http://munckfish.net/blog Dan Munckton's slice of the internet pie. Sat, 17 May 2008 14:15:44 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I am relatively new to the Ubuntu PS3 Port team. I joined about a month before Hardy was released when I was told by Gouki that there really wasn't any development happening on it because it was a community maintained port just like the PowerPC port now is too. I ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2008/05/17/working-on-the-ubuntu-ps3-port/ Hi folks. This is my first post to Planet Ubuntu Users. Thanks to Gouki for letting me on board. As well as blogging about general Ubuntu stuff I'll also be talking about the Ubuntu PS3 Port project which I'm currently obsessed with. http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2008/05/13/hello-planet/ I have now got Ubuntu installed on my PS3. This is very cool! The potential of no longer having to have a desktop computer sat in the corner taking up space is fantastic. Instead I have a mini super computer in a small beautifully styled consumer device's clothing connected ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2008/02/15/linux-on-playstation-3/ Flicking through the menus on a Panasonic Viera 32" LCD I discovered a "Software Licence" link in the setup menu. Amazingly this links to a full copy of the GPL and a link to am-linux.jp. Seems it runs Linux! http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2008/02/13/linux-on-tv/ I upgraded my desktop machine to Gutsy today to have a play with it before upgrading my laptop. I'm really glad I did it in this order as it appears there may be a regression in the version of Java 6 shipping on Gutsy. I happened to test out a Java ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2007/10/20/regression-java6-displaymodes-gutsy/ Bryce Harrington (an Ubuntu Developer) has created an article demonstrating the new BulletProofX feature which will be included in the upcoming 7.10 (Gutsy) release of the OS: BulletProofX It's fantastic to see this finally implemented, Graphics Card and Screen issues, in my experience, have been the most visible deficiency of the ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2007/10/11/bulletproofx/ <img id="countdownimage" src="http://www.ubuntu.com/files/countdown/dist/710countdown_default.png" width="199" height="164" alt="Ubuntu 7.10 - Coming soon"> http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2007/10/11/ubuntu-710-countdown/ I just heard today that RM will be selling a tiny Asus laptop pre-installed with Linux. It's a very small machine 22.5 x 16.5 x 2.1-3.5cm and will cost only £169. Instead of a hard drive it will use solid state memory apparently either 2GB or 4GB. Anecdotal evidence from the ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2007/10/10/rm-linux-laptop/ A while ago I coded a small patch which I submitted to the Banshee music player project. It has a plugin which supports sharing of your music library via the DAAP protocol, but it was only sharing individual tracks and not playlists which made browsing a large collection a little ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2007/10/09/my-banshee-patch/ I've just read over the Gnome 2.20 Release Notes and I must say I'm looking forward to using it in Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy). There are quite a few small improvements that I've been waiting for. For instance: Finally the Evolution mail client has an icon for the Gnome Panel's Notification Area, ... http://munckfish.net/blog/archive/2007/10/05/gnome-220-and-the-new-gnome-library-site/