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First person Tetris is quite hard…

Madox — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:48:37 +0000

Ubuntu 9.04 – Jaunty Jackalope AMD64 (64 bit)

Madox — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 10:40:17 +0000

I’ve finally made the jump and using the AMD64 version of Ubuntu as my primary installation. There are a couple of tricky things to deal with, primarily with closed sourced applications such as Adobe Flash Plugin and Skype which are two applications I need to use.

How to install Adobe Flash Plugin 64 Bit for Ubuntu 9.04

A lot of the tutorials/guides online will tell you to use nspluginwrapper or similar. Adobe has released an ‘alpha’ version of their 64 bit player which is pretty stable so far…

Download it from :-http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html

Unpack the archive and copy the only file to the Firefox plugins folder in ‘/usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins‘ :-

sudo cp libflashplayer.so /usr/lib/firefox-addons/plugins

How to install Skype 64 bit for Ubuntu 9.04

You would think you could just go to www.skype.com and ask for a download and it’ll be like the Adobe site detecting that you have a 64 bit system right? Wrong (at time of writing). Annoyingly that’ll just let you download an i386 package!

You could manually remedy this by downloading the AMD64 .deb package from :-
http://www.skype.com/go/getskype-linux-ubuntu-amd64

Everything else?

So far the respositories have been kind to me… but i’ll update if I run into any other troubles

Voila happy 64 bit Ubuntu’ing.

MChumby – Interface Design

Madox — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 14:31:39 +0000

Working a 70 hour week dampened my enthusiasm for the MChumby but I managed to scrape a couple of hours today to try my hand with HaXe + Flash to prototype the Chumby Interface.

Test of revised layout

A few interesting tidbits were learned from the experiments :-

HaXe + Geany are great for developing flash widgets for the Chumby
Gnash doesn’t render the same as Linux Adobe Flash
Chumby renders the same as Adobe Flash
Text vertical alignment in flash is crap

A bit of background and a demo video of the widget on the Chumby after the break.

The last post describes my resurrection of a two year old project. Here’s a super short summary with many pictures, photos and videos!

The original layout

Original concept layout...

Original layout prototyped

Test of original layout

I thought the speed gauge didn’t look too bad but I got convinced by a friend to redesign the layout. Plus I really didn’t know why I needed a song name on the display or the blinker indicators…

The revised layout

Revised layout legend/summary :-

The speed gauge is the outer display.
The arcs are for the tachometer and accelerator position.
The yellow bar is like a fuel remaining indicator
Red boxes are for the transmission (mode/gear)
The cyan box is for a graph of… don’t know yet. Speed graph? Fuel economy graph? Any suggestions?

Gah Gnash vs Adobe Flash

I’ve been using Geany to write the HaXe code for this and it is pretty easy to link it in with Gnash to view the resultant Flash when compiling/executing. So all it all it seemed like a good package for flash development until I realised Gnash doesn’t render quite the same as Adobe… (“Gah” is my sign of exasperation that Gnash renders the flash differently…).

That’s not the important bit…the important bit is that it doesn’t render like the Chumby either!!! ARGH. (P.S. The fault is with Gnash rendering textfields vertically centered whereas flash render’s them top aligned, easy enough to fix…)

Gnash vs Flash player in Ubuntu

Chumby vs Gnash vs Linux Flash

Chumby gesture interface test video

Works pretty well I have to say What do you think?