Hardy Heron sound problems?

Since Hardy Heron now uses PulseAudio as default instead of Alsa, some people might have some problems with it.
I was unable to hear the sound on a youtube video when playing a song or visa verse.
There is an easy solution for this.
You need to install “libflashsupport” using synaptic or enter this in a terminal
sudo apt-get [...]

Stream media from ubuntu to your ps3

I’ve written a little how-to before on how to stream music through your local network, but this time I’m writing about streaming all kind of media through the local network.
This how-to is meant to stream to the files from your computer to the ps3 (might work for xbox and wii, but I don’t have those, [...]

Had enough with the crappy flash player for linux?

It’s time to act on it.
It’s come to my attention that adobe now has a new bug system.
Get an account and vote for the problem.
- bad full screen playback together with cpu eating
- slow frame rates (non full screen)
- text encoding issues
And don’t forget the most important one.
- Flash player crashes and takes firefox with [...]

Restricted extra’s in hardy, there’s a catch!

As most of you know, installing the “ubuntu-restricted-extras” is a fast and easy way to install lots of much needed stuff in ubuntu.
Well, in the hardy release they decided to put “open-java” in there instead of java6.
Why, why?
People install the restricted extras so their media and apps would work. Putting in open-java was a [...]

Screenshots update

I’ve expanded the screenshots section of this website a bit to give a better picture of the different kinds of desktops used in the linux community.
I’ve added some xfce, icewm, fvwm, fluxbox and enlightement desktops.