Archive for May 2009

The guys behind the Google Maps are working on a tool for communication and collaboration on the web. It’s called Google Wave and it’s planned for release later this year. The nice thing is that will be open source’d and you can allready use their API to start building your stuff.
You can watch the video [...]

Canonical will develop an environment wich will allow Andoid applications to run on Ubuntu. Source.
Also, HP considers dropping Windows for Android in netbooks. Source.

I experienced a lot of random X server crashes using the proprietary driver for the NVIDIA graphic card on my Thinkpad T61 running Ubuntu 9.04 x86 with Compiz activated.
I managed to fix the problem by installing the lastest NVIDIA driver. I wrote a little script to automate the process and save time. I recommend you [...]

Recently I made a clean install of Ubuntu 9.04 on my Thinkpad T61.
I configured the figerprint, the accelerometer is reporting correct values.
I did not like the default resolution at boot. So I created a custom usplash.conf file:

sudo joe /etc/usplash.conf

I should contain these lines:

xres=1680
yres=1050

The next step was to update the “initial RAM disk”, that is used [...]

I use the following script to automatically update my Ubuntu box.
I don’t recommend using this on your servers!

#!/bin/bash
 
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