hints & tricks in no particular order
20/07/2009
I have already tried a few UPNP servers, the best being mediatomb so far. However, I recently bought a new television which is UPNP/DLNA compatible and I had to look for something more video friendly. I found PS3MediaServer which is able to stream and transcode music, photos and video by using the well known […]
20/07/2009
I recently had the need to update the display driver of my old Toshiba Satellite M50 laptop. The onboard videocard is an ATI Mobility Radeon X600 SE. When trying to install the legacy Catalyst drivers, I got a "chip not supported" error, and a hint telling me I should check on the Toshiba website. Unfortunately, the […]
11/07/2009
Getting Windows 7 RC side by side with Ubuntu is not too difficult, but still requires some practice. I started by freeing 30 GB on my 1 TB disk. It seems too small afterwards; only 6 GB left! If I come to install the Windows 7 retail version someday, I will definitely increase the partition to say 60 or 100 GB. To do […]
09/07/2009
I'm using EasyPeasy on a EEE 701 (the very first official netbook) on a daily basis at work. When I upgraded UbuntuEEE 8.04 to Easy Peasy 1.1 (based on Ubuntu 8.10), I started to experience a very slow and intermittent wifi. I tried a lot of tweaks, in vain. I finally found out that replacing the installed wifi driver […]