Friday October 3, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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My work laptop and main computing device is a Thinkpad T61 with an nVidia Corporation Quadro NVS 140M (rev a1) card. It’s been a frustrating last year in trying to run a KDE4 desktop as my main work and development … Continue reading
Friday October 3, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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That’s a big title, eh? I blogged previously about setting up a multi-head X environment for development and testing, even though I’m working on a laptop with only one card. My previous attempt used Xdmx and multiple Xephyr displays, and … Continue reading
Thursday September 25, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Finally!! I’ve been trying to figure out how to do this for a while now. Namely, I need to be able to test multiple display stuff out in Linux and being that I use my laptop pretty much exclusively for … Continue reading
Tuesday September 16, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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So, I’m trying to think positively about the 3-hour battle I just had with X. I learned 2 new things today, which I didn’t really want to learn but yay nonetheless. First, Xinerama. I’m going to be doing multiple monitor … Continue reading
Monday September 15, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I got bored with my Ubuntu Hardy install last week and decided to have a look at what some of the other guys are up to these days. Mind you, there wasn’t anything horribly wrong with my Ubuntu host. I … Continue reading
Wednesday February 13, 2008
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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sudo zypper update: 2 Problems:Problem: No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture.Problem: Cannot install java-1_5_0-sun-plugin, because it is conflicting with java-1_6_0-sun-plugin Problem: No valid solution found with just resolvables of best architecture. With this run only resolvables … Continue reading
Monday December 10, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Holy crap. The time between iterations of testing video encoding is prohibitive to quick progress as well as a (several) good night’s sleep. After much pain and gnashing of teeth, I present you with the result of the last 3 … Continue reading
Sunday December 9, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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So… first off, I Googled for Amarok, hoping to find some new sweet pixels and instead I find this. Um… so not the Amarok that I know and love. Anyway, a couple of years ago, I won a PSP from … Continue reading
Friday October 26, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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I did a small performance test yesterday and was very surprised by the results. I wanted to see which encrypted filesystem was faster betweeen Truecrypt and LUKS. I created 2 20-gig files, one with Truecrypt and the other with LUKS … Continue reading
Thursday October 25, 2007
by Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper
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Technology had several glorious victories at my desk today. First, I was fortunate enough to get a very nice dual-head GeForce Nvidia card installed on my 4-way AMD 64-bit cpu server at work. It goes very nicely with the two … Continue reading