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A Use for NVidia

Posted on July 21, 2008 by Seb

The world has seen a significant amount of complaining about NVidia cards (the 8600 has had it’s fair share of whippings). However, I’ve come to a great realisation: with my exceptionally slow nvidia card I can see absolutely every draw … Continue reading →

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Amarok 2: Artwork is Back

Posted on June 27, 2008 by Seb

My last couple of weeks has been spent focusing on getting cover art back up to scratch in Amarok 2. Cover art really adds a lot of spice and colour into the UI of the application, especially now that we … Continue reading →

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Open Tech Summit Taiwan – Day 2

Posted on April 29, 2008 by Seb

Didn’t get a chance to blog about day 2 of the OTST2008 meeting yesterday since everything has been so hectic. Day 2 was similar in order to Saturday, hearing lots of excellent talks about open hardware and software. I found … Continue reading →

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Open Tech Summit Taiwan – Day 1

Posted on April 27, 2008 by Seb

Reporting from the luxuries of free Internet at our hostel in Taipei, Ian and I have been going over the talk that we’ll be giving on Amarok tomorrow at the Open Tech Summit here in Taiwan. The entire day today … Continue reading →

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nvidia performance problems (again)

Posted on April 14, 2008 by Seb

It’s that never ending story once again. Upgrade the video card, suffer extreme performance loss in the desktop: swap nvidia 7900 card for 8600 (a meager upgrade, but still) notice the desktop has dramatically slowed down (expected) recompile the newest … Continue reading →

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