Let me introduce myself

Some posts of my blog have already been shown on Ubuntu Planet but I haven’t introduced myself yet. My name is Alberto Milone, I attend the 2nd year of the 2nd level degree course “Lingue Moderne per la Comunicazione Internazionale” at the University of Lecce (Italy), where I got my 1st level degree in 2005. […]

NVIDIA 1.0-9625 Display Drivers (BETA)

This driver supports GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap and therefore AIGLX and Compiz should work now. Another amazing feature is “the new “Display Configuration” page for nvidia-settings. NVIDIA’s new display configuration options are similar to ATI’s dynamic display management options. TwinView can now be enabled real-time without restarting X (Xinerama requires X restart). TV-out on NVIDIA cards can also […]

Envy 0.4.2-1ubuntu10 has been released!

Changelog: envy (0.4.2-1ubuntu10) unstable; urgency=low * Changed: if the driver can’t be downloaded from the ftp address envy will get it from the http mirror – Alberto Milone (tseliot) <albertomilone@alice.it> Wed, 20 Sep 2006 10:07:43 +0200 As you can see from the changelog you shouldn’t have problems with the download of the driver as if […]

Mark Shuttleworth: One on the chin

Luis Villa is absolutely right in his castigation of our X update on Wednesday this week. As a team we made a series of errors, and the result was a desktop that was broken for thousands of users, for several hours. It has been a severe lesson in QA, something Luis knows plenty about. An […]