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I’ve just bought ViewSonic VA2226w from Lowyat, and has been able to use it in dual monitor mode with my XPS M1330 (nvidia based) and Kubuntu. The ViewSonic that I bought is a 22" LCD monitor with resolutions up to 1680×1050 (only just as high as my 15.2" Inspiron 6000’s screen)..
I was using nvidia-config to [...]

Often time the Master Boot Record (MBR) is also lost / corrupted when the we’re having problem with the partition table, and so here I extend my previous post on recovering lost partition table using the Ubuntu Live CD.
First of all, let’s mount the related stuff;

ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o ro /dev/sda1 /media/
ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -o [...]

My friend suddenly ask me for a Ubuntu Live CD and upon being asked he told me that he has not been able to boot his machine for getting the Operating System not found error. I’m posting here on how did I helped him out with the problem for documentation.
The program I used was gpart, [...]

This post is just a quick recap on how to configure passwordless ssh login.
In my setting, herugrim is my local machine, and anduril is the remote machine with the ip address of 192.168.1.10

The first step is to (optionally) generate RSA key for use with SSH. Make sure you dont use any passphrase for this or [...]

Basicly this is how my home network looks like;

As I’m upgrading the Linux I have in my Access Point, a.k.a. my home server, a.k.a. an SBC, I’ll just share it here in my blog.
Here’s what I need:

- SBC (Single Board Computer), wrap2c in my case
- Storage - I’m using 2GB CF card here
- Mini PCI [...]

I received a package earlier today, and was very happy to find out that it’s the Huawei E220 that I ordered few days ago. This Huawei E220 is a 3G card that supports speed of up to 3.6 Mbps, using HSDPA technology, and it makes me can’t wait to have it work with Gutsy Gibbon. [...]

I’ve been using Nikon D40X on my previous trip to Jakarta (and Bandung). For this I need to update my previous script as there are few differences, as the following:

I set the camera to use RAW format rather than jpeg
Data transfer is through the laptop’s built in MMC card slot, rather than USB
I’m now a [...]

I was just watching a movie while suddenly all the files except the hidden ones in my home directory were gone, just as someone issued the command
sudo rm -rf /home/shakir/*
To avoid further data loss, I quickly power off and boot into my Ubuntu live CD to create an image of my /home partition. Here’s how [...]

I’ve suddenly lost all the files in my home folders, and I quickly do these to not let the impact to be as bad, if it ever recurs.
Say 192.168.1.10 is my backup server (anduril), herugrim is my laptop’s name, these are the steps I did to let my laptop automatically rsync to the backup server.
Configure [...]