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Category Archives: Laptop

Upgrade to Jaunty Jackalope

Sunday, May 3, 2009

Well, I finally upgraded all four systems to Jaunty Jackalope. I did the upgrade in pairs so that the entire network wouldnt be offline. I spread it across two days. I used the tutorial from UbuntuGeek to upgrade via the konsole. It was mostly painless, with my laptop being the most troublesome.  Having to re-configure [...]

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Use Xming on Windows to view X11 forwarded apps

Wednesday, January 7, 2009

Recently, I have had a need to use Windows more frequently (Windows-only games and ActiveSync!), but still have a high demand on my network at the same time. I have sought to be able to combine the best of both worlds. I previously relied heavily on Web-based applications, but my favorite Web Development IDE was [...]

Filed in Laptop, Putty, Quanta+, SSH, Windows, X11 | Comments (0)

My work-around for problems with suspend to ram in gutsy

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

I’ve been having some serious difficulty with my laptop and using suspend to RAM. Suspend to disk is another issue, with similar symptoms. This is pretty regular for a Linux laptop. In many of these cases, the cause of the problem is a hardware vendor’s poor implementation of the ACPI. I’ve checked and I am [...]

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Init: Error parsing configuration no such file or directory

Friday, December 21, 2007

I recently got a new Dell laptop, an Inspiron 1520. It came pre-loaded of course with Vista. I of course wanted Kubuntu on it, and that’s been an adventure.
Now… first things first. I setup the notebook using Vista and made sure that everything worked. Fortunately, everything worked… and worked perfectly.
Next, I moved into using GParted/CloneZilla [...]

Filed in 1520, Bugs, Dell, GParted, Hardy Heron, Inspiron, Kubuntu, Laptop, Launchpad, LiveCD, Vista, Windows, ntfs | Comments (0)

Using kTorrent in Kubuntu

Sunday, December 16, 2007

Having been an Internet user for a long time, I am well versed with a few topics related to peer-to-peer file sharing using the torrent system. On Windows, I used uTorrent, and initially after my switch to Linux, I continued to use uTorrent, just because it used less memory than Azureus. Eventually, using applications under [...]

Filed in Gutsy Gibbon, Kubuntu, Laptop, Peer-To-Peer, Remote Desktop, UPnP, Windows, kTorrent | Comments (0)

Recovering a crashed Windows on Dual Boot

Wednesday, October 3, 2007

Having previously configured my laptop for dual boot, I was satisfied with the way things were running. My wife would use XP. We’d enabled GRUB to save the default using the Start Up Manager, so we could hibernate in order to switch users and operating systems.
All was fine until Windows said “ENOUGH!” and bit the [...]

Filed in Dual Boot, GRUB, Laptop, Recovery Console, Windows, XP, fixboot, fixmbr | Comments (0)

The Greatest Keyboard Ever – Adesso Tru-Form™ Pro – Contoured Ergonomic Keyboard with Built-In Touchpad and Hot Keys (black)

Monday, June 4, 2007

Allow me to tell you about one of the best hardware investments I recently made. It’s the Adesso Tru-Form™ Pro – Contoured Ergonomic Keyboard with Built-In Touchpad and Hot Keys (black). I originally got this for my laptop, which is still running Windows XP. I’m very picky about my keyboards, and this one’s so awesome, [...]

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VMWare Server on Ubuntu

Sunday, April 29, 2007

One of my most critical requirements of the new operating system was an operational VMWare Server application. My wife and I share a network, and the flexibility of a VMWare Server was very appealing.
Our network consists of two computers, a P4 3.0Ghz Celeron with 1GB of RAM and an AMD Turion 64 laptop with 1GB of [...]

Filed in Desktop, Edgy Eft, Feisty Fawn, Laptop, Server, VMWare | Comments (0)