pretention pretention http://wiki.yak.net/535 attempts to rip/watch bluray movies in ubuntu hardy http://wiki.yak.net/905 Sun, 01 Jun 08 04:43:59 GMT I hit a dead end trying to watch BluRay discs under hardy, but here's some links and the issues I had. gotchas with ubuntu hardy release candidate http://wiki.yak.net/900 Tue, 22 Apr 08 05:32:08 GMT A couple of disappointing aspects of Hardy that do not appear to be getting fixed before release. heads up for potential XBox 360 buyers http://wiki.yak.net/897 Mon, 14 Apr 08 02:11:28 GMT A friend of mine just returned his XBox360 and got a PS3 instead. Why? recent drops in DishHD audio and video quality http://wiki.yak.net/895 Sun, 13 Apr 08 06:34:22 GMT Some weird artifacts, robot voices... Matt's Bargain Basement Summer Of Code http://wiki.yak.net/894 Sun, 06 Apr 08 05:12:33 GMT Some small things I would like to fund, if anyone is interested. It only counts if it is approved by a source/package maintainer and/or included in Ubuntu's repository. Inclusion in the upstream repository would also be nice. Note the dependencies between some of these. The units here are in EUR, by the way. Please contact me via email at matt<>use!net if you are interested. a standard set of refactoring steps for C and C++ http://wiki.yak.net/892 Thu, 06 Mar 08 06:51:04 GMT While working on a large C++ project with another consultant, I started trying to codify some iterative steps for what we have been doing. using Visual Studio 2003 SP1 with the XDK http://wiki.yak.net/891 Thu, 06 Mar 08 04:06:32 GMT I am familiar enough with VS2003 to know that SP1 is a necessity. Unfortunately, the XDK will only install on a naked VS2003. Here's how I worked around it.