Ubuntu 7.10 has been released!

Yeah! As promised by Canonical Group, the Ubuntu version of 7.10 has been released today. It is now available for download and order. Ubuntu has become a very popular Linux distribution ever. Since now, a few new features has been added in Ubuntu 7.10(Gutsy Gibbon).

http://www.ubuntu.com/

Darkwood themes

It's weekend. Means, I have more free time to talk but who in the world will spend their weekend with talking? haha. Instead, I spend my time customizing my Ubuntu. It's been a few weeks since the last time I booted into it. I installed a new themes and it looks pretty cool. You can get it from here. I'm using the latest distribution of Ubuntu(Feisty Fawn) and the themes works fine and It doesn't slow down my PC performance.

Novativa Streamster on Linux (Ubuntu Dapper)

Damn.. This thing is killing my brain! I've done everything I could. I already have the latest stable wine installed that I compiled it myself. I also installed samba and mozilla's ActiveX but still found no success. I know, the easiest way is by using the VMware software but It is not really practical when working with forex. I hope someone out there will help me with this problem. Thanks.

I really hope marketiva will develop a streamster for linux too..

A good way to make an offline packages for your Ubuntu!

I feel so lucky that I found APTonCD. This tool allows us to backup all the downloaded packages into the CD or DVD. Of course, this tool is very useful when your computer is not connected to the Internet. This situation had always been my problem.

This tool is very graphical and that make it easier to use for a beginner Ubuntu user like me. hehe.. To use this tool, you may need an empty CD or DVD but not really neccesery because APTonCD can also backup your installed packages into an iso images. Go to http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ and download the latest release of this tool if you want to have a try.

*Updated

Installing APTonCD in Ubuntu 6.06 dapper

I discovered an error when I tried to install APTonCD for the first time in Ubuntu Dapper. Something like "Dependency is not satisfied : python support" appeared. And when I try to install from the terminal, I got this result

kevin@linuxbox:~/Desktop$ sudo dpkg -i aptoncd_0.1-1_all.deb --force-all
Selecting previously deselected package aptoncd.
(Reading database ... 74701 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking aptoncd (from aptoncd_0.1-1_all.deb) ...
dpkg: error processing --force-all (--install):
cannot access archive: No such file or directory
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of aptoncd:
aptoncd depends on python-support (>= 0.2); however:
Package python-support is not installed.
dpkg: error processing aptoncd (--install):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Errors were encountered while processing:
--force-all
aptoncd


If you faced the same error as mine, try installing the python-support_0.5.6_all.deb packages from here before reinstalling the APTonCD. It works fine for me, it should works for you too.

Slackware 12!

After experiencing several times of failed installation and hard moments, I finally be able to online and blogging with my Slackware 12. It was the first Slackware I ever installed in my PC. Thanks to my friend for blogging about it because I became inspired after I read his Slackware review. :D Then I started to get my self a copy of Slackware 12. It took about 4 days to completing the 3.6GB of download via torrent. Yes, I know my internet connection is slow as I am a Streamshit subscriber. Then I burned the dvd image to my dvd-rw replacing the existing UbuntuStudio i previously burned.

Slackware 12

The newbie installation journey begin right after I boot the dvd. An echo prompted out and ask me to choose huge*** or something. I forgot the file name but as I am using x86 machine, so I just hit enter. Then I cfdisk to manage my partitions. After reserving two partitions for linux-swap and extended type of partitions, I proceeded the installation. bla bla bla bla.. and tadaa... The installation done. I installed Lilo as an OS manager so I be able choose whether to use Windows or Linux system. I rebooted up and aRgghh! No operating system! What's going on? After I reinstalled the Slackware and read the instruction carefully. I spotted my mistake that I did not manage my fstab before the I run the installation. I forgot to add all my systems and disc drives into it the fstab list and that make sense why Lilo cannot detect any operating systems at my first installation. And this time, Lilo shown up and the two operating systems listed on my monitor. I have booted the Linux and login as a root and start the x window and tadaaa!!! Yess! I made it! I can see the cool KDE blue mode interface on my moniter hehehe. But now its not cool anymore as I don't really like the blue color. I opened firefox but no connection detected. I take a while and play around with the network setting and configured my network manually and reopened my browser and Tadaa!! I'm connected to the internet! And now my graphic card driver. I go to Nvidia official site and download the related driver. I read some instruction from a forum and guest what found? The installation was easier for Slackware 12 because no extra configuration needed like I always managed to do for Ubuntu distribution. What else? Yes the sound system. I try to play the mp3 from my optical drive with amarok. The visualization seems to play but I couldn't hear any sounds out from my headphone. I check the alsamixer setting to find out if the volume is set to mute and yes it is. I have unchecked all the muted setting and tadaaa again!!! The mp3 is streaming fine. One more thing, the mouse wheel! I make some changes to the xorg.conf and rewrite the file. I reboot the system and again I try to scroll up and down in the browser to make sure it work properly and tadaaa... All works perfectly.. And now here I am writting on this post. Huh! what a long journey. But I feel satisfied that i made Slackware 12 working on my PC.

Waste of time

Kind of busy in the past few days. Trying so hard to find a way to build my own home web server, and drink 5 gallons of coffee every night and let my computer online for almost a week and sweating a lot because of the heat from the PC turned my room into a microwave oven. But in the end, it doesn’t work at all for both Ubuntu Server and Windows Server 2003 in my virtual server. It was frustrating and I gave up. BTW, I'm learning PHP right now instead of wasting my time trying those though things. PHP is fun and easy to understand compare to other programming languages. hopefully I can build my own dynamic site with PHP and MYSQL later in the future. hehe..

UBUNTUSTUDIO

Yeehaa.. Ubuntu on my PC! It was great, I'm not getting any problem during the installation. The interface was great but the editing tools was a little bit heavy for my PC. It's actually the latest release of ubuntu(Feisty Fawn). It's cool that I have my driver on the aptitude so I don't have to go to google up for my driver and sweating my head. I think, you shousd try it your self..

Ubuntustudio!

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