On the fly external monitor support (mirroring / spanning) on Ubuntu 7.10
My IBM X31 laptop has the capability to drive an external VGA monitor in addition to it's built in XGA (1024×768) Laptop Video Display Screen (LVDS). The new xrandr extension allows non-privlidged...
View ArticleMythtv gotchas when upgrading from Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to 7.10 (Gutsy)
I upgraded my Mythtv server from Feisty to Gutsy for no good reason (other than I like the pain). Gotchas I ran into when trying to get MythTV working again: 1. The upgrade lost/removed the...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Annoyances
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 from 8.10 over the weekend. The good: Faster boot up. (worth the upgrade all by itself) New notification “bubbles” that appear and then disappear again without any fuss....
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04 SSH login slow
SSH Login to my Ubuntu 8.04 machine was slow. (It would delay about 5 seconds after I issued the ssh command for the remote machine to request a password.) I believe this is because the remote machine...
View ArticleMoving NTFS paritions using Ubuntu (Vista, XP)
This guide gives a good step by step procedure for moving a windows partition from one drive to another: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7742172 If you get an “autochk.exe not found” error...
View ArticleRunning Ventrilo under Wine in Ubuntu Linux
Wine will install and run the ventrilo VOIP client very well. To get this working, follow these steps: apt-get install wine wine-dev msttcorefonts download ventrilo-3.0.5-Windows-i386.exe run “wincfg”...
View ArticleIBM Think pad X31 Radeon M6 – Suspend Screen Fix
My Thinkpad X31 laptop with a Radeon M6 graphics chip had a problem with ACPI Suspend/Resume. About every five resumes, the graphics card would get messed up, making the screen unusable. The computer...
View ArticleHOWTO: Full Disk encryption on Ubuntu 10.04
How to set up an entirely encrypted disk using Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS): Use the Alternative installer (text based) ISO image so that you have access to the LVM and Encrypted Disk options. Assuming you want...
View ArticleOn the fly external monitor support (mirroring / spanning) on Ubuntu 7.10
My IBM X31 laptop has the capability to drive an external VGA monitor in addition to it's built in XGA (1024×768) Laptop Video Display Screen (LVDS). The new xrandr extension allows non-privlidged...
View ArticleMythtv gotchas when upgrading from Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to 7.10 (Gutsy)
I upgraded my Mythtv server from Feisty to Gutsy for no good reason (other than I like the pain). Gotchas I ran into when trying to get MythTV working again: 1. The upgrade lost/removed the...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Annoyances
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 from 8.10 over the weekend. The good: Faster boot up. (worth the upgrade all by itself) New notification “bubbles” that appear and then disappear again without any fuss....
View ArticleUbuntu 8.04 SSH login slow
SSH Login to my Ubuntu 8.04 machine was slow. (It would delay about 5 seconds after I issued the ssh command for the remote machine to request a password.) I believe this is because the remote machine...
View ArticleMoving NTFS paritions using Ubuntu (Vista, XP)
This guide gives a good step by step procedure for moving a windows partition from one drive to another: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=7742172 If you get an “autochk.exe not found” error...
View ArticleRunning Ventrilo under Wine in Ubuntu Linux
Wine will install and run the ventrilo VOIP client very well. To get this working, follow these steps: apt-get install wine wine-dev msttcorefonts download ventrilo-3.0.5-Windows-i386.exe run “wincfg”...
View ArticleIBM Think pad X31 Radeon M6 – Suspend Screen Fix
My Thinkpad X31 laptop with a Radeon M6 graphics chip had a problem with ACPI Suspend/Resume. About every five resumes, the graphics card would get messed up, making the screen unusable. The computer...
View ArticleHOWTO: Full Disk encryption on Ubuntu 10.04
How to set up an entirely encrypted disk using Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS): Use the Alternative installer (text based) ISO image so that you have access to the LVM and Encrypted Disk options. Assuming you want...
View ArticleInstalling an Encrypted Partition with LVM dual boot on Ubuntu 16.04
The Ubuntu 16.04 installer has the option to install full disk encryption using LVM if you are erasing everything on the hard drive. However, if you want to dual boot (use some of the hard drive for...
View ArticleOn the fly external monitor support (mirroring / spanning) on Ubuntu 7.10
My IBM X31 laptop has the capability to drive an external VGA monitor in addition to it's built in XGA (1024×768) Laptop Video Display Screen (LVDS). The new xrandr extension allows non-privlidged...
View ArticleMythtv gotchas when upgrading from Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty) to 7.10 (Gutsy)
I upgraded my Mythtv server from Feisty to Gutsy for no good reason (other than I like the pain). Gotchas I ran into when trying to get MythTV working again: 1. The upgrade lost/removed the...
View ArticleUbuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Annoyances
I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04 from 8.10 over the weekend. The good: Faster boot up. (worth the upgrade all by itself) New notification “bubbles” that appear and then disappear again without any fuss....
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