Monthly Archives: November 2006

OLPC in QEMU under Linux

By | Published: November 30, 2006

The OLPC (One Laptop Per Child) people have made available a VMWare image to show off their software.

I don’t run VMWare, but I do use QEMU which can open VMWare disk images. Here’s what I did to make it work.

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Channel 4 Restrictions On Demand

By | Published: November 30, 2006

So the people at Channel 4 are testing out their new On demand service http://test.geo. channel4.com/ 4od/get4od/index.jsp for watching TV programmes on your computer.

(I have deliberately broken that link so as not to help drive traffic to their site.)

Lets look at the minimum requirements:-

Windows XP
A broadband internet connection
Internet Explorer 5.5 or …

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Helping Windows Users

By | Published: November 22, 2006

I work in the IT sector. My job involves support and consultancy for SAP. As such people often ask me computer-related tech-support questions in my private life. I also get asked questions by colleagues at work about their home computers. Naturally as part of my job I also get asked tech questions by people …

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Compiling kvm Under Ubuntu Edgy i386

By | Published: November 15, 2006

kvm is QEMU with support for the VT Vanderpool or Virtualization Technology. This means you can now run QEMU on CPUs that have the VT instructions and you get a super quick emulated environment. Yay!

Previously to get spritely performance out of QEMU you needed the closed-source KQEMU kernel module. Now you don’t. This …

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Creating Screencasts on Linux

By | Published: November 11, 2006

Edit: I have updated and moved this guide to here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/RecordingScreencasts.

I recently created a couple of screencasts for the Ubuntu-UK LoCo team, of which I am a member. I’ve been tinkering with screencasting for nearly a year now but only recently has everything come together in such a way that I find it easy …

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