Archive for April, 2009

ATI RadeonHD Video drivers in Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

Wednesday, April 29th, 2009

Want XVideo support for playing movies on Ubuntu with a RadeonHD card?  Add the following repos for the latest GIT packages.

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/tormodvolden/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

Add public key

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ATI releases new ASCII Accelerated video card

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

http://bbspot.com/News/2003/02/ati_ascii.html

Do you have Robot Insurance?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009

“For when the metal ones come for you!”

http://widgets.nbc.com/o/4727a250e66f9723/49f683185a0a9991/49f638247116125d/62ddab94

Auto-Tune (Perfect Pitch) device applied to the news

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

My Fav part starts at 1:20 “very thin ice” ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBb4cjjj1gI

Saw the Google Streetview Vehicle today

Thursday, April 23rd, 2009

Hopefully I will be seeing myself shortly at this intersection.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=4421+stuart+andrew+blvd,+charlotte,+nc&sll=34.470335,-83.254395&sspn=13.296958,28.564453&ie=UTF8&ll=35.205496,-80.869535&spn=0.006443,0.013947&z=17&layer=c&cbll=35.205588,-80.869459&panoid=YC3d-vE01sQA3vm1YJLRmw&cbp=12,214.2342789354001,,0,8.876923076923072

Ubuntu 9.04 Wacom Tablet driver fix

Wednesday, April 22nd, 2009

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1038949&highlight=rorate+wacom

Household Hacker

Monday, April 20th, 2009

http://householdhacker.com

Speedfit – Mobile Treadmill

Monday, April 20th, 2009

Love your treadmill, but wish you could get outside more?  Well, enjoy both with the Speedfit – mobile treadmill.   Probably from the makers of the ‘Solar Powered Flashlight’  :)

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUuwEq98ByM

Runlevels in Ubuntu

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Was looking for a way to control runlevels in Ubuntu as with a standard INIT SYSV based system.  I found this document that explains how to make this happen:

http://caulfield.info/emmet/2008/03/add-a-textonly-runlevel-to-ubu.html

Seamless Windows RDP integration

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Just ran across this today and didnt realize there was a way to have just an application appear in an RDP session.  Appears to use a client installed in windows to do this called appropriately, Seamless RDP. http://www.cendio.com/seamlessrdp/seamlessrdp.zip

Idea obtained from this handy article:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SeamlessVirtualization