Tag Archive for 'linux'

Quote of the day: 2008-06-26

June 26th, 2008 by Ivan

"NVIDIA’s fully featured Linux graphics driver is provided as binary-only because it contains intellectual property NVIDIA wishes to protect, both in hardware and in software"
NVIDIA Statement
“The NVidia driver is the single component in a KDE4 / Free Operating system stack causing us most of the hard-to-solve problems. In other words, nvidia.ko has grave technical shortcomings.”
Sebastian [...]

Quote of the day: 2008-06-04

June 4th, 2008 by Ivan

"We have shifted towards Linux because of Microsoft," … "Microsoft has a lot of power and it is going to be difficult, but we will be working hard to develop the Linux market."
Gianpiero Morbello, Vice president of marketing and brand, Acer.
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Spread this number

May 1st, 2007 by Ivan

09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 is the HD-DVD processing key you can use to decrypt and play most HD-DVD movies in Linux. Read about why I’m spreading this number.

ftp kioslave

January 8th, 2007 by Ivan

One of the best features of KDE is it’s kioslaves that let you access network and other resources right from konqueror, from the ALT+F2 Run dialog, or even better from your favourite KDE application.
Tonight I took a closer look at the ftp kioslave, I wanted to see if I could configure a maximum number of [...]