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UDS Karmic Videos and HTML5 Goodness

By admin | Published: July 3, 2009
I noticed that the videos from the most recent Ubuntu Developer Summit are now online, and thought I’d have a play with the new embedded HTML5 video stuff in Firefox 3.5. Rather than view all the videos by downloading them individually I thought I’d make a page where I can view them all sequentially. Here is [...]
Posted in Advocacy, Fun, Linux, Ubuntu | 10 Comments

Joined up Dell support

By admin | Published: July 20, 2006
(not) I previously blogged about the problem with the video card on my Dell laptop. On the Friday I called Dell up having had no response from their website. They talked me through some tests which included reinstalling the device driver in Windows and reinstalling Windows itself. Neither of these I could do as I don’t [...]
Posted in Advocacy | 5 Comments

My broken Dell Laptop part 2

By admin | Published: July 10, 2006
Last wednesday I notcied X had locked up. I thought this might be a software problem so I tried a few things like changing video driver from the binary nvidia to the open source nv driver. I also did a full 24 hour memory test. The screen corruption still occured however. I sent a message to Dell via their website late on Thursday night. By 12pm Friday I had no reply, in fact no confirmation email of my message so I called them up. After calling 2 different support numbers (gleaned from the website) I was told there's a special number to call dedicated for Dell XPS systems - of which mine is one. I got through to a human being pretty quickly who started asking me questions about the problem. I pointed the guy at my gallery so he could see the problem for himself.
Posted in Ubuntu | 9 Comments