This will appeal to the hardcore geeks… The video below shows a chap who with a single micro controller wrote a demo, but with an extra twist, he wrote a software based GPU and software based audio functionality. That’s one extraordinary feat!
Initially the video has the chap giving you a brief description of the specifics, then follows he’s creation..
Enjoy..
Try and find how to turn off the cache in Firefox via the menus, you cant! A very good developer I know told me that the devil is in the details, so why on earth did they not include such a simple option within the menu??? Well if you want to turn off caching then in the address bar put about:config and hit enter.. You will
then be able to turn off the cache as well as alter many other options..
At last, Openoffice now can render Office 2007 documents! Now I dont have to ask people to re-export XLSX documents when they send them to me! The new Ubuntu release (Gutsy Gibbon) has this version bundled, for others, check out Openoffice.org .
So now I can run my games, edit/read/save MS Office 2007 documents, run a good chunk of propriatry software thanks to Wine. Am I missing something here? Or am I Windows free and not loosing a bit of productivity?
A long time ago Slashdot reigned supreme in the geek new stakes, soon after its success it seemed that their popularity went to the administrators/editors heads, soon after that happened Slashdots content was mediocre ,really didn’t have anything amazing, with their strict submittal rules and biased stories it wasnt going to be the same as it was.
What a breath of fresh air when Digg came along, you could submit a story, people vote or “Digg” it, more votes it gets the more likely it is to make the front page, what a good idea! I still feel it is a good idea, but the quality of stories has dropped significantly. Why has this happened? People now just want to get on the front page, they don’t care about the content, if its got a chance of making the front page they are going to submit it.
With the advent of the exploding blogosphere, people now can get really granular on what subject they choose to read about, so maybe Digg is dying, alot of people on the web would agree that this is a possibility. But I think there is still an opportunity to revive Digg, I do believe there has to be some form of examination of stories submitted, no everyone wants to see a cute cat, not everyone wants to see silly pictures of bland subjects.. So someone out there, mix it up, put Digg and Slashdot into a binary blender and see what pours out, I personally think it would be rather successful, so many people I know are getting sick of Digg but are sick of the strict and biased submitting rules associated with Slashdot.
Just a quick post that some might find of interest, the original organizer of DEFCON, the hacking/security conference spills on how he started the sometimes controversial but incredibly interesting conference.
If you have Vmware 6 (So far that’s all I have tried it with) and wish to use sound, you may find that a problem may arise, with an error from Vmware telling you that it
cant either find /dev/dsp or it’s busy.
Apparently there are a few solutions for it, here is one that worked for me to finally
get my sound working.
First you need to download a Vmware wrapper script, which can be downloaded from here. Once downloaded go ahead and extract it. You will then notice a file called
runme.sh go ahead and run that like so:
./runme.sh
What that will do is install two scripts which are wrappers for Vmware. Depending
on the sound server you are running depends on the script you run, so run:
vmwarearts
If you run the arts server and run:
vmwareesd
For esound server, hopefully this will work for you. If not then lets try another option utilizing the .asoundrc
In your home directory create a file called .asoundrc, open it and cut and paste the below.
pcm.ossdmix {
type dmix
ipc_key 2106 # A unique number
slave {
pcm “hw:0,0″
period_time 0
period_size 4096 # a power of 2 for OSS compatibility
buffer_size 65536 # a power of 2 for OSS compatibility
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
ctl.ossdmix {
type hw
card 0
}
# Allow reading from the default device.
# Also known as record or capture.
pcm.dsnoop {
type dsnoop
ipc_key 0507
## Possible artsd full duplex fix:
slave {
period_time 0
period_size 4096
buffer_size 65536
}
bindings {
0 0
1 1
}
}
ctl.dsnoop {
type hw
card 0
}
pcm.duplex{
type asym
playback.pcm “ossdmix”
capture.pcm “dsnoop”
}
# Make ALSA apps default to using it
pcm.!default {
type plug
slave.pcm “duplex”
}
# Make OSS apps default to using it
pcm.dsp0 {
type plug
slave.pcm “duplex”
}
Make sure that your Vmware virtual soundcard is set to Autodetect, otherwise try
and use /dev/dsp1 or /dev/dsp2
I hope one of these solutions works for you, kind of odd since this is the only time I have
ever had problems with sound as regards to a Linux host.
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Docx is the new “improved” document format of Office 2007. Lately I am getting a nice influx of these formatted documents, yet the problem is, OpenOffice doesn’t really support it. But you can make it support it with a few minutes of your time!I am going to take for granted you are using Ubuntu, so first off
let’s grab alien, an rpm to deb converter
sudo apt-get install alien
Grab yourself the Odf converter, from here.
Now lets convert it like this:
alien -ct odf-converter-1.0.0-5.i586.rpm
You will end up with a .tgz version
Extract it to a directory, then go into it.
Now its time to copy a few files to allow us to open up our .docx file./
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/program/OdfConverter /usr/lib/openoffice/program/
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/MOOXFilter_cpp.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Filter/
sudo cp usr/lib/ooo-2.0/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/MOOXTypeDetection.xcu /usr/lib/openoffice/share/registry/modules/org/openoffice/TypeDetection/Types/
Go ahead and open up your .docx files and viola! Openoffice is now .docx compatible 
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I was posting a comment over our friends at Asktheadmin.com which jokingly mentioned running OSX on my laptop, why on earth would I do this since I am already running Gutsy which is enough risk:)
But check this out…
First of all, you can’t install OSX on a new partition, it needs it’s own drive. For this guide I’m installing it on my Sony Vaio TR2A. Since I only have one hard-drive, it means I’m wiping windows and all my files in the process. You can easily follow the same steps but instead install it on a second hard-drive in your PC. Here is how I have successfully install OSX x86 NATIVELY on my laptop!
First of all, I think your CPU needs at LEAST sse2. For rosetta and to get itunes and other ppc apps working, you need sse3. My vaio has a Pentuim M, so no rosetta for me. Everything else works. I’m posting this from the OS X x86 port of Firefox Wink
1. Download “VMWare files for patched Mac OS X Tiger Intel” from your favorite torrent site. (Hint: Use the search function).
2. Copy tiger-x86-flat.img from the archive to an external USB drive (it’s 6gb)
3. Download Ubuntu Live CD (link) … be sure you get the “Live CD”!!
4. Burn the ubuntu iso, stick it in your pc, and boot it! (make sure you have your bios set to boot to CD)
5. Once ubuntu boots and the gui finally comes up, hook up the USB drive you copied the 6gb image to. A window should pop up showing the contents of the drive. Take note of where its mounted. It should be /Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename
6. Open a terminal window and cd to that directory (/Devices/Yourdrivesvolumename). Do an “ls” to make sure you are in the right place (you should see the 6gb img file.
7. In the terminal window type:
dd bs=1048576 if=./tiger-x86-flat.img of=/dev/hdaReplace hda with the correct drive! If you only have one drive, its probably hda. Thats what mine was. You are about to erase this entire drive so make sure you’ve got it right and make sure you want to do this! Hit enter. It takes a while… took my vaio about 9 minutes.
8. When it’s done, remove the ubuntu disc and shut down the pc. Disconnect your usb drive. That’s it! When you power it back on, OS X should boot!
For whatever reason, mine hangs when its loading. If this happens to you, boot with the -x option (hit a button at the darwin screen when you boot your pc. enter “-x” and hit enter). Should work without any problems, and I don’t see any restrictions being in safe mode.
You’ll notice there is a login screen, and you don’t know the password! This image was created by “deadmoo” and we can easily change his password. Reboot the machine again. Again, hit a button at the darwin screen. This time type “-v” and hit enter. At the command prompt screen type:
sh /bin/sh
passwd curtis
(change the password to what you like)passwd deadmoo
(change the password to what you like)Done! Now reboot once more, and again use the “-x” option. Everything should boot, and at the login screen enter your new password
As you can see, its viable! Uneasysilence put the above instructional together, so head there for more info if you are going to attempt to do it. I have actually seen it work, Tazdar was nice enough to show me the results.. It was amazingly fast and very workable! No, not recommended for a production environment:) If you like it that
bad get a a darn Mac!:)
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