A Linux User in a Windows World

 After the last upgrade of EVE i have been playing without sound. Aparently I need a version fo Alsa-plugins that is bigger than version 1.0.24.

So i was googleing and found a nice upgrade script here that should do some of the tricks.

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Yesterday i got my new BluRay player. I got a Pioneer BDP-440 BlueRay player. And as it is suposed to play video from a DLNA server I wanted to install and get that going also.

So I did some search on the networks and after some reading it seems that one of the most used and the one I liked the most was Mediatomb.

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As I just said I have switched to Firefox 5 and is quite happy with it. But there are some small things one has to do to get it to work as I want.

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I’m running Firefox as my main browser. I have chrome installed and I have been using it a bit but I don’t really like it (and I have had some interesting problems with it – like can’t go to page 2 on googles own search result). And I’m also using it for development and firebug and firephp is a necessary must for me. So I’m staying with Firefox.

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As I have been using firefox to store relative sensitive informations (like certificates) there is a STRONG recommendation to turn on Master Password. This encrypts and secure the databases for firefox (and thunderbird) so that cookies, passwords and certificates and so is protected. And even of someone can hack into you computer they cant get to that information.

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I mostly uses svn from the command line, but sometimes its nice to se a graphical view of a svn tree so I installed kdesvn today.

This is a nice GUI frontend to SVN.

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Yesterday I was going to look at google earth to check a thing, and found out that I had not installed it since i moved up to the new version of kubuntu.

So I went into the system and did a apt-get install googleearth. That did not work. Did some extra checks and found that I did not have it in the repositories.

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I was chatting with a friend on yahoo yesterday and we started to talk about vidochat. Kopete should support it. So I tried to get it working.

But it failed. So I spend some time with mister google.

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Most of the time I have been using mplayer or the gnome version of it.

Today i found a nice new player, also based on mplayer, but it seems to have some nice features. Its called UMPlayer.

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As I mentioned before, Kubuntu 10.10 is using pulseaudio as default. I am very happy with this and its working great. Bet the last few days it has been having a problem. The kmix application is using 100% CPU. As I have multiple cores its not that noticeable but it is annoying.

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