You are jobless, the economic is going into the deep south, your financial advisor has gone into hiding, and you got loan sharks splashing red paint on your door.
Here is a trick I learned many years ago as a kid on saving that extra dollar.
Recently, I was twice asked about how to change the date format in Ubuntu. I have never bothered to tweak this part in my own setup. So, when asked, I assumed it would be easy to do at first. However, upon searching the Ubuntu desktop, I couldn’t find anything that might change [...]
By default, Ubuntu comes with a dictionary. Whenever you look up a word in this dictionary, it queries the online dictionaries for the results. This is fine if your have a 24/7 internet connection. However, if you are offline, mobile without internet, or has a flaky connection, using this dictionary becomes a [...]
Lower Seletar Reservoir is located on the northern part of Singapore. The reservoir park itself is located on the southern side of the reservoir. However, the dike where these photos are taken, is on the northern side.
Recently, I have been seeing a few more web articles and blog posts on the great user friendliness debate. This debate is all about which OS is the most user friendly, and it usually started from when someone claimed a particular OS is not user friendly.
Rather than adding more hot air to the endless [...]
While the Linux OS in general, and Ubuntu in particular, has progressed so much in the user’s desktop (and in my opinion, to the point superior to other competing OSes), there is still room for improvement. I occasionally encountered situations where Ubuntu seemed to be lacking in some fundamental use cases.
Just the other day, [...]
Previously, I wrote about installing Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex beta in my eeePC 900 here.
In the “Fn keys” section, I mentioned that the audio control keys were working well after fixing the keycodes. However, recently I noticed the mute key (Fn+F7) is no longer functioning. I am not sure when it stopped working. [...]
Yesterday, I bought a new printer.
As anyone who use Ubuntu/Linux knows, buying computer equipment can be a tough job. Many computer companies are our worst enemies. Despite the best effort of the open source communities and despite continuous improvement, hardware drivers remained one the main issue in Linux.
Thus, when I began thinking about [...]
It is hard to think that in tiny Singapore, there are places I have never been to. Sembawang beach is located on the northernmost part of the island. I happened to be near the area recently, and decided to take a detour. Like most beaches in Singapore, there is nothing spectacular to [...]
A few weeks ago, I was asked to set-up a small adhoc network with a bunch of PC, running Ubuntu Hardy Heron and Windows. Personally, I have always avoided using samba file sharing in my own network, and use NFS instead. I could get away with this because I don’t have any PC [...]
