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Samsung LN32A450 HDMI Calibration Failure

Sunday, August 2nd, 2009

If your LN32A450 ever reports an HDMI calibration failure, here are the steps to fix it when hooked up to a computer via an HDMI port:

Download an 8×8 checkerboard patter, such as this one.
Make sure your computer’s resolution is set to 1360×768; its native resolution.
View the image in full screen (so that only it’s being [...]

Firefox, Ubuntu, and Spell Checking

Sunday, April 12th, 2009

I just noticed that my version of Firefox 3.0.8 running in Ubuntu 8.10 had en_AU as it’s default spell checking dictionary. Is this true for anyone else?
The only reason I noticed this was because Firefox was marking words such as “organization” and “enrollment” as being spelled wrong.
If anyone wants to look at their current [...]

Every time you send useless email…

Thursday, November 20th, 2008

Please don’t send useless email to the lists…

Samsung LN32A450, nVidia Drivers, and Ubuntu

Wednesday, November 5th, 2008

I just recently purchased a Samsung LN32A450 television and wanted to use it as a monitor. I figured that it shouldn’t be too hard, just plug in my computer to it’s VGA port and then change the resolution.
But, when are new things ever easy?
To make a long story short, I had to [...]