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I had checked out the version of Novell’s moonlight linked through Microsoft from CTV’s site, in order to try to get some Olympic coverage on my PC. I obviously did not look hard enough. I stumbled upon the pre-release version just in time for the Super Sunday gold medal rematch series! http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx Grab it from [...] There is now a Ubuntu packaged 64bit version of Flash. This is something that any user running Ubuntu Linux on current hardware (P4/Athlon64 or newer) should be pleased to hear (just skip on over this post if you are running a 32bit OS on your 64bit hardware). For quite some time there have been manual [...] Installing Google Gears is a piece of cake: This allows for offline blogging allowing you to make good use of authoring moments away from the Internet. The interesting part is that Google nor Wordpress make it that evident that gears is available via the packaging system for Ubuntu. The typical links on their respective [...] It seems that Virtualbox 3.1.x now implements a quick check to see if the hardware virtualization extensions are in use before launching AMD-V enabled guests. There seem to be two key issues with this change Buggy BIOS’s that do not clear a VERR_SVM_IN_USE flag properly on boot Recently somebody asked me about key verification and signing after noting that emails from some sources (in this case, the Debian Security team) contain key signatures for verification, and that by default the Evolution email client was not validating them. The simple answer is that by default Seahorse, the default key manager for [...] Lately I have been getting a hard lockup on a work laptop, and I suspect it may be temperature related. Unfortunately with the latest Karmic kernel (2.6.31-17-generic x86_64) I am seeing the following message on boot: [ 0.943491] ACPI Exception: AE_OK, No or invalid critical threshold 20090521 thermal-384 Additionally, there is no output [...] |
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