Archive for August, 2006

Out in the Bar 3

Posted August 26, 2006

Spent the night out in “the Common” bar with mates and here are some photos of the night!!

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Ann looking gorgeous and me showing off my new hair cut.

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Dot and Ali posing to the camera!!

Linux Distro Timeline 0

Posted August 23, 2006

Came across with this excellent Linux distro timeline since the beginning of the Linux OS. Very detailed drawn by npu. For a closer look click on the picture

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Xserver-xorg Core Update Problem 0

Posted August 22, 2006

Apparently there is a bug in the recent xserver-xorg core update package, if you happen to run apt-get upgrade lately and are experiencing problems in getting the xserver to start then the fix is to *downgrade* the xserver-xorg package to a earlier stable version by issuing the following command:

sudo apt-get install xserver-xorg-core=1:1.0.2-0ubuntu10

Only God knows how this bug slipped through and ended up in the main repository!! :|

Strange Layout in Mac OS X… 0

Posted August 21, 2006

Well, I guess it is a good thing of having an alternative OS (Mac OS X) at my disposal!!

The new theme I applied to my blog looks fine under both Linux (Debian & (K)Ubuntu) and Windows XP. However, I recently acquired a 2nd-hand Powerbook 15″ G4 (absoultely a beauty!!) and when I first visited the blog using Firefox on OS X, the layout of my blog looks slightly different.

Here is what it looks like before:
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and here is what it looks like after I fixed the CSS:
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As you can see the header appears to be on top of the calendar when viewing in the Mac machines even though using the same browser, i.e. Firefox. I’m guessing that Firefox mac port has been designed slightly different to its Linux and Windows counterparts…

Well, nevertheless, it’s fixed now and hopefully no more surprises in that department!! :)

Right-click on Apple’s PowerBook and (K)Ubuntu Linux 2

Posted August 12, 2006

Apple’s PowerBook built-in touchpad has no middle or right mouse button. Under Mac OS X, right-click is simulated by holding down the Control key and then clicking. However, this doesn’t work on (K)Ubuntu Linux.

Googling around, I found that, by default, the F11 key is mapped to a mouse middle-click while the F12 key is mapped to a mouse right-click.

It is also possible to change this behavior by editing /etc/sysctl.conf and mapping dev/mac_hid/mouse_button2_keycode and dev/mac_hid/mouse_button3_keycode to their corresponding key scan codes. The scan code for a key can be retrieved by running

sudo showkey

then pressing the key or keys for which the scan codes are to be printed. To exit, press Control-D.

Photos from the USoA!! 0

Posted August 7, 2006

Here is the collection of photos that I took during my USA trips (Boston and NYC) this year… :)

There are quite few of them, taken by both work colleagues and myself, you can see we were definitely loving our time in the States, enjoy!!