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6 Hours Ago

kostkon replied to a thread no youtube video in Absolute Beginners Section

Latest versions of Flash require a CPU that supports the SSE2 instruction set; your Pentium 3 CPU only supports up to SSE.

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1 Day Ago

kostkon replied to a thread How do I get flash running on an old pc? in Multimedia & Video

Actually Flash now works only on SSE2 capable CPUs. Hope that helps.

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread ZSNES on Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit, Ubuntu Studio 13.04 64-bit (raring ringtail) in Emulators

Nice article, thanks.

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread ZSNES on Ubuntu 13.04 32-bit, Ubuntu Studio 13.04 64-bit (raring ringtail) in Emulators

There's also the option of bsnes, formerlySnes9x (although, not as fast as zsnes on old systems).

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Output audio to a specific audio output device on a per-program basis in Multimedia & Video

Strange, you should be seeing something like what is being shown in the attached screenshot. EDIT: just saw your 2nd screenshot. Does the...

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Defense Zone screen resolution issue. in Gaming & Leisure

Probably the game runs in a low resolution (lower than your native 1920x1080) and your monitor is being forced to upscale the image (or maybe your...

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Visualboyadvance problem on Ubuntu in Emulators

Which scaling filter are you using (under Options → Filter)? Generally, try playing with all the available options under Options → Video and...

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread what is the different microphones in General Help

That's hardware specific. What is the hardware? The internal mic is a device that appears usually on mobile/laptop devices, the ones that have a mic...

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Output audio to a specific audio output device on a per-program basis in Multimedia & Video

Yes, you can, easily. Just install the PulseAudio Volume Control utility (pavucontrol). Hope that helps.

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Stuck at low resolution after exiting wine games. in Wine

You can always play it in a window, i.e. open the wine configuration utility, add the game's executable and set a virtual desktop for it in the...

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Defense Zone screen resolution issue. in Gaming & Leisure

Do you play it in full-screen or windowed mode? Have you checked the game's settings?

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1 Week Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Why does Update Manager ask me to "Authenticate" ? in Installation & Upgrades

It usually asks you for your password when it is about to install new packages (sometimes updated versions of packages have new dependencies and need...

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2 Weeks Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Amstrad CPC 6128 emulator for Linux? in Emulators

Yeah, that's Arnold TNG, which offers new features and improved performance in newer hardware and was integrated into the main Arnold codebase back...

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2 Weeks Ago

kostkon replied to a thread "telepathy" upgrade in Installation & Upgrades

Good one yeah :P Here is the security update info.

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2 Weeks Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Graphic EQ program in Multimedia & Video

There is one already, although it hasn't been updated for some time. Just grab the package from here (double click on it to install it); ignore the...

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2 Weeks Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid gets black screen with just a white blinking cursor in Absolute Beginners Section

Support for 10.04 will end in 2 days so I don't see any point in trying to install it right now. Maybe Lubuntu or Xubuntu 12.04 or the latest 13.04...

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2 Weeks Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Adding program to "Open With:" list in General Help

Did you try logging out and logging back in and then following again the above steps again?

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2 Weeks Ago

kostkon replied to a thread Adding program to "Open With:" list in General Help

Create a dekstop file for it, i.e. a launcher, using, for example MenuLibre (a very good app) and then right click on a .sunvox file, select...

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