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Fixing big fonts bug with Ubuntu Gutsy and Intel gma 900

Posted in Drivers, How-To, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu, tagged , on March 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

There’s an annoying bug that don’t permit to make a fresh install of gutsy on some machines without having really big fonts, that makes the system unusable. it seems that’s a bug in the dpi detection and there are a few ways to resolve this, for example copy your monitor characteristics from xorg.conf from feisty, [...]

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How To: Fix a little Qt font “bug” in Ubuntu Gutsy (VirtualBox 1.5.2) and Qt integration with Gnome

Posted in Gnome, How-To, Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu, Virtualization, tagged , , , , , , on October 24, 2007 | 7 Comments »

Installed Virtual Box 1.5.2, I immediately noticed that the fonts of the window were too big, if you experienced the same problem or you just want to get a better integration of Qt applications with Gnome here are some simple steps to follow.
First let’s install Qt3 configuration editor and polymer, a port of the “Plastik” [...]

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VirtualBox 1.5.2 a lot of improvements… let’s install it on Ubuntu Gutsy!

Posted in Freeware, How-To, Linux, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Ubuntu, Virtualization on October 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

There are a lot of improvements since the last version this software is growing really fast, that’s the power of open source ;)

From prompt:
wget -q http://www.virtualbox.org/debian/innotek.asc -O- | sudo apt-key add -
You should see “OK“
sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
and put at the end of the file
deb http://www.virtualbox.org/debian gutsy non-free
then:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install virtualbox
remember to add your [...]

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How-To Update IPW2200 on Ubuntu Gutsy

Posted in Drivers, How-To, Linux, Open Source, Wireless, tagged , , , , , , , , on October 22, 2007 | 31 Comments »

*updating drivers should be done only by experts who knows exactly what they are doing. everything you do with this is your own responsibility*
this only works for kernels prior to 2.6.24. with 2.6.24 kernels and later there are lot of changes that don’t permit to compile and install the drivers.
I experienced a lot of problems [...]

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Create mount and copy floppy disks images under linux

Posted in How-To, Linux, Ubuntu on October 9, 2007 | 13 Comments »

Yesterday I was searching a way to create and use img files using linux, and found a few simple commands that do the job.
Create a disk image from the phisical drive:
cat /dev/fd0 > imagefile.img
Copy image to the phisical drive:
cat imagefile.img > /dev/fd0
Simple isn’t it? And now the fun part :P
If we need it we can [...]

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