mindless ramblings

After lots of tinkering around, I’ve finally got Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) to work more or less properly in VMware Workstation 5.5.1. The actual installation is quite easy, you just create a new virtual machine, allocate some space for it and off you go. It’s just like a real install on a physical system. [...]

Tried to view some youtube videos just now but got this instead. The picture says it all really… but in case you don’t get it here’s some help. It gets better… checked back a couple of minutes later and it appears a lot of people have utterly no clue what’s going on, thus the 3 [...]

I was shopping with my parents at Wal-Mart this afternoon and I noticed that their newest generic Diamond Vision DVD player supports DivX! The model number is DVDV816X (or DVD V816X) and it’s a slim black unit. It comes with the regular outputs like component/s-video/RCA for the video, and coaxial/RCA for the sound. Not bad [...]