Ubuntu 7.04 Live CD on Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E laptops

I bought a Sony Vaio VGN-NR120E laptops on boxing day of this year. It's a medium size laptops with 15.4 inchies of screen coming with silver and non glossy body (I like the body so much). I think it's a cheap laptop with the original price of $799 and $200 off, so I only paid $599 plus tax. As usual, it's coming with Windows Vista preinstalled on it.
My plan with my new laptops is to dual boots with my favorite Linux distro, Ubuntu 7.10. I had an experience in setting up dual boots Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.04, non a laptops though. I successfully dual boots my Dell Optiplex GX260 after I cloned the hard drive before it (to anticipate if the process of cloning was unsuccessfull). The process of cloning was much easier that what I thought before.
So I inserted the Ubuntu live CD on the drive on wait, ups, it won't boot. What's wrong. I expect to run the live CD smoothly, but not this time. I have tried several distros of Linux live CD without a problem, but that's not on laptops though. I was affraid if I won't be able to run (and later install) Ubuntu on my Vaio laptops. I read the problem of booting with this laptops is due to SATA hard drive installed in the laptops. Then I do googling and found a solution that are listed below:
1. Insert Ubuntu live CD
2. When asked to choose many options (Start or Install Ubuntu, ect) press F6 (Options)
3. Type:
break=top
then press Enter
4. Then at the prompt, type:
modprobe piix
exit
After doing those steps, the monitor blinks little bit then boot normally.
The display was not normal though, it looks like the 12 inchies display laptops.
The wireless was not detected.
The function keys such as increasing/decreasing volume/brightness were working normal.
Next plan is to really dual boots on the hard drive, so I'll post again after I have done that.

Perfect Gift

Have you decided what gift you want to have or you want to give in this holiday season (boxing day)? If not, you may consider a Toshiba U300 notebook. It's a small (13.3 inches wide screen) stylist notebook/laptop coming with 1.7 GHz Intel Dual Core Processor and 160 GB hard drive capacity. Not many stores offer this great notebook. It's available in Futureshop store and unavailable in the Best Buy. The tricky thing is that the notebook is not available when you view Futureshop online version. Last night when I went to the store, the guy there told me that they still have the stuff in the store. So please have a look and check it out. Hurry up before they're sold out.

Office productivity softwares

Besides Microsoft Office, there are other office productivity software such as OpenOffice and Star Office. Star Office is non free software, but if you are a student, you can get the free version of it without support. Open Office is the community developed based software based on Star Office. It grows very fast as many contributors work on it. Both Open Office and Star Office contain word processor, spreadsheet, presentation and data base packages. (cont)

The most expensive coffee in the world

You may think that the most expensive coffee in the world is from South America countries. It's wrong. It's from Sumatra island, Indonesia. According to http://most-expensive.net/coffee-in-world , the price of the coffee is $600/pound and up to $50 per cup. Sumatra is one of the most fertile islands in Indonesia that not only produces coffee, but also rubber, cacao, etc.

Recreating Swap Partition for Ubuntu Linux

If you happened to forget to create swap partition or you want to change your swap partition size for your Ubuntu linux, don't worry. You can delete it then recreate a new swap partition. Follow this steps (it worked for my system):
1. Boot your system from CD Resque System or GParted Live CD
2. Delete your existing partition
3. Reboot to your Linux system (don't forget to remove the CD from the drive)
4. Make sure you have something like below on your /etc/fstab file:
/dev/hda8 none swap sw 0 0
(where hda8 is your swap partition. If not sure, boot from CD Resque System or GParted Live CD again and see where is your swap partition)
5. Open terminal window then swapoff all of your swap partition then swapon the new swap partition by executing the following commands:
swapoff -a
/sbin/mkswap /dev/hda8
swapon -a
(replace hda8 accordingly)
Then you need to reboot your system.

To check if everything went well, type
free
from your terminal and then try to run some programs such as openoffice and gimp that usually requiers swap to run. Check if swap used has increased. If so, it means swap partition now has been activated.
For further reading you may click link below:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SwapFaq

Good luck.

Laptops for Linux

Which one is the best laptops for linux? As we know that installing Linux (in general) on laptops is not as easy as installing it on desktops. There are several concerns of compatibility, starting from sound problem, wireless, X windows, etc, to mention a few even though there are in general also solutions for those problems.
So which laptop is best for linux? For this, you need to to some googling and find out what others have experience with their laptops. You may google and use for example 'linux on laptop' key words.
You may also visit this links too:
http://www.linlap.com/
or
http://www.linux-laptop.net/

Good luck.

Free Ubuntu CD

If you have slow internet connection and you want to try to run (or install Linux) on your computer, you may think of ordering free Ubuntu CD from this site:

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

The delivery may take a couple or more weeks dependeing on where you live.
I suggest for my Indonesian friends who want to have the CD, just visit that link and order the CD. Along with the CD, you also will receive some nice Ubuntu stickers that can be placed any where you llike.
Have fun with Linux.

Getting money while surfing on internet

You want to get some extra cash while you serfing on the internet, why don't you apply for Google Adsense. It's free and easy. Everything is explained once you open Google Adsense website.
(Kalau mau dapat uang tambahan sambil browsing internet, kenapa tidak daftar saja ke Google Adsense. Semuanya akan dijelaskan di websitenya Google Adsense. Kelihatannya enggak masuk akal ya, tapi bener lho. Spt dijelaskan di websitenya, ini bagian dari kegiatan marketing. Penjual produk akan membayar Google jika produknya dilihat orang. Nah kita bantu Google masang iklannya. Kalau iklan di website kita diklik orang, kita dapat bagian juga. Coba saja dehkan lumayan buat beli kopi.

Numerical Recipies for Programmer

Below is the resource for computer programmer who is looking for some available package for different computer language starting from Fortran 77, Fortran 90, C, C++, etc. Have fun.
http://www.nr.com/

Lowongan CPNS DEPTAN (Vacancy at Deprtment of Agriculture of Indonesia)

Mau ikutan daftar jadi CPNS di DEPTAN RI? Silahkan klik link di bawah ini, semoga Anda termasuk yang beruntung da diterima jadi CPNS Deptan. Anda harus bertekad ketika mendaftar, yaitu ingi jadi pegawai yang jujur, tidak mau ikutan korupsi seperti orang-orang itu.
Selamat!
Below is the link for those who are looking for a job in the Indonesian government. This is only for Indonesian citizen. If you think that you are qualified, you may follow the link below and apply for it. Good luck.
http://gis.deptan.go.id/pegawai/cpns2007/pegawai.htm

krakatoa

Local people call it 'Krakatau' but international community call it 'krakatoa'. Those names refer the same thing, a volcano that recently splashing ash. The volcano is located between Java and Sumatra islands of Indonesia. The one that is recently splashing ash is actually the 'child' of the big Krakatoa volcano. In the late 18th century, the volcano was erupting and causing tsunami. At least 30000 people died because of the eruption. The quake was herd until Australia.

Go Java-ku

If you think of a place to visit for your vacation, Java island is one of the alternative. If you are fond of spicy food, Java offers everything you like.
There are big old Hindu's and Budha's temples, Prambanan dan Borobudur, located in central of Java.
What do you know about Java any way? Coffee, computer program language, or Java the cave man?
Yes, Java is an island that attract people coming to the island. When we look at the history, we see that Dutch, then Japanese came to the island, not as a visitor. They want to occupy the island. After 3.5 generation occupying the island, Dutch has to admit that the island is not theirs. They have to give up and give it back to to the native people. Japanese? Sadly, they were only able to 'stay' in less than 4 years. They gave up after an American pilot dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Itwas the bloodiest mass killing in the history of planet earth.

Problem of sound on Ubuntu

If you have problem of sound in Ubuntu (or Linux in general), below is the solution:
1. Boot your Ubuntu (or any other Linux distro) at take a look what kind of sound card is installed.
2. Open a terminal window
3. On the terminal window, type
modprobe snd-*
(where * is your sound card identification you saw when boot up).
4. If you want to make the sound permanent, you have to mute the volume before doing step 1-3.
5. Restart your system, hopefully your problem solved.

Soegeng Rawoeh

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