February 26, 2011
by Al
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If you’ve ever tried to watch a Youtube video in fullscreen on a Linux multihead desktop (especially with twinview), you’ve probably seen this bug. Read on for the explanation and fix.
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December 6, 2009
by Al
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It has long been known that commodity PC graphics cards can, with a custom modeline, generate an “almost” PAL video signal. You only need to use a simple sync converter to get a picture on most TV sets. This allows you to skip the TV out filter (if you even have one) and control the signal more or less however you want. I wondered if this would be good enough to feed a teletext signal into the TV set, and it turns out that it is.
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October 4, 2009
by Al
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This is Google Android 1.5 running on the Wizard, using the Linwizard kernel. This is rather out of date now, but you can try it yourself at Wing Linux.
May 16, 2009
by Al
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When using VirtualBox seamless mode and Compiz you may find that other windows from the host start to randomly disappear. This is a partial workaround.
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April 10, 2009
by Al
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The Netgear DG834 is an ADSL modem and router running embedded Linux. While it has many useful features, a few are missing. Luckily Netgear provides a firmware building kit that allows you to add in any features you need.
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