January 17, 2008 · Networking · 94 comments

For those, who have an Atheros 5007EG chipset and can't get it working with ndiswrapper, I have this guide from polish ubuntuforum. This is the only solution that worked on my computer (Toshiba SAT-A210-128), and my brothers computer.

This guide only works on i386 platforms, so if you're running an x64 linux, then you've to try again with ndiswrapper or wait for a new solution from atheros and madwifi.

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January 16, 2008 · General · 6 comments

Osmo is a handy personal organizer which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. In current state the organizer is quite convenient in use -- for example, user can perform nearly all operations using keyboard. Also, a lot of parameters are configurable to meet user preferences. On the technical side, Osmo is GTK+ based tool which use plain XML database to store all personal data.

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January 15, 2008 · Networking · 13 comments

For those, who have an Atheros 5007EG chipset and can't get it working with ndiswrapper, I have this guide from polish ubuntuforum. This is the only solution that worked on my computer (Toshiba SAT-A210-128), and my brothers computer.

This guide only works on i386 platforms, so if you're running an x64 linux, then you've to try again with ndiswrapper or wait for a new solution from atheros and madwifi.

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January 15, 2008 · General · 1 comment

In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest.

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January 14, 2008 · General · 2 comments

If you want to Mount NTFS VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) read/write follow this procedure.

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