OK, so you still use Windows. That’s cool. It’s a fine OS, and there are some things it does that Linux and Mac just don’t.
But still using IE, now that’s crazy. It’s not standards-compliant (sure, Firefox isn’t either, but it’s close), it’s not customizable (except in the form of those ridiculous search toolbars), it’s not cross-platform (yeah yeah, you don’t need it to be because you only use Windows), it’s usually more vulnerable to attack and it’s just downright buggy.
If that’s not enough, here’s my final point: it’s SLOW. And to support this point, graphs! Everyone loves graphs, right?
Above graphs stolen from Ars Technica: Windows browsers benchmarked: October 2010 edition.
Just got a Samsung U70 USB monitor.
The U70 is very simple to set up. Just install the drivers, and then plug and play.
Drivers are available for Windows, Mac and Linux. Performance is OK, can even display 3D graphics and HD video on it, although that causes very high CPU usage.
Build quality is good; packaging and instructions are in Korean. Comes with a double-USB cable, but in my experience only one is needed to power the monitor.
Screen quality is not the best, brightness is not quite uniform. However, the picture is very sharp and brightness and viewing angle are quite good.
I have tested with Mac, Linux and Windows, and it works great with all 3. Handy if you just need a little space to throw your music player, IM contact list, or have a video or other monitoring service running in sight all the time.
It’s a tiny little 7″ monitor, of “Slugterm” fame. There are a lot of things that can be done with this little gadget, perhaps a dual-monitor Nexus One setup? Check out Sven Killig’s website for inspiration.
For now I’m content with using it to watch videos while working.
Download Seashore.
Coming from Windows, the one thing I miss most (apart from Solitaire) is Paint. Today I stumbled across a neat little open-source Mac-native app called Seashore. Effectively, it’s Paint, for Mac, with a dash of Photoshop/Gimp added for good measure.
Download it from the link above.
Just installed Kubuntu 10.10 on my old ThinkPad T43p. It has an ATI FireGL V3200, which is similar to the Radeon X600. The latest fglrx driver doesn’t support this card anymore, however the open-source ‘radeon’ driver does. The driver is enabled by default in a fresh install of Kubuntu maverick, however KDE desktop effects are not enabled. After some research, I found that “KWin has detected that your OpenGL library is unsafe to use, falling back to XRender.”
The solution then is to force Kwin to enable desktop effects and stop complaining.
Edit ~/.kde/share/config/kwinrc
add
DisableChecks=true
OpenGLIsUnsafe=false
to the
[Compositing]
section
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/index.php?topic=3113529.msg240826#msg240826
Thanks to Rog131 of kubuntu forums.
sudo route add 192.168.13.0 netmask 255.255.255.254 gateway 172.29.247.250
http://www.canadacomputers.com/product_info.php?cPath=14_203&item_id=030833&sid=mrbbq02dsilbfapnes0u0ie904
AC’97 Audio in Snow Leopard
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=230356
Message from syslogd@proxmox at Sep 13 10:32:46 …
kernel:You probably have a hardware problem with your RAM chips
Message from syslogd@proxmox at Sep 13 10:32:46 …
kernel:Uhhuh. NMI received for unknown reason a0.
Message from syslogd@proxmox at Sep 13 10:32:46 …
kernel:Dazed and confused, but trying to continue
I bought a cheap Agere Gigabit Ethernet ExpressCard. The CD that came with it included some Windows XP drivers, but Windows 7 32 and 64-bit drivers were impossible to find anywhere but on Windows Update.
Fortunately, the Targa Traveller 1720 ML42 has this NIC built in, so the drivers were available on http://www.service.targa.co.uk/. I have extracted the drivers for XP32, 7 32 and 7 64, download below.
Agere ET131x.7z
I am happy to report that AppleWorks 6 for Mac OS X runs perfectly on Snow Leopard using Rosetta.
Just be sure to get the latest update from http://support.apple.com/downloads/AppleWorks_6_2_9_for_Mac
Also, if you have problems running the update (hang/freeze), try running it with all network connections disconnected.
To get DVD playback to work properly in XBMC on Ubuntu, disable nautilus’ automount feature
-> gconf-editor
apps->nautilus->preferences
Uncheck “media-automount”
http://www.pubbs.net/201002/opensuse/27474-opensuse-disable-automount-for-dvd-drive.html
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