Upgrading Ubuntu to Version 8.04 LTS a.k.a Hardy Heron

Now, I’m preparing to upgrade the latest version of ubuntu, 8.04 Hardy Haron. Keep my “toshibuntu” power on for tonight, to complete all the installation/downloading of upgrade process. yeah….. rock ubuntu!!! *ready to sleep now… zzZZZ….ZzzZzz….zzz

Hamachi, Instant VPN for Your PC/Ubuntu

My friends lets our pc get connected via VPN with this software.. LogMeIn Hamachi is a VPN service that easily sets up in 10 minutes, and enables secure remote access to your business network, anywhere there’s an Internet connection. It works with your existing firewall, and requires no additional configuration. Hamachi is the first networking [...]

Learn Java with Netbeans on Ubuntu

I’ve made a decision to learn Java again to prepare myself before graduated. Flash back my memory about this programming language (just the basic). But this time I wanna learn on my ubuntu machine. And this is my a little note, when I was installing Java+Netbeans on Ubuntu. 1. Install the latest JDK sudo apt-get [...]

Multiget, File Download Manager

I have found the application (maybe) that can fulfil my needs for file download manager on my ubuntu machine. Multiget file downloader is an easy-to-use GUI file downloader for Windows/Linux/BSDs/MacOs. It’s programmed in C++ and has a GUI based on wxWidgets. It supports HTTP/FTP protocols which covers the requirements of most users. It supports multi-task [...]

How to Write NTFS partition in Ubuntu

For my friends that have asked me how to write NTFS in ubuntu. Taken from vntutor.blogspot.com. Step 1: Install NTFS-configsudo apt-get install ntfs-config Step 2: Open NTFS configuration toolsudo ntfs-config Step 3: Enable writingTick the check box to enable write support for internal device. However, if you want to write to a external hard drive, [...]

Play DoTA (a.k.a Warcraft) on Ubuntu

Yes.., We can play dota on ubuntu now. I have tried with ubuntu 7.04 plus WINE (Wine Is Not Emulator). But I didn’t take wine from winehq, instead of I used from kambing repository. Now, the last version of wine is wine 0.9.39, but from the kambing it’s wine 0.9.33. So if u want to [...]

Printer Pixma iP1700 Can Work With Ubuntu

Finaly, i have made my printer (Pixma iP1700) can work with ubuntu 7.04 (fesity fawn) Using iP2200 driver for linux, now iP1700 can print smoothly. But im not using packages from the vendor, instead im using the packages from this. This is my steps how to install the driver (using terminal) 1. Add the repository [...]

My Laptop

chox@toshibuntu:~$ sudo dmidecode -t 1 | grep Product Product Name: Satellite M100