!!!! Reminder!!! Wlug Meeting Oct 13th @7PM: Topic: Fotoxx, Speaker: Dick Miller, Location: WPI Mid Century Room.
Hey Everybody! Date/Time: Oct 13th 2022, 7PM-??PM Physical Location: WPI Mid Century Room (rm 321) Virtual Location: https://meet.jit.si/WlugMA Speaker: Dick Miller Dick Miller is going to be speaking about Fotoxx! https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html From the webpage: Navigate a large image collection using a thumbnail browser, click on an image to view or edit. A rich set of edit and retouch functions is available. Import RAW files and edit with deep color. Save revised images as JPEG, PNG (8/16 bits/color), or TIFF (8/16). Select an object or area within an image (freehand draw, follow edges, flood matching tones...), apply edit functions, copy and paste, resize, blend, warp, etc. without using layers. Edit functions have fast feedback using the full image or selected zoom-in area. Edit image metadata (tags, geotags, dates, ratings, captions...). Search images using any combination of metadata and file and folder names or partial names. Click a marker on a scalable world map to view all photos from that location. Batch functions are available to rename, add/revise metadata, copy/move, resize, convert format. Fotoxx uses your image files wherever they are and maintains a separate index for fast searching. Fotoxx is standards compliant and can be used with other photo programs (no lock-in). Fotoxx is easy to use but unconventional, so read the user guide (at least the first few pages) before jumping in. Fotoxx has deep functionality. Do not expect to master it in a few minutes. Along with the presentation, as usual expect the usual amount of banter about all things Linux/FOSS/etc. Definitely some talk about mdadm..which I'm sure will digress into a weird demo... Snacks and Refreshments will be provided and we'll head off to have dinner afterwards to continue the conversation. I hope to see you there! Thanks, Tim. -- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
CU there! Have computer, will travel.
Cheers from
--Dick (and Jill) Miller, Partners, MMS
See you there tonight, in person!
We are here at the WPI Campus Center!
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 5:43 PM Dick Miller
CU there! Have computer, will travel.
Cheers from --Dick (and Jill) Miller, Partners, MMS
Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group in Natick (NatickFOSS.org) http://millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupNatick.html -- * | A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com
| 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° |* Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, non-proprietary https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free open-source software, *Linux* http://NatickFOSS.org/ PC - with *Ubuntu-Unity 22.04.1 LTS* https://ubuntuunity.org and *Fotoxx 22.35* http://www.kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html making the most of the tiny camera within a Samsung Galaxy A53 5G smartphone https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-review-3149923/.
On 10/13/22 17:05, John Stoffel wrote:
See you there tonight, in person!
-- I am leery of the allegiances of any politician who refers to their constituents as "consumers".
Thank you Dick for the talk tonight ( so much as I was able to stay for ) -
your enthusiasm for linux advocacy and outreach was recognizable; and I
enjoyed romping around your website - I wonder if your Canopus star-tracker
work in the 60s had any outputs still in use on the Voyagers (some 14.6
billion miles away now...)!
Sorry I had to leave early, but I arrived home interested to check it out.
I use TinyCore linux on my daily driver laptop (Dell Latitude (c) 2012),
which didn't have fotoxx in its package manager - so I built it from the
source packages on https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html. Incidentally,
there is a LONG OVERVIEW section on that page which combined with your talk
offered me more description of the features. Once I built it I began
checking it out. It absolutely suggests a talented and devoted developer;
it is quirky and polished in my novitiate eyes. First off - from the
building side - I observe it is a collection of executables - Michael
Cornelison the author certainly has been hard at work - cloc says:
github.com/AlDanial/cloc v 1.95 T=1.51 s (33.2 files/s, 118058.5 lines/s)
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Language files blank comment
code
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C++ 31 38465 16842
118237
C/C++ Header 4 540 230
2798
make 11 111 60
634
Text 1 11 0
47
CSS 3 35 33
19
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
SUM: 50 39162 17165
121735
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
It wasn't difficult to build - I made it into a TinyCore Linux package and
then loaded it up. Initially it attempted to tackle my entire drive, but
crashed (a corrupt PNG took it down during the indexing); I then aimed it
at a media specific folder, and I was surprised to see it creating
thumbnails for mp4 movies - ultimately these files are just easily launched
into VLC by a keystroke.
Things I like - I like the Map view - I like seeing the thumb-tack
indication of where my photos' geotags point. I like the Gallery's balance
between fast thumbnails and some brief metadata - and I like that folders
are shown with a count of inner images and folders -a nice sort of bread
crumbs. I also like the prepackaged set of effects and filters - For
instance Voodoo 1 applied to one of my photos created a nice effect. I'm
sure these features bring powerful image editing techniques into more hands
more easily than something with a steeper learning curve (say GIMP).
I'm not sure it is about to become my go-to software though. I have been a
long time GIMP user and so appreciate the skill I already possess therein.
However, it does remind me that I desire a better gallery experience -
formerly I used to use F-Spot Photo Manager, but that seems to be
in-between working builds for some time ... So, I am not sure what my next
step will be, but I again thank you for tonight's romp through Fotoxx!
Best of Wishes,
Lexi
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 7:11 PM Tim Keller via WLUG
We are here at the WPI Campus Center!
On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 5:43 PM Dick Miller
wrote: CU there! Have computer, will travel.
Cheers from --Dick (and Jill) Miller, Partners, MMS
Co-Leaders, FOSS User Group in Natick (NatickFOSS.org) http://millermicro.com/FOSSUserGroupNatick.html -- * | A. Richard & Jill A. Miller | MILLER MICROCOMPUTER SERVICES | | Mailto:TheMillers@millermicro.com
| 61 Lake Shore Road | | Web: http://www.millermicro.com/ http://www.millermicro.com/ | Natick, MA 01760-2099, USA | | Voice: 508/653-6136, 9AM-9PM -0400(EDT)| NMEA N 42.29993°, W 71.36558° |* Sent from an awesome, inexpensive, non-proprietary https://www.gnu.org/proprietary/, no-lock-in, no-bloatware, virus-resistant, free open-source software, *Linux* http://NatickFOSS.org/ PC - with *Ubuntu-Unity 22.04.1 LTS* https://ubuntuunity.org and *Fotoxx 22.35* http://www.kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html making the most of the tiny camera within a Samsung Galaxy A53 5G smartphone https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-galaxy-a53-5g-review-3149923/.
On 10/13/22 17:05, John Stoffel wrote:
See you there tonight, in person!
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We lost the room on the web call. Will you guys be back on tonight?
From: Tim Keller via WLUG
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
We lost the room on the web call. Will you guys be back on tonight?
Right. That didn't work well. I was on jitsi within
minutes of 7pm. At first I thought I had technical
problems because I couldn't see or hear anybody.
A few minutes and a few named rectangles showed up,
including the all important "WLUG Meeting".
But the guest speaker was not there. It was noisy and
hard to hear anyone who was not near the mike. Around
7:30 there was talk of booting from a flash drive and
then "WLUG Meeting" vanished. There were three of us
left, me and two rectangles named jstone and PMcEvilly.
We talked a bit about our computers, but didn't really
have much to say. At 8pm the computer that runs ntpd
(NetTimePro) said it was time to move along.
This is not a gripe, it's a bug report. Jitsi actually
seemed to work better from the public library. This
is a bit frightening. WPI has been teaching over
video chat for years. We did video chat meetings
with the equipment in the student center back in
the Andy Stewart days.
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
Will you guys be back on tonight?
I'm not sure what to make of that question. WLUG meetings are traditionally 1/month. On the other hand, I think the jitsi room is open all the time. -- Keith, Programmer in Chief, http://www.free-comp-shop.com/
I'd like to apologize for the online meeting failure last night.
Going forward our Jitsi game is going to have to be upped a bit. To this
end, I'm putting together a wlug "go-bag" that'll have a tripod, a
dedicated camera/mic and a laptop to run the whole shabang. Along with that
I'm going to toss in a whole bevy of "X to HDMI" adapters as well as our
own nice long HDMI cables, etc.
This will eliminate delays in dealing with the student center, allow for
seamless virtual meetings, and properly record them to put up on the
youtube channel.
Thanks for your understanding,
Tim.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM Keith Wright via WLUG
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
writes: We lost the room on the web call. Will you guys be back on tonight?
Right. That didn't work well. I was on jitsi within minutes of 7pm. At first I thought I had technical problems because I couldn't see or hear anybody. A few minutes and a few named rectangles showed up, including the all important "WLUG Meeting".
But the guest speaker was not there. It was noisy and hard to hear anyone who was not near the mike. Around 7:30 there was talk of booting from a flash drive and then "WLUG Meeting" vanished. There were three of us left, me and two rectangles named jstone and PMcEvilly. We talked a bit about our computers, but didn't really have much to say. At 8pm the computer that runs ntpd (NetTimePro) said it was time to move along.
This is not a gripe, it's a bug report. Jitsi actually seemed to work better from the public library. This is a bit frightening. WPI has been teaching over video chat for years. We did video chat meetings with the equipment in the student center back in the Andy Stewart days.
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
writes: Will you guys be back on tonight?
I'm not sure what to make of that question. WLUG meetings are traditionally 1/month. On the other hand, I think the jitsi room is open all the time.
-- Keith, Programmer in Chief, http://www.free-comp-shop.com/
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doug/dmildram, former WPI dude/netops but now in Maine>
Just wanted to say .............(yea right, as I type a long windy rant)
...............the effort+result of everyone's contributions
are truly "all good" and appreciated!
yes, jitsi totally rocks from my limited-use view.
Recorded meetings are very cool!
Both my 2 piles of PICtures/jpg's , as well as the muzak/mp3's
in my personal/(~20-40g) stash of precious/home data....
are indeed in need of a brainy front end. Hating Rhythmbox front end for
mp3's
though it plays all my mp3's correctly w/o weird play/stutter,etc issues.
I know there's a slew of media players, both audio and image/video. And,
I do love vlc , yet need to learn more of its capabilities and improve
my ease of use,
plus fix my command-line-launch no-go/problem I'm having.
(AUDIO only of course? I'm seeing that vlc even gets into images.....)
but will not divert into an audio whine/discuss here. FOR PICTURES:
I don't know you, for example, Lexi who just posted/replied re: fotoxx,
but I really dug your DIY-brain story, building from source,
= how we/dinosaurs used to do stuff until it got harder over decades :)
Back to PICS/IMAGES pursuits in detail,
fotoxx seems to be a viewer (mostly?)
for a personal stash/giant-or-smaller-album.
Can it auto-or-manually tweak/compress jpg's to save space without losing
much quality?
(I'm gimp-ignorant...gimp probably does,
it's obviously a tweaker not viewer? tool, i.e. ...one image at a time.
Tangent or not: I hated myself for continuing to use
a windows program (ACDsee, i bought a license decades ago,
back when you could buy a cheap license)
...........which very quickly cropped+downsized images
greatly like 5-10x smaller. Being MB-stingy,.I got into the habit of
trimming saved-pics.
Until I admitted it was too much work, cuz i never learned to trim easily
on linux ...
Hated myself cuz I'm almost done w windozeMS but for 1 or 2 things!
(last to die in my world, win7 for me == important for tax-filing software.
Well, i rambled too much.
Welcoming more pics/images/fotoxx feedback though.
I'm gonna dig into fotoxxx pretty soon i think.
Since there's no recording of this week's meeting,
maybe we can be a bit noiser on the list this month! -- doug
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 12:55 PM Tim Keller via WLUG
I'd like to apologize for the online meeting failure last night.
Going forward our Jitsi game is going to have to be upped a bit. To this end, I'm putting together a wlug "go-bag" that'll have a tripod, a dedicated camera/mic and a laptop to run the whole shabang. Along with that I'm going to toss in a whole bevy of "X to HDMI" adapters as well as our own nice long HDMI cables, etc.
This will eliminate delays in dealing with the student center, allow for seamless virtual meetings, and properly record them to put up on the youtube channel.
Thanks for your understanding, Tim.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM Keith Wright via WLUG < wlug@lists.wlug.org> wrote:
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
writes: We lost the room on the web call. Will you guys be back on tonight?
Right. That didn't work well. I was on jitsi within minutes of 7pm. At first I thought I had technical problems because I couldn't see or hear anybody. A few minutes and a few named rectangles showed up, including the all important "WLUG Meeting".
But the guest speaker was not there. It was noisy and hard to hear anyone who was not near the mike. Around 7:30 there was talk of booting from a flash drive and then "WLUG Meeting" vanished. There were three of us left, me and two rectangles named jstone and PMcEvilly. We talked a bit about our computers, but didn't really have much to say. At 8pm the computer that runs ntpd (NetTimePro) said it was time to move along.
This is not a gripe, it's a bug report. Jitsi actually seemed to work better from the public library. This is a bit frightening. WPI has been teaching over video chat for years. We did video chat meetings with the equipment in the student center back in the Andy Stewart days.
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
writes: Will you guys be back on tonight?
I'm not sure what to make of that question. WLUG meetings are traditionally 1/month. On the other hand, I think the jitsi room is open all the time.
-- Keith, Programmer in Chief, http://www.free-comp-shop.com/
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But wait, Tim! I want /my/ turn to apologize, too! My training as a
physicist demands a /full/ analysis - and hopefully, /one or more
potential solutions/. :-)
Jill and I had planned to present the wonders of Fotoxx from our home in
Natick, where a big TV screen and the Internet are readily available.
About 5:30PM, Jill had mostly prepared our dinner and was about to slide
it into the microwave oven. I was checking for late-afternoon e-mail,
and read this short message (sent 5:05PM, but who's counting?): "See you
there tonight, in person!"
What say? /In person? /Well, there's just about time to do that... I ran
down to the kitchen to consult with The Boss, and we decided to Go For
It. I e-mailed back (sent 5:43PM, but who's counting?): "CU there! Have
computer, will travel." Jill disassembled our dinner, as I assembled
trusty Dicknote (my laptop) and a few accessories, chucked them into a
shoulder bag, and we were off - into unusually thick 6PM stop-and-go
traffic. That's when it started raining hard; almost the entire trip was
tense driving. We arrived about 7PM, knowing where the meeting was but
not where we were to park the car. We eventually parked in a big garage
and, as person after person referred us onward, found a nice young lady
who sketched us a map of our hike-to-be through the rainy WPI quadrangle
and -- well, we arrived somewhat later than any of us had expected.
Not good, but we /were/ there. We quickly set up for our Fotoxx demo.
That's when I discovered that my laptop accessories did /not/ include /a
critical HDMI adapter for Dicknote's display port/. My goof - in a hurry
and under pressure, but my goof. With WLUG's help, we found an alternate
adapter that failed to work, tried a loaned laptop with a
hard-for-me-to-handle different GUI, tried running my favorite
*/Ubuntu-Unity 22.04 LTS/* https://ubuntuunity.org/ in that laptop's
RAM (booting from my */Ventoy thumb drive/*
https://www.ventoy.net/en/index.html), and finally gave up. I ran the
rest of the presentation from Dicknote, without my normal link to the
room's big screen, to the Internet, and to so many of you.
Folks in the room sat close by, looked over my shoulder, and tried
Fotoxx themselves as, with frazzled nerves, I presented about half of
what I'd intended. And that, said the physicist, is /why/ we were online
so very briefly.
*The Physicist's Phyx:**A check list*, printed on paper but as if carved
into stone, for the items to be In The Bag for talks:
/Dicknote, appropriate power supply, Ventoy thumb drive w/appropriate
demo software aboard, at least one //*Display Port to HDMI Adapter
https://www.ebay.com/itm/133428969803*//. Long HDMI cable, Tux penguin
and other interesting goodies optional. A dime for phone call home, and
an emergency parachute.
Keep copies of said check list in carrying bag, in wallet, and in head.
Keep the computer version of same, and copy it into each appropriate
calendar entry./ Carrying case closed!
Sorry about that! "The Kingdom was lost, all for the want of a two-penny
nail!" Well, what with the falling dubloon, about $2 today. We sell
these mighty HP EliteBook laptops (14" 2560x1440 display, Core i7 CPU,
16GB RAM, 1TB SSD and more, plus power supply /and that critical
//Display Port adapter)/ populated with Ubuntu-Unity's Linux OS and vast
amounts of FOSS with more on tap) all for about $700. So, /we stock that
display port-to-HDMI adapter/; had we stayed home (he said, ruefully),
all would have gone well. Well, we did enjoy meeting some of you, but...
For*second prize*, I offer you these:
1. You can read a detailed description of Fotoxx and download various
flavors of the latest Fotoxx 22.35 from Mike Cornelison's home base
https://kornelix.net/fotoxx/fotoxx.html.
2. From within that Fotoxx article, I recommend downloading the
appropriate /appimage/ package. Right-click on it, click on Properties >
Permissions and click to check the box to make it executable. Close that
window, double-click the appimage icon, wait a minute, and you'll have
Fotoxx up and running in RAM - even after a Suspend, until you Close it
or power down! You can try out Fotoxx and, when/if you wish,
double-click its Install Fotoxx icon to add it to your computer's riches
(from which it will load quite quickly).
3. You'll have its copious Help documentation aboard (even with the
in-RAM version) and, in any Fotoxx operation, you can tap the F1 key to
get specific documentation on /that/ operation. I think most of you can
adjust its settings to find YOUR Pictures folder, etc.
4. Several of you already have reported early success and interest, and
I welcome such messages.
5. Think you're getting good at the many instant capabilities of Fotoxx?
Then you're ready to try *my challenge*.
Starting with this unpromisingsmartphone through-the-windshield sunset
grab shot:
Fotoxx enabled me to quickly and accurately convert it into this (rather
like our WPI drive might have been):
If you choose to accept this challenge, upon your request I'll e-mail
you the smartphone's full-sized (4160x2340x8) grab shot.
Last, but not least, *Mike Cornelison's own 54-min. Fotoxx Demo And
Tutorial https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5Kwnr4TrwM* will reveal far,
far more of its wonders than I did in twice that time.
Gentlemen, start your Fotoxxen!
Cheers from
--Dick Miller, Partner, MMS
I'd like to apologize for the online meeting failure last night.
Going forward our Jitsi game is going to have to be upped a bit. To this end, I'm putting together a wlug "go-bag" that'll have a tripod, a dedicated camera/mic and a laptop to run the whole shabang. Along with that I'm going to toss in a whole bevy of "X to HDMI" adapters as well as our own nice long HDMI cables, etc.
This will eliminate delays in dealing with the student center, allow for seamless virtual meetings, and properly record them to put up on the youtube channel.
Thanks for your understanding, Tim.
On Fri, Oct 14, 2022 at 10:52 AM Keith Wright via WLUG
wrote: Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
writes: > We lost the room on the web call. Will you guys be back on tonight?
Right. That didn't work well. I was on jitsi within minutes of 7pm. At first I thought I had technical problems because I couldn't see or hear anybody. A few minutes and a few named rectangles showed up, including the all important "WLUG Meeting".
But the guest speaker was not there. It was noisy and hard to hear anyone who was not near the mike. Around 7:30 there was talk of booting from a flash drive and then "WLUG Meeting" vanished. There were three of us left, me and two rectangles named jstone and PMcEvilly. We talked a bit about our computers, but didn't really have much to say. At 8pm the computer that runs ntpd (NetTimePro) said it was time to move along.
This is not a gripe, it's a bug report. Jitsi actually seemed to work better from the public library. This is a bit frightening. WPI has been teaching over video chat for years. We did video chat meetings with the equipment in the student center back in the Andy Stewart days.
Patrick McEvilly via WLUG
writes: > Will you guys be back on tonight?
I'm not sure what to make of that question. WLUG meetings are traditionally 1/month. On the other hand, I think the jitsi room is open all the time.
-- Keith, Programmer in Chief, http://www.free-comp-shop.com/
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participants (7)
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Dick Miller
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Doug Mildram
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John Stoffel
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Keith Wright
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Lexi Haley
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Patrick McEvilly
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Tim Keller