I suppose there is lots like me that would love to work for Canonical. Now there is the why and the what. Here is my why and hopefully my readers can pitch in with the what part. So why? I believe in what Canonical is trying to achieve with Ubuntu and the way they are […]
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Marius
If you want to disable your touchpad on Ubuntu 9.10 then issue the following commnad once:gconftool-2 –type boolean –set /desktop/gnome/peripherals/mouse/touchpad_enabled false Then to disable the touchpad issue the following command:synclient TouchpadOff=1This command is just active for the session so when you reboot your machine you will have to issue it again. What I have done […]
I have a Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and for a while now whenever I start Ovi Maps, it switches off the phone. This started when I had Ovi Maps 2. I upgraded to Ovi Maps 3 (the latest version) and also upgraded the phone firmware to version 31. Firmware version 40 is not available in my […]
This blog was just upgrade to version 2.9. If you see something wrong please let me know.
As you probably know there is a trojan running around that is installed via screen-saver via a .deb install. More here and here. The safest way to install anything on your machine is via the Official Repositories using apt-get, Synaptic or Ubuntu Software Centre. If you do need to install anything that is not in […]
You do not know what SUDO is .. then you must be a Windows fanboy. If you use Linux and/or Macs, you will use it on a daily basis. It is that little command that is in almost every distribution of Linux and also in Mac OSx that elevates your privileges to root for a […]
So Phython, C and C++ are not good enough for Google anymore. And it seems it is all about concurrency, speed and getting things done. It’s called GO … The company says that Go is experimental, and that it combines the performance and security benefits associated with using a compiled language like C++ with the […]
From my earlier post you will know the problems that Network Manager has with DSL connections. The latest release (2 November) from Network Manager Daily Build PPA solve some of the problems but not all. Solved: Non system wide connections now work again. Not Solved: System wide connection still does not connect The “inefficient privileges” […]
Just upgraded from Jaunty to Karmic on my Desktop and everything went fairly smoothly. One major issue is that DSL Connections with Network Manager does not work. This worked fine in Jaunty. I use a couple of different DSL accounts and switch between them as I need with Network Manager .. that was in Jaunty. […]
So what the heck am I talking about. Since this is suppose to be a technical blog it can only be about Ubuntu and in this case upgrading to Karmic Koala ala Ubuntu 9.10. The first that was running Karmic is my Compaq Laptop and that has been on the Karmic road since Alpha 6 […]