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15
Jan 12

System Monitor Indicator For Unity Panel In Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

If you install the new version of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot you will notice that it comes with Unity installed in order to make a better OS experience.  That could be very well true, but I do like to see my system monitor and see how my PC is behaving.  Now, it can not be easily done with unity, but if you would like to do it, go to the link below and you will be able to find steps by using PPA in order to get your system monitor on unity.  Also, if you don’t like unity you could go back to gnome, but that is something different that is not being cover in this article. :)

Source http://www.linuxnov.com/system-monitor-indicator-for-unity-panel-in-ubuntu-11-04-natty-narwhal/

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25
Oct 11

Upgrade to Ubuntu from Natty Narwhal 11.04 to Oneiric Ocelot 11.10

The following steps below from Ubuntu will guide you in terms of successfully upgrading your Ubuntu system from Natty Narwhal 11.04 to Oneiric Ocelot 11.10.

To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in “update-manager -d” (sans quotes) into the command box. Update Manager should open up and display following message: “New distribution release ’11.10′ is available. Click Upgrade and follow the on-screen instructions”.

To upgrade from Ubuntu 11.04 on a server system, follow the steps listed below: Step 1: Install the update-manager-core package (if it is not already installed). Step 2: Use following command sudo do-release-upgrade -d to launch the upgrade tool. Step 3: Follow the on-screen instructions. Note that the server upgrade is now more robust and will utilize GNU screen and automatically re-attach in case of dropped connection problems, for example.

Source: OneiricOcelot/ReleaseNotes – Ubuntu Wiki.

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06
Sep 11

[ROOT] EVO 4G Gingerbread 2.3 Root Tutorial (Windows) – xda-developers

i recently just rooted my phone by following the tutorial below and it worked just fine :)
[ROOT] EVO 4G Gingerbread 2.3 Root Tutorial (Windows) – xda-developers.

media — No comments
06
Sep 11

Encrypt flashdrive using TrueCrypt

i currently wanted to encrypt my USB flash drive or jump drive and didn’t really find a good solution on the web on how to do it.  couple of the other solutions that i found were about having the encryption on such a drive and then i needed that computer in order to access it.  this solution will allow you to encrypt the flash drive or jump drive an then be able to access it on any computer.

  1. download TrueCrypt from truecrypt.org
  2. open truecrypt (make sure that you have already inserted the flash drive or jump driev)
  3. hit “Create Volume”
  4. go through the wizard but make sure that you create a volume and then move it to your flash drive

 

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01
Aug 11

Installing XML plugin in Notepad++

i recently started working on more XML data since i am trying to do more data transfer between databases.  i use notepad++ as my main editor and i wanted to keep using it with my XML data without having the need of installing another program on my computer.  i found out that that there was a plugin develop for notepad++ in order to allow me to use it as my XML editor.  the problem was that there was no documentation on how to install what file and where.  below you will be able to find the proper steps on how to do so.

NOTE: you need to have notepad++ installed in your computer before proceeding. if you don’t have notepad++ install you can click on this link.

  1. after you have notepad++ installed
  2. goto this link http://bit.ly/rcCK1N download these packages
    1. External libs -> ext_libs.zip
    2. XML Tools -> Xml Tools 2.3.1 r764 Unicode Beta1 -> xmltools_2.3.1_r805_unicode_beta2.zip
  3. when extracting the files here is where you will need to place them…
    i am going to assume that you have installed notepad++ in it’s default directory which is “C:\Program Files\Notepad++”
    1. the ext_libs.zip will extracted on “C:\Program Files\Notepad++”
    2. the xmltools_2.3.1_r805_unicode_beta2.zip will be extracted on “C:\Program Files\Notepad++\plugins”
  4. now, if you had notepad++ open, restart it and you should be able to use the XML plugin …

enjoy!!!

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27
Jul 11

Creating fake or empty file sizes

this is slick…… today i wanted to test how long would it take to transfer a data set between two different tools and protocols. the two protocol that i was testing were SAMBA and SFTP under a windows machine.  i wanted to try to transfer an empty ISO 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1GB.

if you would like to create this fake file here would be the code that you would have to use

  1. open command prompt (cmd)
  2. and type this command
fsutil file createnew test.iso 1073741824

that will allow you to create a fake iso file with 1GB of space.  if you are interested on the results take a look at the table below.

Total time: 00:32:21.686
Task Start Time
SFTP transfer
12:41:28 PM
00:12:22.41
Share drive transfer 12:21:01 PM 00:19:59.28
Time difference 07:36.87
% difference 61.90%
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01
Aug 10

Reset toshiba laptop to factory settings

if you have a  Toshiba Satellite L300 and you would like to restore the system to factory settings (meaning back to the way it was when you first bought it) below you will be able to find the instructions on how to do it.

To reinstall your laptop to the factory settings / “out of the box” settings, please follow these steps. It worked for me, and should work for you.

ALL DATA WILL BE ERASED ON YOUR HARD DRIVE IF YOU PROCEED. YOU WILL NEED TO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE POWER ADAPTER PLUGGED IN. DO NOT SWITCH OFF OR RESTART YOUR COMPUTER DURING THIS PROCESS.

1) Hold down the power button for 10 (ten) seconds to switch off your machine.

Please note: Holding down the power button on the machine forces it to switch off. Any unsaved data will be lost.

2) Press and hold the 0 (zero) key and at the same time, tap the power button once to switch on your notebook.

3) When the machine Starts beeping; release the 0 key.

4) When prompted by the warning screen; select Yes to continue with the system recovery.

5) Select Recovery of Factory Default Software; click Next.

6) Select Recover to out-of-box state. Click Next again.

7) Click Next to Start recovery.

Source and credit to=> Reset toshiba laptop to factory settings [Solved].

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22
Jun 10

Twitter / Over capacity

Twitter whale over loaded

even the big URL’s get over loaded/over capacity!!!  i like how they make people note that it is ok to have a server full of people and not enough bandwidth for the people that are connected to the server.

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21
Jun 10

Windows blue screen even on virtual machines

if you thought that blue screens are only on regular windows boxes…. you are wrong!!! yesterday i just experience  a blue screen on my windows virtual machine (vm).  i am currently running ubuntu 10.04 and have windows xp pro on my virtual machine.  apparently the vm got stock on a process with a infinite loop.  isn’t that something…. only on the windows journey.

vboxdisp

Virtual Machine Blue Screen of Death

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17
Jun 10

Apple apologizes for iPhone 4 ordering fiasco – Computerworld

apple ran out of phones!!! that is kind of embracing for a company like apple.  they should get better at forecasting what people would like to buy and get.

Apple apologizes for iPhone 4 ordering fiasco – Computerworld.

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