Howdy,
My trusted Toshiba Tecra M5 motherboard gave up on me last week. I ended up spending all my savings on a new HP ProBook 4310s from my university. But configure this baby is a pain when it comes to Linux.
I loaded Linux Mint 7 Gloria (GNOME) then switch to Kubuntu Jaunty with 4.3.1 from backport. [...]
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HP ProBook 4310s – Ubuntu Jaunty
Posted in ATI, Audio, Desktop, KDE, Kubuntu, Network, Networking, Ubuntu, Wireless, fglrx on September 30, 2009 | 6 Comments »
Network Browsing with pyNeighborhood in Xubuntu Jaunty
Posted in Desktop, Network, Networking, Xubuntu, pyNeighborhood, thunar on June 5, 2009 | 9 Comments »
-= My first offering to XFCE goddess =-
pyNeighborhood enables you to access your local network, mounting and unmounting shared folders, almost (yes, almost) 100% GUI – point and click. It works with both Windows and Linux shares,though I will cover the more problematic Windows share here. There are few guides floating around regarding pyNeighborhood but [...]
11 hours of Gparted and migration to Xubuntu
Posted in Desktop, Xubuntu on June 5, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Gparted is a wonderful piece of software compare to the Partition ‘Tragic’ (if you know which partition software I refer to). After 11 hours of intense resizing and moving blocks and partitions, my previous “frankenstein” hdd became a proper-planned hdd.
After a week of revamp my sluggish gnome into an xfce4 one, I decide to switch [...]
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty – Keeping the beast Pulseaudio at bay
Posted in Audio, Desktop, Ubuntu, daemon on April 21, 2009 | 150 Comments »
Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty distribution release date draws near. Pulseaudio – the future is coming up as well. I admit that it works better compare to Intrepid, however, I still want to stick to the no-frills ALSA for my Intel on board card. If Pulseaudio works for you, by all means stick to it. I merely [...]
Mail-Notification with enabled SSL
Posted in Desktop, SSL, Ubuntu, daemon on January 28, 2009 | 10 Comments »
Greetings everyone :]
After a long period of laziness, Intrepid problems on my laptop (wireless + kernel-panic #314961 and blank CD/DVD problem #321174), I finally resurface and of course not without a souvernir to you.
With many tasks at hand to handle, you are preoccupied most of the time, chances are important email goes unnoticed. Pidgin’s new [...]
