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Tag Archives: Linux
Getting Unreal Tournament (1999) working on current Linux distros
Let’s be honest: Unreal Tournament, or UT99, is not only a piece of gaming history – it’s also still a very vibrant and active game. What’s even better: The game has a native Linux client, so there’s no shortage of … Continue reading
Howto: Run Vector Magic Desktop Edition with Wine
Vector Magic is pretty cool. I loved the project back in the days when everyone could use it for free and was happy to see that they started providing a desktop client after going commercial. Even better: The client is … Continue reading
Howto: Fix Wuala’s Copy & Paste on Linux
If you’re using a recent KDE version you’ll notice that Wuala’s Copy & Paste feature doesn’t really seem to work anymore. Instead of using the contents you specify within the application (say, files and folders) it’ll always use the contents … Continue reading
Moving old data to new disks
As I wrote earlier this week one of my disks kept dying on me. The solution – of course – is to replace the faulty device with a brand-new one and move the data to the new disk. While I … Continue reading
Adobe AIR Beta for Linux
Wowzers, finally there’s a version of AIR available that has an (almost) equal set of features to it’s Windows and Mac counterparts. Before you can install this new version you do have to uninstall your old AIR applications (as they … Continue reading
New nVidia Linux driver speeds things up
The end of the world must be near: nVidia released a new version of their GNU/Linux driver that fixes some of the annoyances regarding RENDER performance. Given you apply some manual adjustments to the configuration the new driver performs in … Continue reading
Building recent Mplayer SVN + CoreAVC For Linux
As Michael points out there’s a slight problem with the CoreAVC For Linux patchset that enable Mplayer to take advantage of CoreCodec’s h.264 decoder — with recent changes in the sourcecode the old build_patch.pl script doesn’t produce usable output anymore. … Continue reading
Nice global environment variable additions
Since my vacation is coming to an end I thought I’d leave a nice little trick on how to administrate a number of environment variable additions for all users on the system. Sure, there is the /etc/environment file but it … Continue reading
Using twhirl on Linux – the nice way
Without any doubt twhirl is the greatest twitter client available. It’s an Air-based application – meaning you can even use it on Linux. Now, as you may know KDE 4.1 comes with a handy little twitter client plasmoid itself but … Continue reading
Limit CPU consumption of applications on Linux
One of the more frequent questions in support channels: How do I limit a specific application to not consume all my cpu time? While it is generally a bad idea to limit applications in that department, it is indeed quite … Continue reading
Workaround for nVidia Linux driver TV-out scaling problem
If you’re using a GeForce 8×00 graphics card and the binary blob from nVidia you’ll may notice that the picture on your TV is slightly larger than the area the TV can display; a part of your desktop will be … Continue reading
Adobe Air for Linux
A test version of Adobe’s Air for Linux is available for public consumption now. Tweet-r as well as the Pownce client work fine, there are some visual problems with alpha channels, though. It is great to see that Adobe does … Continue reading
