Posts tagged Ubuntu

Card Reader on BenQ S52

In my continued coverage of getting my BenQ S52 laptop running correctly under Ubuntu Linux, I recently had the need to use the integrated memory card reader with an SD card. And Lucky me it didn’t just work so I hunted around the internet which lead me to an article on the Ubuntu forums. However [...]

The coolness of a 3D desktop

Well it’s happened I have been working full time for over a year now and I am just getting more and more slack at writing valuable stuff on my blog, he he he. But something most wonderful has happened over the Christmas break the alsa bug report tracking the problem with my soundcard has heated [...]

Open Java and Windows Options

Well it’s officially been announced that Java J2SE, J2ME, J2EE will all be released by sun as reference implementations under the Gnu GPL + classpath exception. Which I’m sure will bring a new era of Java, especially to Linux since Java will be able to be shipped with distributions without concern just like Mono is [...]

Freaking ALSA

Well I am still trying to get my sound card for my lovely new laptop to work in Linux, but it’s just not. I have googled so much and there is just an underlying problem with the card :(. The soundcard for this computer is actually part of the modem which really sucks and it [...]

Motivation

Motivation is quite a strange beast. I can have unlimited motivation for say… Software Testing and Reliabilty which I have failed once already I have none, and stay up till all hours of the morning finishing an assignment the night before it is due? But even worse than that is when you are at home [...]

Thin Client Fun

After reformatting our old Celron 400 Laptop to Hoary Hedghog, Oh the joy of only having Linux on a computer. However since most of my time at the moment is taken up doing C# development and more importantly of the MS.NET kind rather than the Mono But I was pleasantly surprised that Ubuntu comes with [...]

ep0in

For weeks now my computer, in Ubuntu of course, has been having trouble with ep0in at every boot my messages have been filled with: Jun 14 08:36:45 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: hald timed out on ep0in Which has in turn stopped hal from working properly so mounting my usb key most of the time just [...]

WP 1.5

Just updated the blog to WordPress 1.5 from 1.2 and I quite like the default theme I might be sticking with it for a while yet. Anyway time to go upgrade Warty to Hoary (Ubuntu Linux)

Speed up that laptop

I realised that acpi was not working correctly on my Laptop installation of Ubuntu so when I saw a tip for getting it working on the Ubuntu Forums I decided to give it a shot. Just by adding: acpi=force as a kernel parameter, either at boot using grub and saved it into /boot/grub/menu.lst And too [...]

I do Ubuntu

Not long back(July 2004) I told a story of my love for Gentoo Linux. However I must confess this is now over my wondering has continued and last Monday night (18 Oct) I installed yet another distribution over Gentoo. I went out and installed Ubuntu Linux in it’s pre-release 4.10. Yesterday however (21/10/2004) “Warty Warthog” [...]