I installed xubuntu under virtualbox in my widescreen laptop. But I was stuck with space wasted on both sides when I switched to fullscreen since default resolution is 4:3. The fix is quite simple though. Just taking advantage of the xrandr command… xrandr –newmode “1360×768” 84.75 1360 1432 1568 1776 768 771 781 798 -hsync…
I am having a two week stay in Japan. I have conference the week after and since it is spring break, I left early and try to have some change in life (anyway, what makes any difference if most of one’s life is writing codes/papers/proposals ^^; ). I didn’t pack well (it typically happens) since…
I played some old Apple II games recently and applewin emulator works great in winxp under virtualbox for a while. (It is kind of funny and maybe partially ironic to run emulator under another virtual os.) However, the simulation window one day just disappeared. Even reinstalling the emulator doesn’t work, I could have restored to…
I wanted to add my chinese name to my cv and spent a little bit time digging. Displaying chinese with latex turns out need more tweaking than I thought. But this article takes care of everything.
After reinstalling ubuntu 10.04.3, I couldn’t remount to the share drive unless using sudo. I kept getting the error message: mount error(1): Operation not permitted. After a little bit digging, this post solved the problem perfectly!
Lots of post mentioned that before. I recently reinstalled Ubuntu and I had three drives in my computer. After installation, I wanted to remove one of the drive since it appears that the system was extremely slow and unstable with all three drives plugged in. I suspect that it was a power problem since I…
My harddrive died recently and so I reinstalled ubuntu. I got fed up with new release breaking tiny things often. So I tried to stick with LTS this time (10.04 when I wrote this). I have an NVidia graphic card and dual monitor. I recalled troubles already from my previous experience of installing Ubuntu. I…
I love google plus so far. I don’t use facebook as much as I wanted to because I don’t like the idea of sharing photos indifferently to both true friends, and well…, friends. The idea of “circle” in google plus is ingenious. And yet, it is so obvious that I really don’t know why until…
This post is a real life saver. Tested on 10.10 64 bit HP 1320. Works like a charm!
It took me quite many hours. There are many posts online but at the same time many of them lead to dead ends. As mentioned in this post, the instruction described on help.ubuntu.com allows one to setup custom key but at the same time leaves a big security hole on ssh. Because everyone can ssh to…