Sat, 18 Nov 2006
X-Plane 8.50 for Linux - No Sound
Beginning with the last couple of release candidates and then the final release of X-Plane 8.50 for Linux I was dismayed to discover I no longer had sound. Thanks to a thread I found on forums.x-plane.org it turned out to be a problem easily corrected by upgrading my OpenAL audio API to the latest version.
I started X-Plane and placed myself at CYVR (Vancouver International). Once again I could hear the rain pelting against the windscreen of my 172.
CYVR 180500Z 09009KT 10SM -SHRA FEW020 BKN045 OVC060 07/07 A3010 RMK SC2SC4SC2 SLP193
As of February 11, 2006 the most current version of OpenAL is openal-0.0.8-1.
posted: 23:18 | 0 comments | tags: games, linux, simulations, x-plane
Sat, 04 Nov 2006
Use CSS To Center a Footer
I came across a version of the below CSS today and found it to be a simpler and more elegant solution than the multiple <div> tag approach I was currently using to center footer links.
The final rendered html should appear as follows:
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
.footer {margin:1em 0em 0em 0em; padding:0em;text-align:center; list-style:none;}
.footer li {display:inline; border-left:1px solid #000; padding:0em .3em 0em .5em;}
.footer li.first {border-left:none;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<ul class="footer">
<li class="first"><a href=#">Item One</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item Two</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item Three</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Item Four</a></li>
<li class="last"><a href="#">Item Five</a></li>
</ul>
</body>
</html>
posted: 01:27 | 0 comments | tags: css, web design
Thu, 02 Nov 2006
Fedora Core 6
I downloaded and installed the latest offering from the Fedora Project this past weekend: Fedora Core 6 "Zod". For me the fastest mirror continues to be the one graciously provided by Telus in Canada. As with the last Fedora release, this one installed without a problem on my Toshiba Satellite Pro 4600 notebook. Sound and wireless networking worked perfectly out of the box.
In addition to being one of the slickest looking releases, it appears to run faster than Core 5, which was even faster than Core 4. It is amazing to me, and a testiment to open source, that each release of an operating system can offer more in terms of features, yet still run more efficiently on my aging Pentium III notebook than the previous version. Wouldn't it be nice is all operating systems worked that way?
posted: 00:33 | 0 comments | tags: fedora, linux, software
