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Random thoughts on Linux (mostly (k)Ubuntu)

Amazon: Windows XP Refund

Saturday, August 8, 2009

I’ve been a linux user for quite a while now. I looked to buy a netbook without Windows on it, but due to market conditions, that did not seem possible. Based on this slashdot article, I went ahead and ordered the same item. (see my report on it here) The first conversation was over the [...]

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ASUS Eee PC 1005HA : Installation Report

Saturday, August 8, 2009

I just bought a netbook. It finally boiled down to this: ASUS Eee PC 1005HA. I bought it for the extra battery life, the improved processor power and loads of space. I promptly downloaded Ubuntu Netbook Remix edition to put on it. Installation was straight forward from the USB stick image. Almost all of the [...]

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Apologies to Planet Ubuntu Readers

Friday, February 13, 2009

Attention WordPress Users: It turns out when I upgraded to WordPress 2.7, it killed the feed url that I had set up for Planet Ubuntu and defaulted to the main feed for my blog. Hence, all Ubuntu Planet Readers might have been exposed to my blog postings not related to Ubuntu things. Hopefully, you found [...]

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Kaffeine, mceusb and irexec

Saturday, December 20, 2008

I have a PVR 150 with the mceusb remote. My setup is a dual screen with an nvidia 6600GT with a monitor and a tv-out on the component out (Y – Pb – Pr; red-green-blue) working with mythfrontend running on the tv output (you can configure this in the myth setup screen). See: xorg.conf. The [...]

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Geocaching tools in Linux

Saturday, April 19, 2008

I just bought a Garmin etrex vista hcx (phew!) handheld GPS unit, in order to use for geocaching. This post aims to address how to send geocaching information to the Garmin GPS device over USB. We will use the excellent GPSBabel tool to perform this task. Use either apt-get or synaptic to install gps-babel on [...]

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