I am still rocking a Radeon 9600 in this Linux box. Because another post about getting it to work with compiz is the top search hit for this site, I will also post the most important thing I have learned about working with the Radeon under Linux. The most important thing is this: You can [...]
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Videos!
My wife got me a Flip UltraHD video camera for my birthday. It’s really sweet! Pretty handy to have around for quick video shots. It shoots in 720p, straight to an mp4 file I can just pull off the camera. Pretty slick. I’ve really been digging the ability to just shoot video of whatever — [...]
Solaris in Windows in Ubuntu
Got a wild hair, decided to see how far I could virtualize. Also, for the record Hardy Heron is both awesome and really frustrating. I advise against installing it until they get to a new point version around June. Way too unstable and way too many problems.
Chocolate Cat (video)
Testing out video editing using a free Ubuntu program called “Kino”. It’s pretty sweet. One important note: if Kino playback is very choppy, you may need to specify /dev/dsp in the audio device section. I have a crappy, 10 year old sound card in this box — it’s not well supported in ANY operating system [...]
My tools for development under Ubuntu
My work machine recently developed the click of death, so I had to get a new hard drive and reinstall everything. Just in case this happens again, and in case anyone else is interested, below is the list of things I install in addition to the standard Ubuntu installation:
Gnome Color Changes
Update: Seems the original link was removed for some reason. I’ve posted a link to the new location, which is a source bz2 file. One of the things I love about Gnome is how it doesn’t overwhelm you with options and settings for things. But one of the things I hate about it is how [...]
Moved to the next level
I’ve reached a new milestone in my Linux endeavors. I’m currently running a custom kernel on my laptop — the last ck patch, to be specific. It actually isn’t that hard if you’re a developer and/or have command line experience. There’s a walkthrough on the wiki. Only snag I had was my Belkin USB wireless [...]
