Archive for April, 2008
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 install libflashsupport
That will fix that problem.
I don’t understand why it isn’t a dependency for flash, but well, maybe in the next release.
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, so I’m not sure). It goes without saying you can access them from other computers as well.
updated 27/08/08 It seems the current version has changed a bit, only minor stuff.
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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 it.
Who knows, they might start listening to their users.
I guess someone should add an “make it open source” bug … (insert evil laugh + knuckle cracking)
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 bad move and will only add another step in the customizing process.
I had to remove the package from synaptic and install “sun-java6-jre” and the plugin from synaptic to get frostwire running.
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.
