Archive for April, 2008

Hardy Heron sound problems?

  • April 29th, 2008
  • Posted in How-to

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 [ READ MORE ]

Stream media from ubuntu to your ps3

  • April 28th, 2008
  • Posted in How-to

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 [ READ MORE ]

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. - [ READ MORE ]

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

  • April 27th, 2008
  • Posted in Ranting

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 [ READ MORE ]

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[ READ MORE ]

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