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July 10th, 2008

Pragmatic Programmers’ new book: Ubuntu Kung Fu

The book promises “Over 300 Tips, Tricks, Hints and Hacks” for Ubuntu users and those who are thinking about using Ubuntu.
The excerpts of Ubuntu Kung Fu are on Pragmatic Programmer’s website. I think that the excerpts are great. I even learned about the screenlets and the desktop recording function. I never knew […]

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June 18th, 2008

Looks like the Broadcom driver works better now

So far, I haven’t had much troubles with the wireless network in the office when I am using Ubuntu Hardy Heron. I don’t get disconnected after 15-20 minutes of being online. It used to happen that way a lot and it was really so much trouble having to connect to the wireless network […]

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May 19th, 2008

Extracting archived files

For lack of space, people compress files before copying them or sending them via email. If you guys didn’t talk about the archiving, you might have some headaches especially if you haven’t used Linux before. There are tools like XArchiver and when you’re using Gnome, there’s FileRoller and in KDE you have Ark. […]

By Clair -- 4 comments

May 1st, 2008

What’s your Ubuntu 8.04 experience like?

Just curious. What’s it like for you?
Was it hell? Did you need much tweaking? Were there times that you had to reinstall or you had to reconfigure something?
Drop by and let us know here on New Linux User.;)
Edit: Sorry I had a typo! :( It’s Ubuntu 8.04 indeed. Thanks for the comments.
Tags: ubuntu, user […]

By Clair -- 11 comments

April 30th, 2008

Review: Hackett and Bankwell Issue #1

I was lucky to have received my copy of Hackett and Bankwell Issue 1 this week. (Thanks so much to Intarcorp who sent me a copy!) I saw that there’s a huge penguin on the cover. Yay! Hooray for penguins! :D It’s an interesting way to study using Linux especially Ubuntu.
Things I liked about […]

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April 25th, 2008

Ubuntu Linux on the Nokia 800

Last year there were news about Nokia 770 and Debian Linux. A while ago I read about Ubuntu coming to Nokia 800. From the article, Ubuntu is already running on an SD card. :D Sounds exciting. It’s just that the Nokia 800 will probably be a high-end consumer device here in the […]

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April 24th, 2008

Ubuntu Hardy Heron is out!

And yes, the servers will be hammered by requests of people wanting to download the ISOs.
So use the mirrors, ok? :D
If you need a cheatsheet on the commands you might need, you could check out yesterday’s post and if you want to think about how you should partition and mount your Windows partition if you’re […]

By Clair -- 1 comment

April 12th, 2008

Want to overclock your Asus EEE?

Overclock your Asus EEE
Lilliputing has a tip for all you Asus EEE fans and users out there.
If you’re running Xandros, you can check out EeeControl. The latest version of the Ubuntu Script Pack should have you covered if you’ve installed Ubuntu. And for Windows users, there’s Eeectl.
But there’s a warning that you might […]

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March 28th, 2008

Get rid of the Broadcom blues~!

I saw this tip from one of the blogs on Planet Ubuntu:

* Create file /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
o gksudo gedit /etc/init.d/ndiswrapper
* Add the text below, save and close
o #! […]

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March 26th, 2008

Ubuntu 6.10 exits, Enter Ubuntu 8.04

Ubuntu 6.10’s almost at the end of its support period, coming this April 25, 2008. For those of you are wondering how to upgrade, check out the Feisty Upgrades page. However, the upcoming release is in beta already. Details are on the Ubuntu 8.04 Beta Release page. As it is still in […]

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