Too many posts to handle? If you missed out on a great post from last month, here’s a quick digest of the top posts that you may want to check out:
  • VDPAU: NVIDIA Releases New Video API for Linux
    Posted on Monday, November 17th, 2008 in Linux/Kernel – Views: (236)
    See the documentation here ftp://download.nvidia.com/XFree86/vdpau/doxygen/html/index.htmlI Quote from the Documentation “The Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) provides a complete solution for decoding, post-processing, compositing, and displaying compressed or uncompressed video streams. These video streams may be combined (composited) with bitmap content, to implement OSDs and other application user interfaces.
  • How To: Broadband Card Setup on SLED 10 SP1
    Posted on Tuesday, November 18th, 2008 in Desktop – Views: (1497)
    Many customers have asked about this set of steps, and it’s finally possible to use Broadband cards from all three major vendors on SLED 10 SP1 due to some awesome driver work and the efforts of Greg KH and others.Setting Up the Cards Here are the steps needed to setup most broadband cards that are available in the Unites States from AT&T, Verizon and Sprint: Open a terminal session and login as rootInsert the broadband card in your laptopWait a few seconds and type dmesg in the terminal session.
  • 10 Years of User Friendly – The Book!
    Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 in Gear – Views: (126)
    One of my most favorite comic strips for years has been User Friendly.  Back in a previous life/job, we even made Sid (the ubergeek Unix sysadmin) a certified SAIR Instructor complete with his own verification code and entry in the official database.User Friendly is always spot on with it’s humor, causing many a reader to snort caffeinated substance accidentally, myself included.
  • About Time… Linux 64-bit Flash Player
    Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 in Applications – Views: (333)
    This has been a long time in the waiting. I have been using a 64-bit Workstation for a few years now and finally i don’t have to wait much longer to run a 64-bit Browser with a 64-bit Flash Player. Woohoo!Prior to this release 32-bit Flash Player on 64-bit Linux has required the use of a plugin wrapper, which prevents full compatibility with 64-bit browsers.
  • IBM to Buy Transitive – x86 Apps to Run on System z?
    Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 in DataCenter – Views: (166)
    At least that’s what I hope like heck this all means!From the Press Release:Transitive technology is currently included as part of the IBM PowerVMTM software designed to help customers consolidate their x86 Linux workloads onto IBM Systems. IBM is seeing a growing trend of customers migrating from under-utilized servers to IBM Systems, including onto mainframe and Power Systems. The company is committed to developing additional tools and solutions to make migrations even easier, while minimizing the risk and increasing the financial returns for clients as they consolidate and virtualize to achieve significant business benefit.
  • 2x RAM for swap space? huh?
    Posted on Wednesday, November 19th, 2008 in Applications – Views: (255)
    I came across an article here which sparked my interest in blogging about this today. Yeah i know “Big can of worms”I am calling this “swap talk” – This kind of talk has been around since the swap file was introduced, and the kernel limits on swap were introduced. (Meaning a very very long time. Say Kernel 1.x, 2.x)It seems i answer this question quite a bit in my travels.
  • SUSE Linux on Supercomputers
    Posted on Thursday, November 20th, 2008 in DataCenter – Views: (218)
    SUSE Linux has traditionally performed very well in the high performance realm.Due to Autobuild and now the OpenSUSE Build Service we have been able to build a common code base across many architectures like: x86, x86_64, Power, Itanium and System Z. This gives people the ability to either scale out with commodity processors are scale up with higher power CPUs.
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