit more tonight!
Mint 5 runs great on my laptop (which isn't an expensive model, and is now 2 years old). I bought "Linux Magazine" last month because it had Mint 6 on the DVD. I kept running Mint 5 because it just works, so why change? But I couldn't help it, I kept looking at the new DVD, and in the end decided to install it. Just in case I made a disk image using "PING", and leaving the copy on a 10gb partition.
I run the newer Mint 6 as a live DVD, and it seemed fine, except...
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