[ubuntu-uk] suck it and see

[Mark Jose]

On Thursday 21 June 2007 12:53, norman wrote:

> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
>
> Norman

As well as general things such as email, I use my systems for 

Genealogy - using the excellent GRAMPS program and phpGedView

Gaming . Yes, people really do game in Linux - I play Unreal Tournament, 
Quake3, Doom3 and several other commercial games as well as free games such 
as Battle For Wesnoth, Cube, Nexuiz and a whole raft of others. Also a lot of 
emulation using Dosbox, ScummVM,Spectemu and many others.

Wildlife photography and webcamming - using the various photo apps for the 
camera work and camstream for the webcam along with motion if I am using the 
IR camera at night to catch badgers or foxes. The IR cams are either 
commercial IR security cameras or self converted standard webcams, hacked to 
view IR only, coupled with an IR light source. All running through my Kubuntu 
boxes.

Temperature monitoring - using an old OU monitor from a now defunct course or 
a very small probe I purchased a few months ago. Both run via serial ports 
and use rrdtool to create graphs of the fluctuations. I run modified perl 
scripts to "talk" to the devices and good old cron to take the readings at 
regular intervals.

Mark