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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...

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.

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)

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.

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...

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.

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.