Instead of staying quiet for a while, I just think of an idea.
This is about posting the links that I read for the day.
So I can keep track of what info and blogs I've gone through.
Today, I skip through the following info:
Magnetic train:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic_levitation_train
http://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%A3%81%E6%87%B8%E6%B5%AE%E5%88%97%E8%BB%8A
Lunar space elevator:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_space_elevator
Other house energy rating software - Sustainability Victoria
ZTC Ltd. Tether-Sling Prototype - Page 10 - Orbiter-Forum
What is a well ventilated fridge space?
What is indoor or sheltered clothes drying line?
Energy Labelling - Selecting an efficient appliance Clothes dryer
Energy Labelling - Selecting an efficient appliance dish washer
Here are the url's I've read through yesterday or before, as from my firefox's browsing history:
Raining goals as Cahill and Co make statement - Football - Sport - smh.com.au
We were a circus: Rio praises new England order - Football - Sport - smh.com.au
Australian Building Codes Board: BCA 2008 Volume Two - List of Amendments
[轉貼][科技探討]MK82的衝擊——解析MK82核彈的原理 - 高達專區 - 動畫/漫畫 - 香港討論區 discuss.com.hk - 一個香港只得一個香港討論區
Which Linux makes the best business Windows replacement desktop? | Computerworld Blogs
Shorelink Library Network
Nabers Performance Rating Calculator
Windows Energy Ratings Scheme - WERS
MSI Announces Wind 2, Says Customers Hate Linux | Gadget Lab from Wired.com
Why smart people uses Linux « TransLXP - By Infrasound
Canonical Confirms MSI's Linux Return Rate Statement
Why so stupid?: how the human race has never really learned to think - Google Search
Edward de Bono - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
1/144 HG GN-X III A-Laws Type
Sale Items www.hlj.com
Main Page - DramaWiki
Linux Mint 5 "Elyssa" - XFCE Community Edition - Linux Mint
Solar power satellite - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
gundam 00 technology - Search results - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Artificial intelligence - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
pagetable.com » Blog Archive » Bill Gates’ Personal Easter Eggs in 8 Bit BASIC
Asustek launches new Eee PC laptop - Articles - Laptops - Digital Life
VF-25F Messiah Valkyrie Aruto Type (Plastic model) Bandai Macross Frontier 1/72
Space tourism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Spaceflight - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Real Cost of Space Exploration - a knol by Edward Isarevich
Moon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Earth Statistics
What is the diameter of the Sun?
Bureau - New South Wales Observations
Australian Water Availability - Solar Exposure
The Gardens of Babylon: Preliminary ideas about my PhD project
HVAC Systems
Hydrogen, H2, Physical properties, safety, MSDS, enthalpy, material compatibility, gas liquid equilibrium, density, viscosity, flammability, transport properties
Hydrogen - Specific Heat Capacity
SE_Ideal_App_for_FEL.pdf (application/pdf Object)
Space Elevator GEO Station on Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Music of the Spheres: Popular Space Elevator View
Space maths & physics forum - Orbiter Forums
AttitudeMFD - OrbiterWiki
What is Earth's mean radius? - a definition from Whatis.com
Toshiba takes wraps off netbook | Register Hardware
Berbatov nets twice in United romp - Football - Sport - smh.com.au
The ROI of PC power management |Sustainable IT | Ted Samson | InfoWorld
Chinese Proverbs quotes
Water Efficiency Labelling and Standards (WELS) Scheme home page
Where Windows is #2 to Linux | Computerworld Blogs
Full Circle Magazine | Issue 17
ABSA
2008 Greening Rooftops for Sustainable Communities Conference, Awards & Trade Show - Courses & Events - Green Building Council Australia (GBCA)
Leading Green Thinkers Sydney - Courses & Events - Green Building Council Australia (GBCA)
Five Ways To Cut Energy Bills - Forbes.com
Wow, I have been through quite some webpages.
I believe this will be an asset which allows me to trace back information on another day!
Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Linux. Show all posts
Friday, 17 October 2008
Thursday, 6 March 2008
Oops! Sxxx happens! But ok now!
After I installed the Advanced desktop last night, I brought the eeepc back to the office.
I intend to update the different packages from xepcś repo.
I did it.
It took more than an hour. It worthed more than 130MB.
But then when I got hold of it again and restart it, it prompts me for password.
I typed in the pwd once, twice, three times, ....... NOooooooooo .......
I didn´t know what happened.
I downloaded the xepc CD iso and went home.
I loaded the Eeexubuntu live session to see if I could retrieve any data in /home/user.
No, not successful. The SSD didn't come up.
I just pressed F9 straight afterwards. In less tha one minute, default system restores.
I then burned the xepc iso to a CD, loaded it to the ext. DVD.
Linux kernel not found!
I burnt another CD, but this time the burning s/w verified the CD bad.
Third time lucky(!!!), I put it to the DVD and tried.
OMG, thank you, thank you, thank you.
So, I am typing on the restored eeepc with xepc updated SSD restore partition.
So this xepc includes all I've done before except the Quick input method for TC.
I just cut and paste the command line in my previous blog entry!
Hula! No worries! All this happened within less than an hour.
Now, my wife asked me tonight if I had reinstalled windoze on the desktop ......
Possibly, a dayś time will be gone for nothing for windoze! Oh no!
I intend to update the different packages from xepcś repo.
I did it.
It took more than an hour. It worthed more than 130MB.
But then when I got hold of it again and restart it, it prompts me for password.
I typed in the pwd once, twice, three times, ....... NOooooooooo .......
I didn´t know what happened.
I downloaded the xepc CD iso and went home.
I loaded the Eeexubuntu live session to see if I could retrieve any data in /home/user.
No, not successful. The SSD didn't come up.
I just pressed F9 straight afterwards. In less tha one minute, default system restores.
I then burned the xepc iso to a CD, loaded it to the ext. DVD.
Linux kernel not found!
I burnt another CD, but this time the burning s/w verified the CD bad.
Third time lucky(!!!), I put it to the DVD and tried.
OMG, thank you, thank you, thank you.
So, I am typing on the restored eeepc with xepc updated SSD restore partition.
So this xepc includes all I've done before except the Quick input method for TC.
I just cut and paste the command line in my previous blog entry!
Hula! No worries! All this happened within less than an hour.
Now, my wife asked me tonight if I had reinstalled windoze on the desktop ......
Possibly, a dayś time will be gone for nothing for windoze! Oh no!
Friday, 29 February 2008
What I did to my eeepc
Well, it's about a week after I've got my eeepc.
I have installed the following to it:
=============================================================
An update to the eeepc installation (as on 4 March):
* I install the "Advance Desktop" as per the instructions in http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1083, so synaptic is already there with the Advanced Desktop.
* I add the xepc to the repo by adding
deb http://updates.xepc.org/debian stable main
to the file: /etc/apt/sources.list
So I should be able to apply the firefox update and security patches soon.
I have installed the following to it:
- Install realmedia codec for SMplayer as per the instruction on http://blog.yam.com/tad0616/article/1230627
- I need to check on synchronisation of video and audio streams. I follow instructions here: http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=11921&p=1
- I install Quick input method for Chinese as from instructions here: http://www2.uwants.com/viewthread.php?tid=5332227
| 1.先下載兩個檔案Quick.bin及Quick.png到 user 資料夾裡面 |
- I also looked at lazyeeepc but I decided not to go the easy way but the hard way. I like to learn the intricacies in Linux.
- Install synaptic package manager
- Update Firefox from default 2.0.0.9 to the latest (2.0.0.12 currently)
- Apply security patch
- Install wine and port some windows apps related to work
=============================================================
An update to the eeepc installation (as on 4 March):
* I install the "Advance Desktop" as per the instructions in http://forum.eeeuser.com/viewtopic.php?id=1083, so synaptic is already there with the Advanced Desktop.
* I add the xepc to the repo by adding
deb http://updates.xepc.org/debian stable main
to the file: /etc/apt/sources.list
So I should be able to apply the firefox update and security patches soon.
Wednesday, 20 February 2008
Wow, I got myself an Asus Eeepc!
I just got an Asus Eeepc today.
Haven't turn it on and run it yet.
So, looks like I will have more chance to horn up my Linux skills.
Btw, mine is a black one.
Haven't turn it on and run it yet.
So, looks like I will have more chance to horn up my Linux skills.
Btw, mine is a black one.
Tuesday, 5 February 2008
Helping out on computer
Last evening, I help a family to fix their computer.
They just got a new computer about a month ago.
They have M$ Windows Vista installed on that.
But that was "too" slow.
They asked some one to install XP over the Vista.
Then, I was asked if I can fix various issues with the computer. This included: "can't connect to internet"; "no sound"; "can't play mp3"; "can't open word file"; "cannot burn disks"; "screen too big"; .....
So the guy that installed XP didn't finish his job properly.
What was done was only installing XP.
Now, here's what I have done:
Why am I writing this?
I wonder what a "usual" computer user is!
My first computer experience was in a classmate's home playing AP II (cloned Apple 2) back in high school days. We used normal cassette tape player to "load" program to the AP II. This was in the early '80s.
Then I had my first PC (8088) back in 1986. In those days I ran PCDOS/MSDOS of course. I vaguely remember I started with PCDOS 2.x then ended up running MSDOS 3.3. I still vaguely remember using dot commands in WordStar.
Then it was windows 3.1. WordPerfect 5.1 for windows was my favourite. Though that time, MS word was already there. (BTW, I had used the DOS version of MS Word)
A simple flowchart is:
DOS -> Windows 3.1 -> Windows 3.11 -> Windows 95 (4.0) -> Windows 98 -> Windows XP
Next is Linux, the Ubuntu favour, possibly with some dip on DSL (Damn Small Linux), Fedora or OpenSUSE! (I feel quite comfortable with command line interface.)
Now, for someone with their first computer experience from Windows 95, 98, etc., what do they think about Linux?
Now they left two (old) computers for me to rebuild them. Windows 95 and 98 will be out of the question. XP will be too hungry for the two computers to handle.
Here I go again! Need to learn how to install DSL on two OLD computers with floppy drive, malfunction CD drive and harddisk!
Wish me luck!
And for the helpful Linux users, enlighten me please on how to "resurrect" old computers!
I may comeback with more details on the computers' spec.
They just got a new computer about a month ago.
They have M$ Windows Vista installed on that.
But that was "too" slow.
They asked some one to install XP over the Vista.
Then, I was asked if I can fix various issues with the computer. This included: "can't connect to internet"; "no sound"; "can't play mp3"; "can't open word file"; "cannot burn disks"; "screen too big"; .....
So the guy that installed XP didn't finish his job properly.
What was done was only installing XP.
Now, here's what I have done:
- Install drivers (sound, display, network, etc.) There was some drama with the ethernet chip driver as the driver CD didn't have the driver (!!!!) I needed to use lateral thinking to get this done!
- Install firewall, antispyware, anti-virus (all freeware)
- Install disk burning software (Freeware again)
- Install Firefox, PDFCreator, XPDF reader (Yes, freeware)
- Install harddisk backup software (Free!)
- Install windows optimiser (Free!)
- Install OpenOffice (Free again!)
- Prepare recover DVD; backup hardisk on DVD
- Burn and show how an audio CD should be made from mp3 files to the tweenage (not a typo) girl in the family (She complain the CD she made couldn't play on her CD player.)
Why am I writing this?
I wonder what a "usual" computer user is!
My first computer experience was in a classmate's home playing AP II (cloned Apple 2) back in high school days. We used normal cassette tape player to "load" program to the AP II. This was in the early '80s.
Then I had my first PC (8088) back in 1986. In those days I ran PCDOS/MSDOS of course. I vaguely remember I started with PCDOS 2.x then ended up running MSDOS 3.3. I still vaguely remember using dot commands in WordStar.
Then it was windows 3.1. WordPerfect 5.1 for windows was my favourite. Though that time, MS word was already there. (BTW, I had used the DOS version of MS Word)
A simple flowchart is:
DOS -> Windows 3.1 -> Windows 3.11 -> Windows 95 (4.0) -> Windows 98 -> Windows XP
Next is Linux, the Ubuntu favour, possibly with some dip on DSL (Damn Small Linux), Fedora or OpenSUSE! (I feel quite comfortable with command line interface.)
Now, for someone with their first computer experience from Windows 95, 98, etc., what do they think about Linux?
Now they left two (old) computers for me to rebuild them. Windows 95 and 98 will be out of the question. XP will be too hungry for the two computers to handle.
Here I go again! Need to learn how to install DSL on two OLD computers with floppy drive, malfunction CD drive and harddisk!
Wish me luck!
And for the helpful Linux users, enlighten me please on how to "resurrect" old computers!
I may comeback with more details on the computers' spec.
Saturday, 6 October 2007
Ubuntu 7.10 Countdown
Waiting for the Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon!
New features since Ubuntu 7.04
GNOME 2.20
Gutsy Gibbon Beta brings you the latest and greatest GNOME 2.20 with lots of new features and improvements.
Desktop 3D effects
Compiz Fusion is enabled by default and will bring 3D desktop visual effects that improve the usability and visual appeal of the system. Ubuntu 7.10 automatically detects whether the hardware is capable of running compiz; if not, it falls back to normal desktop. Additional effects can be enabled in "System/Preferences/Appearance" under the "Visual Effects" tab. There you can also disable the effects entirely.
Desktop search
The deskbar applet is now included in the default configuration. It allows quick access to your common actions, including opening web bookmarks and searches, sending messages to your contacts, and more.
The Tracker indexer has been added to the desktop, making it easier and faster to search for your documents, photos, music, videos, chat logs, and all other files. You can use Tracker in the search dialog, the file selector, nautilus, or the deskbar applet.
Fast user switching
It is now possible to easily switch between user sessions without the inconvenience of entering your username or password numerous times, a time-saver on computers shared by multiple users.
Firefox plugins in Ubuntu
Firefox now comes with an improved plugin finder wizard that allows users to search and install packaged plugins easily, bringing users a richer web-browsing experience with the integrated security support of the rest of the Ubuntu system:
In addition, users can now open the Ubuntu application installer with a list of packaged Firefox extensions available by clicking on a link in the Firefox Addons dialog:
Dynamic screen configuration
Several drivers, including ones for ATI, nVidia, and Intel graphics chips now support the X Resize and Rotate Extension (xrandr). This enables dynamic monitor detection, and resizing and rotating of video output, for no-fuss support for projectors and external monitors.
If you have this hardware and used MergedFB / Xinerama previously, you may need to update your X configuration to use this new feature.
Graphical configuration tool for X
You can now configure what driver you want to use for your graphic card, change the default resolution for all users or change your monitor's refresh rate without having to turn to the terminal. A new GUI has been added making it easy to adjust your video and monitor settings. This tool can also set up dual screen capabilities for cards that use the Xinerama mode.
Fully automatic printer installation
Printers are now automatically configured by merely plugging them in and turning them on. Printer setup cannot get any easier!
Handling of non-free device drivers
Restricted-manager can now handle drivers which are free in themselves, but which require non-free firmware or other packages to operate. Only three clicks are needed to fetch and install firmware for wireless cards with Broadcom chipsets, and for a number of Winmodems commonly found in laptops, provided that you have an alternative Internet connection.
When restricted-manager detects hardware for which a restricted driver is available, a notification window pops up:
NTFS writing
While previous Ubuntu releases only supported read access to Windows (NTFS) partitions, Gutsy Gibbon now fully supports reading and writing to them, by integrating the NTFS-3g project. This significantly eases file and document sharing with Windows.
Power consumption
Ubuntu includes the latest Linux kernel, featuring dynticks. It allows the processor to use less power and produce less heat. For laptops this means more battery life and burn-free laps and for desktops and media center PCs, a quieter, cooler environment.
AppArmor security framework
This easy-to-deploy kernel technology limits the resources an application is allowed to access and can be used to provide an added layer of protection against undiscovered security vulnerabilities in applications. Head to the AppArmor user guide to learn about this new security feature.
Additional installation profiles for Ubuntu Server
New pre-configured installation options have been added to the Ubuntu Server CD. Mail Server, File Server, Print Server, and Database Server options join existing LAMP and DNS options for pre-configured installations, easing the deployment of common server configurations.
Profile-based Authentication Configuration
Deploying authentication configuration has become a lot easier with the addition of auth-client-config. Files may be added to the profiles database, allowing for an administrator to set up a single profile for site-wide network authentication roll-outs. Find out more about AuthClientConfig.
Improved thin-client support
The speed of LTSP thin clients has been greatly improved through the use of compressed images, and LDM, the thin-client login manager included in Edubuntu, also now has support for autologin, multiple servers, and unencrypted graphics transport as an additional speed boost.
Wednesday, 15 August 2007
Linux Advocate
I just like to talk about Linux.
I was quite amazed and happy when I found Linux and gave it a try.
I read a newspaper article about "windoze" gave way and the hard disk was dead. Then someone took a Ubuntu Live CD and reboot the system. Miraculously, Linux recognised the hard disk and the data could be retrieved.
The best thing is Ubuntu is free. They send you one CD when you request one and they pay for the post. Have a look at www.ubuntu.com
Now my computerS are both dualboot with Ubuntu.
And recently I read an article about the Greenliness of linux here
So, have a go with Linux!
I was quite amazed and happy when I found Linux and gave it a try.
I read a newspaper article about "windoze" gave way and the hard disk was dead. Then someone took a Ubuntu Live CD and reboot the system. Miraculously, Linux recognised the hard disk and the data could be retrieved.
The best thing is Ubuntu is free. They send you one CD when you request one and they pay for the post. Have a look at www.ubuntu.com
Now my computerS are both dualboot with Ubuntu.
And recently I read an article about the Greenliness of linux here
So, have a go with Linux!
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