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Thursday, February 11th, 2010
The Nvidia ION powered Intel Atom processor netbooks and nettops are the rage these days.
Affordable, lightweight and powerful graphics processor.
The Nvidia ION is actually an Intel Atom CPU coupled with a Nvidia 9400m graphics chipset.
Most linux distributions install fine on most netbooks and nettops. However, their default video player may not be optimized for the Nvidia ION chipsets. For HD video playback, without tweaking the parameters of the video player application, the end result may be lacklustre and the playback may even be not in sync or skipping frames.
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Tags: 1080p, acceleration, atom, geforce, hd, intel, ion, movies, mplayer, netbook, Nettop, trailers, vdpau, video
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Thursday, February 4th, 2010
For linux users whom have been drooling over Apple’s video editor, Final Cut Pro and Adobe Premier Pro on the Windows platform, there is now an opensource video editor out on Linux!
Introducing the OpenShot Video Editor for Linux!
Easy to use “drag & drop” graphical user interface
Combine video clips and insert in nice transitions between the scenes.
Videos can be in 4:3 or 16:9 format.
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Tags: adobe, Apple, clips, drag and drop, final cut pro, frames, freeware, graphical, GUI, mac, openshot, opensource, osx, premier, transition, video, Video Editing
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Friday, January 15th, 2010
What is lm_sensors?
By Wikipedia’s definition of lm_sensors :
lm_sensors (Linux-monitoring sensors), a free open source software-tool for Linux, provides tools and drivers for monitoring temperatures, voltage, and fans. It also monitors chassis intrusion detection.
lm-sensors is already included in many popular linux distribution repositories.
For Gnome desktop users, values obtained from the lm_sensors can be placed in the “top panel” by installing “sensors-applet”.
Here is a good “lm-sensors” guide for Ubuntu users to add lm-sensors to your customized installation [ for both Gnome and KDE users ]
For those with bleeding edge hardware, the usual repositories lm-sensors package may not yet support all the latest sensors on their mainboards and graphics card.
However, there has been some new developments in the detection of new yet to be supported sensors that can be installed with a simple script.
More on this lm-sensors update here from Phoronix.
Source: Phoronix
via LM_Sensors Gets A New Configuration Utility.
Tags: applet, Distro, gnome, Hardware, kde, lm-sensors, sensors
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
Create Stencil art using Gimp!
From Eternity on a Rock: Nathaniel in Stencil Art.
Tags: art, example, gimp, guide, tip, tutorial
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Wednesday, December 30th, 2009
As a linux distro gets updated with a new version, it is always a good idea to do a fresh install than to do an upgrade [which may cause some unforeseen problems].
But with the frequent updates of newer versions of distros such as Ubuntu [every 6 months], it gets a bit tiring to re-install from scratch and do “apt-get” commands for all the packages required for customization and personalization of the OS. To make matters worse, it is hard to remember each and every package that was installed previously.
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Tags: apt-get, Distro, dkms, fresh, new, reinstall, version
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
Tuxarena posted an easy to follow guide to allow “twitting” from command-line without the need of any graphical GUI manager.
Now who says you can’t do anything without a graphical desktop manager?
The full article/tutorial here at TuxArena ” How to Post to Twitter from Command-line “
Once you have set it up, try the command below..
twitter.sh SGLNX:Singapore's Local Linux News Matters : http://bit.ly/7LNiua
Tags: command-line, graphical desktop manager, GUI, terminal, tutorial, twitter
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Tuesday, December 29th, 2009
The Intel GMA500 is actually capable of hardware acceleration for HD video, but it requires some tweaking of the linux driver environment
At “Linux-Tipps“, there is a guide to enable VAAPI (Video Acceleration API) for netbooks with the Intel GMA500 graphics chipsets.
Once VAAPI is enabled, Full HD videos can be watched and CPU utilization will only be 30%.
Source : Liliputing.com
Tags: atom, chipset, drivers, gma500, graphics, hd, intel, netbooks, tips, tutorial, vaapi, video
Posted in Hardware, Netbook, Nettop, Tips & Tricks | 1 Comment »
Sunday, December 27th, 2009
If you use any of the Nvidia graphics card of GeForce chipset 8500 and above, you can make use of its VDPAU functions.
VDPAU = Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix
Since most standard linux distributions does not include it in their repositories, users have to download and install it manually, or if using Ubuntu, a new PPA repository can be added..
More on how to install VDPAU in the link below
Nvidia 195.22 Beta Linux Display Driver Available In Nvidia Vdpau Team PPA [Ubuntu]
Thanks for Webupd8.org for the heads up
Tags: display, gfx, nvidia, ppa, ubuntu, vdpau, video
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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009
Linux Screw shared a series of lethal linux commands that one should never ever ever ever run on their functional linux system.
The commands listed at Linux Screw, if executed in any terminal, will wipe out the entire hard disk contents.
But in the event you just want to trash your system in fit of rage, just select any of the 13 commands listed in the newsource link above..
Just remember to hit the “enter” key gently..
And if in any way, you regret your actions, TestDisk is always at hand to help.
Source : LinuxScrew.com : 13 Linux Lethal Commands
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Wednesday, November 11th, 2009
Moblin has recently announced its version 2.1 of the project for download.
At SGLNX, armed with a first generation ITX Intel Atom 230 mainboard and a MSI Wind U100-Plus N280 netbook, the live USB image was tested on the 2 hardwares and an attempt to do a full install was also done on another USB stick.
This second USB stick was used to boot this “natively installed Moblin” to test the portability of the Moblin operating system across different hardwares.
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Tags: atom, Distro, intel, ITX, Kernel, live, Live CD, LiveCD, moblin, netbook, Nettop, opensource, operating system, usb
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