Archive for June, 2007
manchester…
Here are some shots from Manchester, Washington. The view is over Puget Sound, across teh water is downtown Seattle.
Filed under Outdoors : Comments (0) : Jun 26th, 2007
dewatto bay…
Here is some more scenery from Hood Canal. The Olympic Mountains are in the background.
A lame attempt at a panorama. 
Filed under Outdoors : Comments (0) : Jun 21st, 2007
laptop linux…part deux
Now that I had the basics working on the laptop, it was time to play some music and watch some movies. The packages I settled on are the Rhythmbox Player with the gstreamer plugin, and Totem-xine.
First, install the livna repository into yum.
Next, install the packages with yum.
yum -y remove totem;yum -y install totem-xine gstreamer-plugins-ugly rhythmbox
I found the following shell script at Fedora Forums. It claims to play everything.
For Core 6:
rpm -ivh http://rpm.livna.org/livna-release-6.rpm
rpm --import http://rpm.livna.org/RPM-LIVNA-GPG-KEY
yum -y install mencoder
echo -e "remove totem\n install totem-xine libdvdcss libdvdnav xine-lib-extras-nonfree\n run\n quit" | yum -y shell
yum -y install mplayerplug-in mozplugger evince vlc compat-libstdc++-33
wget http://software-dl.real.com/217bb62ac033864a3d19/unix/RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
rpm -Uvh RealPlayer10GOLD.rpm
cd /tmp
wget http://www1.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20061022.tar.bz2
tar -jxvf all-20061022.tar.bz2
su -c 'mkdir -p /usr/local/lib/codecs'
su -c 'cp all-20061022/* /usr/local/lib/codecs'
rm -rf /tmp/all-20061022*
su -c 'ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/codecs && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/local/lib/win32 && ln -sf /usr/local/lib/codecs /usr/lib/win32'
Adjust your version accordingly.
Enjoy
Filed under General : Comments (0) : Jun 21st, 2007
why I live here…
One of the most spectacular views in Western Washington.
Overlooking the Longbranch Marina in Pierce County. About 30 miles south of the homestead.
Filed under Outdoors : Comments (0) : Jun 19th, 2007
