I found an excellent link about music typesetting programs:
The program that I tried was MuseScore, which seemed to work very nicely. It seemed a little rough (as in, it crashed a couple of times), but it got the job done for me.
I was able to install MuseScore from Synaptic with the mscore package. There is also a mscore-common package as well.
I have been having trouble with poor performance in my remote desktop connections using rdesktop. I believe the problem lies in my Internet connection — the problem occurs when I have low bandwidth.
I tested with Windows, and it seems to perform better. The thing that I finally noticed, is that performance is poor in both Windows and Linux. The difference seems to be the cursor. In Windows, it displays the local cursor and instead of the remote. In Linux, it tries to display the cursor where the remote machine actually thinks it is. When the remote machine is sluggish, you see the impact in the mouse in Linux because you feel it in the mouse movements.
I found something that helps:
UbuntuForums: Slow performance when connecting to Vista using rdesktop
The “-z” option is what made the difference for me. From the Linux man pages, here is what that option does:
-z Enable compression of the RDP datastream.
I am not sure this is a complete fix, and if anyone else has better suggestions, please comment. This fix seems to treat the bandwidth problem rather than the mouse movements.
The other day, I ran across the Ayatana Project. I guess that is the parent project for some of the applets at the top of the Ubuntu desktop. The home for the project is here.
I noticed that they have a Evolution indicator. A Thunderbird version might be nice, and a GMail version would be even better for me.
The indicator applet is what got me started looking at this project. I currently have Empathy (allows me Google-Talk access) and Evolution in this applet. I saw a question about Skype, which looked really great. I would love to see what else they can put in here, like GMail, Skype, Facebook, etc.
This article was interesting. I wonder where we will be 10 or 20 years from now.
I have been using Google Voice with Skype for a little while now, but I have been having quality problems. There is a 1 to 2 second delay between the time a say something and the person on the other line hears it. I thought maybe it was the Linux, PulseAudio, Skype combination, but I have since found the same thing happens when I use my home phone or my cell phone.
I found that I am not the only one who has the problem:
As “Papa Bear” suggested, I sent feedback on my problem with this link. I am trying to raise awarness of the problem now, but I am not sure what else I can do other than quit using it for the time being. If anyone has any ideas for extra information, please let me know!
I have tried the Facebook export tool for F-Spot, but I couldn’t get it to work. Thanks to rvf0068, I have a bug report link, and hopefully the bug gets fixed soon. In the meantime, this is what I have found that works:
I tried today to get the F-Spot export to Facebook working again(continuing from the other day). I changed the default browser to Firefox, and I took my laptop to a different network. When I came back, it asked me to login to Facebook and everything looked right. But, the export tools just quits at this point:
I have left the tool like this for hours, and still nothing happens.
When I run from the command line:
f-spot --debug
I get:
[Debug 22:43:28.010] Authorizing Session [Debug 22:43:28.546] Session established, fetching user info... [Debug 22:43:28.811] Session established, fetching friend list... [Debug 22:43:28.984] Session established, fetching friend details... [Debug 22:43:29.663] Session established, fetching photo albums...
On a different note, I was able to get the zooomr export tool to work. I used it to put the screenshot for this post in.
I have been trying to get my photo programs to upload to Facebook, but they just don’t want to work. There are no solutions here yet, but if anyone has any tips, I’d be glad to hear about them. Does Facebook not like Linux? Is it the Chrome that is conflicting?
I could always just upload the photos one by one the manual way. But, what programmer or Linux geek wants to do that? We would rather spend more time hacking the automatic tools than it would take to do it manually!
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10, I decided to give F-Spot a try. For a while, Ubuntu has been offering to import photos every time I plug the camera in. So far, I like all the features, and it has been working great.
The Facebook export doesn’t work though. I am kind of disappointed because that could be really nice. First, I found that I had to enable it. For some reason, it won’t log in once enabled. It just stops at “Session established, fetching photo albums…”. I have Chrome as my default browser, and I wondered if that had something to do with it.
I was able to take a picture using the Facebook application and post it on Facebook. But, I have tried several times to share a picture from the Gallery application. When I installed the Facebook application, the Gallery added a new sharing option to share with Facebook. When I share a picture, it asks me to add a caption, and allows me to upload. The problem is that it just sits there at 0% and never finishes.
With both problems, I can’t find any error messages or any log that would help with searching for answers. So, for now, I am stuck. I guess I am up to the manual upload methods.
A co-worker pointed this article out to me:
CNN Tech: Google unveils Nexus One ‘superphone’
Google looks like they are coming out with a new phone called Nexus One. I like the openness that they are touting.
Links:
After installing Karmic Koala (Ubuntu 9.10), I was thrilled about the sound working so much better. The latest version of Skype supported pulse directly, and everything seemed to be great.
But then, the sound quit working suddenly, and nothing would bring it back. I checked the Alsa volume settings, I tinkered with several of the config files, and I compared to the configuration with the live CD.
Finally, what solved my problem was:
I will continue to keep my eye out for what is breaking the sound, but at least I have a solution. Please let me know if anyone else has this problem.
Here are some of the links that I checked: