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Here’s a quick fix for an Ubuntu 10.04 bug that prevents USB Drive from mounting on a PC with Floppy drive (wow, these things still exist?) The solution is to remove the floppy drive module from linux kernel and you will be able to mount usb drive. sudo modprobe -r floppy Should you ever need [...]

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Debian has already turns 17 ! For those who wants to celebrate it (especially LoCo), you can follow the methodology as outlined in the DebianDay2010 Wiki page. I still didn’t see Malaysia among the LoCos that organized Debian Day 2010, perhaps we can hold a meeting on that?

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The next year Ubuntu Release Schedule for Natty Narwhal (11.04) has been announced! According to the schedule, Natty Narwhal Alpha will be released just after Maverick Meerkat (10.10) will be out in October! Here are the release schedule: 4 November 2010 – Alpha 1 Released December 2, 2010 – Alpha 2 Released January 6, 2011 [...]

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Good news to old time gamers, now you can play Dune 2 on Linux operating system natively (without dosbox or other emulator) with Dune Legacy project. For the uninitiated, (to my best knowledge), Dune 2 is the first RTS game for DOS (by Westwood, then acquired by EA Games) that spawn several other popular games [...]

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I found a great article from UbuntuGeek on how to turn Microsoft Windows 7 desktop to Ubuntu, with proper theme hack. The result is amazing! You can read the rest of the article here: How To Make Windows 7 look like Ubuntu

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Let’s say you’ve manage to get yourself into a GNU/Linux bash terminal. What can you do in order to determine its distro and release information? Listed here are the three methods to get release information of a running GNU/Linux box. lsb_release method You can type “lsb_release -a” /etc/*release and /etc/*issue method Alternatively, you could try [...]

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Dear readers,
I’ve uploaded Windows XP driver for Winbond W89C35 driver as it can enable the use of Winbond USB wifi dongle (VID:0416 PID:0035) under Ubuntu Lucid Lynx.
Follow the step-by-step instruction as outlined in the Ubuntu Wiki page, in order to use the driver with ndiswrapper.
p/s: I’ve uploaded this driver because I find [...]

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My Dell Mini 1210 netbook is using the Intel GMA500 built in display, which has a poor driver support on Linux.

By default, Versa driver is used when we installed Linux OS, but the performance is not good. Luckily, there are driver for Intel GMA500 “Poulsbo” video hardware in various Ubuntu releases.  Below is the method to install it on latest Ubuntu 10.04:
Command to add ‘GMA500 PPA’ repository and update database

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gma500/ppa && sudo apt-get update

Command to install all needed packages

sudo apt-get install poulsbo-driver-2d poulsbo-driver-3d poulsbo-config

Other Ubuntu releases can be found on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupportComponentsVideoCardsPoulsbo.

After installed the driver, we need to restart the machine. So far the released driver on support 2D, where 3D is not available. Anyway, the display performance is better (1280×800) compared to the Versa driver (1024×768).

PS:
I’ve tried on xubuntu 10.04, after installed, display faded to black only. Currently i installed the driver on Linux Mint, no problem.
Before install driver, output display to projector is not available, now is available.

Thanks to my pal Amet (9W2AZV), I manage to get my self a cheapish 19″ LCD monitor for one of my computers. The trouble is, Ubuntu is only able to give 1024×768 (or lower) resolution on this monitor, which is a shame because of its display size. The problem is related to Ubuntu failing to [...]

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Some of you may find that CTRL-ALT-Bkspace key-combo does not work anymore with Ubuntu latest releases, this issue has been addressed by Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) Release Notes which explains that the key-combo cause users to trigger it by accident.
How to restart X server?
To obtain the same effect, Ubuntu has decided to change the key-combo [...]

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