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We've moved!
by Ted Pomeroy 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

NMGLugers, We've moved to the Second St. Brewery for our meetings, beginning Feb. 13th. The Baking Co, is now closing at 5PM, so we have to relocate. In fact a few of us met last meeting at the Brewery on Jan. 30. It was a quick decision on where to go as there was no notice of the change. Now you know. It's a bit noisier at SSB/Oldery, but space was available and wifi workable, so we did some work and had some discussion as usual. Hope to see you this week if weather and your schedule permit. Thank you, Ted P.

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System Requirements;
by Ted Pomeroy 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

NMGLugers, What do you consider system requirements in 2020? I recently had a personal lapse in common sense by trying to upgrade ram in an older Asus EEE. It was pointless. Negligible change in performance. I had a feeling I was wasting my time, but I "had to try." Really not worth the effort. And I repeated a similar effort on an older laptop last week. So, I ask you to think about what are the System Requirements for an adequately performing laptop? Processor- Hard drive- Memory- Ports- Accessories? I have some ideas and will share them when we meet next week or if there is interest here. I think we can encourage wider adoption of Gnu/Linux by clearly advising newcomers and thinking clearly ourselves about not just keeping an older machine alive, but really enabling new users to take advantage of the great software we love. Free Software is great for all the things people do with a computer and we can help them see it if we think about what truly works. Thank you, Ted P.

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[ABQLUG] Next meetup is on February 4th, 2020
by ABQLUG 03 Feb '20

03 Feb '20

Hello fellow NMGLugers: The Albuquerque Linux User Group will meet on February 4th, 2020 at 6:00 pm. For more information on how to attend, please visit: https://www.abqlug.com/attendee/ No talks are scheduled. I suspect there will be some new Linux users that will show up for support. Beyond that, nothing else is planned. If you plan on going, consider bringing some snacks. I hope to see ya'll there! ~ Jared

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Yipes, We have to move!
by Ted Pomeroy 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

NMGLugers, Baking Co. changed hours suddenly and four of us went to Second Street Brewery last night. No real fun: I did an "Install Test" on an old laptop. Just to prove it could be done. Not much of a machine, but 32bit Xubuntu 18.04 worked. My Debian 8 Live did not work - I have tossed the dvd. Time to focus on newer equipment for installs, I think. There will be an update on our meeting location soon. Jason and Geoff have an idea and will check out the possibility of a move to a more comfortable location. Thank you, Ted P.

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Meeting tonight
by Ted Pomeroy 31 Jan '20

31 Jan '20

Hi NMGLugers. We have a meeting tonight. I don't know of any issues. Four weeks ago we helped clear up a file system error that prevented boot. We used edits to grub, a nice trick and the simplest way through the problem, telling grub to force fsck before mounting the system. there were two commands to enter in the "Linux" line in grub, and the caveat to rerun it till it reported no errors. Tonight we can look at whatever you might be brining. See you there. Ted P.

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Kali CD vs OS
by Ted Pomeroy 14 Jan '20

14 Jan '20

Hi NMGLuger's, Just read an interesting article about Kali Linux and the change to remove 'run as Root' as the default login. That's right, Kali as an OS may have used a root login as the default because it had a certain aim when run from a CD as a troubleshooter system. This helps me understand why I was a little unsure what Kali was "up to" when I first saw it in use. I came to Linux via Knoppix, a live CD (years ago a CD was enough) and had fun using the elevated privileges to hack into my own former OS. Of course the experience was good for learning and I eventually opted for Ubuntu installs as my "go to" favorite. I am now getting more accustomed to Debian, though not recommending Debian for the new user. I still have fun with live systems, Knoppix included, though I now have a very nice Debian 10 live usb and would recommend that to anyone wanting to learn about Gnu/Linux systems. Speaking of talking to others, the termination of Microsoft support for one popular system has given me a few opportunities to spread the Freedom of Gnu/Linux. How about any of you? Has anybody asked for release from the tedium of un-free software? See you Thursday, Ted P.

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[ABQLUG] Next ABQ Linux User Group is Going To Be on January 7th 2020
by ABQLUG 03 Jan '20

03 Jan '20

Hello everyone, The next Linux User Group in Albuquerque will be on January 7th 2020 at 6:00 pm at Ideas and Coffee. For more information on how to attend, please visit: https://www.abqlug.com/attendee/ No major talks are planned, but if you want to learn about Linux, or know someone that does. Everyone is welcome! I hope everyone had a great holiday! ~ Jared

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xfce mint sleeping?
by Aaron Birenboim 11 Dec '19

11 Dec '19

My new Mint 19.2 install if xfce mint is kind of locking up. Seems to be some sort of power management thing. It responds to ping. caps-lock and num-lock change keyboard lights, but screen is dark, and it does not respond to ssh. Logs seem fairly clean. It seems to be doing cron jobs all night, but just won't respond to keyboard or ssh. It seems to show a clean restart when I get frustrated and touch the power button. Any ideas? Any idea what to look for in a log to see what it is doing? aaron

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youtube-dl
by a 08 Dec '19

08 Dec '19

HI Reinstalled youtube-dl via synaptic, since I had been unable to apply existing program download to below listed video. after reload still still not applicable. If relevant, how to apply: -- verbose flag? os debian. sudo youtube-dl -U (no go). Thanks, a @alap:~/Videos$ youtube-dl https://youtu.be/M8PNuoJvcjg [youtube] M8PNuoJvcjg: Downloading webpage [youtube] M8PNuoJvcjg: Downloading video info webpage ERROR: M8PNuoJvcjg: "token" parameter not in video info for unknown reason; please report this issue on https://yt-dl.org/bug . Make sure you are using the latest version; see https://yt-dl.org/update on how to update. Be sure to call youtube-dl with the --verbose flag and include its complete output.

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Re: [nmglug] Can anyone suggest an audio recorder?
by LeRoy Diener 30 Nov '19

30 Nov '19

I'm still stuck at the same initial part. Jason: Thanks for your detailed and extensive info. It will all be very useful, but first I need to get past some initial setup issue. When I try to start a new session, I've been using all of the default settings, which include ALSA as the Audio System, 44.1 kHz as the Sample rate, 1024 samples as the Buffer size, 2 for Periods. When I click Start, I first get a dialog box that says "Audio device not valid". When I click OK, then I got a second dialog box saying "Failed to start or connect to audio-engine. Latency calibration requires a working audio interface." In my prior email, I neglected to mention the first dialog box. I searched and found some info, such as https://discourse.ardour.org/t/ardour-install-prob/90016 but none of what I found is helping me so far. Please help. LeRoy -- I am the Love of God, no matter what. LeRoy Diener 213-LEROYIZ 213-537-6949 www.leroydiener.com/ Date: Thu, 28 Nov 2019 15:52:41 -0700 > From: jason schaefer <js(a)jasonschaefer.com> > To: nmglug(a)lists.nmglug.org > Subject: Re: [nmglug] Can anyone suggest an audio recorder? > Message-ID: <aa7dfb31-5cf4-91df-743e-6d796cb0c136(a)jasonschaefer.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > > > > > In my menu section Sound & Video, Ardour5 is now added. > > I opened Ardour. It guided me through the setup prior to first usage. > > I completed that, accepting defaults. > > I tried to start a New Session, but I got a dialog box saying > > "Failed to start or connect to audio-engine. > > Latency calibration requires a working audio interface." > > I have not been able to get past that. > > You can choose between ALSA sound system or the more advanced Jack sound > server. I would recommend using ALSA for now. Select that as your "audio > system" when creating a new Ardour session. Something like 44.1khz, 1024 > buffer and 2 periods should be fine for most internal audio cards. > > Later, you can play with Jack. Use qjackctl to manage jackd, it makes it > easy to view your application sound routing and change settings. Also, > if you have two jack compatible softwares you can use jack to start both > applications. An example would be to use one application to play a > composition or a video and another to record. Jack can start the > recording and playing at the same time and handle all the routing as > well. Very cool stuff can be done with Jack. > > > > > > On a positive note, I am able to use Audacity, and I'm not in a big > hurry. > > Based on what you, Jason, wrote, I feel inclined to get Ardour > > working, so I can use this. While it's nice to have options, I agree > > that I may as well go straight to the best. > > I'm looking forward to getting Ardour configured/set up, so I can use > > this for most everything I want to do with audio recording. > > This might help you get started > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arvPwZlU1ak > > > > > > Here's what I'm doing now with video and audio editing. I will > > probably work on other projects in the future. This is just my current > > project. I want to offer my yoga instruction by video. So, I am > > recording videos of me doing specific yoga routines. When I have > > access, I'm filming from two different angles. I will discard the > > audio portion recorded while filming. Next, I do voice-over which is > > me speaking instructions about how to do what I'm demonstrating in the > > video. I might add a third audio track of background music. For this > > project, I think the audio editing is simple, and I can do this in > > kdenlive. I don't see any way to record audio in kdenlive. So, it may > > be best to record the voice-over audio in ardour. > > Yes, ardour with xjadeo seems like a perfect solution for your use case. > "Session" -> "Open Video.." This will import your video and add it to > your audio timeline so you can do voice overs and back tracks in sync > with your vid, etc. > > > > > > Equipment I've started with now is my smartphone to record the video > > and the mic in my laptop to record my voice-over. > > > > I think I found a Zoom H2 from Amazon.com for $170. Is there a problem > > with using the mic in my laptop? > > Your phone and laptop mic are not going to sound very good. You might be > able to fix this with some filters (normalize, eq, compression). I only > recommend the H2 because it sounds great and is portable and simple to use. > > You should look into condenser microphones for recording onto your > laptop (ardour) directly. Maybe someone else has some experience with a > inexpensive setup. I have a maudio fast track pro, it has phantom power > for the mic. All this stuff can be found second hand for fairly cheap, > just be careful for compatibility with gnulinux when buying audio > interfaces. I know maudio is usually supported. I'm sure there is more > supported hardware than when I was shopping for this stuff. The > manufacturer won't be much help in this regard, so you might need to dig > around the forums or try it yourself. > > windscreens are your friend ;-) > > >

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