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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]