{"id":22,"date":"2008-05-14T10:17:34","date_gmt":"2008-05-14T18:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.unbc.ca\/~gpotter\/?p=22"},"modified":"2008-05-14T10:17:34","modified_gmt":"2008-05-14T18:17:34","slug":"hardy-heron-in-the-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/?p=22","title":{"rendered":"Hardy Heron in The House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='e-content'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/249\/446182466_a170b5a357_m.jpg\" alt=\"Ubuntu\" align=\"left\" height=\"203\" hspace=\"15\" width=\"200\" \/><br \/>\nUgraded the family media center\/internet access point to 8.04 Hardy Heron and absolutely loving it so far.  A bunch of new features in the upgraded box.<\/p>\n<p>KVM virtualization supported in the new kernel<em><br \/>\n<\/em>I have been waiting to do this (reliably) for some time with Ubuntu &#8211; run a vitualized  Windows XP box for apps that refuse to play well with WINE.  With <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kernel-based_Virtual_Machine\" title=\"KVM\" target=\"_blank\">KVM<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Qume\" title=\"QUme\" target=\"_blank\">QEmu<\/a><\/strong> I will now be able to run my wife&#8217;s favorite long standing Windows apps within a reliable VM &#8211; nice.<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<p>PulseAudio integration<em><br \/>\n<\/em>I have been using <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dynebolic.org\/\" title=\"Dyne:bolic\" target=\"_blank\">Dyne:bolic<\/a><\/strong> for my multi-track recording projects, but the presence of <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/pulseaudio.org\/wiki\/AboutPulseAudio#Features\" title=\"PulseAudio\" target=\"_blank\">PulseAudio<\/a><\/strong> in Gnome will make my on-the-fly recording projects much more frequent and easy to manage using the flexibility of this sound server.  To date, my experience with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Enlightened_Sound_Daemon\" title=\"ESD\" target=\"_blank\">ESD<\/a><\/strong> has been problematic and unreliable forcing me to jump between <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.alsa-project.org\/\" title=\"ALSA\" target=\"_blank\">ALSA<\/a><\/strong> and ESD depending on the app I am using.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox 3<br \/>\nI have been a Mozilla user since the Phoenix\/Firebird days and am thrilled to see Firefox 3.  Among the new features are added auto-complete functionality in the location bar, smoother scrolling in tabs, and probably my favorite &#8211; the ability to configure site-specific preferences and direct protocols to either web services or installed apps.  For example, Firefox can be configured to direct all mailto: links to Gmail within a new tab.<\/p>\n<p>Miro<br \/>\nI can&#8217;t explain it, but <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.getmiro.com\/\" title=\"Miro\" target=\"_blank\">Miro<\/a><\/strong>, the wicked PVR-like internet video app, seems to be working MUCH better in Hardy.  I was having some significant problems with Miro crashing when jumping to a new video while midway through another.  This is especially good for my kids who like to jump between their They Might Be Giants (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmbg.com\/_media\/_pod\/podcast.xml\" title=\"RSS Feed for TMBG Podcast for Kids\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feed<\/a><\/strong>) and Sesame Street (<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sesameworkshop.org\/podcasts\/sesamestreet\/rss.xml\" title=\"Sesame Street Podcast RSS\" target=\"_blank\">RSS feed<\/a><\/strong>) podcasts in Miro and raise holy hell when Miro crashes!<\/p>\n<p>Looking forward to exploring and playing with the new features over the coming weeks.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugraded the family media center\/internet access point to 8.04 Hardy Heron and absolutely loving it so far. A bunch of new features in the upgraded box. KVM virtualization supported in the new kernel I have been waiting to do this (reliably) for some time with Ubuntu &#8211; run a vitualized Windows XP box for apps&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"webmentions_disabled_pings":false,"webmentions_disabled":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":3,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-22","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-play","category-work","tag-linux","h-entry","hentry","kind-"],"kind":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/networkeffects.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}