RE: tlug: X resolution / color depth

[Scott Stone <sstone@example.com>]

On Fri, 20 Mar 1998, Marcus Metzler wrote:

>  > The reason I still use Windows so much is because there is a whole raft of
>  > things I can do under Windows that are either done poorly or not at all
>  > under Linux.  Granted, a lot of that comes in the area of applications that
>  > aren't there and hardware I can't use, like my LPT video camera.  The main
>  > issue with me that's proper to Linux itself is the poor level of support for
>  > Japanese.    If I were only working in English, it would be fine.  That
>  > would still leave my camera, but I suppose I could sell it and get a Quick
>  > Cam.  And then there's my digital camera.  I'm not aware of even one digital
>  > camera that software exists for to download its pictures into Linux
>  > (somebody tell me if you know of any for FujiFilm digital cameras!), and the
>  > lack of Internet telephony software.
> There are programs for several digital cameras. The Casio QV series, all
> cameras that use PCMCIA adapters and I think there`s also one for the Olympus
> serial connector. Then theres is the Hitachi mpeg video camera that uses
> a typ III PCMCIA harddisk which can be read by linux. As to video telephony,
> there is a guy who wrote an application for the bttv driver I am going to 
> show you  at the next meeting. My brother told me that he saw  a program
> using Tcl/Tk to make a videophone connection. I`ll have to ask him where
> to get it. If you don`t want to have a picture there`s a program called
> nautilus, which you can use to make internet phone connections. I use
> it to talk with my brother in Germany and it works fine.
> If you are interested in more information about frame grabbers,
> just look at:
> http://atlantek.com.au/USERS/wes/linux/frame.html
> 
>  > 
>  > Multimedia is another area where a lot of progress needs to be made.
> Sure, but they are on their way. The major problem is to get hardware
> information to write the drivers. Some companies are so fixated on windoze
> they won`t tell you anything and refer you to there fine windoze DLL`s.
>  > Everybody likes consistency.  And of course, I'd like to see them all adopt
>  > RPM.  Not holding my breath on Slackware :-)
> What`s so good about RPM. I hate it.

That's like saying that you hate cars and then taking a horse and buggy on
the freeway (happens in PA sometimes...)

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Scott M. Stone <sstone@example.com, sstone@example.com>
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Linux Developer/Systems Administrator for Pacific HiTech, Inc. 
http://www.pht.com		http://armadillo.pht.co.jp
http://www.pht.co.jp	        http://www.turbolinux.com


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