Archive - Aug 18, 2008
How to install older virtual box modules?
Question:
To be able to use my bluetooth headset i need to use an older kernel version. One thing I'm missing though, is the virtualbox module for this kernel. It's not in the (standard) repositories anymore.
Can anyone tell me how i can still install
virtualbox-ose-modules-2.6.24-14-generic
So that also my virtual box works again?
Thanks!
Answer:
Disabling Magnifier in Ubuntu
Question:
I've been using Ubuntu 8.04 for a few weeks now. It's pretty nice, but there are a few things about it that are exceedingly annoying.
The main thing is the fact the the magnifier application is bound to Super+R. I'm used to using that to launch the "Run" box in Windows, so I still go for that sometimes as a force of habit. I don't mind changes in key combinations, but the way this is executed is unforgivable.
It just launches the magnifier application and gives no information on how to undo it. Repeating Super+R doesn't undo it. There is no obvious process I can grep for and kill. There is no icon in the system notification area. There is no information about what's going on what so ever. The only way I've found to get rid of this is to either log out and log back in, or just Ctrl+Alt+Backspace.
Use your webcam feed as a wallpaper using Xwinwrap
This will NOT make you lose the functionality of icons, conkys, screenlets, or docks.
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ESC Boston giving away free Beagles
Source: http://linuxdevices.com/news/NS8405005860.html
At the Embedded Systems Conference (ESC) Boston show on Oct. 26-30, the organizers are giving away free Cortex-A8-based Beagle development boards. TechInsights will offer attendees either the Linux-based, Texas Instruments-made Beagle, which is based on TI's OMAP3530 system-on-chip (SoC), or a Windows CE-based kit from iBase.
The top 4 internet flame wars about free software
Source: http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/columns/top_4_internet_flame_wars_+a...
Everyone knows about the infamous internet wars. Ranging from operating systems to text editors to code indentation style, these wars have wreaked havoc on the web for years. The topics range from serious topics like religion to serious geek topics like operating systems to just plain stupid topics like code indentation style. So today, I’m going to go through a list of some of the most famous topics and remind you of a few of the more, er, “famous” battles.
What Comes After the Windows Era?
Source: http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-comes-after-windows-era
As a computer journalist for the last 25 years, I've received a lot of review copies of software. As something of an obsessive magpie, I've tended to keep most of it, “for reference”. Until yesterday, that is, when I finally threw out all those copies of OS/2, Lotus SmartSuite, and my entire collection of Microsoft software. This included Windows NT 3.5, Windows 2000, Microsoft Office and many, many more. What's makes this little spring-cleaning exercise particularly apt as well as cathartic is that all of us - and not just me - may finally be witnessing the end of the Windows era.
