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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 [...]

A few nights ago I watched Avatar for the second time in 3-D, in an effort to qualify the difference between regular 3D and IMAX 3D. The difference was astounding, both in the picture quality due to the 10x resolution jump IMAX frames provide, the super-sound and the fact that many scenes seemed to [...]

Installing Google Gears is a piece of cake:
#apt-get install gears

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 [...]

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 [...]

For some time now I have observed the Ubuntu dmesg line
[ 10.799981] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8
and wondered if this was (a) a properly recognized piece of hardware, (b) a feature of my laptop or my Seagate STxxxxxxxx hard disk and (c) what applications might take advantage of it, assuming I can [...]

The holidays are all about relaxing; For me, this means a bit of time exploring new technologies during my 18mo son William’s afternoon nap, typically from 1-3pm each day.

Today, I am looking at getting a package-based eucalyptus cloud running on my ZM-80-based laptop, as an experiment for future updates to my linux infrastructure. [...]