After success upgrading to Karmic on my PC, now it’s turn to upgrade my wife’s netbook which is HP Mininote 1016. Before upgrading, this netbook using Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex as it’s OS, and everything work out of the box. However after upgrading to Karmic, I found problems related to Broadcom Wireless driver, it doesn’t working! Then I search on Google and found the solutions, here is how:

Offline Mode [in case you can’t connect using wired connection]:

• Open Synaptic Pacakage Manager
• Make sure 9.10 LiveCd is in CD drive
• Go to Settings > Repositories > Ubuntu Software
• Check the installable from cd and close
• Reload
• Search for “bcmwl-kernel-source”
• Mark for installation
• Apply
• Reboot computer

Online Mode [You can connect to internet whether using wired or other wireless device]:

• Open Synaptic Package Manager
• Search for  “bcmwl-kernel-source”
• Mark for installation
• Apply
• Reboot your computer

I’m using the second option [Online Mode] because I’m able to connect to the internet using my SMC USB Wireless Card.

Credit goes to Jomtois on Ubuntu Forums.

Just upgrading to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala this morning, overall I’m quite happy with it’s performance, it’s faster than previous version (Jaunty, etc). However I’m still facing some minor problem that is not solved correctly until this Karmic release, that is when I play video on Totem or VLC, after several minutes the video becomes freeze and this happen every several seconds / minutes.

So I decided to find the solution on the Ubuntu forums and found the solution:

STEPS: Compiz Configuration

1. Download CompizConfig Settings Manager from Ubuntu repository.
2. Navigate to.. System –> Prefences –> CompizConfig Settings Manager
3. Navigate to.. General –> General Options
4. Click “General Options” to open window
5. Click “Display Settings” tab
6. Uncheck “Detect Refresh Rate”
7. Move “Refresh Rate” slider to 60, or set 60 in the box
8. Check “Sync to VBlank”
9. Click back button to move back to main CompizConfig window
10. Navigate to.. Utility –> Video Playback
11. Uncheck “Video Playback” then exit the CompizConfig Settings Manager.

STEPS: Nvidia Configuration

1. Pull up nvidia-settings
.. Navigate to.. Applications –> System Tools –> nvidia-settings
.. or open a terminal, type “nvidia-settings” , press enter
2. Click “X Server XVideo Settings”
3. Check “Sync to VBlank” _IF_ not checked
4. Click “OpenGL Settings”
5. Uncheck “Sync to VBlank” _IF_ checked
6. click quit button
7. click quit button
8. Reopen nvidia-settings to verify that config changes were saved.
.. IF they were saved, you are done with step 8.
.. IF they were not saved, ~/.nvidia-settings-rc in your home directory
.. may be under root permissions. You will need to chown chgrp for the file.
.. Then you will need to start back at Step 1 and repeat all steps.

IMPORTANT: Reboot your machine when finished. The driver changes won’t function correctly until you reboot

This is the screenshot of my nvidia settings after fixed:

That’s it, now I can enjoy watching my movie collections without freezing…

Reference:

• Link on Ubuntu Forums:
• Credit goes to shaundennie

I’m not a fan of P2P technology, and I rarely download files from P2P network, that’s why I’m quite happy with Transmission Bittorrent Client (Ubuntu default). Last week, I had to download a files from P2P and using Transmission I feel it’s rather bit slow and too minimalistic GUI. There are many alternatives in Linux for your P2P needs, Vuze (formerly Azureus) based on Java, I already installed but didn’t succeed, another client is Bittornado, Bitstormlite, Bittorrent, and even somebody out there running uTorrent with wine….

I’ve already heard an application called Deluge but never tried to install it. Then I just give it a shot, I installed Deluge and testing the performance and compare it with Transmission. Surprisingly, I feel that Deluge has better performance than the Transmission, it has many features, better GUI and I feel its faster than Transmission Bittorrent Client. Currently I’m using Deluge 0.5.8.9 and will use it for my P2P activities until [might be] I have found another application which is better than Deluge. How about you? Have another favorite Torrent Client?

Resources:

• Deluge Bittorrent Client Homepage
• Download Deluge Bittorrent Client from Getdeb

Today, I’m invited by Google Adsense team to join Adsense Webinar. Last time I’m tried to attend webex webinar using Linux, I haven’t succeeded (several years ago using other distro). Thanks god, now I can join webex webinar using Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron + Firefox. What I’m to do to fix this is:

Step 1: Type this command on your terminal:

sudo apt-get install libstdc++5 sun-java6-plugin

Step 2: Edit your ~/.profile and add these two lines:

export JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.66
export PATH=$JAVA_HOME/bin:$PATH

Step 3: Restart X session by logging off/on or ctrl+alt+backspace

That’s it, I’m done, now I can join webex webinar using Ubuntu Linux! Thank you for the author who posted this superb tips on his blogs.

Sometimes, my friends ask me to help them downloading their files from Rapidshare, Megaupload, Mediafire, Gigasize, etc. Normally, I just copy-paste the url in Firefox, waiting for the countdown time finished and start download the files (since I’m only free user) but now it’s a different story. While I’m browsing to Getdeb.net, I find an application which can help us manage our download via rapidshare, called Tucan Manager.

According to Getdeb.net, Tucan is a graphical manager to upload and download from the most famous file hosting sites (e.g. rapidshare, megaupload). What’s the interesting part for me is, I just pasteall of the url links, then Tucan will take the rest of the job. if you have premium account, then Tucan can download simultaneously, or if you free user, Tucan will automatically download the files one by one.

You can download Tucan Manager from Getdeb.net