I have to say, since I bought my new tv, and went back to using the component cable to connect my Xbox 360 (at 1080p as well :D) instead of the VGA Cable, I’ve noticed a significant increase in the picture quality of my DVD’s.

Now, I’ve watched movie’s on an HD DVD player at 1080p (full HD) before, and the image quality and sound is brilliant, I can’t say much for Blu Ray, as I’ve never watched a Blu Ray film as of yet. However, while my normal DVD’s are nowhere near the same quality as a proper HD source, the image quality is certainly FAR better than that of a normal DVD player.

I’m very impressed…I’m currently watching the Star Wars films on here - in what I call “Semi-HD”

Title says it all…condolences to all those affected by the loss of (in my opinion) a great actor especially to his 2 year old daughter.

Found out last Thursday, that the free Xbox Live Arcade Game all members are meant to receive as compensation for the completely abysmal performance of Xbox Live over the Christmas period.

The game we’ll all be receiving is Undertow which normally sells for 800 MS Points, though there isn’t yet a word on whether Microsoft will be refunding those people who have already bought the game. Quite why they didn’t just release a new game for free is beyond me, it’d be a lot easier. Never mind.

From what I’ve found out, Undertow is some sort of “Aquatic Shooter” now - whether that means under water, or based on water, I’ve got to wait until morning to find out. Plus, if I get bored, you might find a review on here as well soon

I got a little bored yesterday, so I downloaded Conky, it’s a kind of system monitor for Linux machines, though if you check it may run on Windows/Mac as well.

Anyway, I decided I wouldn’t download it from the repositories ready made and ready to run. I downloaded the source code and compiled it myself, so I had the very latest version I’m glad I did, it taught me some new things

I have to say that I REALLY like it. Especially because of the capabilities it has…and how much you can customise it…I spent around 2-4 hours customising mine!

Here’s a screen shot of the finished product (Click the thumbnail for the full size image)

Yes you read that right!

I stumbled upon it earlier, and it did make me laugh. It’s even a genuine Google  page, along with Google Klingon.
Below you’ll find links to both

32 of course.

Yes I posted a while back about how I moved my Ubuntu installation over to 64 bit, and I really enjoyed it, only had a very minor issue with Flash, but nothing that couldn’t be solved with a quick fix.

Yet I’m back to 32 bit…why? Because it’s less hassle with flash, and also the fact that I don’t really NEED 64 bit processing at the moment, I mean, I don’t do any Video Encoding/Re-encoding, or anything like that, or Image Editing. So when I managed to break the install, I just thought I’d go back to 32 bit.

I still would recommend 64 bit if you have a capable PC, to make the most out of your hardware.

Ok so I downloaded the Kubuntu KDE4 cd image earlier, and because I couldn’t find, nor be bothered to erase a CD to burn, I ran it in a Virtual Machine using VMWare.

I think it’s really good, I’m not a fan of KDE anyway, but it looks very nice, and I think the widgets could help Mac users migrate to Linux. Problem for me is that it reminds me a lot of Vista…you know, that ‘new’ OS from Microsoft .

Anyway I’d still say that it was definitely worth a look

I’m planning on trying out KDE 4 in the coming days, as there is now a Kubuntu 7.10 liveCD with KDE4 preinstalled. I’ll post something back when I’ve said what I think. So far everything I’ve heard is positive, which is good…but I’ve always found KDE a bit too bloated & Windows like in it’s presentation.

So it’s back to normal for most people and we’re all back at work/college/university and all can’t be bothered (me especially!!) so I figured I’d make a post in the 3 hours I’m free today.

I noticed last night that the Xbox Live issues everybody has been experiencing over the Christmas season still haven’t gone completely, which is annoying…and there’s still no news on that free arcade game.

Also there’s been a lot of people on the Ubuntu Forums posting in “Internet Speak” e.g. lyk this n its hard 2 read sumtimes LoL!!1!  I’ll be honest, and I’m sure I speak for most…it’s annoying…don’t do it I’ve been doing my bit to help all the newcomers that we’ve had over Christmas, so try to help us, and make the posts’ readable

I just read a post on Major Nelson’s website (it’s also on the official website) that there will be a free XBLA game for all Xbox Live users (Gold & Silver), as a sort of apology for the, frankly, appalling performance of Xbox Live over the Christmas Period.

I’ll put up another post when I find out what it is and when you can get it Until then, I’m just hoping it doesn’t go down (again), because I’ll be very annoyed, along with a lot of others I’d imagine.