Planning for Ubuntu 7.04 – the “Feisty Fawn” > In that spirit, the release will be be code named “The Feisty Fawn”. Nice one. =)
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Edgy Release Notes
EdgyReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki Ubuntu 6.10 (Edgy Eft) has reached Release Candidate 1. Woot! I’ve been running it on my desktop machine for a few weeks, without any problems at all. The upgrade was almost smooth as well, just had a bit of python hassle.
Compiz on ATI X300 using AIGLX and Dual Screens!
I used the default Xorg 7.1 that ships with Edgy, and Compiz & friends from Quinnstorms Edgy repositories. Section "Module" Load "bitmap" Load "ddc" Load "dri" Load "extmod" Load "freetype" Load "glx" Load "int10" Load "type1" Load "vbe" EndSection Section "Device" Identifier "ATI Technologies, Inc. RV370 5B60 [Radeon X300 (PCIE)]" Driver "ati" BusID "PCI:1:0:0" Option [...]
IVTV 0.4 to 0.7
I upgraded my Gentoo box running MythTV to a new kernel and a new ivtv version. The only problem I had was that watching live TV no longer worked, and I need that to satisfy the wife even though we rarely watch TV regularly any longer. It seems the ivtv driver change the numbering scheme [...]
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay
Wired News: Secrets of the Pirate Bay > MALMO, Sweden — It’s Saturday night and I’m lounging on a living room sofa surrounded by lanky twenty-somethings in shorts and deep tans. Across from me, a wire emerges from a green Xbox — modified to stream movies from its hard drive — and snakes past two [...]
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet
PRESS RELEASE: Pirate Party Launches World’s First Commercial Darknet | Piratpartiet > Today, the Swedish Pirate Party launched a new Internet service that lets anybody send and receive files and information over the Internet without fear of being monitored or logged. In technical terms, such a network is called a “darknet”. The service allows people [...]
Washington state sues movie download service for spyware
Washington sues movie download service for spyware – Network World > The state of Washington has sued the owners of the Movieland.com, alleging that the company used spyware to strong-arm users into signing up for its paid movie download service. > Consumers who dowloaded Movieland.com’s free three-day trial software would eventually be hit with frequent [...]
Debbie Foster to RIAA : Dude, where’s my legal fees?
Debbie Foster to RIAA : Dude, where’s my legal fees? – The Digital Music Weblog > Debbie Foster, the woman in Oklahoma sued by the RIAA who asked for and won a motion for summary judgment, has finally filed her motion asking the court to force the RIAA to reimburse her attorney’s fees. > The [...]
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case
Woman forces US record industry to drop file-sharing case | The Register > A group of US record labels agreed to drop a music piracy case in the US after the alleged file-sharer argued that it could not be proved that she downloaded any illegal music. The case may set a precedent that undermines scores [...]
Latest Linux ATI driver & XGL
ATI Proprietary Linux Release Notes > Resolution of an XGL startup issue that prevented users from starting XGL on display :0. Further details can be found in topic number 737-22841 Woho. No more fiddling with :1 to get Xgl running. If only they would support bigger than 2048×2048 blits I could actually finally start using [...]