It has been way, way to long since I posted something here. I have handed in my PhD thesis, I am about to defend it, and I have started a new job (more about this later). For these reasons, I have been quiet for way too long.
However, a few of the recent pre-E3 trailers have caught my attention and I wanted to share them. If you follow the gaming scene you have most likely seen them. If not, enjoy the folowing videos:
I have previously written about my efforts to see tv (NRK) over the Internet on Linux. While working on my thesis I had to watch a bit of the Olympics (as a distraction). Luckily, NRK streams most of the events over the Internet. Unfortunately, they have decided to use Silverlight version 3 to stream content from the Olympics.
This does not work right out of the box with Ubuntu. Thanks to Anders S. Lund I found the solution, which was to install an alpha version of Moonlight:
See the following link for more information/troubleshooting.
MOONLIGHT_OVERRIDES=effects=no firefox
When writing (LaTeX) and programming I normally use Eclipse. To backup the code and text I use Subversion and the Eclipse plug-in Subclipse. The Ubuntu repository has for a long time had a dated version of Eclipse. However, when I reinstalled one of my computers yesterday I saw that Eclipse 3.5.1 was available through the repository. However, this version came whitout Mylyn and GEF (two Eclipse frameworks required by Subclipse). So if you want to install Subclipse (http://subclipse.tigris.org/update_1.6.x), you have to install Mylyn (http://download.eclipse.org/tools/mylyn/update/weekly/e3.4) and GEF (http://download.eclipse.org/tools/gef/updates/releases/). In Eclipse, go to “Help”, “Install New Software” and paste the links to the links available in parenthesis, or go to the respective framework’s web pages and find the most recent release.
If you have problems setting up a SVN connection using Subclipse, I might have the solution, or if you want to know more about how to set up Eclipse as a LaTeX environment, check out one of my previous posts.
The lack of playback of Blu-ray movies has stopped me from installing a Linux distribution on my HTPC. However, according to a blog post from The Media Viking, this is now possible. It is still a bit cumbersome, but it seems better than the old recipe. I have personally not tested it yet, but I guess I will try when I have the time.
I hope this is a step towards native support for playback of Blu-ray movies on Linux. Actually, in my eyes I think we are better off without physical distribution of movies. I would love to see native support for Blu-rays, but even better would be digital high-quality services with a large library.
Mediaplayer/Totem preferences
The fix was relatively simple. It seems as because of some old bug, the Hue in Movie Player/Totem should have been turned off (either to max or min). Now, it seems someone have fixed this bug and the Hue should rather be set to the middle position as illustrated above. Open Movie Player (Applications -> Sound & Video -> Movie Player). Open the display preferences like in the figure (Edit -> Preferences -> Display) and put the slider in the middle position. This did the trick (at least for me).