I’ve just got a brand new HP Probook 5310m. It’s a really cute and efficient piece of hardware and almost everything worked out of the box after installing an ubuntu karmic 9.10.
I discovered yesterday, after reading this article, a bios option to overclock my eee pc processor.
The main purpose of this post is to gather some informations needed to properly install ubuntu jaunty on an Asus eee PC 1101HA. Update : Karmic on a eee pc 1101 HA :
I’ve just got a brand new dedicated server. I’ve installed an ubuntu server 9.04 and default locale was configured to fr_FR.FR@euro (which is ISO). My first try to change this to UTF-8 was to run :
Since it has been requested in the guesstbook, here are some details about my last desktop.
I have looked for this for a long time: how to have good fancy bash prompt. I found several example made in 1996 or 1998 that I had to tweak a lot.
Yesterday, my boss asked me if I could install ubuntu gutsy on his old unika laptop. Almost everything went fine, but the wifi. Even the kill switch wasn’t working and, typing in a terminal: iwconfig eth1 always outputs “radio: off”. I had also in dmesg this error: ipw2200: failed to send TX_POWER command So, the [...]
Create a new launcher on your panel or in the menu (using menu editor : right click on the menu and then, choose “edit menus”). Insert and/or select the following in the launcher properties window: Type: Application Name: FireFTP Command: firefox -chrome chrome://fireftp/content/ Comment: FireFTP Client optional : you may want to choose an icon [...]
Phosphor is a nice screensaver (at least, I love it) that scrolls a text on the screen in a old school 80’s style. On Ubuntu 7.10, it comes with xscreensaver-data-extra from universe repository. I wrote a bash script to generate the text choosing a random fortunes from a folder ~/fortunes where I save the fortunes [...]
My laptop screen is sometimes not bright enough and I have reach the top of the brightness according to the brightness control that is on the keyboard. The gnome applet brightness control has never worked either. But today I’ve found an utility (which was on all my previous linux distrib, I guess) : xgamma. Now [...]
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