hints & tricks in no particular order
11/09
Please note this is a newbie post, for people like me who don't know anything about IIS 7 yet. First, make sure IIS and ASP.NET are installed. Go to Control Panel Programs Add / remove Windows programs Check IIS Services Make sure WWW services and Web admin tools are checked Also make sure that ASP.NET is enabled in […]
16/08
Unfortunately, I didn't find any satisfying editing tool for my HD videos under Ubuntu -- Kino is a good tool, but it's not HD ready. There are some others, but none reaching the stability and features of say, Pinnacle Studio under Windows. I'd love to be proven wrong. However, for the time being I'll keep a XP […]
02/08
I messed up my nvidia drivers quite a bit while trying to enable vdpau, to the point openGL was not working anymore and the display was suffering from many bugs. I decided to remove and reinstall the nvidia drivers. sudo dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg select "nv" for the first screen and hit enter until it's done. Then […]
02/08
I tried to enable VDPAU, which is a NVDIA API providing hardware video decoding. The key is to use up to date drivers and VDPAU enabled software. MPlayer provides VDPAU compatibility in the latest versions. However, the Ubuntu repository only has an outdated version of mplayer. I used a 3rd party repository, […]
20/07
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
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
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
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 […]
06/06
I've got Ubuntu installed for years on my desktop PC. I changed the hardware twice while still having a very stable distribution -- I could always boot after a major hardware upgrade. I can't say the same about Windows XP. Anyway, that's not the topic here. To migrate from my 32 bits distribution to a 64 bits version […]
03/05
It is possible to list all installed packages by using the following command: dpkg --get-selections It is then theoretically possible to export a packages list dpkg --get-selections > myPackets And install these packages by importing this list dpkg --set-selections < myPackets apt-get dselect-upgrade Source […]
22/03
I got into trouble when I changed my old 160 GB ata drive to a brand new 1 TB sata drive. I simply used GParted to copy the partitions over from the old disk to the new. When booting on the new disk, I got a screen filled with GRUB GRUB GRUB and so on - and no, it's not a virus. ;-) Several things I forgot about: When […]