To anticipate and prevent
(yea, slacking on the blog posting. I fail). I still haven’t found a fix on this particular little topic. Of course that doesn’t surprise me seeing as how no one else has an answer either (other than the good ol “It’s just not Linux compatible”). I really hope one of these days that someone gets…
I was talking with Ben earlier today about Ubuntu and we got into a discussion of usability problems. They aren’t necessarily major issues, but range from annoyances to “duh?”. I figured I’d discuss them, and for a few of them I have Ubuntu Brainstorm links. Mounting of unclean NTFS drives (Brainstorm #4994). This is a…
I’m writing this towards the end of my second full day of use on Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron (Beta 5) on the Dell Precision M6300. (You know I just write all this out so its easier to google). I have to say that everything is going relatively smoothly. I’ve got a few different bits I’ll…
You might be asking yourself “Is he a glutton for punishment? Didn’t he just install Gutsy?”. I wouldn’t blame you. Yes, I enjoy pain — thats why I’m the IT Manager — because my own computer problems aren’t enough for me, I want everyone else’s problems too. As it were, I’m being “traded” laptops. A…
So last week I was spending some time at a friend’s house and I decided I wanted to surf the web securely. Not because I didn’t trust my friend’s network (I helped him set it up), I just wanted to see if I _could_. Now I’ve got a server at home that runs 24/7, and…
I know that I previously posted I couldn’t get MKV’s to run properly under Linux, but I wanted to correct myself slightly. Using VLC I could play any MKV’s. It seemed to me though that after they are a certain size (probably Mbits per second) they started to jitter as I previously described. Example: 170MB,…