Posted in Sharing on November 29, 2007 | 7 Comments »
This error occurs if you don’t have permission to access the Virtual Box. It happens be caused the you are not belong to the vboxusers group.
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ ls -l /dev/vboxdrv
crw-rw—- 1 root vboxusers 10, 63 2007-11-27 21:04 /dev/vboxdrv
There are 2 ways to fix it.
First, give read and write permission to [...]
Posted in Applications for Ubuntu, How To on November 27, 2007 | 28 Comments »
Kiba dock for Linux is almost the same with Genie Dock in Mac. It provide a good icons tool bar. Combination Kiba dock, Mac4Linux theme and compiz create a fantastic desktop for your laptop.
Note:
Try for your own risk.
Sorry to say, because it may not working with [...]
Posted in How To, Sharing on November 26, 2007 | 40 Comments »
Toshiba Satellite A200 and A205 series have problem with I ts sound when you install Ubuntu.
Because, the Realtek 268 codec from Intel ICH7 with Realtek chipset doesn’t support Ubuntu. So, if you want to get your sound back, you have to replace the codec with latest version from ALSA driver.
You can [...]
Posted in Sharing on November 22, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
What is Grub?
Grub is abbreviaton of “GRand Unified Bootloader”. It is used as a bootloader.
The location of grub is in /boot/grub
taufanlubis@zyrex:~$ cd /boot/grub
taufanlubis@zyrex:/boot/grub$ ls -l
total 224
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 197 2007-07-31 11:29 default
-rw-r–r– 1 root root 15 2007-07-31 11:29 device.map
-rw-r–r– 1 root root [...]
Posted in How To on November 21, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
If you want to know what are non-free software installed in your computer in an easy way, you can use vrms. It analyzes the currently-installed package list and reports the non-free packages that are currently installed to stdout.
Vrms was written by Bdale Garbee and Bill Geddes for the Debian GNU/Linux system, [...]
Posted in How To on November 20, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The default for new installed Ubuntu is clean desktop. So, if you want to get your Trash Icon back to change the setting default.
Step 1. Run Desktop Configuration Editor
Open Application > Accessories > Terminal and type gconf-editor.
Step 2. Give value for trash_icon_visible
After the Desktop configuration Editor is displayed, open [...]
Posted in How To on November 15, 2007 | 1 Comment »
In Ubuntu you can set all programs (such as OpenOffice writer, calc, impress etc) to print out in the same paper size. The setting will be kept in the file /etc/papersize.
taufanlubis@zyrex:/etc$ cat /etc/papersize
a4
taufanlubis@zyrex:/etc$
The size available for paper size are:
a3
a4
a5
b5
letter
legal
executive
note
and 11×17.
Additional paper names that one may encounter are: a0, a1, [...]
Posted in Applications for Ubuntu, How To on November 7, 2007 | 6 Comments »
What is Pidgin?
It’s a instant messenger, same like yahoo messenger, skype, irc, msn etc. It also has many common features that found in other messenger clients.
There 2 things that I like from Pidgin:
You can chat with AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, XMPP, ICQ, IRC, SILC, Novell [...]
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