This is interesting. I have my wife setup with a SuSE notebook (+crossover office). She used it for a recent convention presentation connected to a generic video projector. She found a nice feature on the projector that would scale some MPEG videos up to full screen & it was easier than her figuring out mplayer, so she used it.
She came back from the conference & complained that there was a clear sync issue with the audio. I tried mplayer on her notebook & videos, but *could not* reproduce the defect.
Now I wonder if this type of hardware was to blame.
Yes, but in the right kind of library this *does work*. My local branch (Lakewood, CO) has an entire computer room that can be used by any group, as well as open wireless access to the Internet. So this is a reasonably technical demographic.
Winter '02, I noticed that a substantial portion of people in my library are (smart looking) 8th-11th graders. I went to the library supervisor & offered to sponsor one or both of Linux Magazine and Linux Journal. She asked for a newstand copy of both, *she actually looked at them*, and decided that Linux Magazine was probably the best for her facility. I arranged for a two year subscription & I'll renew it at the end of this year. I've got a job right now (knock,knock) so the cost (for me) is negligable, and if it piques the curiosity of just one person enough to give FOSS/Linux/BSD a whirl, then its a good thing.
I walked in the other day, and actually saw a 17-somethin' kid reading it.
Conclusion: perhaps in your neighborhood its not the library, but somewhere nearby there's a place to promote FOSS/Linux/BSD with just a little effort.
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And I can recommend the book (Failure is not an Option). A little ra-ra USA sometimes, but all in all an interesting account of NASA mission control.
This is interesting. I have my wife setup with a SuSE notebook (+crossover office). She used it for a recent convention presentation connected to a generic video projector. She found a nice feature on the projector that would scale some MPEG videos up to full screen & it was easier than her figuring out mplayer, so she used it.
She came back from the conference & complained that there was a clear sync issue with the audio. I tried mplayer on her notebook & videos, but *could not* reproduce the defect.
Now I wonder if this type of hardware was to blame.
Yes, but in the right kind of library this *does work*. My local branch (Lakewood, CO) has an entire computer room that can be used by any group, as well as open wireless access to the Internet. So this is a reasonably technical demographic.
Winter '02, I noticed that a substantial portion of people in my library are (smart looking) 8th-11th graders. I went to the library supervisor & offered to sponsor one or both of Linux Magazine and Linux Journal. She asked for a newstand copy of both, *she actually looked at them*, and decided that Linux Magazine was probably the best for her facility. I arranged for a two year subscription & I'll renew it at the end of this year. I've got a job right now (knock,knock) so the cost (for me) is negligable, and if it piques the curiosity of just one person enough to give FOSS/Linux/BSD a whirl, then its a good thing.
I walked in the other day, and actually saw a 17-somethin' kid reading it.
Conclusion: perhaps in your neighborhood its not the library, but somewhere nearby there's a place to promote FOSS/Linux/BSD with just a little effort.