ahoy Nick,

    great story and very inspiring.  i cannot help you with your  
questions, but wanted to send some good free energy and thanks back.

peace, w

On Jan 10, 2010, at 2:45 AM, Nicholas Stephensen wrote:

> Hello all,
> My name is Nick and I live in north Australia.
>
> I just wanted to let you guys, especially Jaromil, know how much I
> appreciate the dynebolic livecd!
>
> I am unsure about disclosing too much personal info but as I have
> nothing to hide I am happy to share my experience with the distro.
> As I see it dynebolic celebrates the sharing of information and so
> here is my little story and I hope that I do not offend anyone by
> telling it here.
> I once briefly studied computer engineering at university but did
> not complete my degree mainly due to other distractions ;-)
> This has given me a fairly broad though unspecific knowledge of
> computer systems and programming but it has allowed me to in my
> spare time play with cool projects. While these are in no way
> professional or fancy I at satisfied that I can apply my mind and
> create cool things out of old computers mainly mainly for the
> benefit of my two beautiful young daughters.
> The first project that I completed was mainly due to my daughters
> love of DVD-video movies. I would (usually) buy a couple of kids
> movies for them to watch at home but due to their young ages and
> unintentionally rough treatment the discs would soon become
> scratched and unplayable. As I am in no way a rich person this
> meant that we could only own a dvd movie for a while then it had
> to be rebought when it became unplayable. This seemed somewhat
> unfair to me as the girls did not mean to damage but could only
> enjoy being able to play their own property for a limited time.
> Then while late night net surfing in my workplace I stumbled across
> transcode, an amazing piece of software thet seemed from it's
> description to be able to make backup copies of movies that they
> already owned. At the time my internet access was quite limited so
> that I could only suft at work. I was given an old pentium pro
> 233Mhz box by a friend so I attempted to first install redhat linux
> on it from a cd. I
> then bought a second hand 32X cd-rw burner and a 2X DVD-rom
> drive. Then through many late night trips to my workplace to
> download all the dependancies for transcode and then I had manually
> transport these files to my home and then install on the old box. I
> must have made 20 trips before it was able to install. Then after
> more surfing I found some info about creating video cds and svcds.
> After days more surfing and tinkering I burned a video cd from a
> dvd video and placed it in my daughters dvd player and amazingly it
> played through. This was really a great buzz because the old box
> was too old/slow to actually play the orgignal dvds and I could not
> even tell if things had worked untill I placed the finished copy
> into a home consumer dvd playerI felt euphoric that I had used only
> the command line and other peoples freely given knowledge and
> software to create something really cool. My children loved it too!
> Years later I started looking at livecds and they seemed also to be
> really cool. I started searching to see if there was a livecd that
> contained transcode with all dependancies intact and to my utter
> amazement there it was, dynebolic. And furthermore it conatained a
> bunch of other cool software for video and audio editing. As soon
> as I tried it I was hooked!. Then I realized that there was a way
> to extend the cd by using dyne modules and soon my daughters were
> loving the games in the games.dyne module. I wanted to create
> modules for myself but felt quite inmtimidated by the process as
> internet access at home was still very limited. I emailed the
> mailing list asking for advice and lo and behold I was answered by
> Jaromil himself who told me what I needed to know and emcouraged me
> to hack away.
> Then my house was broken in to by some unknown persons while the
> family was out. They helped themselves to money, equipment etc.
> This was quite a shock and left me feeling uncomfortable at home
> and wishing that I had a least known what the intruders had looked
> like. So after a while I started doing some more research and then
> I started making some dyne modules. I created a festival lite
> speech synthesis module and a motion module. Then I laboured over
> some simple bash scripts and installed it all on another friends
> gift computer, a pII 300Mhz with a video capture card, camera and
> dvd burner. This became our home security system. It used a very
> simple simple keyboard operated speech synthesized menu that
> allowed it to record events in front of the camera and later burn
> video footage onto dvd-r disc. I know that probably this was not
> the original intent of dynebolic. If anyone would like these
> modules or any of the scripts please let me know. They are very
> basic and even perh
> aps silly but they served a purpose for me and if my home gets
> broken in to again I will at least be able to give the police a dvd
> of the offenders and it has allowed me and my daughters to feel a
> little more relaxed in our home again. Again it was because of the
> free sharing of information that I was able to do this and I wanted
> to let everybody in the dyne community know how gratefull I am.
> My latest project has been in creating a mythtv media centre pc on
> a pIII mainly to record my childrens favouite free to air
> television programs and to try and filter out most of the
> commercially oriented crap that is broadcast. This has left me with
> a question? Would a mythtv module be a good idea for dynebolic?
> Would anyone like to help me to create one? If not then could
> someone explain why it would not be?
> I realize that this is a long rambling story but the point is this.
> Why shouldnt we have freedom over what we want to watch from
> broadcast tv?Is that the kind of thing that dynebolic stands for?
> Wouldn't a combination of the video and audio editing features of
> dynebolic and mythtv be cool?
> Apologies if I have offended anyone with this. If anyone wants a
> copy of the modules that I made please let me know.
> Best wishes from Australia
> Nick
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