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My friend just bought new Acer Aspire 4920 laptop and asking me to re-install the laptop with Windows XP rather than plain FreeDOS… and I ask her, Do you want Linux with your Windows that just looks and behave like (or even better than) Windows? She said yes. So here my journey installing Ubuntu on Acer Aspire 4920

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I was thinking to move over my personal webhosting to IDWebspace.com
but before that I would like to have better understanding about the price they offer.
Is it only one time promo when I buy the hosting or the renewal fee also the same.

After some conversation, the price is same,  for first buying and renewal.
OK then, it a  Deal…

‘There’s no “I” in “TEAM”, Grif.’
‘Yeah. There’s no “U”, either. So I guess if I’m not on the team and you’re not on the team, nobody’s on the goddamned team. The team sucks!’
Church and Grif - Red vs. Blue

I just realized that my home PC is not yet installed with linux. I thought, it was already dual-boot with Fedora 6. But again I am rememberd that I am uninstalled Fedora 6 due it’s can’t detect the onboard soundcard for Motherboard DFI Infinity RS482 with chipset ATI Radeon 200 RS482. I hope Ubuntu 7.10 can detect my soundcard and play Compiz well

I had Fedora Core 4 installed on my Desktop for past 2 years. Now Fedora 8 came out. I was thinking to upgrade my Desktop, but then Ubuntu 7.10 some more interested and easier for me.

So, bye.. bye.. Fedora, welcome Ubuntu

Installed and make default Mandigo as this blog theme. Seems so simple yet fine and clean.

From Ubuntuguide.org

• Hotwire - Nice Terminal window
• Adobe Acrobat - PDF Reader
• Brasero - to burn CD and DVD. installed from Add/remove
• Browers plugins - a lot stuffs for my browsing comfortibility
• FileZilla - now I choose this over gFTP
• Fix faulty splash screen
• VIM - Enable syntax highighting)
• SSH - so I can remote my notebook
• MPlayer - with multimedia codecs
• VLC Media Player
• Banshee Music Manager and Player
• Compression Tools

And for email client, I prefer Thunderbird over Evolution, because it’s available on Windows and Linux, so I can read my email either when I am using Windows or Ubuntu. Can be installed from Add/remove programs

VGA card ATI X200M. Error “composite extension is not available” when I try to activate Desktop Effect.
Found on UbuntuForums.com a thread about it. Using below instruction, now I can activate Desktop Effect.

“In order to get the desktop effects to work I first had to install the ATI driver using the Restricted Drivers Manager.
Then I had to install xserver-xgl using the Synaptic Package Manager located under System–>Administration–>Synaptic Package Manager. Just do a search for xserver-xgl in the Synaptic manager to find it.
While you are there you might want to install the compizconfig-settings-manager as well.
After those are installed reboot and then you should be able to select Extra in the Visual Effects tab under System–>Preferences–>Appearance.”

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=436110&page=2

Yes finally I can upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 with alternate CD but somethings are error.
Sound sometimes always beeping. Wifi can’t connect and the most important Desktop effect can’t be activated
Damn…. So I am doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 7.10.
Luckily I dont have data on it. So it goes smooth.

Based on http://ubuntu-tutorials.com/2007/10/18/how-to-upgrade-to-ubuntu-710-gutsy-gibbon/

Ok, I have updated into the latest Ubuntu 7.04 and what I need left is upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10. I dont want online upgrade as is causing high traffic bandwidth usage, took a long time on my internet connection and if I wont have an offline upgrade CD if I want to upgrade other machine.
So I am using Ubuntu 7.10 alternate CD installation.

Download it from: http://ubuntu.indika.net.id/ubuntu-releases/gutsy/ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso

Steps to upgrade

If you’ve downloaded the Ubuntu Alternate (text based) installer CD you can also upgrade your machine using the CD. As is traditional with Debian / Ubuntu upgrade mechanisms you do not need to reboot your machine to initiate the upgrader. Please make sure your machine is already upgraded using the above steps before attempting this method.

Follow these steps to upgrade via the Alternate CD:

1. Download the alternate CD image
2. Burn the CD image / re-insert the CD OR mount the CD image (sudo mount -o loop ubuntu-7.10-alternate-i386.iso /mnt/)
3. A dialog should appear on your screen offering to upgrade your system using the CD
4. If the dialog does not appear (it may not if you use the mount -o loop option), run the following via ALT-F2:
5. gksudo “sh /media/cdrom/cdromupgrade” OR gksudo sh /mnt/cdromupgrade

Follow the wizard, take action if needed. Restart when done