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West Michigan Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party Recap

I’d like to thank all of the geeks and guests who made it out to The Warehouse for last night’s West Michigan Ubuntu 10.10 Release Party. I’d especially like to thank Casey DuBois and his wife for hosting the party … Continue reading

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Video Editing on Linux – Part 2

I recently gave part two of my Video Editing on Linux series at the 8/26/2010 West Michigan Linux Users Group meeting. In this presentation I talk about the many different editors available for Linux and give a demo of creating … Continue reading

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Webcam Recording using VLC on Linux

These instructions apply to Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS and VLC 1.0.6 Goldeneye. Recording from a webcam on Linux has been very underwhelming for me. A program called Cheese comes with Ubuntu, but it has some shortcomings that really annoy … Continue reading

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Video Editing on Linux – Part 1

I gave the first of three planned talks about video editing on Linux at last night’s West Michigan Linux Users Group meeting. This talk covered file types, codecs, and many of the uses for FFMPEG. I promised to make the … Continue reading

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WMLUG Lucid Questions Answered

I gave a demo and talk about the newly-released Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx LTS at the West Michigan Linux Users Group last night. There were a few questions for which I had inadequate or no answer, so I will try … Continue reading

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