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HDCP Hell

My Samsung SyncMaster 215TW is a fabulous display that has proven challenging to configure with Ubuntu. At the very top of the list is the inability for the DVI connector to do anything at all, even when the computer starts in text mode there is nothing onscreen. After plugging in a Windows laptop, it seemed the only conclusion was that DVI is effectively unsupported on this display. Read HDCP Hell >>

Virtual Box Virtual Keys

While a new Mac OS X laptop might be the perfect system for hosting a cornucopia of virtual machines, you may soon discover that many of the Mac function keys are already used by your laptop subsystem. How do you get something as simple as F12 to access the virtual BIOS using VirtualBox?

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Where is Starbuck’s?

Over the past few years, Starbucks has been embroiled in a succession of business transitions. At first, they started to try serving lunch, and then they explored the idea of a cooked breakfast menu which was followed soon after with Pike’s Place. Unfortunately, the results have been less than satisfactory and now Starbucks is grasping at even more outlandish ideas when perhaps they should be more focused on their core business.

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Accelerating Agile Development

In many respects, agile development can already be considered a more efficient software development methodology – it’s hard to believe that this process can be accelerated even further. While there are a number of things that you need to do to properly manage the risk of agile development, the cornerstone of this process is the iteration document which describes the features you are implementing.

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Playing ISO Images on Ubuntu

So it use to be that you could simply double-click on an ISO image and have it automatically launch Totem. Assuming the ISO contained an image of a DVD filesystem, it would start to play the movie. This convenient feature has been replaced in Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) with the equally convienent feature of mounting the ISO image as another drive.

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