J_K9 @ Linux

How To Videos - On Their Way

February 4, 2007 on 12:58 am | In Linux, Ubuntu |

My mother has recently bought herself a MacBook, so it’s up to me, of course, to teach her how to use it As I’m not around too often (because I go to boarding school and am only allowed out on Sundays - and the boarding school is hundreds of miles away from my home country), and as I have got an unusual window of opportunity this weekend due to having been allowed to stay out Saturday night, I’m going to make the most of this free time and make some videos to teach my mother how to use OS X. I will focus on the main uses, functions and differences from her old environment: Finder, Dashboard, System Preferences, Expose, Dock, Spotlight, and all the other OS X goodies.

I will, of course, upload these videos to this site and release them for download in the main three formats: the free Ogg Theora (.ogg), Microsoft’s Audio Video Interleave (.avi) and Quicktime Movie (.mov). I highly recommend downloading the Ogg Theora files when they are available, by the way, as the other two formats are proprietary

“What’s this?” is what some of you may be thinking - an Open Source advocate making and publishing videos of a proprietary OS (Mac OS X) instead of Linux when his blog’s called J_K9@Linux? What is this madness?

Don’t worry - I plan to make more and even better videos for Linux. I shall use Ubuntu as the distribution on which I shall record the videos (although I may record a few on Slackware), but the topics and features I shall be covering will hopefully apply to most other distributions as well. I also hope to cover some of the Most Wanted list on UbuntuClips.org, and I will probably be hosting this set of videos on their website to save myself some bandwidth!

Now let’s just hope I will have enough time to accomplish all of this - I doubt it, but I’ll remain optimistic and keep recording until the moment I’m dragged away from the computer

Update: Well, I’ve made about half the videos for OS X and they’re already taking up over 550MB of hard drive space, which I should have expected.. In that case, I doubt I’m going to be able to upload them to my website or to any other file sharing service, for that matter, because my upload speed is too poor and it would literally take weeks to upload these videos. However, if anyone else has a good upload speed, I’d be willing to send you a DVD so that you could kindly upload them to a file sharing service or at least help out with the torrent sharing for these videos. Cheers

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Spooky. Very very spooky. I am thining about buying a Macbook for personal use….

How about BitTorrent for the vids?

Comment by ray — February 4, 2007 #
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Linux
What is spooky - me making videos of OS X or the fact that you’re thinking of buying a MacBook?

Personally, as a desktop and personal OS, Linux does the job for me - however, I do have one remaining gripe, and that’s the shabby at best wireless support, especially for the higher encryption standards. I’ve tried installing network-manager (which supposedly has WPA and WPA2 support) on my Ubuntu laptop, but for some reason that didn’t recognise my IPW2200(BG) card, even though Ubuntu itself did and it’s one of the most widely used laptop cards there is.

I could release the videos one by one on BitTorrent - that might work… I don’t like the sound of my recorded voice at the moment though So, I’m thinking of either getting over it and distributing those videos or making new, shorter videos with no audio and then writing a small tutorial/explanation to go with it. That would make the files much smaller as I could just explain what I’m doing in the file rather than wasting frames as I explain something over the MIC. What do you think?
I quite like the idea

Comment by J_K9 — February 4, 2007 #
Using Safari 419.3 on Mac OS X
I am exactly the same way, the first time I realised that my well modulated sexy voice only sounds that way to me was quite a shocker

I think that going with a shorter video and captions would be better than a voice over/longer vid. People have such short attention spans these days….

Comment by ray — February 5, 2007 #
Using Mozilla Firefox 2.0.0.1 on Windows XP
Hehe!

I will go for the shorter videos and text then. Thanks Ray - I’ll get to work as soon as I can

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