Year: 2011

Let us make it a happy and great one .. . May more bugs be squashed. More innovations made (or copies made better). Prettier designs. Lastly, may Linux and Ubuntu have more new years to come. HAPPY NEW YEAR! 🙂 Posted from WordPress for Android

In my first and last attempt months ago, I used the keucr module which is a pretty common SD card reader driver to make my laptop’s built-in reader to work. It failed miserably. I half-heartedly searched a few more times on Google but didn’t find a solution. That time I really had no use of…

It is great that Ubuntu has finally included PayPal as a payment option on Ubuntu Software Center. This certainly gives Ubuntu users more reasons to buy non-free apps from USC because they now have an easier way to pay for it – me included. In fact, I feel more at ease paying through PayPal than…

This is going to sound like a paid review but it is not. In case you are in the market for a wireless mouse and you can’t decide which one to get, or you’re wondering if it will work for your Ubuntu-powered computer, well, this I can suggest – Logitech Wireless Mouse M325. Originally I…

Well, I am now very pleased with the way my Plymouth Ubuntu theme looks. It is now more consistent throughout the entire boot process. In line with what I mentioned in my previous article about looking for a minimalist Plymouth theme with a dark/black color scheme, apparently I did not have to look any further.…

Starting Ubuntu 11.04 I have observed that Plymouth starts late in the boot process. Often you can only catch a glimpse of it before GDM/LightDM pops up. The same is true for Ubuntu 11.10. After a quick search on the Internet, I found out that Ubuntu 11.x versions appear to have gone away from the…

SIGN UP NOW! Help spread the word. As of this writing there are close to 1M (984k++) people who have signed up for the petition. http://www.avaaz.org/en/save_the_internet/ Right now, the US Congress is debating a law that would give them the power to censor the world’s Internet — creating a blacklist that could target YouTube, WikiLeaks…

Third Blade is a nice hack and slash type of game.  There are no quests, no items to collect or princesses to save. Just battle your way through the different maps and there are enough to keep you tapping your phone’s screen all night. You will be up against different types of monsters that will…

Guake has this annoying thing when used on Unity. It does not adjust its width to compensate for the Unity Launcher when it (Launcher) is set to Never hide. The result is part of it is outside the screen, particularly the right side where the scrollbar is located, and the Add A New Tab button…

10.04 Lucid Lynx and 10.10 Maverick Meerkat are almost identical in the looks department – both used the old boring (no kidding) Gnome interface. They even have the same cat-sounding names. If you don’t know your Ubuntu very well you won’t spot the difference easily. (clue: wallpaper) 11.04 Natty Narwhal and 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot are…

It was 7 years ago today –  Oct 20 (2004) – when the first ever Ubuntu was released into the wild. Dubbed as “The Warty Warthog Release”. === Announcing Ubuntu 4.10 “The Warty Warthog Release” === The warm-hearted Warthogs of the Warty Team are proud to present the very first release of Ubuntu! Ubuntu is…

Are you getting this error message on Ubuntu 11.10 when trying to open .xlsx files by double-clicking? Dragging the said file to Launcher where Calc sits, the file is opened without a problem. Opening it from LibreOffice itself is not a problem too. So why do you get an error when you double-click the file…

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot was released the other day and with it comes a plethora of new things. I am not going to walk you through all the new changes you will find in this release. No. That would be boring and you might fall asleep if I post an 8-page blog entry just to…

Meow! Meow! Oneiric Ocelot pounces on the virtual streets today as the 11.10th iteration of awesome Ubuntu in its bi-annual release schedule. This release sports a new and much improved Unity interface with a sleeker Dash menu. If you are an Ubuntu user and you have not tried it yet, well, where have you been…

(This is not an anti-Apple or anti-Steve Jobs post. Read further to know what it is about.) On the day Steve Jobs passed away, the whole Internet was flooded with sentiments of his untimely demise. Everyone who has a Google+ account, a Facebook account, a Twitter account, or simply read news/blogs on the Internet knows…