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Archives for January, 2009

Watching Obama’s Inauguration in Linux right here!

While Aaron Bockover shows continued awesomeness for making the moonlight plugin work with silverlight 2.0′s video streaming in time for todays inauguration, it’s actually unnecessary. We have flash sites streaming live coverage. MSNBC – coverage with Maddow, Olbermann, and the rest Joost – CBS coverage Hulu – …ugh, FOX (this is why I refuse to [...]

Upgrade to new EXT4 filesystem from EXT3 in Ubuntu Jaunty

The latest benchmarks of filesystem performance at Phoronix seem appealing. Using the Jaunty development version and the latest Linux 2.6.28 kernel, I was able to upgrade my filesystem from EXT3 to EXT4. So far, I haven’t really noticed anything vastly different, but it’s only been a short time with this new filesystem. Here’s wishing you [...]

Install Nvidia drivers in Ubuntu Jaunty Alpha 2

Call me masochistic, but I can’t help myself when it comes to playing with the newest of the new so of course I’ve been rockin Jaunty since Alpha 1 on my desktop. It’s been decent until I lost X and had to revert to the open-source ‘nv’ driver. I think it’s per this bug, but [...]