Sarp Erdag’s Blog

I was extremely annoyed with a video flickering problem while using the compiz advanced visual effects on Ubuntu 8.10. Today I solved the problem by using VLC player and setting the video output mode to X11. It may work for other video players too since they all have similar settings.
On VLC, open tools > preferences [...]

I have been using Ubuntu 8.04 for about a month now, together with my old and faithful Windows XP. After some crazy virus/malware infection on XP, I was even more hooked to Ubuntu. Although my lack of experience on Linux systems slows me down, I have been able to do pretty much evertyhing I needed [...]