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RE: Olive 4HD Music Server Caters To The (Rich) Audiophile

3vi1 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:28:53 GMT

Wow... I gotta agree with you guys.

I spent less than half the cost building my whole arcade cabinet - and it can do everything this can on top of its normal functions. Like RealNeil, it's running Linux - which means it's dirt-easy to control remotely. I have the audio hooked to the house stereo and will just remotely launch a player from any other Linux desktop via ssh -X.

ROFLMAO at your prank RealNeil - I think that we'd get along famously if we were neighbors.

RE: Google Dishes More Details On Chrome OS: Web-Connected, Out Next Year

3vi1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:40:37 GMT

Here's a link to downloads for a build you can try in a VM: http://gdgt.com/google/chrome-os/download/

Re: HotHardware and TechVi Video Podcast No. 4

3vi1 — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 01:42:43 GMT

Another good episode.

Let's hope Adobe gets off their hands and releases 10.1 for 64-bit Linux soon (they've only released the 32-bit version). I've been using the previous 64-bit beta for a while and it works great (Hulu's completely smooth, even fullscreen 1920x1080).

Sadly, they did not enable the H.264 video acceleration in the Linux 10.1 beta. It would be quite ironic if Moonlight incorporates that feature first.

RE: Google Snaps Up Gizmo5, Could Rival Skype In VoIP Game

3vi1 — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:56:33 GMT

I used Gizmo for a while. I really did *not* like how you had to give their bot your passwords if you wanted to integrate with other IM clients.

I like that Gizmo uses standards, and not proprietary protocols, but there are plenty of other free SIP softphones for Linux: Ekiga, Linphone, Twinkle... So using them with Kopete, aMSN, or Pidgin is just as convenient. I doubt Skype will open their protocols any time soon, but they've recently promised to open the UI code - which is bound to create a lot of integration possibilities.

Re: New L4D 2 HD trailer

3vi1 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 22:37:40 GMT

I just played through the L4D2 demo. It's pretty good.... It didn't strike me as being wildly different from the first one though (which isn't a bad thing).

It seems to play fine under Wine 1.1.32 in Linux, with all effects turned to high and shaders at very high (I was playing in 1360x768 windowed mode). I did notice a glitch where the sun and fire are occasionally being visible through walls, but it doesn't negatively affect gameplay.

Re: Kubuntu/Xubunut/Ubuntu 9.10

3vi1 — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:16:18 GMT

BTW: I'm not sure if anyone's testing and run into the bug where Flash apps aren't clickable (there are certain pre-requisites: I think you have to be using compiz+compositing on 64-bit), but there's an easy fix: download the new 64-bit flash beta and uninstall the flashplugin-installer package. Place libflashplugin.so in the proper plugins directory and you're good to go. Two of my four systems had this issue and were fixed in this manner.

The only other bug I've noted has to do with keyboard repeat taking affect within flash and Windows games running under Wine - normally those apps wouldn't see the key repeats, because they attempt to poll the hardware in a more direct manner. The problem is actually a bug in Xorg that has already been fixed, and will disappear when the repo packages are updated. The workaround is simple. in your keyboard preferences, turn off keyboard repeat before playing those games.

Re: What bit-torrent was made for

3vi1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:05:52 GMT

Great use of BT, Bob! One problem... You're not using KTorrent!

And, like SD said: Crush on!

Kubuntu/Xubunut/Ubuntu 9.10

3vi1 — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 01:26:52 GMT

Kubuntu 9.10 was released today, as well as the other Ubuntu 9.10 flavors (Xubuntu, Ubuntu).

Here's a video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzajPDcJJ5A) of one of the alpha's leading up to this release, if you're not familiar with the KDE desktop.

(Please visit the site to view this media)

RE: Microsoft Announces Help for DVD-less Netbook Win7 Installers

3vi1 — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 21:48:29 GMT

You can't turn just _any_ ISO into a bootable image, because the ISO needs to contain the drivers for everything needed to run your PC. A normal Windows application ISO would be #%@! out of luck, because there would be no Windows kernel/user dlls for the application to call.

Since there's no problem with re-distributing the OS, Linux has been running from thumbdrives for years in this same manner. Many Linux LiveCDs have a command or menu option that allows you to copy the entire LiveCD to a thumbdrive (which it makes bootable). For the distros that don't, it's still usually pretty easy: see PenDriveLinux.com for instructions on how to put all the popular distros on a thumbdrive.

Re: 1st DX11 benchmark

3vi1 — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:46:09 GMT

They're supposed to be releasing the Linux version by December, with full tessellation support. Apparently there are some bugs that need squashing in the AMD/ATi driver and they're waiting for the new versions to be released.