Author Archives: Panos Georgiadis

About Panos Georgiadis

Panos is studying Control Systems Engineering. He has passion with both hardware and software and writes articles and reviews for many IT websites. In his free time, he plays guitar and drinks beer with friends. Contact: drpaneas (at) gmail (dot) com

How to install AMD Catalyst 12.8 in Ubuntu

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Hardware Linux, Linux tutorials

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First off, this is the proprietary driver for AMD Radeon HD owners, version AMD Catalyst 12.8. So far, there is not solution for GNOME 3 tearing problem… just minor bugfixes included though.

NVIDIA 304.37 released

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, Releases

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Yesterday released the first certified series Nvidia 304.37, the new Long Lived release comes with many new features, improvements and bug fixes. If you have previously used beta 304.xx drivers then these new features won’t be news for you.

Pixar goes open source

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, opensource

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A few days ago at SIGGRAPH 12 conference, Pixar presented their latest hot technology called Open Subdiv. This is what Pixar uses in all their videos enjoying extreme flexibility that they can achieve with any kind of mesh topology through … Continue reading

No more blue videos on Youtube

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Frequently Asked Questions, News, Ubuntu

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Quite recently many Ubuntu users using nVIDIA hardware as their primary graphics card, experienced an unhappy situtation watching blue color videos on Youtube. The problem is widely known, since Ubuntu is the top mainsteam Linux distribution and Youtube is one … Continue reading

OpenGL vs DirectX: 1 – 0

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Gaming On Linux, News

Since Valve announced their official support for Steam into Linux platform, everyone is acting crazy. Quite recently, Valve’s boss – Mr.Gabe, said that “Windows 8 will be a catastrophe for PC game makers”. The next day, Blizzard’s vice president – … Continue reading

How to fix your discrete GPU temperatures

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Hardware Linux

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During summer sessions, computer hardware is getting seriously hot and needs our attention. The most common problem causing artefacts into your screen is due to overheated graphics cards. Either passive (without fan) or active (with fan) cooling, the optimum results … Continue reading

Google IO session videos hit the lights

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Android, News

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The Google’s Input / Output annual 2012 conference took place in San Francisco during 27-28 of June. Many developers around the globe were present there and the main topics of their discussion were several matters about Android platform, Chrome, Cloud services, Youtube … Continue reading

Gooseberry – An alternative to Raspberry Pi

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in Hardware Linux, News

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Gooseberry is another alternative to Raspberry Pi, and according to the manufacturers it is three times faster than its rival. This new berry comes with a new ARM A10 processor running at 1GHz stock frequency, while there is enough headroom … Continue reading

Linux kernel 3.5 released

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in News, Releases

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Let’s see a quick summary of what have changed and what we should expect from the new Linux mainline 3.5 Kernel.

Write your own Youtube music downloader script

Written by Panos Georgiadis on . Posted in linux command, Linux tutorials

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It’s an undeniable fact that Youtube is one of the top three most visited websites in the world. Many people upload their personal moments, funny stuff, cover songs, podcasts, screencasts etc, all globally shared over the Internet.