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Ubuntu 10.10 Thinkpad T410 screen brightness fix
The solution below was tested on Linux Mint 11 and Ubuntu 10.10 on a Thinkpad T410. After installation for the most part, everything worked right away and on an SSD drive, it felt blazingly fast. However, the screen brightness controls did not work. Some online research suggested adding acpi_osi=Linux to the kernel boot parameters and [...]
READ MORE »Firefox 5 addon compatibility
In the recent past, each new Mozilla Firefox revision has been meant with some degree of angst by users, who have worried that they would have to wait for their add-on extensions to catch up. So far, so good. The “rapid release” schedule of Mozilla’s Firefox browser, available for download today, doesn’t seem to have [...]
READ MORE »Firefox 5 released
Just three months after the release of Firefox 4, Mozilla has pushed out Firefox 5 for the desktop and Android devices. That’s a big change from the two years it took to move from Firefox 3.5 to Firefox 4. Firefox 5 is part of Mozilla’s new rapid release development cycle. This cycle, which is more [...]
READ MORE »Google to add Skype-like technology to Chrome
n a move that can be seen as a direct response to Microsoft’s acquisition of Skype last month, Google has said it plans to integrate real-time chat software that resembles Skype into its Chrome browser. The web giant is to integrate open-source software Web RTC into its browser, which will enable real-time communications capabilities via [...]
READ MORE »Wxcam – use your webcam as a security camera
wxCam is a webcam application for linux. It supports video recording (in an avi uncompressed and Xvid format), snapshot taking, and some special commands for philips webcams, so you can also use the program for astronomy purposes. It supports both video4linux 1 and 2 drivers, so it should work on a very large number [...]
READ MORE »Linux Burn DVD from the command line
So, I’ve just successfully downloaded an image of Linux Mint 11, and I’m ready to burn it. It’s a DVD ISO image and I downloaded it on my CLI only server, so I have no access to brasero or some gui tools, but since brasero is buggy as hell anyways, let’s see what other solutions [...]
READ MORE »Linux kernel 3 ubuntu install
Now, when Linus Torvalds released Linux 3.0-rc many people are trying to update to this version. I did it recently on one of my machines and decided to share instructions with others. For Ubuntu ‘natty’ 11.04 users the easiest way is to use packages from ‘oneiric’ 11.10 release. There are few ways of doing that. [...]
READ MORE »Monitor CPU/NVdia GPUs/Hard Disk temperature in Ubuntu using Psensor
Psensor is a graphical hardware temperature monitor for Linux. It can monitor: the temperature of the motherboard and CPU sensors (using lm-sensors). the temperature of the NVidia GPUs (using XNVCtrl). the temperature of the Hard Disk Drives (using hddtemp). the rotation speed of the fans (using lm-sensors) Installation First step is to install lm-sensors: sudo apt-get install [...]
READ MORE »Install latest development Ubuntu-Software-Center in Ubuntu 11.04
The Ubuntu Software Center is a utility for software management in Ubuntu. Current versions allow easy finding and installing of software. In addition to that it supports software purchases, includes a recommendation features, and replace other tools such as apturl and gdebi. Future version may allow replacing of APTonCD, and most of the Computer Janitor. [...]
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