Archive for October, 2008

Ayat-Ayat Cinta (Verses of Love)

I HATE reading novels. God only knows how I hate reading them, especially the ones that has words like “Love” or “Cinta” stamped to the title. However, the LOVE of MY life (my dearest wife, of course) is an avid novel reader. She just crazy about novels, and she keeps on pushing me to read [...]

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The RAHMAN Theory

Have you ever heard of the RAHMAN theory? According to this so-called theory, the first six prime ministers of Malaysia will be in the order of the first prime minister’s name, as follows:

Tunku Abdul Rahman Putra Al-Haj
Tun Abdul Razak
Tun Hussein Onn
Tun Dr. Mahathir Mohamad
Dato’ Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak?

Or, if events are [...]

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Superman Has Too Much Time on His Hands

Found this on Digg today. Maybe he’s just jealous because he wants a signal too.

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Ubuntu Dust Theme

I have just installed a new sexy theme on my Ubuntu Hardy, replacing the default brown and orange theme that hated by a lot of people.
The Dust Theme.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Intrepid/DustTheme
Dust is a concept for a new, refreshing look for Ubuntu. The idea was to take the defining aesthetic elements of Ubuntu and remix it into something [...]

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Getting Dell XPS Trackpad to work on Ubuntu Hardy

I had trouble getting my Dell XPS M1530 track pad/touch pad to work when I updated the BIOS from A07 to A09. However, it is fairly an easy fix.
Edit your ‘/boot/grub/menu.lst’ file with:
sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst
Then add:
i8042.nomux=1
at the end of the ‘kernel’ line. It may look like below:

title Ubuntu 8.04, kernel 2.6.22-14-generic
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.22-14-generic root=UUID=446ea0c-57b1-4112-939c-
3f1d74be9f5f ro quiet splash i8042.nomux=1
initrd /boot/initrd.img-2.6.22-14-generic [...]

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