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 Vlad Nistor |  July 29th, 2009 |  1,632 views |S2 Games Phoronix Media, in collaboration with S2 Games are giving away free beta-testing keys for their much-hyped upcoming Heroes of Newerth title. They started a week ago and had 400 to give away but S2 was nice enough to supply more, bringing the number up to over 1000. Phonorix reported yesterday it still had [...] Vlad Nistor | July 25th, 2009 | 559 views |For a long time installing Adobe Flash player in 64 bit Linux was a pain in the but; not anymore. Earlier this year (Feb), Adobe launched a pre-realease alpha of the famous proprietary format player for 64 bit OSes. Because of this I decided to move from 32 bit Ubuntu and I love it. The [...]  vlad@nistor.co.uk |  Tags: Firefox, Flash, Screencast, Ubuntu 64 bit | Category: Net, Ubuntu |  Leave a comment | Vlad Nistor | July 23rd, 2009 | 149 views |The fourth release candidate for the .31 Kernel is now out; it fixes a few bugs discovered within the last week (binutils, ccache, compiler) which were outside the Kernel but resulted in a broke build, Linus Torvalds announced. Along with those more important bugs there were a few small fixes here and there, dominated by [...] Vlad Nistor | July 22nd, 2009 | 271 views |Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia decided that it would now support the upload of the open-source Ogg Theora format for video to its website. The announcement was made by Wikimedia Deputy Dir. Erik Moller, in an interview with Beet.tv where he also discussed opening up video on the web and the support they’re getting from [...] vlad@nistor.co.uk | Tags: Firefox, HTML5, Ogg/Theora, Open-Source, Video, Wikipedia | Category: Net | Leave a comment | Vlad Nistor | July 20th, 2009 | 534 views |Ever since I started using Ubuntu with its slick Gnome desktop I’ve wondered about widgets. I remembered seeing them on KDE & Vista and they looked interesting, but I never was curious enough to actually inquire about it in Gnome. But last night I did and found a couple of possibilities (there probably are more) [...] Vlad Nistor | July 6th, 2009 | 395 views |Firefox 3.5 was launched a few days ago. Among the many improvements was the inclusion of HTML 5 with it’s <video> and <audio> tags. You may donwload it directly from thier website and compile it, or install the Ubuntu-Mozilla-daily PPA. You may see an example of such use below if you already use FF3.5 (click [...] Vlad Nistor | July 2nd, 2009 | 602 views |As I mentioned in my previous article Pidgin 2.5.8 was launched and it has now hit Karmic so with that source in hand I built packages for Jaunty, Intrepid and Hardy in my PPA. You can have a look at the changelog here. PPA address: https://launchpad.net/~vladnistor/+archive/ppa Instructions for adding my PPA to your sources list. Update: It appears [...] Vlad Nistor | July 1st, 2009 | 543 views |As you may know Yahoo changed their login protocols a couple of weeks ago. This modification affected just about everyone not using Yahoo Messenger and thus most Ubuntu user (which use Pidgin as it is the default IM software in the distro). At first the issue was fixed by using a different Pager server (a quick [...] |
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