Compiling mame 170 on ubuntu 14.04

After a little break I thought I'd download mame 170 and compile it. I was able to get 168 to compile fine, but 170 now wants gcc 4.9 or better. So I found a couple of webpages to help.

http://maxolasersquad.blogspot.com/2015/12/compiling-mame-on-ubuntu-1404-trusty.html

After getting gcc 4.9 installed, I was getting some error with some QT "moc" thing.

http://forums.bannister.org/ubbthreads.php?ubb=showflat&Number=103366

It appears that switching to QT5 was necessary. After doing a "export QT_SELECT=5" and "make clean" everything was wonderful.

Sometimes it's easier to just install a bunch of stuff with "sudo apt-get install libqt5-*" to get things rolling along.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.4/general/qtchooser.html

LG Smart TV - can't get my pictures out

A family member's got an LG Smart TV, one of the LA8600 models that has a built-in camera on top. They've taken a lot of pictures using the camera at family get-togethers and now they want to copy the pictures out. Only you can't copy the pictures out. There just isn't any easy way. In fact, there isn't any way that I can see. I even asked LG's technical support and they said no, you can't.

I don't think I've ever seen a camera where you can view the pictures, but you can't get them out of the internal memory.

It'd be an easy thing to add if they were interested...