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dougal

Joined: 15 Jan 2005
Posts: 7184
Location: South Kent

Posted: Tue Jan 15, 08 10:47 pm Post subject:
This is Linux only (for now) https://www.methylblue.com/filelight/ Its a graphical indication of where all your disk space has gone. A rather neat visualisation scheme, IMHO.

happytechie

Joined: 24 Jan 2006
Posts: 408
Location: Surrey (at the mo.)

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:14 pm Post subject:

there is a similar tool for windows called spacemonger dougal, it's great

https://spacemonger.en.softonic.com/

instant messaging for all protocols with pidgin https://www.pidgin.im/

The best software development environment that isn't visual studio: https://www.eclipse.org/

manage all your mp3s and iPods https://projects.gnome.org/rhythmbox/

all available from the add applications menu in your ubuntu install

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:16 pm Post subject:
I use pidgin - it's lovely. AND, it's icon is ... a pidgeon, which charms me in my girlish fashion .

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:21 pm Post subject:
How funny that HT posted a year to the day after the last post

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:25 pm Post subject:

Fee wrote:

How funny that HT posted a year to the day after the last post

I know! For a minute I thought you know who was back...

chez

Joined: 13 Aug 2006
Posts: 35935
Location: The Hive of the Uberbee, Quantock Hills, Somerset

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:27 pm Post subject:
I still miss him

Barefoot Andrew
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Joined: 21 Mar 2007
Posts: 22780
Location: In the 17th century

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:29 pm Post subject:
I was about to launch into a party-like welcome thread A.

Fee

Joined: 21 Mar 2005
Posts: 15922
Location: Earth

Posted: Thu Jan 15, 09 8:31 pm Post subject:
Me too, I got all excited!

Emyr

Joined: 05 Sep 2009
Posts: 210
Location: Down some dark dark stairs.

Posted: Sat Sep 05, 09 3:14 pm Post subject:
Anyone know of a good Video editing program to run on Linux? (Specifically Ubuntu+Gnome)

Aeolienne

Joined: 03 Apr 2008
Posts: 1498
Location: Leamington Spa, Warks

Posted: Wed Dec 26, 12 5:58 pm Post subject:

dougal wrote:

"Your favorite language
Modes: SubEthaEdit features built-in support for most common programming languages, like AppleScript , ActionScript , C, C++, CSS, HTML, Java, Javascript, LaTeX, Lua, Objective-C, Pascal, Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, SQL and XML."

Has anyone had experience here of running Python on a home PC? I'm nervous about installing anything that might make other applications on my clunky computer run slower.

arvo

Joined: 04 Dec 2006
Posts: 3321
Location: Somerset

Posted: Thu Dec 27, 12 8:19 am Post subject:

Aeolienne wrote:

Has anyone had experience here of running Python on a home PC? I'm nervous about installing anything that might make other applications on my clunky computer run slower.

Are you on Windows Aeolienne? If so have you got a DVD drive? If you have you could give Ubuntu a whirl. You can try it from a DVD or a usb stick without installing the whole thing to see if you like it. You can then swap all your stuff over if you do.

I'm keeping my 8yo Dell precision on it's feet by using Ubuntu - means it doesn't have to have stacks of extra brain-power to run stuff you don't need. Then I'm pretty sure you can run python run on top of that. Ubuntu will run most apps and there are enough folk on Ubuntu forums and on here if you get stuck.

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue May 30, 17 1:22 am Post subject: Re: Free Mac/Linux software

tahir wrote:

NickG suggested that it might be worthwhile compiling a list of useful free Mac and Linux software, any suggestions?

This was a pretty good idea, but we seem to have got sidetracked on it. I presumed the point of making it a "sticky" was to maintain a current list of recommended software, and I guess we all kind of forgot...

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46193
Location: yes

Posted: Tue May 30, 17 11:42 am Post subject:

ok a starter list for LINUX

libre office, better than MS office imho and free

gimp not as sophisticated as paid for photoshop but a couple of thousand quid cheaper

firefox :
add the very useful addons such as red morph, script blocker, abp, and preferably a proxy which in combo prevent all pop up ads, refuses most trackers and blocks or confuses lot of dubious stuff.
the settings can be tweaked to give privacy, security and retain the functions you want for most websites.
when you get used to such things it is quite amazing how much data harvesting you are blocking from watching your every move.even if you have nothing to hide do you want facebook going through your purse and newspapers or google reading your posts and checking if you change your socks daily?. IT IS EVEN MORE INTRUSIVE THAN THAT IF YOU LET THEM ALL LOOK

with firefox it is easy to use different search engines such as duck duck go for most stuff and switch to google for a well censored view, G scholar for an academic slant etc etc .
using easy change search engines in combo with a proxy switcher the "open"web gets a lot bigger

ip address and domain information can be quite useful

awesome screenshot is quite good if a bit slow with pages that have a lot of high res images

TOR works pretty well with modern linux OS

Hairyloon

Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Sat Nov 02, 19 2:38 pm Post subject:

Emyr wrote:

Anyone know of a good Video editing program to run on Linux? (Specifically Ubuntu+Gnome)

Did anyone have an answer on that?
Or for Windows?

dpack

Joined: 02 Jul 2005
Posts: 46193
Location: yes

Posted: Sat Nov 02, 19 3:44 pm Post subject:

a vintage version of windows movie maker was surprisingly useful

iirc it was part of vista and rather over speced for a simple embedded utility.

it was fine for DV raw(a bit over hd resolution) and might be fine for "domestic tech" movie stuff even now.

it was lighter on processor/ram than pinnacle and was easy and effective for basic editing tasks.

so long as you have a decent dedicated graphics board and plenty of ram basic stuff is fairly easy.

the software is less of an issue than how long does it take to render? and did the machine crash before it was done?

not a clue about linux or modern kit

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