As mentioned in yesterday’s post, I got a new Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI Notebook. I did not had much choice in the hardware so had to take what I got. The specs of the machine is as follows: Intel Pentium Dual-Core T3400 (2.16GHz) 15.6 LED HD Brightview Widescreen 250GB Hard Drive 3GB DDR2 SDRAM 802.11 b/g […]
I just got a new Compaq Presario CQ61-140EI and installed Ubuntu Karmic Alpha 6 on it. More about that in a future post. One of the main issues which a lot of people had is that sound works through the headphones but not through the internal speakers which btw is Altec Lansing speakers. The first […]
With more than 250 men and women vying for the U.S. Open championship, it’s a wonder that each and every ace (and fault) is seamlessly shown on the scoreboard, your iPhone, and online. How do they do this? This is all thanks to IBM technology and people that has provided the systems for the US […]
Well, it at least fixed a problem of Windows not being able to boot. From ITWire: What do you do when Windows will not boot and cannot repair itself from the installation CD? You fire up a Linux Live CD! I always carry around a Ubuntu Live CD with me. Many times I have helped out my fellow Windows […]
I though it is about time I blog something about my computer setup. I run a fair amount of machines for either work purposes or at home. One thing I can say is that I am totally Windows free when it comes to booting up my machines. I do however have a Virtual Windows instance […]
I am not going to say much about it except why another OS and what is going to take them so long that it will only be available in more than a year from now. By that time the world has moved on. Why not just put a Chrome layer on top of say Ubuntu […]
A couple of days ago, I received an invite to start using UbuntuOne. I have been using Dropbox for a while already and am very happy with that. Now being an Ubuntu supporter, I decided to give it a try on my Ubuntu 9.04 machine. The install went fine and signup was flawless and worked […]
The gnome-terminal uses a termcap file for its basic settings. To change these:Code:sudo gedit /usr/share/vte/termcap/xtermNow look for a line about 1/3 of the way down the file that looks like this:Code: :co#80:it#8:li#24:\To change the number of columns, change the co# number, in this case 80.To change the number of rows, change the li# number, in […]
Around September last year I got a new work laptop – Lenovo T60. IBM, for whom I work, gives one the choice of what OS to run on the desktop ie Windows or some Linux flavor. Oh and some people actually do run Macs also. The Linux is either Red Hat, Fedora, OpenSuse or Ubuntu. […]
When I was running Ubuntu 8.04 I used Vodafone Connect Driver for Linux which worked but not great. When I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 I continued using this driver till yesterday when I managed to get connecting through Network Manager. By default Network Manager picks up the card properly but did not want to connect […]