Reinstalling GRUB

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…

Ubuntu installation on nvidia computer

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…

Invite people in google plus who are already in your circle

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…

Setup key for nx and ssh

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…

Ubuntu share folders

I used to use Samba to share folders between my laptop and my desktop. It works fine until 10.10 that Ubuntu decided to act crazy and screw the whole mount.cifs thing. I still managed to share the folders for a while after some tweaks with /etc/fstab. But today it is just not working anymore. I…

Deferred binding failure in GWT

I am a total newbie to GWT/GAE framework. I was playing and modifying an objectify sample code myself last night and get into a “deferred binding failure” error. What I did is to add another entity class and extend classes PersistentService, PersistentServiceImp, and PersistentSerivceAsync to persist my data. I first ran the code as Web Application….

Annoying Opacify Feature in 10.10

Okay. I found this so-called opacify feature extremely annoying (I’ll just call it retarded to show my anger towards it). Basically, it makes any other overlapping windows to fade out from the window currently moused over with. It doesn’t sound so annoying but you will know if you use it for an hour or two….

Twelve and Holding

I watched couple horror flicks (devil, let me in) the last couple days. But they gave me far less unresting feeling than after watching 12 and holding. The film was in my netflix queue for some time and I just found time (determination) to watch it. I can’t even remember why it was in my…

Cutting MTS file for Youtube

One thing I really hate about youtube (I think many others do too) is the crazy 10 minute limit. I know it as recently extended to 15 minutes but so what! But to be fair, even with this limitation, youtube is still probably the best site for video sharing. It is especially annoying to me…