Technology Information: 04/21/10

Car Stereo

Car Stereo


Car Stereo

Posted: 21 Apr 2010 06:33 AM PDT

Look at any lovely automobile stereo method and you'll probably see a Pioneer automobile stereo unit plugged in to the console. Alongside with quality speakers and a strong lineup of accessories like LCD panels and navigational devices, Pioneer products/Pioneer automobile stereos have earned a massive following the world over.

Nowadays, Pioneer automobile stereo units are not simple head units. A automobile stereo can easily be comprised of several items built in to the console of the automobile. Hardware like navigational devices, DVD players with LCD panels, coupled with the standard array of CD, mp3 and cassette players now usually go together. Four would be hard-pressed not to acquire all of these, as it is such a delight to see these units work harmoniously. But traditionally, a Pioneer automobile stereo unit is a head unit with a radio, cassette and cd player. No matter how bare-bones this might sound, someone will surely be impressed with the sound quality and features a Pioneer automobile stereo can boot.

The company is truly deserving of their name. They are respected for plenty of innovations such as interactive cable TV, the Laser Disc player, developing the first Compact Disc player for the automobile and the first detachable face automobile stereo, DVD and DVD recording, plasma display, and organic electroluminescent display. Their strength in optical disc and display technology is complemented by its state-of-the-art program products and manufacturing capabilities.

Something like the DEH-P90HDD Pioneer automobile stereo single CD player head unit. The DEH-P90HDD lets you record CD Audio (from the unit itself or from a changer) onto a 10GB hard disc drive, which holds about 200 audio CD's (using ATRAC3 digital compression). Your CD's are recognized by the pre-installed Gracenote CDDB database, which includes auto-playlists that make finding a specific CD easy. This Pioneer automobile stereo unit can also play your MP3 CD's and CD Audio, CD-RW, and CD-R discs. Also, the MagicGate Memory Stick player lets you play recorded Memory Stick tracks. The Organic EL display is easy to read and accepts picture downloads, so you can customize its look. Built-in DSP offers a 13-band graphic EQ and a massive variety of tools. The DEH-P90HDD is XM Ready and provides a steering wheel remote.
If cassettes are your thing, the KEH-P4020 Pioneer automobile stereo cassette player head unit is a lovely product to pick. It is a full logic cassette method with multi-color display, 45Wx4 High Power, EEQ™ equalizer method, Tuner, IP-Bus Method Control, flap face and has a detachable face security and try to do Bisnis Online Rahasia Dahsyat hidup Sukses dan Uang Melimpah

If you're planning to buy a Pioneer automobile stereo unit, why not match it with a set of Pioneer speakers ? Pioneer automobile stereo has made another innovation in their REV Series speakers, which incorporates technological breakthroughs in their IASCA award-winning Premier Reference Series (PRS) speakers. Rev Series speakers boast Pioneer's Kevlar Fiber Composite Cones, Soft-dome tweeters and Wave guides. Each speaker features a bright yellow cone and unique wave guides, and a six-spoke grill with a titanium finish that simulates chrome wheels.

Is Android to Phones as OSX is to PCs?

Is Android to Phones as OSX is to PCs?


Is Android to Phones as OSX is to PCs?

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 08:42 PM PDT

If you have ever dropped by my page here before odds are you know I am a Linux user and an N900 owner. The former of the two means I often get questions about my operating system from people when I am using my laptops out in public. Nine times out of ten that first question is "Is that OSX?" or "How are you running OSX on that non-Apple computer?" Depending on my mood I will either explain my operating system to them or simply comment with "No, it is not OSX." and go on with my day.

At any rate, in the last couple of months while I have been using my N900 I have been fielding similar questions. The only difference is that instead of hearing "is that OSX?" (the N900 can run OSX by the way...) I hear "Hey is that one of those new android phones?" As I am working towards becoming a teacher I figure educating the masses is one of my duties in life - as such typically I inform the person asking me that no, it is no Android but a different from of mobile Linux (which typically opens the "what is Linux?" can of worms).

All in all I really cannot fault people for being misinformed but I can do my best to remedy the issue when I come across it. Any other N900 owners out there that experience this or is it just myself?

~Jeff Hoogland

Installing nVidia Driver in Ubuntu 10.04

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 08:15 PM PDT

So I have been playing with 10.04 since it came into the beta one stage on my sager laptop and I must say I am enjoying it very much! One change I made however was changing over to the 32bit version of the Ubuntu and as such I installed the PAE kernel modules so I could use my four full gigs of RAM on the system still. I had everything configured and all was going well until the fateful kernel update...

Upon upgrading to 2.6.32-21 I rebooted to that wonderus "Ubuntu is running in low graphics mode" message I have seen oh so many times before. I load up the system in 800x600 resolution and and try to reinstall the nVidia drivers from the hardware drivers menu - only to see nothing was offered. Not a problem, I download the .run file from nVidia and attempt to install it. Installer fails with a kernel module error. After having a thread go nowhere on the Ubuntu boards for a couple of days I was able to work out the solution on my own. The issue seems to come from a combination of the new open source nVidia driver 10.04 is using by default and the kernel change I recently went through. The following is what worked for me:

First:
Go download the nVidia drivers for your system and install the packages build-essential and linux-headers-`uname -r`

Next:
Drop down to a terminal login and kill your X server

Then:
Install your nVidia driver, but when you run the install add the launch argument -k $(uname -r) Example: sudo sh NVIDIA*.run -k $(uname -r)

Now:
We need to blacklist the FOSS nouveau driver, run sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.conf and add blacklist nouveau to any point in the file.

Finally:
Reboot the system and you should be good to go! Enjoy.

~Jeff Hoogland

Raymond.CC Blog - How to make ‘Now Playing’ in Windows Live Messenger work with nearly any media player

Raymond.CC Blog - How to make ‘Now Playing’ in Windows Live Messenger work with nearly any media player


How to make ‘Now Playing’ in Windows Live Messenger work with nearly any media player

Posted: 20 Apr 2010 07:46 PM PDT


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