linux failure
- I took a digital camera movie of me releasing the mouse
(http://erik-fuller.blogspot.com) from its humane trap. The thought occurred that I should
upload it to Youtube immediately then embed in my blog post on the matter.
get to linux and of course I can't view it because its a .mov file. Totem promises to
search for a solution and then says its impossible.
What do I do. if there was only one .mov I could have uploaded it blinded. However there
were two and the date wasn't set so they were both made on Jan 01 2005 - I would have to
upload both even though I wasn't sure what the other was.
I gave up and had to reboot windows. AVG took an age as it does now (because I'm using XP
less than I normally do) and I wrote this note whilst it sorted itself. To add insult to injury i used IE7 because I knew it would load quicker and not eat my CPU or anything daft like FF sometimes does. I didn't want any more delays.
So whose fault - Mr Apple or Mr Kodak? Probably both and probably others - bottomline was I
couldn't do this one task in the way I wanted to. (I could have uploaded to a recoding site
- but would audio sync etc...and how much more time would that involve. the moment is
pretty much lost and this is due to me having Linux open when I got home instead of XP.
Labels: apple, codec, gnu/linux linux ubuntu windows xp, kodak, mac, proprietary, usability
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