In normal daily usage, Ubuntu has pretty reached the point where the graphical user interface (GUI) could accomplish almost everything. Yet, the underlying Linux command line interface (CLI) is still very much alive. Sometimes, it is simply more efficient to use CLI when you want to accomplish something. You could learn and [...]
Midnight.
It is raining heavily outside.
Thunders flashed across the sky.
You have been thinking, and you are sure you know the solution.
Software Freedom Day (SFD) is fast approaching. The celebration will be held worldwide on 20th September 2008.
In Singapore, volunteers and corporate sponsors are coming together for the event at Singapore Management University. To learn more, visit the SFD Singapore website.
This week, Team Ubuntu Singapore has a final meeting before the event. All [...]
Introduction
The clipboard is a feature of the computing desktop that many people took for granted and hardly thought about. The cut/copy/paste operation is ubiquitous, and it can be jarring and upsetting when it don’t work like you think it should.
Case to point, just a few Ubuntu versions ago, the Ubuntu clipboard worked “less well” [...]
Midnight.
It is quiet outside.
It has been a long day, but you are wide awake… thinking.
I have a laptop (eeePC 900) running standard Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04, which I used for on-the-go computing. To get connected to the internet, I used one of these connection, depending on where I am:
wired network via ethernet (sometimes, at home)
WiFi (mostly at home, sometimes in wireless@sg area)
Mobile 3G network via Bluetooth to my [...]
Here is an interesting question.
Supposed the Martians exist, and they have their own alphabets, two of which are shown below.
If I tell you these two alphabets are pronounced as “Buba” and “Kiki”, can you tell me which one is Buba and which one is Kiki? You are not a Martian, and Martians don’t exist [...]
With the improvement of Bluetooth support in Ubuntu Hardy, transferring files to and from Nokia N95 via bluetooth is easy. Also, while this post is specifically on Nokia N95, it is likely other bluetooth phones would work the same.
There are more than one method to copy files via bluetooth; however, I will describe only [...]
Up until recently, NVIDIA was the video device for anyone who wanted advanced 3D graphics in Linux. NVIDIA has been releasing drivers for Linux, while the ATI Linux drivers have languished. It was happenstance that I was a long time NVIDIA customer. Even in Windows, I found NVIDIA driver to be “less [...]
So, here I was in my final days of corporate employment. During the exit process, we were required to turn over all corporate files, data and emails. Emails? Ermmm…
After years in the company, I have tens of thousands of emails in the archives. Once you leave, the archive could be kept [...]
