My Eee PC 901 is more than powerful enough to play back 480p video, but not when it’s playing though Adobe Flash Player. 408p YouTube videos drop frames and don’t play back at full framerate. YouTube has an experimental HTML5 video player that should offer better better performance than Flash. I enabled it, but it [...]

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I’ve been doing lots of document editing with LaTeX lately, so I was happy to see that a new version of my favorite LaTeX editor has been released. Gummi 0.6.0 adds many requested features. I’ve been looking forward most to continuous scrolling in the preview pane, but there’s now also tabbed editing, project support, and [...]

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Whether you prefer indenting code with tabs or spaces, the last thing you want to do is mix both styles in one file. The gedit text editor lets you specify what to insert when you press tab, but if you’re jumping between files in different languages or written by different people, you must remember to [...]

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A dynamic DNS service allows you to keep a domain name pointing to your network even when your network’s IP address changes. Most ISPs will dynamically allocate IPs, so if you want to reliably reach your home network remotely, a dynamic DNS service is a good idea. ddclient is a dynamic DNS update client which [...]

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Recently I’ve fixed the tap-and-drag gesture, and swapped the right and middle click gestures on my netbook’s touchpad. I applied the configuration changes for these by adding the synclient configuration commands to Startup Applications. It didn’t take long before I noticed that some changes would revert after I suspended and woke the system. Even adding [...]

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