Archive For December 28, 2006
now i’d really take the saying – be careful what you wish for, it might come true – seriously. i didn’t really think i would get one this Christmas. a lot of things were in the way. first the HP laptop i had my eye on is only available in the US. second, who’s gonna…
the common things i tend to forget. one way or another a Linux user will have to face this problem one day.. . so in case there’s no grub boot menu, or you need to edit something, just go to the grub command prompt. press ‘c‘ and you will be taken to the prompt. enter…
it’s already halfway through December and 10 more days before Christmas. somehow it still doesn’t seem quite right. where is She? the Christmas decors hanging around are at a minimal, and i have hardly heard Christmas songs. one night while i was on the phone, i heard carollers singing a medley of popular holiday tunes…
a storm [supposedly] hit the Visayas region some time between the 9th and the 10th of December. Cebu, fortunately, is not within the direct path of this latest monster to hit the Philippines. internationally codenamed Utor and locally named Seniang, a Storm Signal No. 1, though, was issued in Cebu the other day. well it’s…
i seem to be having weird problems with the 2 latest NVIDIA drivers for Linux released last November 7 and December 4, 2006. last Saturday i upgraded to 1.0-9629 from 1.0-8774. the upgrade went fine. the nvidia-settings works again too. yesterday, Monday, everything was still ok. used my computer for more than 8 hours. today,…
One of the world’s largest computer and consumer electronics manufacturers will ship a completely open, Linux-based, GPS-equipped, quad-band GSM/GPRS phone direct, worldwide, for $350 or less, in Q1, 2007. First International Computing’s (FIC’s) “Neo1973” or FIC-GTA001, is the first phone based on the open-source “OpenMoKo” platform. Sean Moss-Pultz, an FIC product development manager, introduced the…
From Novell and Microsoft Today’s announcement of the collaboration between Microsoft and Novell marks the beginning of a new era: Microsoft is coming to terms with Linux. Read more Over the past six years, we’ve seen the effect that the open source community has had on Microsoft. They’ve shared some source code, driven community projects…
CONGRATULATIONS to my sister who gave birth to a cute and healthy baby boy last Saturday, October 28, 2006. she is now a proud mommy and i’m a proud uncle! she badly wanted her baby to be a November baby, but i guess he (the baby) already wanted to go out badly. hehehe.. . she…
november 7, 2006: NVIDIA released the latest display driver for Linux. supported platforms are IA32/64, AMD64, EM64T, Solaris x86/x64 and FreeBSD x86. the drivers are available at NVIDIA’s official download page highlights of this release are: Added initial support for GLX_EXT_texture_from_pixmap. Added new “Display Configuration” page in nvidia-settings. Improved workstation OpenGL performance in Xinerama. Added…
have you already seen the new KDE main menu codenamed “Kickoff?” openSUSE 10.2 beta 1 has recently been released and one of the highlights of this release is Kickoff — the revolutionary and redesigned KDE menu for openSUSE 10.2. on first glance, one would already notice that it’s not the traditional KDE menu. it looks…
how to build SUSE Kickoff menu in 7 steps a lot of the steps in this how-to is taken from the Building KDE From Source Step By Step tutorial. i would suggest that you thoroughly read that tutorial if you find some aspects ambiguous. let’s assume that all the needed tools and libraries for compiling/building…