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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 [...]

Better to be upgraded and safe then sorry

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
KVM modules that set the VERR_SVM_IN_USE flag when they [...]

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 [...]

Recently I acquired a Novatel Ovation MC950D UMTS Modem. A quick google to find links on how to setup revealed a few generic methods, with nothing very Ubuntu specific. As is turns out, the Mobile Broadband setup is build right into the Network Manager.

I simply configured a udev script to activate [...]