Figuring out how to play Blu-ray in Ubuntu or any Linux Distribution can be pretty annoying due to the DRM and encryption of Blu-ray. Most of the methods of playing Blu-ray as of this post usually require some type of workaround to decrypt and stream the movie. However, if you’re like me, and like to [...]

Zomg a post! Yeah, haven’t updated in a while. Still gotta get the rest of those Tokyo photos up. I’m just being lazy. Anyways, looks like Ubuntu rebranded themselves. I think it looks great! Looks clean. Source:  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Brand Discussion: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1420839 A Fresh Look for Ubuntu The new style of Ubuntu is driven by the theme [...]

Another popular Linux Distribution was released this morning. My personal favorite when it comes with web servers. In fact, all my sites including this one are powered by Fedora. You can download it from their official page. I would recommend using one of the torrent links to ease stress of their servers and to get [...]

The popular Linux Distribution, Ubuntu, has released it’s next version 9.10 “Karmic Koala” today. You can download the OS from www.ubuntu.com, but I would recommend using the Torrent links as the main site’s server may be slammed all day today. You can also help share/seed the ISO as well. You can find the torrent links [...]

It’s been a while since I last updated, been playing Aion and MAG Beta lately. Sorry about that! Anyways, looks like the latest Banshee, my favorite and default music player, 1.5.1 has been released.  Tons of bug fixes and a few new features included, the changelog is below: New Features New Shuffle Modes Shuffle by [...]

I just picked up another nVidia GTX 260 core-16 to SLI my system preparing for Aion’s Open Beta and release. Although Windows 7 x64 recognized the card right away without any adjustments since I already had the same GTX260 installed, I was able to enable SLI from the nvidia control panel easily without any problems. [...]

Gonna check this out when I get home. Skype really need better support for Linux platforms. The Windows platform of Skype is lightyears ahead of the Linux versions. Source: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ We’re excited to announce a new beta version for Linux, with extra features and better sound and video quality. This release comes with High Quality [...]

Posted from source: http://tuxarena.blogspot.com/2009/08/early-look-at-ubuntu-910-karmic-koala.html Just a little preview of Ubuntu 9.10 in it’s early stages. Some of the major changes being Pidgin ditched as the default chat program for Empathy;  the EXT4 file system being default as well (ext3 and others still an option); GRUB2 as the bootloader; and UbuntuOne, the online disk storage space [...]

New WINE bug fixes and updates! I actually run a few programs and some games in Wine. Hopefully this improves the performance on some of them. Update notes below: The Wine development release 1.1.27 is now available. What’s new in this release (see below for details): – New version of the Gecko engine. – New [...]

The sky is falling! Few days ago Microsoft released press that they will be contributing 20,000 lines into the Linux Kernel. Pretty shocking…. but why? Quote from the source below: The code, which includes three Linux device drivers, has been submitted to the Linux kernel community for inclusion in the Linux tree. The drivers will [...]