Adobe announced the alpha release of Flash Player 10 a few days ago, for 64 Bit Linux. I’ve tested if for a couple of days – looks good so far and aside from a nasty bug when visiting Gmail (see below for work around), and a few other sites, which causes Firefox to crash and [...]

Adeona is an Open Source system for tracking stolen and lost laptops/notebooks, developed by the University of Washington Computer Science and Engineering department. It’s also one of the few systems which doesn’t require a silly BIOS hack, or access to proprietary services, and is available for Linux, Windozzze and Mac OSX. Since 64bitjungle is a [...]

I love tabs – Tabbed browsing has become an invaluable and integral part of my daily surfing. I also love the Terminal Emulator built into GNOME, but when it comes to opening multiple instances of Terminal Emulators, I prefer split screen over tabs. This is where Terminator wins for me, hands down. I’m just too [...]

What happened to Football? Once a working man’s sport, most children dreamed of playing for their team – for the pure pleasure, and pride of playing for the team. Now? It’s all about the money – so much, that in order to watch your favourite Premiership or Champions League team live, you have to pay [...]

Note 1: I got somewhat sidetracked and into a rather lengthy rant while writing this. If you want, you can skip it and get straight to installing Sopcast, otherwise, read on. Note 2: The method (eventually) described below is legal, since the Chinese TV stations are themselves streaming the coverage online. I despise TV, but [...]

Update, 16/01/09: This Guide has been superseded by “Full 64 Bit (or 32 Bit) Web Development and PHP/MySQL IDE with Eclipse 3.4 Ganymede and PDT 2“, but will be left here for reference, history, and so on… PDT is MUCH easier to install now I’ve been checking out the recently released Eclipse 3.4 (Ganymede), and [...]

I wanted the latest version of Sun’s JRE installed on my system, and to have it set up as the default Java Runtime Environment whenever I ran a Java executable, or Jar file. It’s actually a pretty easy process, so this is a relatively short tutorial, but I’ll cover both the 32 bit and 64 [...]

I’ve been wanting to set up a virtual host, with mod_rewrite on my system for a while, so I could have a local copy of my blog with Permalinks, for playing around, and despite a few hiccups, have finally got round to setting it up and implementing it successfully. Creating a Virtual Host Note: The [...]

Updated 04/04/09 to reflect changes to the installation process. The driver currently supports the following Microdia webcams: 0c45:6240 0c45:6242 0c45:6243 0c45:6248 0c45:624b 0c45:624c 0c45:624e 0c45:624f 0c45:6253 0c45:6260 0c45:6262 0c45:6270 0c45:627a 0c45:627b 0c45:627c 0c45:627f 0c45:6280 0c45:6282 0c45:6283 0c45:6288 0c45:628a 0c45:628b 0c45:628e 0c45:628f 0c45:62a0 0c45:62b0 0c45:62b3 0c45:62ba 0c45:62bb 0c45:62bc 0c45:62be Keep up to date on the current [...]

As most people know, CHM (Microsoft Compiled HTML Help) is a proprietary format, and not supported by default in Linux. Thankfully, there are several options available for viewing CHM files, and even converting them to another format – such as HTML and PDF. Viewing CHM Files The simplest method for dealing with CHM files is [...]