Tag Archive: linux

Just manually installed the all-new vlc 0.9.2, according to this Ubuntu forum post. In addition to all the packages listed in that post, I also had to install libgcrypt: sudo apt-get install libgcrypt11 libgcrypt11-dev I was quite curious, to see…
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After my hard drive arrived on Thursday (my first SATA drive with perpendicular recording!), I started preparing setting up my laptop with LUKS encrypted partitions. First, I tried Ubuntu 8.04, hoping that they may have fixed the problem with the…
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I had problems with my sound on my laptop from the start and today, I finally, finally managed to get it to work for good. Yep, not just after a reboot, also after coming back from hibernate! The solution to…
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Ok, I’ve finally managed to get my old laptop up and running with a fresh install of Hardy Heron and upgraded my new laptop from Gutsy Gibbon. Of course, it wasn’t absolutely without problems. 😉 Firefox 3 beta 5 cannot…
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Since Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) is finally available, I’ve performed the first upgrade. My work laptop was running 7.10 (Feisty Fawn) previously and I just performed successfully (!) an upgrade. I’m really impressed, not even a single glitch! 🙂 Why…
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Man, what a mission… Getting Vista up and running as a guest OS in my VirtualBox wasn’t easy. Whereas XP works basically out of the box and can also access shared paths from the host via UNC paths without any…
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I started migrating the documents and files from my old laptop running dual-boot Windows and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon. Since I’m installing a 64-bit version of Ubuntu for the first time, there are bound to be a few quirks on the…
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…and that 7 days ahead of schedule! Of course, it’s a simple business trick pushing the estimated date of delivery way into the future. But still, it’s nice when they not only meet the date, but are even quicker! 🙂…
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