Entries from Geeky Baldisms tagged with 'Ubuntu'
Fixing Goofed Nvidia in Ubuntu
I am very impressed with Ubuntu 10.04. Except for the fact that I was greeted with blank screen from the install CD, and had to get around that by booting with the nomodest option. See details here. Anyhow, somehow, my...
Shifting Linux Gears
Well, crap. The official Ubuntu 10.04 release didn't play nice with the Nvidia onboard video on my 2006 vintage HP a1483w. Booting led to a screen that was black. my monitor didn't detect a signal, and went dormant. What made...
Linux With a Minty Flavor
I love Ubuntu. It's been my choice for a desktop Linux for three years. But I just veered down a side road. it's still Ubuntu under the hood, but the distro is actually Linux Mint. Mint is basically Ubuntu with...
Ubuntu. It Just Works.
I love Ubuntu. However, I'm not nuts about the six month rewrites. So, I decided to try a couple of less-often-rewritten distros on a Dell GX 755. A month later, I'm back to Ubuntu. Here's why:...
4-23-2009: Ubuntu Timing Out
Today's the day that 9.04 is released, and guess what? Ubuntu.com's servers are swamped! I don't think it's a DOS attack from Windows zombies. I believe the entire world is downloading Jaunty Jackalope! Thanks, Ubuntu team, for getting millions turned...
Building a Linux Power Workstation from Scratch
My current desktop system is no slouch: a 2006 HP a1483w with dual-core AMD, two gigs of RAM, and built-in Nvidia graphics with 256 MB of shared memory. Hey, with two gigs, there's plenty to go around. A gamer would...
Fixing Keyboard Mapping Issues in VMWare 2.0
I **LOVE** VMWare. And I really love VMWare 2.0. But, despite its blazing speed improvement and improved console experience, it had a problem on my Ubuntu 8.10 system. Notice I said had. My keyboard mapping was fubarred on the console...
Reason #2,187 to Try Linux
I recently made this post in reply to a Windows user (a reasonable one) at Computerworld: Here's the "profound" truth that I finally learned about Linux: You can fix stuff. One of the most maddening things about Windows (including XP)...
Problems Connecting to USB Devices through VMWare 2.0?
Stolen from a forum online, placed here on my blog so I can find it: I’ve found I have to run this after connecting any usb devices: sudo chmod -R 777 /proc/bus/usb/* Otherwise when you goto device connect in VMWare...
Fixing S L O W Browsing with Firefox and Cox DNS Servers
I recently switched from AT&T DSL to Cox Internet. My download speed went from about 900k to speeds which vary from 3 meg (when usage is high) to nearly 20 meg (early in the morning). However, surfing didn't speed up...
Five Steps for Those Who Would save Others from Vista
I just got off the phone with my best friend, for whom I installed Ubuntu 8.10 on his laptop. I installed it two weeks ago. His main concern with Vista was that it wouldn't play ball with his office network....
VMWare 2.0
I just downloaded and installed the latest VMWare Server (2.0) on my Linux machine (an HP 1483w that has been blissfully freed from having to run on XP) yesterday. And I must say that I am blown away! It's a...
A World Without Microsoft
I woke up feeling funny yesterday morning. The sun was shining brightly through the window, but it was the same window that the setting sun uses to illuminate my bedroom! Strange... I went to the sink to shave. Being slightly...
Upgrading to Hardy Heron
I have upgraded a couple of computers to Hardy Heron this last week. My desktop machine at work (Dell 620) went nearly flawlessly. The only hitch was weird screen resolution on one of my two monitors. That was fixed with...
Enable USB Support with VMWare
VMWare is an esential part of my migration to Ubuntu, but it's not perfect out of the box. For example, USB support is not enabled by default for your virtual machines. There's an easy fix. Either precede the following commands...
Ready to Try Ubuntu? Here are 20 Reasons Why You Should.
Twenty Reasons Why You Should Try Ubuntu It makes Steve Ballmer very, very mad.The proponents of Ubuntu aren't in it for the money.If you're a Baby Boomer, picture Microsoft as The Man.It has the most newbie-friendly forum out there. Seriously,...
From Windows to Ubuntu
Ubuntu, with its Synaptics Package Manager (and command line apt-get), was the breakthrough in simplicity I needed to finally take the Linux plunge as my operating system of choice. Adding and removing programs was as simple as checking boxes. Dependencies were solved on the fly. And the operating system felt as comfortable as an old shoe within a few days of using it.
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