Archive for the ‘ Open Source ’ Category
AMD Releases 900+ Pages Of GPU Specs. Enough said[ READ MORE ]
The Inquirer is reporting that Acer has said it will not provide laptops preloaded with Linux in the United Kingdom. They report that there just isn’t the demand. Dell believed the same until they took a chance and discovered that there were in fact Linux users out there. I suspect Jono and other well known [ READ MORE ]
It seems another European nation has switching its government operations over to Linux. Following the French Paliment’s decision to move towards Linux, Italy has followed suit and started to switch their Chamber of Deputies to Linux. Hopefully the other European nations will follow next and then perhaps the [ READ MORE ]
Sun has released their new plugin which allows users of Microsoft Office to read and edit files previous saved in the OpenDocument format. A very exciting piece of news and definitely a good move by Sun[ READ MORE ]
The other night after reading through a Linux magazine I noticed an article on using bluetooth and one specifically on using bluetooth headphones with Linux. I decided to revisit the idea of trying to use a bluetooth headset as a headset for a VOIP software phone. I had tried doing this a few months ago [ READ MORE ]
Earlier this year Microsoft came out with a new version of their operating system, they named this new version “Vista”. I have only seen this new, fancy OS in passing but from what i’ve seen it’s nothing more than XP with a new theme. It now seems there is more too this simple face lift. [ READ MORE ]
About a month ago the hard drive in my MythTV server took a bad turn. Luckily I was able to transfer all the recorded shows off in time. I began the process of looking to build a new server and wanted to try running the backend inside Xen, but also wanted to run Xen on [ READ MORE ]
Found a fix for a weird flash problem with Flash 9, Firefox 2 in Edgy. Add “export XLIB_SKIP_ARGB_VISUALS=1″ to /etc/firefox/firefoxrc Found here[ READ MORE ]
So today at work I discovered the solution to a problem that has been plaguing me consistently for a week and a half, but off and on for about a year and a half. Later versions of Mac OS X use the very excellent CUPS printing system but unfortunately Apple in their infinite wisdom choose [ READ MORE ]