Stellarium

I know Google Earth now has a sky mode... but if you're looking for something simple you really ought to check out stellarium. its free open source, and totally kicks ass. I think its about 30mb's to install, meaning it is a lot smaller than google earth....





It is in synaptic package manager, so check it out!



I have installed on my eeepc and it looks awesome, I can't wait to get out on a clear night and use it!

Npviewer.bin

My computer seems to be jumping to 97 99% cpu usage, even when i'm just typing. I've tried to find a good reason, and it seems to be that it is the flash plug in... but it happens whenever I'm not using the internet now I believe.... either way, it is seriously driving me crazy....

here's some links

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/Fedora/2007-11/msg04255.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=647961

New Flash Update Broke Ubuntu gutsy

The new flash update broke my system. I found a great thread here on it. I had to read the text of which actually fixed it. which was this

64-bit packages: The Ubuntu 7.10 package is available here. Just download the package for your release, double-click the file, and install the package. For other releases, download and extract this archive and double-click the corresponding file to your release. However, I do not believe you will be able to use 64-bit flashplugin-nonfree packages without modifications on Ubuntu releases before 7.10.

I think if you don't have a 64 bit package, you ought to read about it here:

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=636397

Firefox Image Preview

I can't believe there isn't a fix for this. Because there really should be.

I hope the people over at Ubuntu Hoary decide to research it a little bit more.

Here's a general idea of what I'm talking about:



When I click on the folder option, my ONLY CHOICE is "all files" I don't have the choice to choose image preview or anything. However in my image programs like f-spot, and gimp, I have this availability....

Screen Resolution Woes

I simply cannot believe Gutsy Gibbon has done this TWICE to me in the past month.

My xserver will just give up and die. In fact, I don't even know if it is that. Somehow when I start up my computer, it will tell me the resolution is off, and will ask me to configure it.

Ubuntu will automatically default to low graphics mode with a Vesa video card driver, and no matter what I do, I can't change it back! It bothers the crap out of me. the first time, I just reinstalled ubuntu because there are absolutely no resolutions out there for this!

This time, on my eee pc it did it to me, and all I did was in the grub menu, boot in recovery mode, and then typed reboot.

now if that doesn't solve it for you, I did the quick fix found here first, but it didn't seem to do anything. Good luck!

dvd playback 2

I finally got everything to work fine.

Same way I did in Feisty. So even if Gutsy will automatically install restricted drivers and extras, THEY DON'T WORK. Funny how a guy can write a python script, and have it work for every nvidia driver, yet ubuntu still can't figure out how to do it themselves.

I would enable the restricted driver (nvidia) and it would install totally fine. Then it would restart, and it would shoot me into low graphics mode, an 800 resolution shitty display, and it was trying to tell me that my nvidia driver was a vesa. bull shit.

anyway, I just went with envy, and everything works fine.

Found here:

http://albertomilone.com/nvidia_scripts1.html

DVD Playback

I think Gutsy Gibbon is the worst release ubuntu has offered yet. Edgy gave me headaches, feisty was fine, but I am on my 4th fresh install of gutsy. NOTHING WORKS.

This is how I got DVD play back to work:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

also make sure you have libdvdcss2, and some other things.

I currently am unable to get menus working for dvds, and VLC will close if you try to load the dvd normally, but if I go to a certain title it will play. WTF? I never had any issues in my previous installations of ubuntu!!!!