Acmelabs' Blog

Avatar 3D For Nvidia’s 3D Vision Glasses

acmelab68 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 00:02:21 +0000

Monsters vs Aliens was the first movie I’ve seen at TPB, which was ready for Nvidia’s 3D Vision glasses. But hardly anybody took notice of it, because the first comment was quite devastating, but very precise though. The file description itself laconically states: “3D” – that’s all. The subs were hardcoded on the left eye, [...]

Reanimating Elsa 3D Revelator Glasses

acmelab68 — Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:56:39 +0000

Actually it was a few months ago, when this used to happen, but until today I was simply too lazy to report on th following: I’ve bought a bunch of Elsa 3D Revelator Shutter Glasses at eBay for a few bucks a few years ago, and was quite happy with them, because almost all of [...]

VDR Installation Guide for Lucid (VDPAU,xineliboutput,vdr-sxfe)

acmelab68 — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:04:20 +0000

This is an Installation HOWTO for VDR with HDTV support for Lucid Lynx (Ubuntu 10.04 LTS). I’m starting VDR from inside MMS (My Media System, a lightweight media center for Linux [wiki][forum][bug]), so it’s actually a HOWTO about installing a whole Media Center PC (HTPC). I’m still using MMS, and not XBMC, MythTV or Elisa [...]

Cyrus2.2 after Lucid Upgrade doesn’t start.

acmelab68 — Thu, 20 May 2010 09:33:28 +0000

I’ve got running a Cyrus IMAP mail server with an EXIM4 as MTA [1]. Unfortunately after an system upgrade from Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 onto Lucid Lynx aka 10.04 LTS Server my Cyrus refuses to start. It prompts at the console: /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2: Database backends mismatch! You must manually /etc/init.d/cyrus2.2: verify and update the Cyrus databases [...]

Nvidia 3D Vision – Missing Application Support

acmelab68 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 14:02:42 +0000

Nvidia’s 3D Vision shutter glasses are awesome, no doubt about it, BUT… I’ve managed to control my negative emotions regarding the lack of driver support for my old Elsa 3D Revelator glasses. It’s also OK that the prize for the new 3D Vision glasses is pretty high. I think, as long as the support will [...]

First impression of the new Fujifilm Real 3D W1 2.0 Firmware Version

acmelab68 — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 10:05:02 +0000

I was utterly psyched when I read the first time about the new firmware version for the Fujifilm Real 3D W1 streoscopic cam. I’ve read on several sites, the new version enables the cam to shoot at a aspect ratio of 1.677, what means it’s the generic HDTV aspect ratio. This means also no black [...]

Sample Pictures of the new FujiFilm Real 3D W1 Cam.

acmelab68 — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 17:48:39 +0000

I’m quite interested in the new FujiFilm Real 3D W1 cam. It’s the first of its kind. She makes real 3D images (side-by-side), and do also movies at 640×480. A lot has been written, and there quite a lot reviews about it. Since I have the possibility to look at such pictures with my Elsa [...]

Online file converter for MS-and OpenOffice Documents

acmelab68 — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 17:46:40 +0000

I stumbled upon this really nice site, and spontaniously decided to code a small page, Free Online Office Document Conversion Service wich lets you convert Office documents into various formats. [update]Today I’ve found a few uploaded documents, which weren’t converted neither deleled. They all had a white space in their filename in common. I’ve fixed [...]

HOWTO: Migration from VMWare to KVM (Linux)

acmelab68 — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 22:31:13 +0000

If you’re not satisfied with VMWare’s support regarding Linux, and your VMWare Server 2.0.x doesn’t behave reliably, it’s time to migrate to KVM, if you are on Linux. I’ve done this, and I am quite happy. It’s working better, than I thought. Although there are quite a few HOWTOs and Migration instructions, nevertheless none of [...]

Linux: Some Useful Tips for the Command Line

acmelab68 — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 16:16:48 +0000

This is small collection of tips for the command line. The Linux default command line is bash. These tips mostly refers to bash. Actually are these commands, I’d like to use more often, but forget about it regularly. Especially the first one, searching the bash_history is extremely helpful. <Ctrl+R> Searchs in the history of your [...]