Ubuntu on Toshiba A300 PSAJ4E
Info 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 Memory Controller Hub (rev 03) 00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile PM965/GM965/GL960 PCI Express Root Port (rev 03) 00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #4 (rev 03) 00:1a.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801H (ICH8 Family) USB UHCI Controller #5 (rev 03) 00:1a.7 ...
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July 17, 2008
Superkaramba and Gentoo
Nowadays it seems that superkaramba works well, in the past it was heavy and buggy and I used to have conky. There are no particular reasons that made me switch to superkaramba , other than moving from Gnome to Kde. My superkaramba monitor is based on the dual cpu monitor by ...
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June 12, 2008
Laptop ubuntu suspend and nvidia virtual tty
I decided to keep ubuntu even if I don't like this new release ( hardy ) at all. When it came out it used to hang for no reason , the new kernels seem to have solved the issue. I had two big problems, I couldn't hibernate/suspend and I couldn't switch ...
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June 7, 2008
Nokia N95 and UPNP
Finally i got it....at first it was a mess, some explanations on what does what: Media Server: it serves the content on the network Media Renderer: it renders the content served by a media server So I actually needed both on my gentoo linux. Probably the easiest way to browse content served by upnp ...
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February 22, 2008
Mldonkey and conky
In the past conky had some built in features regarding mldonkey that have been dropped later. I launch a script that uses netcat to do the same thing ( at least what I need). #! /bin/sh USER=user ...
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February 14, 2008
Sync: Nokia , Thunderbird and Google Calendar
I need to sync many applications on different devices so the best idea for me was using a central server where I can sync too. ScheduleWolrd is a funambol based service that regardless of its ugly interface does what I want .This small howto covers my Nokia N95 , thunderbird ...
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December 29, 2007
Laptop sound working
I finally have sound , nice to hear :P My laptop is a Packard Bell Easynote MX51-B-058 and is shipped with with Realtek ALC660 HD Audio sound chip, lspci gives the following: gas@gas-laptop:~$ sudo lspci 00:00.0 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Host Bridge (rev a2) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation C51 Memory Controller 0 ...
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July 9, 2007
Vista on PackardBell
I got a Packard Bell with Vista on it that reminded me why i don't like windows..... Vista is a bunch of shitty tools whose reason to exist is to drive you nuts. As soon as I started Vista I realized that having the harddisk led blinking every often would have driven ...
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May 20, 2007
Debian 4.0 out
A few months ago Etch was freezed now it has been officially released as Debian 4.0 These are the release notes and among the new changes I found: PHP5.x MySQL 5.x Apache 2.2.x GCC v4.1 from XFree86 to X.org v7.1 Updating Fist of all install aptitude apt-get install aptitude I used to have Debian Sarge 64 that is ...
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April 9, 2007
The worst Captcha EVER !!!!!
Sometime things are so badly made that it seems a joke... Here I am , asking myself why mldonkey doesn't load a local ipfilter if its download fails. So I went on their forums to ask and since I've never done that I had to register first .... I found ...
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April 8, 2007
Kiss Wordpress Upgrade Script
Description This is a KISS ( Keep It Simple Stupid ) script to backup and upgrade to the latest version your wordpress blog.You will need a shell / ssh to run this script ( tested on standard linux bash ). Features No configuration needed Full Database Backup Full blog root backup excluding the backup directory Automagic ...
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April 6, 2007
Italian anti-Microsoft Terrorism
aka: Google hates Microsoft or Google loves me? Weird .....the page rank misteries. A few weeks ago I wrote a post concerning how much vista is expansive compared to computers shipped with linux where you just pay the hardware and you get a bunch of good free software. Nowadays when ...
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April 6, 2007
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