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 …
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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, …
Accessing Remote Drive in Linux via SSHFS
There may be a case where you may want to access a certain directory or drive on a remote machine, and mount it to your local PC. For example, I have a headless CentOS box running Apache where all of my web application codes are sitting. Editing those web application codes are a nightmare when …
Drop it, Dropbox!
It’s been awhile since I’m searching for a perfect online backup application. I’ve tried many, but none have really captured my attention. Not until I’ve tried Dropbox. Dropbox is a free, multi-platform, online backup and synchronization application. My first attraction to Dropbox is because the client tools supports Linux. It also suports Mac OSX, and …
Guest-Host Connection in Vmware through Firestarter
Following my previous post on VPNC, after modifying the user-pre file in Firestarter, it somehow screws-up my guest-host connections in Vmware. The host, running on Ubuntu 8.04, no longer be able to connect to it guests, and vice-versa. The following is what I did to make the connection works. I had to post this up …
