Recent content by tom61

With where it seems to be located in your room, I probably wouldn't bother with front USB, just bring a few extensions from the back over to where the monitor is at the desk. If you use a DVD rom that little, you could pick up a cheap USB enclosure and bring it out when you need, and store it in...

Even if there isn't going to be a native version of Steam, it works quite well with the current versions of WINE. You'll have to check individual games for compatibility, but I played through Portal shortly after it was a free add to Steam. ATI/AMD's support of Linux is supposed to be better...

The Gnome System Monitor can display all those as graphs. Right click on it, choose preferences and check the boxes for what you want a graph for. For simple up/down network transfer indication I use the NetworkManager Applet.

Yeah, unless you're only a few megs into swap, having the app not take up all the physical RAM, and then some, would be the best bet. If it is a few megs, try changing the swappiness setting to reduce what's cached.

If you're looking for something in the netbook size, but not necessarily price, the Fujistsu Lifebook P1630 is an expensive option. Older P16XX models with Core Solos or Pentium Ms go for around $500 on eBay.

Couldn't you just append the filename to the output? Sounds like a job for perl if you really need to read a log backwards.

Actually that is the new 'PowerBoost' thing they've implemented, you only get that speed for a couple of seconds when starting a file downloading. There should of been some marketing BS about it that came with your last bill, or bill before last telling you about it. Supposed to help on video...

I don't know any good stand-alone TV watching programs, perhaps someone else will know. MythTV will let you watch live TV, as well as play emulators and surf the web, but is much more oriented to record TV and change your system into a media center PC. It looks like your board is pretty much...

A livecCD will run, but be pretty slow with only 384MB of RAM, and I'm betting the DVD isn't particularly fast either. Some distros will let you save settings and programs on a thumbdrive when running a LiveCD.

I think installing the thumbdrive image of DSL to a USB connected box with your laptop's hd in it will work. If not, there's the roundabout way of installing DOS to the drive, and then using loadlin to start DSL(this is how I have it on my Toshiba Libretto).

Running Ubuntu 9.04 with the closed source NVidia drivers, and the only Adobe Flash trouble I have is that some more intensive Flash games (I.E. Darkorbit) and some HD streams (and the rare Hulu 360p) don't play well by default because Speedstep isn't reacting to their load. With all three cores...

I found a couple of boards that support AM3 and dual x16 slots (physically, same chipset as DFI): http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153152 http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813153142 Does this chipset support hybrid crossfire? If they do, you can get a...

Did you try the Hardware Drivers manager? (Gnome menu -> System -> Administrator -> Hardware Drivers) Sometimes helps with video drivers not being setup correctly. I use NVidia in my system, so I can't help much more beyond that. It could be a 64-bit issue. If your chipset has 3D accel in the...

Problem is that the Ubuntu repositories don't keep up very well with faster updating emulators, like MAME.

There are now decoder cards out for netbooks that can handle up to 1080p (Dell and HP offer models with them, IIRC, and bit of hacking they can be added to other netbooks). Adobe has announced that they intend to add support for these cards, eventually, to handle HD playback in Flash.