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Removing Moonlight

August 1st, 2008 at 10:29 pm » Comments (0)

I needed to see a video recommended by my cousin but it required Silverlight. I should have booted into Vista and downloaded Siverlight, but without thinking I found the equivalent for Linux, Moonlight, and installed it.
Big mistake.
It all ran smoothly, however, thanks to instructions from Tim’s Moonlight Installation Page and those who want Moonlight have [...]



Compiz+Hardy Heron+HP Pavillion dv 6588ea

July 7th, 2008 at 11:02 am » Comments (0)

While waiting for an email to come in, I set to wondering about Compiz on my notebook, running Hardy Heron.
From Add/Remove Applications I installed Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, Compiz Fusion Icon, and Desktop Effects.
These seem to have given me, via System/Prefernces/Control Center/Advanced Desktop Effects - certain effects, like transparent windows, Wobbly Windows, and the [...]



SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver in Hardy Heron: Success at last

July 6th, 2008 at 2:28 pm » Comments (2)

This must be my lucky day. I haven’t mentioned it here, but I recently updated to Hardy Heron, without a hitch. All my old problems with Bluetooth, crashes, and so forth, disappeared. It may have been so smooth because I updated the HP Pavillion bios (in Vista), which I think was previously causing untold problems. [...]



DVD won’t play in Hardy Heron

July 1st, 2008 at 11:15 pm » Comments (0)

I got myself a dvd of the Irish film Garage and after a long day sat back to enjoy it on my computer and to my surprise it didn’t work.
All I got was a “Can’t read from source” error.
I thought I’d all the codecs installed, but it seems it has something to do [...]



IrishTeam/HardyReleaseParty

April 28th, 2008 at 2:32 pm » Comments (0)

The Irish Linux User Group will be having a PoTD (Pint of the Day) to celebrate the birth of Hardy Heron, on 1st May 2008 in the Long Stone Pub, Townsend Street, central Dublin. (map to the venue) 18:30 or so onwards
IrishTeam/HardyReleaseParty (see ILUG post about PoTD)
The Long Stone Pub