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Comment on Install GIMP 2.8 on Ubuntu 12.04 by randomdrake

randomdrake — Sat, 19 May 2012 14:58:28 +0000

Thanks!

Comment on Ideal OS for EEE PC – REVISITED by Gdazer

Gdazer — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:33:45 +0000

I too have used Lubuntu on my Acer Aspire One netbook. The performance is quite good. I’ve since tried other distros as well, and the one I keep going back to is Zorin OS (Another Ubuntu derivative). I’m using the full blown 5.2 release (based on Natty), there is a ‘Lite’ release as well, and they’ve recently released Version 6.0 Lite, which is in line with Ubuntu 12.04. But agree, Lubuntu works well on the smaller form factor. But go keep Zorin in my mind, I believe this distro is worth a look. So much so, I’ve standardised on it across all my machines.

Comment on Turning the Toshiba Z830 into a Ubuntu Ultrabook by leogaggl

leogaggl — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:27:20 +0000

@Jose: maybe pluging in a VGA monitor, ethernet and a phone in the USB port can speed up the process ? Also – have you tried to get a terminal screen with CTRL+ALT+F1 ?

Comment on Turning the Toshiba Z830 into a Ubuntu Ultrabook by Jose

Jose — Wed, 16 May 2012 07:22:01 +0000

Thank you very much leogaggl, in fact this is what I am waiting for, the problem is that I think this is going to take a very long time, the only batery consumption are three leds, if I branch some gadget in the USB to increase the batery consumption it doesn’t work

Comment on Turning the Toshiba Z830 into a Ubuntu Ultrabook by leogaggl

leogaggl — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:47:40 +0000

@Jose: no ideas off the top of my head. leave it on for the battery to die would be the obvious one.

Comment on Installing MySQL Workbench on Ubuntu 11.10 by sameem

sameem — Wed, 16 May 2012 06:42:23 +0000

thanks for sharing, realy working well.

Comment on Turning the Toshiba Z830 into a Ubuntu Ultrabook by Jose

Jose — Tue, 15 May 2012 13:51:17 +0000

I bought a couple a weeks ago the Z830 and I installed the Ubuntu 12.04 64bits.

It worked nicely until today . This morning it froze completelly, nothing works, the screen is off, the ethernet is off, the USB is also off…

The problem is that even the switch off button (pushed for more that 4 second, even a minute) doesn’t work, and then, I can’t swich off the laptop to reboot

I thought removing the battery, but to do that I have to open the laptop

The only sings that the laptop is still alive are the pulg led (it blinks since the laptop is not branched), the power led (in green) and the internet led (also in green).

Any Idea on how to reboot the computer?

Comment on Installing Oracle Java7 JDK on Ubuntu 12.04 by Installing Java6 JDK on Ubuntu 12.04 | digital nomad

Installing Java6 JDK on Ubuntu 12.04 | digital nomad — Tue, 15 May 2012 07:33:09 +0000

[...] Note: If you do not need Java 6 it’s much safer to stick to the current Oracle Java 7 release. [...]

Comment on Intel Ultrabook tweaks on Ubuntu 12.04 by leogaggl

leogaggl — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:24:02 +0000

@Jens You might have to look at the Toshiba FNFX utilities. I used to have to install them on older Toshy models. sudo apt-get install fnfxd fnfx-client http://sourceforge.net/projects/fnfx/ HTH !

Comment on Virtualbox 4 install on Ubuntu by Running Android 4.0 (ICS) on Virtualbox | digital nomad

Running Android 4.0 (ICS) on Virtualbox | digital nomad — Mon, 14 May 2012 02:17:19 +0000

[...] and cumbersome process. Thanks to the Android-x86 Project it’s quite easy to run Android in VirtualBox. This is highly useful when you need to test mobile apps and websites from the Android Browser (as [...]