Category: Computers
PS3 and Matroska? Could be soon…
Word is that the Matroska container format will be officially supported by DivX 7. Surely a good thing, as Sony have a deal with Divx to provide decoding software for the PS3. Maybe this will spell the end of having to transcode those ubiquitous MKV files for use on a […]
Read MoreDisable Compiz
Since KDE have ruined Kubuntu with KDE4, it’s time to use Gnome. However Compiz and glitzy pointless effects irritate me no end. A few quick commands will disable them for the current user… gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/current /usr/bin/metacity –type=string gconftool-2 –set /desktop/gnome/applications/window_manager/default /usr/bin/metacity –type=string The next time you log in, it […]
Read MoreEVE Online Badness
Recently EVE Online had been playing up. It was still in demo mode, but I quite fancied having a shot at it. The app was having none of it though… kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ eve Single-user install… This is the update checker… Running /home/kyleg/.cedega/.updater/cedega_updater.py Running… /home/kyleg/.cedega/.ui/runGUI kyleg@CHLP0023:~$ err:client:receive_fd FD went missing; attempting recovery […]
Read MoreGrub on a DL380
Having had the misfortune to be editing the partition table of one of our Oracle servers, I discovered that Grub 0.97 (the SLES SP1 variety) doesn’t play well with DL380 Smart Array Controllers. The magic auto detection that we’ve all grown to know and love just… it just doesn’t. Here’s […]
Read MoreAn Idea
It’s probably already been covered, but my 30 seconds of Google-Fu hasn’t turned anything up so bear with me… Take one OpenMoko phone, a geolocation service like Fire Eagle, an online celltower database such as CellDB, and some code to use those lovely d-bus bindings, and you could have a […]
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