Last month we posted “Top 100 of the Best (Useful) OpenSource Applications“, which listed some really good open source applications. One of the things missing was a good OpenSource, Flash content creation tool.
It seems there’s a new application in town! On March 25, 2008 the “Salasaga” site announced a snapshot release of their developing (it’s still in Alpha) , “Integrated Development Environment for producing eLearning”. As mentioned, Salasaga is still in Alpha, so it’s not ready for a production environment. However it’s really worth a good look. It’s available from their download page (which also indicates that this may be a cross platform application - Linux, BSD, Solaris, Windows).
From their site, here is some of what they have to say: Read the full post…
Hello everyone! I’m back from the Easter break and found this little gem in my email. It outlines how to play BlueRay and HD DVD in Ubuntu Linux.
In a nutshell it covers the need for mplayer and ffmpeg as well as DumpHD and the required hardware. I’ve not tried this yet (I don’t have an HD DVD player). I looked at the HD DVD player recommended for this and yikes! The price is $219 CAN. A bit beyond my budget unfortunately. However, that aside, the post is really great!
Hope you enjoy it: RestrictedFormats/BluRayAndHDDVD
One more quick post for the Easter holiday (here in Canada). I’ve started getting that annoying
“Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.”
error message again, and was looking for a quick fix (as I’d been logging into terminal each time to fix it without rebooting). To my surprise, the issue was way easier to fix than expected! All you’ll need to do is Read the full post…
I received an email earlier today that there was a flavour of Ubuntu Linux that I did not list in an earlier post: “Ubuntu Based Linux, 32 Flavours and Then Some…“. The derivative is called PC/OS. So with excitement, I took a quick peak at the site here: “Welcome to PC/OS“. Given it’s a holiday weekend, this post will be short but, here’s what they have to say about themselves… Read the full post…
Here’s the scenario, a friend of mine just bought a new laptop. When he was buying it, he indicated that he did not want windows on it (which should make it cheaper). The response from the vendor: “We can’t do that, it comes with Windows”. When he became a bit more aggressive, they indicated they could give him one without Windows (Vista SP1), but it would cost an extra $70!
Okay, let’s pause here for a minute I need to rant. I use Windows on one of my (old) computers whenever I need a copy of it running. My initial experience (and certifications) were on Windows platforms. While for all intents and purposes, I’ve pretty much migrated to Linux, I still think I’m open minded enough to stand back and form an objective opinion.
In my opinion, the above scenario is nothing more than Read the full post…
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