Sunday, July 15, 2007

Nvidia abandons Video Mirroring in Vista


Currently I use a PC (with 7600GT Nvidia video card) that is connected to a 19" LCD monitor and a Philips LCD TV to watch movies and also MLB.tv. This machine is dual booting XP and Vista Home Premium. I kept using XP because the nvidia Vista drivers wouldnt allow any resolution higher than 1280x1024 once the TV was on :(. This was no problem at all in the XP drivers.

So today I installed a new BETA driver from Nvidia and I was glad to see this issue resolved ! Also had to install numerous Vista updates and had to reboot twice :(. But much to my surprise there was no option like there is in XP to display video full screen on the LCD tv !!! And after some searching it turns out this feature has been abandoned :(. Apparently Ati does support this, and it's called Theatre mode. So next time you build a Multimedia or MediaCenter PC, get an ATI card. This feature is a musthave for me, especially for MLB.TV. I need to have the baseball feed fullscreen on my TV, and not the tiny window that gets stretched to full screen as that doesnt work properly.

Article on IT wire
Nvidia Forums

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

New photos

Added some new ones taken this weekend when it finally stopped raining ;).

From Foto's Juni J...


I adjusted some of the photos contrast color etc and uploaded those to flickr.

Also on greendale.tk.

Saturday, July 07, 2007

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Slackware 12.0


Slackware 12.0 was released just a few days ago. It's currently available as a torrent, I assume the mirrors will have images of the ISO soon as well. This has always been my favorite distro, used it many many years ago ( i am really getting old). Though Ubuntu is now on my laptop and mandriva on my desktop. It's not the easiest distro out there, but it if you know your way around config files and are not afraid to learn and do some research, I think it's still one of the best.

It seems this release has some really up to date software, more info on allaboutlinux.

http://www.slackware.com
Slackware torrents
Slackware forum at linuxquestions
Slackware review
Review at ShiftBackspace.com