Computer Science / Free/Libre Open Source Software — No comments
18
Jun 10
The cause why you get this error when starting mplayer is that it chooses the “vdpau” output video driver as default. To change this one you have to change/add some lines in your config. file of mplayer. This may lie in /etc/mplayer or ~/.mplayer. Add this line to your config. file or alter the string behind the equal sign to your video driver:
vo=x11
You may also use your output video driver here, like xv for example. The nouveau video driver didn’t work for my part, but I think that X11 is in some way the “referrer” for it. To find out your driver use the command lsmod.
Computer Science / Free/Libre Open Source Software — No comments
02
Jun 10
If you’ll ever get this warning message at the login screen of your Ubuntu
Install problem! The configuration defaults for GNOME Power Manager have not been installed correctly. Please contact our computer administrator.
do not panic! There is still hope. 
It’s possible that it got something to do with the GNOME Power Manager or it is much more simple, like in my case: there is not enough space left on your /home partition. Just delete a few files and you should be able to login again. If this doesn’t work out, invest your time in the gnome-power-manger package and it’s configuration.
Here a discussion Launchpad about the issue.
Thoughts — No comments
21
Apr 10
It’s not the first time that I noticed something happening the way it did today. I went into a bookstore and saw one of the most remarkable titles of U.S. American literature history: Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” (1884).
So what’s strange about it you may ask now. Well look at the date and ask Wiki what happened 100 years ago. My question:
Why did I see this book lying on bookshelf between hundreds of other, left it where it was after reading the back cover of it and wend back to buy it?! I also bought two other books by the way, but the focus lied on the title of Mark Twain. Why do I start reading this book today on the one hundreds day of death of Mark Twain. I just heart something about the authors commemoration day a few days ago. I already read parts of the book as a child. How ever… this night I’ll make a journey back in time for some hours.
Computer Science — No comments
03
Apr 10
The Maemo 5 Default Lock Code is: 12345
Just wanted to shout this in the WWW, ’cause I’ve been asked a lot about the code.
