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== Linux Issues ==
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|Image=Miki_Nishida_Zenprairie_Danse.jpg
|Tags=Dance, Visual Arts, Montréal people
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Miki Nishida is a Montreal based choreographer, performer, costume designer and videographer. She started dancing in religious summer dance circles in Osaka, Japan. After graduating from the Japan Health & Sports Academy in Kyoto, she worked for local dance company Hamaguchi Contemporary Dance as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. To complete her choreographic training, Miki attended the Concordia University Dance Program graduating in 2002.


=== External monitor support ===
Miki started dancing in religious summer dance circles in Osaka, Japan. Since then her passion for dance has grown. After graduating from the Japan Health & Sports Academy in Kyoto, she worked for local dance company Hamaguchi Contemporary Dance as a dancer, teacher and choreographer. Miki came to Canada in 1996. Since her arrival here she has worked with Robin Poitras (New Dance Horizons) and Michael Toppings in Regina, Saskatchewan. To complete her choreographic training Miki attended the Concordia University Dance Program graduating in 2002. Specializing in multimedia performances in university, Miki created several dance and video pieces including Portrait (2001), A Coyote Story (2001) and End of Sequence (2002) will be shown 14th Quinzena de Dança de Almada-Contemporary Dance Festival in November.


Plugging in a projector, maybe pressing a hotkey, seeing coherent external (and inbuilt) display - this is something you assume works on a Mac or Windows PC. But it's one of the big sore spots of a Linux based computer. Incredibly, you can play the most esoteric digital video formats, but trying to hook up an external monitor or projector usually leads to sadness and pain.
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I recall logging into the #2600 efnet IRC channel around 1992, and seeing some "hacker" celebrate getting a desktop monitor to display correctly, and it seems notebook external displays are much more complicated. Yes, you can buy a particular notebook, and expect it to work with a particular distro or kernel/X* setup... but if you want any particular computer, expect to spend hours of obscure research to discover it can't be done.
[http://www.danceumbrella.net/SooRyu.htm Dance Umbrella of Ontario]

Revision as of 22:05, 12 November 2006


Linux Issues

External monitor support

Plugging in a projector, maybe pressing a hotkey, seeing coherent external (and inbuilt) display - this is something you assume works on a Mac or Windows PC. But it's one of the big sore spots of a Linux based computer. Incredibly, you can play the most esoteric digital video formats, but trying to hook up an external monitor or projector usually leads to sadness and pain.

I recall logging into the #2600 efnet IRC channel around 1992, and seeing some "hacker" celebrate getting a desktop monitor to display correctly, and it seems notebook external displays are much more complicated. Yes, you can buy a particular notebook, and expect it to work with a particular distro or kernel/X* setup... but if you want any particular computer, expect to spend hours of obscure research to discover it can't be done.

See Also: Next computer