Migration to open source

Well, not exactly, but I’m trying It started with the operating system. Once windows first then ubuntu on vmware, now ubuntu first then windows on virtualBox. So far so good, except for a few things. Compiz vs ATI, still not perfect on video playback, the video will start flickering for no reason. Need to change video output to X11 on VLC, or No Vx on gstreamer but it will become slow. Then download manager, why i can’t find any single good download manager for linux platform (AFAIK) with good queueing system, timer, sites login, thread manager, and stable enough. JDownloader seems to be a good candicate, but if it hangs every once in a while, than no thank you.

WinRar, nothing can be as powerful enough as WinRar ultima prime, nothing can compare it in the linux platform, though nautilus seems fine for now. And games, totally a big loss for this one, just when i want to start my “keep in touch with the latest games” campaign. Wine will never replace it, ever But what the hell, it’s been done, let’s do it and have fun

 

Ubuntu : How to Enable Remote Desktop on Other Computer

Turn on remote desktop on other computer :

ssh b@B 'gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/enabled true'

Disable auto prompting for user confirmation before allowing remote desktop :

ssh b@B 'gconftool-2 -s -t bool /desktop/gnome/remote_access/prompt_enabled false'

 

Kambing won’t update

If you use kambing as repository source for ubuntu, check again. For these couple of days, mine just won’t update, 0 updates available it said. After switching to Taiwan server :

other server result

Check now, save those bandwidth

 

Kambing feels a bit slow?

Don’t ask me why, maybe fajran knows. All I know is, sometimes it gave me a frustatingly 5 to 15 Kbps speed only. How about other “officially” Indonesian mirror? PT. Telekomunikasi Indonesia, IndikaNet, and Ubuntu.indika.net.id-archive2 each have one week behind update, so they may not too appealing for you omg-i-need-the-latest-update-now-fast people.

What you want is NCHC server from our Taiwanese friend, with 20Gbps and only one day behind update. I got 150+ kbps with this one. Here’s the address you might want to try.

deb http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ YOUR_DISTRO_SERIES_HERE main
deb-src http://free.nchc.org.tw/ubuntu/ YOUR_DISTRO_SERIES_HERE main

 

Ubuntu login screen resolution problem

Solution taken from: http://linuxfud.wordpress.com/2006/08/13/gdm-login-screen-resolution-too-big-to-fit-screen-try-this/

When I upgrade my Gutsy into Hardy, my login screen went crazy. It’s resolution changed so it seems like cropped from the monitor. Dunno what’s went wrong since I never changed the xorg.conf file. This is one solution that you might find handy.

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Choose the resolution you want for the login (say, 1280 x 1024)
edit your xorg.conf file.

In the Section “Screen”, SubSection “Display”, you have two entries:
Modes and Virtual.

For the login, X will default to the first resolution defined in the “mode” entry. Thus, you must select the resolution you want (say, “1280×1024@60?) and move it at the first position.

Next, the “Virtual” entry is used to have a larger desktop resolution than screen resolution (you can reach the zones “outside the screen” by moving your mouser pointer to the edges). Your Virtual section should have the same size you want for the login resolution (say 1280 1024).

Well on my case, apparantly the “Virtual” section was missing from my xorg.conf . After a little fix, my login screen was smooth as ever