Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008
I needed to read data from a USB connected hard disk formatted as UFS by FreeBSD 6.x on an Ubuntu Linux system. As it turns out, it was easier than I expected, as Ubuntu (well, Ubuntu Server at least) has built in read-only support for UFS file systems.
$ dmesg ...
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Friday, November 30th, 2007
I recently bought a new notebook (Sony TZ27GN, which is awesome by the way :D), and something that immediately annoyed me is the sensitivity of the touchpad -- so many times I would accidentally "click" while dragging across the touchpad.
So I disabled this feature. Here's how, running Ubuntu Linux:
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Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
I'm not sure exactly why but it appears that Ubuntu hasn't yet included Pidgin (formerly GAIM) in their package repository just yet. I have been running Pidgin for a while on Ubuntu (version 2.0, installed from a .deb I found floating around online) but I've been itching to upgrade for ...
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Saturday, August 25th, 2007
After the death of the hard disk in my laptop this week, I thought I would use it as an opportunity to upgrade my laptop to the latest Ubuntu release, Feisty. I've always found Gnome a bit sluggish on my 1.2GHz "sub-notebook" Samsung Q30, so this time I opted to ...
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Friday, August 3rd, 2007
The Dell Poweredge SC440 is an entry level "tower" server designed for small business environments. We have a couple of these in the rack in the office now, they're quite decent machines -- decently priced and well featured.
Operating system support is generally good, it supports Linux out of the box ...
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