Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’
Tuesday, September 28th, 2010
The board
Nvidia ION2 GPU with Atom D525 Pineview CPU in an Mini-ITX form factor mainboard (17×17cm)
The memory
2x 2 gb (Dual Channel ) Kingston DDR3 1066MHz ram
The storage
Seagate 2.5″ Momentus XT hybrid 500gb SATA2 HDD
The operating system
Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Misc hardware dongles
RT73 Wifi USB stick
USB bluetooth adapter (for use with Wiimote in XBMC)
The objective
Test run the board to run the default Ubuntu system with addon PPA repositories to ensure maximum performance for 1080p media playback using XBMC. Geekbench benchmarks to be used for testing the raw processing power of the D525 coupled with ION2.
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Tags: 10.04, atom, bluetooth, bootchart, Bootspeed, d525, intel, ion, ion2, ITX, mini, mini-itx, nvidia, speed, ubuntu, wifi, wiimote, xbmc
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
XBMC is a free opensource cross platform media player. It has its origins from the first generation XBOX game console, where XBMC was created as a homebrew media player making use of MPlayer sources as one of its cores. XBMC has since evolved with a huge and continuously growing forum with active discussions happening 24/7.
Its flexibility in allowing add-on scripts and user-created skins has also contributed to its popularity. User-contributed skins such as the “Aeon Stark” made it even more popular in the recent months. Video shown after the break.
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Tags: add-ons, aeon, audio, bluetooth, Entertainment, forums, hdmi, homebrew, ion, ITX, LCD, Live CD, LiveCD, lucid, lynx, media, mini, mini-itx, mplayer, nvidia, plasma, player, scripts, skins, stark, ubuntu, vdpau, video, wii, xbmc, xbox
Posted in Applications, Entertainment, Hardware, ITX, Media Player, Nettop | 5 Comments »
Monday, March 29th, 2010
Much has been discussed recently over the location of windows buttons [ Maximize, Minimize, Close. etc ] in the upcoming release of Ubuntu Lucid [10.04].
Two school of thoughts in argument over if Ubuntu should look more like “Windows” or should it emulate the “Mac” when it comes to the window buttons placement…
At SGLNX, we shall quell this rhetorical debate….. by letting the users decide what to put on the top-left or the top-right for every window in Ubuntu. The solution is actually simple and a no-brainer.
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Tags: button, buttons, canonical, layout, left, mac, right, style, top, ubuntu, window, windows
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Wednesday, March 24th, 2010
On most distros installations, there is a package “laptop-mode” tools included.
The package is meant to ensure power saving features on laptops.
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Tags: acpi, acpi-support, apm, battery, config, Distro, hdd, hdd clicks, hdd noises, hdparm, laptop, laptop-mode, last longer, lasting, longer, parking heads, power, power management, save power, settings, ubuntu
Posted in Distro, Hardware, Tips & Tricks | 2 Comments »
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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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Tags: canonical, CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, ubuntu
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
From Linux Today
via Install MS office2007 on ubuntu using PlayOnLinux.
Well… If you really really really cannot work on Openoffice..
Tags: microsoft, office, openoffice, ubuntu, WINE
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Friday, October 30th, 2009
Tags: Distro, karmic, koala, ubuntu
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Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
Another story worth mentioning as this was published in the online edition of the Washington Post newspaper.
Columnist Brian Krebs recommends bank’s customers to use Linux LiveCDs to boot and login to their online banking accounts, rather than booting natively into their installed “Windows” OS which may be ridden with malwares and spywares that can steal passwords and login credentials. Brian also listed the steps to boot up via an Ubuntu LiveCD in his graphical guide.
Thumbs up!
First seen on Slashdot Linux
Original article on WashingtonPost.com
SGLNX believes all banks should advise its customers on the potential hazards of using an unsecured operating system.
Tags: credentials, fraud, Live CD, LiveCD, log in, malware, newspapers, online banking, spyware, ubuntu, windows
Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »
Monday, September 28th, 2009
A little update to what’s brewing lately in the linux world..
Much talk about booting linux over http, ie the internet. However, some work needed as it’s not as simple as turning on the power.
A minimal USB image is needed as booting Linux over the internet. This mean it will still require plugging in a USB thumbdrive. Only the kernel is booted over the internet and sadly it doesn’t utilize the BIOS PXE aka Preboot Execution Environment support via the embedded LAN port on most recent mainboards.
Popular distros such as Ubuntu, DSL, Debian, Fedora and Knoppix are supported for gPXE booting
A howto guide here at howtoforge.com
Official boot kernel over http page at kerrnel.org
Source : H-Online.com
Tags: BIOS, boot, dsl, fedora, gpxe, http, internet, Kernel, knoppix, pxe, ubuntu
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