OLED TVs entering the market

The long waited OLED TVs from Sony, previously only available in Japan, might see American stores by the end of the year. Although I was hoping they would come to Norway soon, this is still a good thing, as it will probably be available in more countries soon after the Americans get it.

So now we must just wait and see, and keep our expectations up for this new technology with much improved color reproduction, image quality and power usage. We can also expect to have TVs even thinner than the flat-screen TVs we currently have, as the TV in the article is 3mm thick!

Source: DailyTech

Fixing long boot-time with black screen in Gutsy

After I installed Gutsy, I noticed that my the boot-time was considerably longer than other with Gutsy. We were talking a couple of minutes of waiting after I turned it on. So I checked around for a solution, and found one. Here is what you need to do:

1. First we take backup of one of the files with this command in the terminal:
   # sudo cp /boot/grub/menu.lst /boot/grub/menu.lst.original
   
2. Now in the terminal, run the following command:
   # sudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf
   
3. Edit the file's content to:
   

   # Usplash configuration file xres=1024 yres=768

4. Save it, exit the text editor, and run the following command:
   # sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
   
5. Find this section in the text file:
   

   ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash

6. Add defoptions=vga=791 at the end, making the section look like this:
   

   ## additional options to use with the default boot option, but not with the ## alternatives ## e.g. defoptions=vga=791 resume=/dev/hda5 # defoptions=quiet splash defoptions=vga=791

7. Save the file and exit the text editor.
8. Now run the following command in the terminal(notice the ` are grave accents):
   # sudo update-initramfs -u -k `uname -r`

This should fix the boot screen, and also result in a much faster boot.

Credits to malcam for his post on ubuntuforums explaining this.