November 29th, 2009
Mit Hilfe des wunderbaren Java-Programms Mediathek lassen sich Sendungen aus diversen TV-Mediatheken (ARD, ZDF, Arte, 3Sat, MDR, Schweizer Fernsehen) einfach downloaden und abonnieren. Aktuell ist die Version 1.4.1. Es empfiehlt sich, die Variante mit Bibliotheken (Mediathek_mit_libs_1.4.1.zip) runterzuladen und zu entpacken. Danach in das Verzeichnis wechseln, in welches man entpackt hat und Mediathek mit
java -jar Mediathek.jar
starten.
Funktionsweise und Bedienung werden in der Anleitung ausführlich erläutert.
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November 28th, 2009
Version 0.3.3 of the great SopCast Player has been released the other day along with sp-auth 3.2.6. A PPA for Ubuntu Karmic Koala is also available. Simply
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jason-scheunemann/ppa
to add the repository.
sudo apt-get install sopcast-player
installs all the necessary software.
Information about how to open Sop links from Firefox can be found in the wiki.
SopCast Player
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November 2nd, 2009
As of Karmic Koala Ubuntu introduces a new and simplified way to add repositories. From the command line you would just add
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:xorg-edgers/ppa
to register for example the Xorg-Edgers repository with APT and acquire the public key if required in one step.
I usually make use of a couple of third party repositories like Medibuntu, Xorg-Edgers, SMPlayer and XBMC SVN. Beeing a heavy user of Guake terminal this is just a very convenient and fast way to work with repositories.
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October 23rd, 2009
SopCast Player won’t work in Karmic Koala. That’s because the lack of libstdc++5 which can however easily be installed from the Jaunty repositories http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/libstdc++5.
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October 20th, 2009
I recently discovered that I wouldn’t have sound over the internal speakers of my nx8220 after waking up from suspend in Karmic Koala Beta. This seems to be a known regression in the Kernel and I wasn’t in the mood of trying to fix it the hard way. What I found out though is that
sudo alsa force-reload
brings sound back.
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September 29th, 2009
Recently I got hooked on Battle for Wesnoth which is a free turn-based strategy game. Given that the version in Ubuntu Jaunty’s respositories is rather outdated I found newer packages at IT-Wesnoth. Primarily set up for Debian the packages work just fine with Ubuntu Jaunty. Which they should since it’s based on Debian – but who knows beforehand? Those who want to try might add the repository from here for the stable version 1.6.5 or development version 1.7.5. Direct downloads of the packages are available here.
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September 21st, 2009
I really like the Dust GTK theme. What I missed though is the incredible Dustfox Firefox theme available here: https://launchpad.net/dusttheme-firefox.
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September 19th, 2009
As mentioned earlier this year Sopcast delivers a great possibility to watch international football over the internet. Those who don’t like GTK-sopcast can now switch over to SopCast-Player.
SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. Once SopCast Player is installed it simply “just works” with no required configuration.
GUI lovers will definitely improve their P2P streaming experience. Previous installations of GTK-sopcast will have to be removed prior to installing SopCast-Player, though.
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September 17th, 2009
I’m currently testing Ubuntu Karmic Koala Alpha 5 on my 1000H which works pretty nice despite the usual alpha flaws. My .conkyrc consists of: Read the rest of this entry »
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September 12th, 2009
Well, here’s my mplayer config file for you to tinker with: Read the rest of this entry »
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