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 »
[Script] Find Maximum MTU
Posted in Network, Networking, Scripts, Ubuntu, Xubuntu on June 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here is a script to find the maximum MTU (the value before the packet is fragmented). I was not particularly satisfied with dlsreports guide. The command given for us linux might not work most of the time (doesn’t prohibit fragmentation at time) as well as it is not an automatic operation but relies on trial [...]
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 [...]
ALSA instead of Pulseaudio for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid – a Non-Destructive way.
Posted in Audio, Ubuntu, tagged 8.10, alsa, daemon, guide, intrepid, pulseaudio, session, Ubuntu, Xsession on October 29, 2008 | 121 Comments »
After upgraded to Intrepid RC, I once again fiddled with Ubuntu sound system to use ALSA instead of Pulseaudio in a non-destructive way (a.k.a no removable of Pulseaudio packages and configuration which in turn not remove ubuntu-desktop package which is needed for future distribution upgrade). It was a bit trickier to do compare to Hardy, [...]
