If you’re running Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, and you see a somewhat frightening and terse error message that says “Your wireless network has been compromised“, then you’ve probably entered into a world of annoyance. If you’re in the situation I was, this message begins to pop-up every few minutes. Every time it [...]
I should right a whole post about the lack of robust video streaming servers, but I’ll save that for another day. For now, I’ve settled on RealServer (RS) (which is the commercialized version of Real’s open source Helix Server), and video actually streams to a plethora of apps, including: QuickTime Player (QT), VideoLan Client [...]
These aren’t the most interesting screenshots, nor are the applications nor arrangements terribly interesting, but they show how simple it can be for one window to be tagged for different views (the mutt window displaying the email suggesting I take screenshots).
So you probably discovered that your MacBook Pro runs about as hot as the corona of the Sun.
If you’re at my blog here, you probably run some GNU / Linux distro. Just a guess.
If you’re running a GNU / Linux distro, there’s a good chance you installed the binary ATI drivers and associated tools, [...]
I added a short section to the 5670 howto page describing a small, but scary issue regarding DVD movie playback. Basically, the region code was never set, so I used the regionset utility to set a region code. This enabled DVD movie playback to continue as I was used to.
I didn’t expect suspend-to-ram / sleep to work, since I was very suspicious of the binary ATI drivers, and honestly, they don’t seem to have the best reputation. More notes to follow on the main 5670 page…
If anyone else wants info regarding Gentoo (or another distro) on the Acer Aspire 5670, the page has been updated to the point where it is somewhat useful. Included is my kernel config and xorg.conf.
I’ll be keeping a journal of my installation and usage experiences of Gentoo on my Acer Aspire 5670. I purchased the 5670 in early February, and mainly used it as a Windows gaming machine until now. ATI released on 4/12/06 a new version of their proprietary drivers that support the X1400 graphics chip in this [...]