Nov
21
I did not notice right away, but since version 8 of acrobat there is GPU hardware acceleration. For now only 2d and no CUDA or AVIVO, but still a step in right direction.
Unfortunately Adobe did not enable it by default so you need to do it.
Here are the steps to follow:
Start Acrobat
Go to Edit -> Preferences -> Page Display
If your video card is supported in the rendering section you will find “Use 2D GPU Acceleration”. Just check it as shown below and enjoy.
Nov
18
Upgrade HP/Compaq Presario 1950NX
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My PC is HP/Compaq Presario 1950NX and it come with integrated Video Card (Nvidia 6150) and 1G RAM.
Even it has good CPU (Athlon XP 3800) lack of memory and slow video card did not allow me to use high detail settings even on older games.
To improve the performance of the system I’ve added 1G of RAM (~$50) for total of 2G (4x512M).
And added PCI expressx16 video card from DiamondMultimedia Viper HD 2600 XT 512M (~$65).
As usual the upgrade was not flawless.
I’ve disabled the driver of NVIDIA card as noted in installation document that come with the card (always read those documents they contain important instructions) and set from BIOS PCI express as primary video controller.
After that I’ve installed the card and then the drivers from the CD.
Up to here no problems…
But after I started video player I noticed that simply there is no sound. As usual I verified the cables – so many times I simply did not plug them, but everything was OK.
Then I opened control panel -> sound and audio devices to see for my surprise that the sound card was set to none.
Next step was to check Device manager – only one adapter was listed – ATI Function Driver for High Definition Audio…
After seeing this It light up – The Video card has HDMI output and is capable to transmit audio via that connection. This was counted as sound device and since in BIOS onboard audio was set to AUTO it was disabled.
Simply setting it to Enabled bring back my sound.
Nov
13
First 45-nm CPUs from AMD
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AMD officially announced first Quad Core 45-nm Opteron CPUs code name “Shanghai”.
They are not only up to 35% faster than previous line but also consume 35% less power. In addition improvements in virtualization can increase performance up to 40%.
They use improved Direct Connect Architecture in conjunction with HyperTransport 3.0 and AMD-V including new Rapid Virtualization Indexing feature.
New 45-nm process allowed to increase L3 cache size up to 6M.
Nov
11
newegg comes in Canada…
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newegg leading online retailed for conputer related equipment now expands in Canada.
New site is accessible here:
Nov
10
Changes in comments. UPDATED
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Even protection from spam comments does work correctly I still get a lot of comments to review in case of false positives.
To ease my work from today before you can enter a comment you need to prove to the system that you are human by solving captcha.
Sorry for all inconvenience this could cause you.
Finally this was not really well implemented. I reverted back to previous setup.
Nov
9
New version of Sumatra PDF – 0.9.3
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It was a while I did not check the status of the project, but after I opened my application it detected new version and prompted me do I want to update.
So now I have version 0.9.3. Here are the changes made from my last update:
0.9.3 (2008-10-07):
- fix an issue with opening non-ascii files
- updated Japanese and Brazilian translation
0.9.2 (2008-10-06):
- ability to disable auto-update check
- improved text rendering – should fix problems with overlapping text
- improved font substitution for fonts not present in PDF file
- can now open PDF files with non-ASCII names
- improvements to DDE (contributed by Danilo Roascio)
- SyncTex improvements
- improve persistence of state (contributed by Robert Liu)
- fix crash when pressing ‘Cancel’ when entering a password updated translations
As usual latest version can be downloaded from official web site.
Nov
6
It was something I always wanted to see…
Dribble, Freshrpms and Livna repos merged their packages in new repository RPM fusion.
This will give single point of distribution for many software packages and the end user will benefit more.
There you will find packages for Fedora and RHEL both free and nonfreee.
Here are installation instructions.
For the imaptient…
Grab and install those RPMs
Respectively for free and nonfree packages.
Enjoy 😉
Nov
5
How to watch CNN Live on full screen – hack
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We can watch CNN Live on cnn web site.
This is no really comfortable especially if you connected your TV as monitor.
Ghack published direct link and instructions how to watch it with WMP, but since no everyone have Windows here is the hack how to do it woth VLC media player.
Start VLC go to Media -> Open Network and paste following in address bar:
rtsp://cnn-cnnlive-1-primary.wm.llnwd.net/cnn_cnnlive_1_primary/
Enjoy…
Nov
3
Another “loyal” vendor seeks for alternatives
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Microsoft is rushing to release Windows 7…
After market success of Apple MAC OS X and Asus EeePC using alternative operating systems the ecossytem arround M$ succes is seeking for alternatives.
BusinessWeek reports that HP is trying to improve Vista or even replace it with another OS  possibly assembled by HP engineers.
HP has their own HP/UX unix based OS used in their high end servers so probably they will reuse their expertize in that field to release ..ux based OS.
Oct
24
WordPress 2.6.3
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A vulnerability in the Snoopy library was announced today. WordPress uses Snoopy to fetch the feeds shown in the Dashboard.
Even it does not seem as high risk vulnerability it is recomended to upgrade.
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