Posted by Jason on July 31, 2008
I had a bit of a start today when I opened up Rhythmbox to listen to some streaming radio and there under the “Shared” section was a new entry called “Me’s LimeWire Tunes”.
This wasn’t something I created – nor do I use LimeWire, so I was scratching my head as to what could be causing this. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted by Jason on July 17, 2008
Alright! As I posted in an earlier blog post, there is some problem with the installer for the 177.13 (and 173.14.09) NVIDIA drivers. It seems that these recent installers will NOT work on a realtime kernel.
There is a post on the nvidia forums that describes the problem, but leaves out some of the details on how to actually fix it. At least, I didn’t immediately see the answer.
This is what I did to install the 177.13 drivers: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in linux, ubuntu | Tagged: drivers, NVIDIA | 14 Comments »
Posted by Jason on July 15, 2008
Although I mostly still play Enemy Territory: Quake Wars, I have had Doom3 on my machine, and I recently downloaded the older Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory.
The problem I was having, though is that for some reason — I think having 3 monitors — the mouse was all wonky. In the opening menus, it would jump off the screen. However, I recently got both these games working!
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Posted in linux, ubuntu | Tagged: gaming | 3 Comments »
Posted by Jason on July 8, 2008
My laptop is set up to dual-boot WinXP in those cases where I am out and about and might need to get back into Windows.
I wanted to virtualize the existing WinXP partition, so I didn’t actually have to re-boot to do one thing in Windows. Virtualization has worked very nicely for me on the desktop. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted in linux, ubuntu | Tagged: virtualization | 1 Comment »
