by admin | May 17, 2011 | Uncategorized
Recently ran into a problem where an XP Machine was always popping up asking to install drivers for every little thing including USB Mouse and USB Mass Storage Device which shouldn’t ever happen. To fix it where it automatically installs the driver and assigns a...
by admin | Dec 7, 2009 | Uncategorized
Here are two of my favorite wallpapers for Ubuntu. I like to go Distro themed when I work on computers by default. Originally from Atkarus Designs.
by admin | Oct 24, 2009 | Uncategorized
Apparently there are still some bugs to work out with Ubuntu 9.10 RC. If you install with Wubi and update grub2 automatically rewrites the MBR which disables bootup to Windows but Ubuntu keeps working. Here is a temporary solution. We need to fix the MBR for Windows....
by admin | Oct 16, 2009 | Uncategorized
I’m in the process of upgrading all my computers to the latest Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) and I really wanted a way to quickly customize my interface. I wrote this quick script that I plan on running immediately after installing. This script downloads and sets...
by admin | Oct 9, 2009 | Uncategorized
I have always used third party tools to zero write hard disks when I’m done using them or when some body requests it done. However, I have started using a external hard drive enclosure and I wanted to do it within my Ubuntu. dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb Since I...
by admin | Aug 5, 2009 | Uncategorized
Recently I’ve some problems with the panels in Gnome getting all messed up. It can be difficult to get everything back exactly where you want it. Easy solution is just do delete your config and let gnome rebuild it back to the defaults. At the terminal type: rm...
