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Jun/08

Asus EEE BIOS Update

Filed Under Linux at 16th June 2008 2:21 by

I was impressed to see BIOS updates in the update manager. It automatically downloaded, unpacked and installed the BIOS firmware without any intervention by the user except when it had completed the update.

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Jun/08

Installing IPP Printer On Ubuntu

Filed Under Linux at 12th June 2008 1:38 by

Installing a network printer can be a bit confusing. There are different protocols and settings not in a locally connected printer. IPP stands for Internet Printing Protocol. I have an Epson Stylus Photo R360 connected to a Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy … Continue reading →

06

Jun/08

Broken MythTV

Filed Under Linux at 6th June 2008 3:12 by

MythTV has caused a problem with the codecs on my Ubuntu install. If I kill the X session and restart it all my videos play fine regardless of the player. Once I start the MythTV frontend all video play back … Continue reading →

02

Jun/08

Mythbuntu

Filed Under Games, Linux, Windows at 2nd June 2008 19:21 by

Introduction I decided to install MythTv on the Linux box to try and get a bit of Personal Video Recorder (PVR) going. I’m using Gutsy 7.10 desktop for this install. I only have terrestrial TV in my room so I … Continue reading →

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May/08

OpenPandora

Filed Under Games, Linux at 28th May 2008 2:31 by

It’s following in the trend of Ultra Mobile Personal Computer(UMPC) and this is a new mobile device running Linux. I’m not 100% sure if this unit is marketed at “normal” users or gamers because it has a full QWERTY keyboard … Continue reading →

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May/08

GPS on Computers

Filed Under Java, Laptop, Linux, Mac, Mobile Phone, Programming, Windows at 27th May 2008 20:28 by

I have been trying to get get a bluetooth GPS device hooked up to various computers from mobile phones, Asus EEE PC to a Vista desktop. I thought it would be fairly easy but boy was I wrong. Starting out … Continue reading →

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May/08

Evince Document Viewer

Filed Under Linux at 25th May 2008 15:06 by

Evince Document Viewer is a Gnome PDF reader. One nice little feature which I haven’t seen in Adobe’s PDF reader is that when you close and open the PDF document, it will open and go back to the page you … Continue reading →

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May/08

BugLabs Bugs

Filed Under Hardware, Java, Linux at 18th May 2008 2:44 by

This cool modular open source hardware is a pretty good idea but seems a bit big and expensive. It’s a good idea and the even better part is that they use the Java to programming and the Eclipse IDE works … Continue reading →