After several weeks using Ubuntu on my Thinkpad R400, there are several features which doesn’t work out-of-the-box. One of them is Lenovo Thinkpad Active Protection System. Gladly, I found some nice article on the internet, then try to activate Active Protection System using those tutorial. It’s a good tutorial, now the Active Protection System is […]

After several weeks using Ubuntu on my Thinkpad R400, there are several features which doesn’t work out-of-the-box. One of them is Lenovo Thinkpad Active Protection System. Gladly, I found some nice article on the internet, then try to activate Active Protection System using those tutorial. It’s a good tutorial, now the Active Protection System is activated under Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.

[Thinkpad HDAPS in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty]

At least once a year, I had to re-submit the W8-BEN form to some of ads network company in US, and sometimes I forgot which column or row I had to fill. Friends from Jisportal had a nice tutorial on it, just download this image file and fill the form.

Credit goes to Jisportal

At least once a year, I had to re-submit the W8-BEN form to some of ads network company in US, and sometimes I forgot which column or row I had to fill. Friends from Jisportal had a nice tutorial on it, just download this image file and fill the form.

Credit goes to Jisportal

A weeks a go, I just bought a new notebook for myself, Lenovo Thinkpad R400 RZ7 which comes with pre-installed Windows Vista (free upgrade to Windows 7 ’til 31 Jan 2010), powered by Intel Core 2 Duo P7370 (2.0GHz, FSB 1066, Cache 3MB), Chipset Intel 45GM, 2GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Graphics 4500MHD, 14.1-inch WXGA TFT […]

A weeks a go, I just bought a new notebook for myself, Lenovo Thinkpad R400 RZ7 which comes with pre-installed Windows Vista (free upgrade to Windows 7 ’til 31 Jan 2010), powered by Intel Core 2 Duo P7370 (2.0GHz, FSB 1066, Cache 3MB), Chipset Intel 45GM, 2GB DDR3 RAM, Intel Graphics 4500MHD, 14.1-inch WXGA TFT with 1280 x 800 resolution, 250GB hard drive, DVDRW, integrated camera 2.0MP, VGA out (no HDMI), WiFi, Bluetooh, card reader, LAN and modem.

After upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), I try to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix in my wife’s HP MiniNote 1016. However since my wife doesn’t like it (it’s quite heavy in this machine), I decided to uninstall UNR and go back to the default GNOME.
There are several packages have to be removed, you can do […]

After upgrading to Ubuntu Karmic Koala (9.10), I try to install Ubuntu Netbook Remix in my wife’s HP MiniNote 1016. However since my wife doesn’t like it (it’s quite heavy in this machine), I decided to uninstall UNR and go back to the default GNOME.

There are several packages have to be removed, you can do that by writing this command in your terminal.

$sudo apt-get remove ubuntu-netbook-remix ubuntu-netbook-remix-default-settings maximus

There you go, UNR is removed and now back to GNOME default.

I have two hard drives, one is for daily use and another one is for backup needs. How to backup between those 2 hard drives in linux using command line (CLI) tools? Easy! Linux already have superb program called rsync, which can be used for backup or synchronize between two folder or drives or from […]

I have two hard drives, one is for daily use and another one is for backup needs. How to backup between those 2 hard drives in linux using command line (CLI) tools? Easy! Linux already have superb program called rsync, which can be used for backup or synchronize between two folder or drives or from hard drives to USB disk. Here is the command:

$ sudo rsync -avu –delete [source path] [destination path]

for example in my case:

$ sudo rsync -avu –delete /home/banteng/Business /media/2825dc9d-7018-49e0-bac4-2567a1d1a380/backup/Business/

options –delete (minus minus delete) is for deleting files or directories that is no longer exist in the source path, if you don’t use –delete then files or folder that is no longer exist still kept in the destination path.

You can combine this command with crontab so, you can run routine backup automatically for specific period, ie daily, weekly, etc….