3 Model Laptop Acer Terbaru 2011

Anda sedang mencari laptop Acer baru? Mungkin ini bisa menjadi salah satu referensi buat Anda bila pilihan Anda jatuhkan pada merk Acer. Kali ini kami tidak hanya menginformasikan 1 model terbaru, tapi kami menunjuk 3 jenis model Acer terbaru

Buat Anda yang ingin memiliki laptop yang lumayan imut, bisa jadi Aspire 3935 memang cocok buat Anda. Tidak terlalu besar atau tidak terlalu kecil. Dengan ukuran 13,3 inchi, laptop ini memiliki resolusi 1366 x 768. Selain itu, keyboardnya juga touch-sensitive, multigesture touchpad, webcam, tiga buah USB 2.0 port, fingerprint reader, 802.11 a/g/draft-N dan 4-cell Li-ion baterei.

Ada lagi, selain itu laptop merk Acer yang patut menarik perhatian kita adalah tipe T7350. Laptop jenis ini dibekali 2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo, dengan grafis 4500MHD, 8x DVD writer, 3Gb RAM, 250Gb HDD dan Vista Home Premium SP1.

Nah, jika Anda ingin mencari yang lebih powerfull, ada model terbaru yaitu 8935G Gemstone PC dengan layar yang sangat lebar 18.4 inchi, menggunakan Intel Core 2 Duo, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4670, 1080p resolusi, 4x Blu-Ray writer, 500Gb HDD yang dapat diupgrade menjadi 1TB. Wuah, ini pasti bisa menampung banyak file dan tentunya cocok sekali buat mereka yang senang mengkoleksi video atau musik dalam jumlah yang besar. Ketiga jenis laptop ini secara resmi akan dipasarkan sekitar bulan Juni 2009 mendatang. Nah, siap-siap nabung dari sekarang ya kalau ingin memiliki 1 dari ketiga laptop Acer ini!

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Konten Blogger Lama Yang Tidak Dimigrasi Ke Sistem Account Google Akan Dihapus

Apakah Anda salah satu pengguna Blogger? Kalau Anda yang telah bergabung dan memiliki account sebelum tahun 2007 maka berhati-hatilah kalau belum melakukan upgrade ke Google Account yang baru, pasalnya berdasarkan aturan yang baru setelah Blogger diakuisisi oleh Google kabarnya pihak Google Blogger akan segera menghapus account dan blog lama penggunanya tersebut. Oleh karenanya Anda diperkenankan untuk memiliki account Google terlebih dahulu sebelum bisa mengakses Blogger nantinya.

Sebagai salah satu akuisisi pertama yang dilakukan pihak Google beberapa waktu yang silam, proses integrasi Blogger dengan produk Google kabarnya masih mengalami hambatan dan belum selesai. Delapan tahun setelah mengakuisisi Blogger, pihak Google akhirnya mengakhiri dukungannya terhadap account warisan Blooger yang lama dengan memberi dukungan yang baru terhadap  account Google secara menyeluruh.

Sebelumnya Blogger menggunakan sistem account sendiri sampai tahun 2006 dan baru mulai bermigrasikan penggunanya pada tahun 2007. Selama empat tahun itu ternyata intergrasinya sendiri tidak dilakukan sebagaimana mestinya, sehingga pada akhirnya Google Blogger memutuskan akan segera menghapus dukungan bagi account penggunanya yang lama. Tidak hanya akan account lama saja yang berhenti bekerja, tetapi blog yang terkait dengan pengguna lamanya pun tersebut tentunya juga akan segera dihapus jika penggunanya tidak segera bermigrasi ke sistem yang baru pada bulan 25 Juni 2011 yang akan datang.

“Untuk sejumlah alasan teknis dan operasional, Kami telah memutuskan untuk menghentikan dukungan Kami terhadap semua account warisan dan blog yang lama setelah tanggal 25 Juni 2011″, ungkap pihak Google Blogger.

“Jadi jika Anda memiliki account Blogger dan tidak login sejak 2007, Anda akan kehilangan akses ke account dan konten yang berhubungan secara permanen tersebut kecuali jika Anda memperbaruinya ke sistem Account Google sebelum tanggal 25 Juni 2011″, tambahnya.

Sudah barang tentu nantinya bakal akan banyak orang yang belum melakukan login sejak tahun 2007. Namun apa mau dikata, bagi Anda yang mau selamat, ya sebaiknya segera saja mengupgradenya ke sistem account google yang baru. Sedangkan sebaliknya jika tidak, ya sebaiknya cukup abaikan saja dan beralihlah ke situs layanan pembuat blog yang lain untuk membuat blog Anda yang baru.

Google Account menyediakan sistem yang sangat padat, baik dari segi keamanan dan kinerja, proses verifikasi dua langkah adalah salah satu contoh, belum lagi itu membuat cara lebih mudah bagi Google untuk hanya memiliki satu sistem terhadap semua produk-produknya. Anda dapat mengetahui lebih lanjut tentang proses di sini.

Sebelumnya Google juga menghadapi masalah yang sama di YouTube dan telah mengeluarkan peringatan serupa baru-baru ini, dan meminta para penggunanya yang belum melakukannya agar dapat melakukan login ke Youtube diwajibkan sebelumnya untuk memiliki sistem account Google terlebih dahulu.

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Tips Mengubah Bootscreen Windows

Jenuh dengan tampilan bootscreen windows xp?? saya punya beberapa tips untuk mengubah tampilan bootscreen windows sesuai keinginan kita. Caranya dengan menggunakan fasilitas utilty dari TuneUp Utilities yang bisa digunakan untuk mengubah boot screen maupun welcome screen.
Caranya sangat mudah: 

1. Buka TuneUp Utilities. Klik TuneUp Styler 2.
2. Untuk mengubah boot screen, klik Change the Windows XP boot screen Klik New Screen
3. Pilih gambar yang diinginkan.
4. Jika ingin mengatur lebih lanjut, atur pada bagian 2 dan 3. Jika tidak ingin mengatur apapun, bisa langsung ke point 4, klik Save boot screen. Beri nama boot screen tersebut.
5. Klik boot screen buatan kita, lalu klik Instal Boot Screen
6. Restart computer. Tampilan boot screen akan seperti gambar berikut.

Semoga informasinya bermanfaat untuk anda ^_^

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Cara mudah over clock

Overclocking itu sebenernya apa sih ? Overclocking atau sering disingkat OC adalah tindakan memaksa PC untuk bekerja diatas kinerja yang sudah ditentukan oleh produsen. Efek samping dari OC adalah Overheat sampai kerusakan komponen PC, Maka dengan ini sebelum semua kasus terburuk terjadi bahwa SEGALA KERUSAKAN yang terjadi terhadap hardware anda bukan tanggung jawab penulis, atau dengan kata lain, kerusakan yang terjadi adalah tanggung jawab Anda sendiri.

Ada rumor mengatakan overclocking dapat menghilangkan garansi, jadi garansi tidak berlaku walaupun belum expired. Nah, tetapi disamping itu aku banyak menemui kasus orang yang hardwarenya rusak karena overclocking, tetapi garansinya tetap berlaku.

Langkah 1 - Identifikasi Komponen

Sebelum memulai overclocking, investigasi terlebih dahulu spesifikasi PC anda. (Motherboard, RAM/Memory , Processor , VGA Card, PSU (Power Supply Unit) )

Langkah 2 - Merek Hardware Yang Cocok Untuk Overclocking

Cari tahu lebih dalam lagi tentang chipset yang motherboard yang kalian pakai. Chipset ini berguna untuk mengetahui seberapa besar kemampuan motherboard dalam membantu overcklocking kinerja processor kalian. Berikut ini daftar chipset-chipset dari INTEL yang kemampuannya sudah bisa untuk dioverclock lebih dahsyat. Oh ya, biasanya untuk mengetahui chipset apa yang kalian gunakan di motherboard kalian, bisa liat tipe mobo (Motherboard) kalian menggunakan software Lavalys Everest misalnya. Misal Asus Abit IX-38 Quad GT berarti memakai chipset Intel X38.

Chipset Intel

P965
P35
X38
P48
X48
P45
X58 (Core i7 / Nehalem)

Daftar chipset kalian tidak ada di sini? Tidak perlu khawatir, pada dasarnya OC tidak dipengaruhi oleh jenis chipset yang kalian gunakan. Cuman, kalo pake chipset yang ada di atas, hasil OC yang kalian dapat bisa lebih dahsyat. Misalnya kalian masih pake chipset lawas semacam 915P, 945P, hasil yang kalian dapatkan sangat kecil. itu aja koq...

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AMD Phenom ll X6 Saingan intel i7

Apa Prosesor tercepat saat ini ? mungkin ingatan anda akan langsung tertuju pada intel core i7 980X,Tapi berapa banyak dari anda yang rela merongoh kocek cukup dalam untuk memilikinya ?
AMD memiliki kinerja yang baik,tidak selalu berbanding lurus dengan harga yang tinggi.

Sejak era Phenom generasi pertama,AMD memulai tren baru.Mereka menawarkan prosesor berinti lebih banyak ketimbang saingannya pada satu titik harga pasar.Pendekatan pasar yang cukup efektif ini sepertinya membguat AMD “ketagihan”.Ketika prosesor hexa-core milik intel diluncurkan,kita tahu bahwa pilihan alternative dari AMD juga akan segera keluar.Tentunya produk AMD ini akan lebih murah dibandingkan produk intel,Mengingat track record AMD sebelumnya.

AMD Phenom ll X6 diluncurkan untuk menjawab permintaan pasar dan fansnya.Kemunculan ini sekaligus memanaskan kembali persaingan dengan rivalnya yang sudah terlebih dahulu meluncurkan prosesor berinti enam.Bersamaan dengan peluncuran perdana dua varian Phenom ll X6(1055T dan 1090T),AMD juga mengenalkan chipset baru yakni 890 GX/FX.

Untuk menemani Phenom ll X6 ini.Kombinasi antara Phenom ll X6 1090T,890 GX/FX serta radeon HD seri 5000 menghasilkan platform baru yang disebut “Leo”.Walaupun Phenom ll X6 1090T memiliki jumlah inti sebanyak enam buah,teknologi yang digunakan pada inti prosesornya tersebut tidak berbeda dengan keluarga Phenom ll sebelumnya.Pasalnya,chip ini masih menggunaka arsitektur yang sama.Jadi pada dasarnya,AMD hanya memampatkan enam buah inti tersebut kedalam “wadah” yang sama dengan Phenom ll X4.kesamaan teknologi ini juga termasuk TDP nya yang sama dengan pemilik nama kode(code name) ”Thuban” ini tetap hadir dengan sesuatu yang baru.

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Mengenai Sandy Bridge Prossesor Intel

Prosesor Intel Core generasi ke-2, yang banyak dikenal dengan codename ‘Sandy Bridge’, memiliki arsitektur yang baru, performa yang sangat fenomenal, dan overclockability yang luar biasa (mencapai 5.4Ghz dengan pendingin HSF). Maka dari itu, ada beberapa orang yang merasa bahwa mengupgrade sistem lama ke Sandy Bridge akan menghadirkan peningkatan performa yang signifikan.


Apakah Anda salah satu diantaranya? Nah, sebelum anda pergi ke Mangga Dua dan mengganti sistem lama Anda, ada baiknya Anda membaca artikel ini terlebih dahulu!

Seperti halnya setiap hardware baru yang dirilis, Sandy Bridge memiliki sedikit karakteristik ‘unik’ yang membuatnya berbeda dengan hardware lain, berikut ini diantaranya :

1. CPU LGA1155 TIDAK kompatibel dengan LGA1156

Hal ini terdengar cukup simple, namun begitulah adanya. Jika saat ini Anda ingin menggunakan prosesor Sandy Bridge yang menggunakan soket LGA1155, mau tidak mau Anda harus membeli motherboard yang menggunakan soket LGA1155. Tidak ada backward-compatibility antara CPU LGA1156 dan LGA1155. Satu-satunya hal yang sama dari LGA1155 dan 1156 adalah lubang untuk mounting HSFnya, sehingga Anda masih dapat menggunakan HSF LGA1156 pada prosesor Sandy Bridge LGA1155 Anda.



2.Prosesor K-Series vs Non-K-Series, apa bedanya?

Jika Anda menyimak berbagai model prosesor Sandy Bridge yang akan dirilis pada artikel kami yang sebelumnya, Anda akan menyadari bahwa ada beberapa prosesor yang memiliki model number yang sama, namun mempunyai akhiran ‘K’. Prosesor yang memiliki akhiran ‘K’ seperti i5-2500K dan i7-2600K adalah prosesor yang disebut sebagai prosesor K-Series, sedangkan prosesor tanpa akhiran ‘K’ seperti i5-2300 dan i5-2500 disebut prosesor non-K-Series.

Yang perlu Anda ketahui adalah tidak ada perbedaan clockspeed antara varian K-series dan Non-K series. Satu-satunya perbedaan antara K-series dengan Non-K adalah semua prosesor K-series memiliki multiplier yang tidak dikunci yang memungkinkan overclocking CPU via multiplier.

Gambar berikut ini akan menjelaskan perbedaan antara prosesor i5 2500K dan i5-2500 :

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Install Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot di Macbook

Ubuntu Oneiric sudah resmi bisa digunakan pada pertengahan Oktober tepatnya tanggal 13 Oktober 2011, pada awalnya saya juga tidak tertarik dengan Ubuntu Ocelot, karena masalah tidak suka dengan tampilan Unity dari Ubuntu. Tapi lambat hari setelah melihat beberapa tangkapan layar teman teman facebook, saya cukup tergoda untuk mencobanya pada MacBook Pro 8.1 yang saya miliki. Saya cukup yakin untuk menginstall Ubuntu Oneiric pada MacBook Pro walaupun belum ada dokumentasi dari Team MacTel saya putuskan tetap mengistallnya. Untuk tahap awal saya hanya mencobanya dengan live cd, setelah puas mencoba saya putuskan juga untuk mengistall langsung pada MacBook Pro 8.1. Beberapa test perangkat keras yang saya kerjkan pada Ubuntu Oneiric yang akan saya pasangkan di MacBook Pro 8.1 ini cukup berjalan lancar kecuali wireless bcm4331. Untuk segi pengenalan hardware Ubuntu Oneiric ini lebih bagus digunakan dari pada Ubuntu Natty yang masih banyak konfigurasi hardware pada Macbook Pro 8.1 Seperti pada tulisan saya sebelumnya. Untuk langkah installasi Ubuntu Oneiric cukup mudah tinggal install melalui CD semuanya sudah teratasi seperti hardware VGA Intel HD, Multitouch Trackpad, FacetimeHD Camera, Sound, Blutooth, CardReader, Kontrol Kecerahan Layar dan Keyboard Bakclight semua berjalan lancar kecuali wireless bcm4331 perlu melakukan sedikit kompilasi driver.

Installasi Refit MacOSX

Untuk tahap pertama installasi Ubuntu Oneiric pada Macbook Pro adalah memasang applikasi Refit pada Mac OSX bisa didapatkan di sini. Kemudian lakukan installasi refit pada MacOSX anda. Buka Installer Refit kemudian klik rEFit.mpkg dilanjutkan installasi Refit hingga selesai

kemudian buka terminal anda ketikkan perintah berikut untuk mengaktifkan otomatis Refit pada Boot Pertama sebelum masuk System.

$ sudo sh /efi/refit/enable-always.sh 

Langkah selanjutnya menyiapkan Partisi hardisk untuk Ubuntu, yang bisa anda buat menggunakan aplikasi Disk Untility pada Mac OSX, buka Spotlight - tekan - Command + Space -- ketikan - Disk Untility, buat partisi kosong kurang lebih 12 GB (11 GB linux system dan 1 GB linux swap) 

• Unduh Ubuntu Oneiric Mac Arsitektur 64bit kemudian burning ke dalam CD
• Masukkan CD Ubuntu Oneiric dalam CDROM diikuti dengan menekan tombol C pada keyboard, agar MacBook bisa booting dalam media CD.
• Kemudian lakukan installasi Ubuntu seperti biasanya, pada partisi kosong yang anda siapkan.
• Setelah Installasi Ubuntu Selesai masuk Refit, kamudian masuk dalam boot Ubuntu kemudian konfigurasi hardware MacBook Pro 8.1 pada Ubuntu Oneiric

Wireless Airport - BCM4331
Wireless Macbook Pro 8.1 menggunakan broadcom bcm4331 sampai saat ini Ubuntu Oneiric belum mendukungnya untuk driver bcm4331 untuk mengatifkan driver bcm4331 perlu sedikit kompilasi driver bcm4331 Macbook Pro di Ubuntu Oneiric
Install beberapa aplikasi yang digunakan di Ubuntu untuk buid dan kompilasi driver:

sudo apt-get install build-essential make pacth

Setelah installasi aplikasi untuk kompilasi selesai, Unduh berkas yang diperlukan untuk kompilasi driver BCM4331

> Sources Compact Wireless

> Patch Driver BCM4331

> Sources Fwcutter Terbaru

> Sources Prorietary Broadcom Driver 43XX 


Jadikan satu bekas driver yang diunduh dalam satu direktori bernama bcm4331
$ mkdir bcm4331


Kemudian masuk dalam direktori bcm4331 kemudian kompilasi dengan patch driver bcm4331
$ cd ~/bcm4331
$ tar xf compat-wireless-2011-08-27.tar.bz2
$ tar xf patch_bcm4331.tar.bz2
$ cd compat-wireless-2011-08-27/
$ patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-1.patch
$ patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-2.patch
$ patch -p1 < ../bcm4331-3.patch


Langkah selanjutnya mengaktifkan driver b43
$ scripts/driver-select b43


Aktifkan PHY_HT dengan mengedit berkas config.mk, hapus tanda pagar pada pada baris 276 :
$ gedit config.mk
Sunting berkas config.mk pada baris 276 :
...
CONFIG_B43_PHY_HT=y
...

Setelah menyunting bekas config.mk selesai dilanjutkan kompilasi dan installasi compact wireless driver
$ make

$ sudo make install
$ cd ..


Langkah selanjutnya kompilasi b43-fwcutter
$ tar xf b43-fwcutter-015.tar.bz2
$ cd b43-fwcutter-015
$ make


Ekstrak Berkas Firmware BCM43XX Broadcom Proprietary  

$ tar xf ../broadcom-wl-5.100.138.tar.bz2

$ export FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR="/lib/firmware"

$ sudo ./b43-fwcutter -w "$FIRMWARE_INSTALL_DIR" broadcom-wl-5.100.138/linux/wl_apsta.o

$ cd ..

Kemudian Unload Semua Modul yang berhubungan dengan wireless

$ cd compat-wireless-2011-08-27

$ sudo make wlunload

Untuk memastikan modul b43 dimuat pada saat reboot, tambahkan modul b43 yang baru saja dikompilasi :

$ sudo modprobe b43

Tambahkan modul b43 pada berkas /etc/modules agar bisa aktif pada saat system startup

$ sudo echo 'b43' >> /etc/modules

Agar driver b43 aktif kembali pada saat system suspend dan hibernate, perlu menambahkan parameter suspend modul pada berkas /etc/config.d/defaults

$ sudo echo 'SUSPEND_MODULES = "b43"' >> /etc/pm/config.d/default

Setiap upgrade kernel atau menggunakan kernel lain, reload ulang driver compact driver menggunakan perintah dibawah :

$ cd ~/b4331/compat-wireless-2011-10-09
$ make clean
$ make
$ sudo make install 

Multitouch Trackpad
Untuk Trackpad pada Ubuntu Oneiric sudah berjalan lancar tanpa konfigarasi driver, Oneiric juga sudah mendukung multitouch seperti pada MacOSX, multitouch seperti mencubit dan menyapu atau memutar obyek menggunakan 2 jari sudah bisa berjalan lancar :) 

1 Jari - klik kiri
2 Jari - klik kanan, horizotal & vertical scrolling,  pinch & zoom, dan rotate
3 Jari - Move Window
4 Jari - Memanggil Applikasi


Konfigurasi Trackpad Multitouch cukup masuk setting manager pilih Mouse & Touchpad kemudian cek 2 finger scrooling, seperti gambar dibawah :

Applikasi tambahan Touchégg untuk memodifikasi Multitouch Trackpad pada MacBook Pro
Touchégg Apps

wget http://touchegg.googlecode.com/files/touchegg_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb

Touchégg Apps GUI

wget http://touchegg.googlecode.com/files/touchegg-gui_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb

Installasi Touchégg Multitouch
sudo dpkg -i touchegg_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i touchegg-gui_0.2-maverick_amd64.deb


Sound & Subwoofer 
Konfigurasi sound Ubuntu Oneiric pada Macbook Pro 8.1 cukup menggunakan alsamixer, tidak perlu konfiguarasi seperti pada Ubuntu Natty. Ketikkan perintah berikut pada terminal, kemudian setting alsamixer seperti tangkapan layar di bawah. Tekan huruf 'M' untuk menonaktifkan mode sunyi (mute)   

alsamixer

IntelHD & Video Out
Tahap selanjutnya adalah menkonfigurasi ekternal monitor pada port mini display MacBook Pro. Kernel 3 sudah mendeteksi driver vga Intel HD 3000 dengan baik tinggal menkonfigurasi untuk menampilkan secara otomatis  tampilan monitor eksternal pada saat mini port display dimasukkan. Pada kasus ini saya menggunakan aplikasi ubuntu yaitu Multiple Screen menggunakanya adalah mempermudah pengaturan layar monitor eksternal seperti pada tulisan saya yang membahas Multiple Screen :)

sudo apt-get install grandr

Untuk mengkonfigurasi Multiple Screen masukkan Port Mini Display to VGA kemudian konfigurasi resolusi pada layar utama pada resolusi 1024x768, kemudian klik apply. Untuk ekstenal monitor saya menggunakan Multiple Screen secara otomatis sudah bisa tampil ke layar eksternal tanpa konfigurasi ulang setelah menkonfigurasi resolusi layar pada multiple screen.

FacetimeHD Camera 

Mengatifkan Camera disini saya tidak terlalu menggunakan Camera, maka saya cuma mengistallkan aplikasi sederhana untuk sekedar mengatifkan fitur kamera. Untuk mengatifkan camera saya menggunakan Aplikasi Cheese. Installasi cheese sebagai berikut. Buka terminal kemudian ketikkan perintah dibawah :

sudo apt-get install cheese

Konfigurasi Ubuntu pada MacBook Pro 8.1 selsai, untuk perangkat lain seperti Eternet Gigabit, Bluetooth, Microphone, Keyboard, back light keyboard, short cut keyboard, Card reader SDXC semuanya berjalan lancar, Thunterbolt dan Firewire  pada Ubuntu Oneiric belum ditesting :D.  Untuk tangkapan layar Ubuntu Oneiric berjalan lancar jaya di MacBook Pro 8.1 pada gambar dibawah. :) 

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File system security

In your unixstuff directory, type

% ls -l (l for long listing!)

You will see that you now get lots of details about the contents of your directory, similar to the example below.

Each file (and directory) has associated access rights, which may be found by typing ls -l. Also, ls -lg gives additional information as to which group owns the file (beng95 in the following example):

-rwxrw-r-- 1 ee51ab beng95 2450 Sept29 11:52 file1

In the left-hand column is a 10 symbol string consisting of the symbols d, r, w, x, -, and, occasionally, s or S. If d is present, it will be at the left hand end of the string, and indicates a directory: otherwise - will be the starting symbol of the string.
The 9 remaining symbols indicate the permissions, or access rights, and are taken as three groups of 3.

• The left group of 3 gives the file permissions for the user that owns the file (or directory) (ee51ab in the above example);
  
• the middle group gives the permissions for the group of people to whom the file (or directory) belongs (eebeng95 in the above example);
  
• the rightmost group gives the permissions for all others.

The symbols r, w, etc., have slightly different meanings depending on whether they refer to a simple file or to a directory.

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Set Up Mandriva Linux & XP for a Dual Boot

Dual booting will allow you to select Mandriva or Windows XP as your computer starts up.

Mandriva is one of many different distributions of the Linux operating systems. Linux components are developed by volunteer developers. Companies that create Linux distributions package these components in unique ways and create installation routines to make installing Linux more simple. Mandriva has chosen to include a component with installation that makes setting up a computer to dual boot Mandriva and Microsoft Windows XP much easier. The component installed by Mandriva, and many other Linux distributions, is Grand Unified Bootloader, or GRUB.

Difficulty:

Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need

Windows XP installation mediaMandriva installation media

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schedule release history Mandriva

Date	Name	main src	main i586	main x86_64	contrib src	contrib i586	contrib x86_64	Total SRPMS	Total i586	Total x86_64
2010-12	2010.2
2010-07	2010.1-farman	2948	7601	7566	8479	12618	12493	11427	20219	20059
2009-11	2010.0-adelie	2919	7340	7298	7927	11933	7299	10856	19273	14597
2009-04	2009.1-	2828	6981	6936	7719	11689	11536	10547	18670	18472
2008-10	2009.0-	2849	6861	6830	7158	11109	10931	10007	17970	17761
2008-04	2008.1-	2744	6401	6332	6893	10974	10726	9637	17375	17058
2008-01	2008.1-Cooker	2695	6596	6321	6668	9363	17520	16778	15959	23841
2007-10	2008.0-Tycho	2654	6084	5967	6384	9038	16119	15678	15122	22086
2007-04	2007.1-spring	2524	5502	5472	6006	8904	8515	8530	14406	13987
2006-12	2007.1-Cooker	2444	5251	5252	5775	9076	8264	8219	14327	13516
2006-10	2007	2408	5123	4913	5584	8200	7554	8039	13323	12605
2005-08	2006	2044	4211		4628	7263	7274	12306	11474	7274
2005-04	2005-LE	1855	3853		4098	6023	6256	10689	10109	6256
2004-10	10.1-Cty	1676	3511		3556	5141	5532	9459	9043	5532
2004-03	10.0-Cty	1548	3150		2905	4290	4711	8131	7861	4711
2003-09	9.2-fivestar	1445	2916		2429	3533	4012	6847	6928	4012
2003-03	9.1-bamboo	1289	2564		1752	2491		3041	5055
2002-09	9.0-dolphin	1215	2259		1320	1853		2535	4112
2002-03	8.2-bluebird	1211	2116		927	1171		2138	3287
2001-09	8.1-vitamin	1181	2030		742	828		1923	2858
2001-03	8.0-traktopel	1088	1768		619	781		1707	2549
2000-09	7.2-odyssey	977	1553					977	1553
2000-05	7.1-helium	672	1327					672	1327
2000-01	7.0-air	689	1001					689	1001
1999-09	6.1-helios		845						845
1999-05	6.0-venus		717						717
1999-02	5.3-festen		634						634
1998-12	5.2-leeloo		617						617
1998-07	5.1-venice		551						551

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Fixing Skype Error in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot

Since Ubuntu 10.10 Skype always available in every ubuntu official repository, even though there are always a choice for ubuntu user to download Skype from its official website, it's better for us to install Skype from a repository because it's has been adjusted with every Ubuntu release.

In this release, Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric has Improved handling of 32-bit compatibility on amd64 systems, in other word this mean `some package` may use a same library for 32-bit and 64-bit. 32-bit libraries will always be available at the same time as their 64-bit counterparts, even in the case of security updates, and users will only need to install those 32-bit libraries needed by the applications they have installed.

Problems that usually accour when Install Skype in Ubuntu 11.10, especially user who install from standalone installer from Skype website (*.deb), is give following error message :

skype: error while loading shared libraries: libXss.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

a problem above usually because the unavailability of libXss.so because it is not available in 64-bit, to solve the problem above can be done in two ways, here are :

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Install Conky Metro UI Style Windows 8 for Ubuntu 11.10

a while after Microsoft launched new OS Windows 8 `Beta` with actually using new Interface named Metro UI, many people feels love with it. The interface that feels fresh, functional, simple and good looking are very fascinating, and there is some concern about the fate of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is it still boom as ever.

For Ubuntu User, you do not need to worry because you can taste the Metro UI atmosphere without leaving Ubuntu, kant-o on their Deviantart has made a theme/skin for conky which makes us feels have a Windows 8 in our desktop.

How to Install Conky Metro Style 'Windows 8' Widget for Ubuntu
Here are step by step to make Metro UI Style Widget in your ubuntu,  some application that required is Conky.

Install conky in your Ubuntu
first step is install conky, you can install conky through Ubuntu Software Center (find it using keyword `conky`) or using terminal using this command :

sudo apt-get install conky-all

Create conky directory in your home folder

 mkdir ~/.conky && cd ~/.conky

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Install Mozilla Thunderbird unseats Evolution in Ubuntu 11.10

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While not nearly as popular as its web browser cousin, Mozilla Thunderbird is nevertheless one of the most widely-used desktop email applications around. On June 28th 2011 Thunderbird 5 was released, packing nearly 400 performance and stability fixes, improved wizards and tab handling, and an an updated add-on manager like the one that debuted in Firefox 4. It’s also Thunderbird’s first rapid release version, so we’ll wait and see if some system administrators have the same beefs about long-term support and breakage with Thunderbird as they did with Firefox.

For now, however, there’s some additional good news for the Thunderbird team. Canonical has released the second alpha of Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot, and one of the most significant changes is to its default applications. After a lengthy tenure as Ubuntu’s pre-installed email client, Evolution has been booted — replaced by Mozilla’s blue, avian postman. The switch comes at an interesting time, what with Mozilla’s own Asa Dotzler having recently aired a number of gripes against Thunderbird on his personal blog and announcing that he’d be switching to Postbox.

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how to Configure Additional Repositories

Before you install any additional packages it's best to first install the Synaptic Package Manager since it lets you download multiple packages at a time easily. Open a terminal (Dash > Terminal) and enter

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Some packages like the Adobe Reader are not available in the standard Ubuntu repositories. The easiest way to make such packages available to your system is to add the Medibuntu repository.

Again, open a terminal and edit /etc/apt/sources.list...

sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list

... and enable the oneiric partner and Ubuntu Extras repositories (if they are not already enabled):

[...]
## Uncomment the following two lines to add software from Canonical's
## 'partner' repository.
## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by Canonical and
the
## respective vendors as a service to Ubuntu users.
deb http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner
deb-src http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu oneiric partner 

## This software is not part of Ubuntu, but is offered by third-party
## developers who want to ship their latest software.
deb http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main
deb-src http://extras.ubuntu.com/ubuntu oneiric main 
[...]

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new in ubuntu 11.10 oneiric

Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot is marching ahead. Through our detailed reviews of Alpha 2 and Alpha 3 releases, we followed Ubuntu 11.10 in its each and every developmental phase so far. A lot of things have changed since the third alpha release and as we had promised, here is a preview of latest round of changes in Ubuntu 11.10 and a quick screenshot tour.

Ubuntu Software Center is in the limelight yet again. Software Center overhaul is in full swing and the good news is, no need to wait till Ubuntu 12.04 to see the changes for yourself, its already happening with default Ubuntu Software Center in Ubuntu 11.10. More details on the latest round of Software Center related improvements can be found here.

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GNOME Shell in Ubuntu 11.10

GNOME Shell and Unity are the two new approaches towards creating the ultimate desktop experience by GNOME Foundation and Canonical respectively. Both approaches stirred up fair amount of controversies, with personalities like Linus Torvalds going so far as to call GNOME Shell an unholy mess. But things aren't that bad, or are they? Let's find out.

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Firefox 7 Beta Arrives in Ubuntu 11.10

Firefox 7 beta is now the default web browser in Ubuntu 11.10 Onceric Ocelot beta and for the first time ever, Firefox scores a perfect 100 in Acid3 tests. Congratulations Mozilla!

Acid3 Tests and Web Browsers

Acid3 test is a web test page from the Web Standards Project that checks a web browser's compliance with elements of various web standards, particularly the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript. Acid3 test was launched on 3 March 2008 by Ian Hickson, a Google employee and the tests became popular with the advent of Google Chrome which scored a perfect 100 in Acid3 tests and reignited the browser wars.

When all the other popular browsers like Opera and Safari along with Google Chrome soared in terms of performance, Firefox and IE consistently under performed. But that's changing now. Firefox has recently decided to shift to a rapid release cycle mode(like Google Chrome) and the move is already starting to give results.

The first screenshot shows the results of Acid3 tests in Firefox 7.0 beta, which is the default web browser in upcoming Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot. This one above shows the results of Acid3 tests in Firefox 9 Alpha running in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal. Yes, both score a perfect 100. Learn how to install Firefox 9.0 Alpha in Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Nawhal.

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Growing and going strong LibreOffice in ububtu 11.10

Today marks the one-year anniversary of The Document Foundation (TDF) and the LibreOffice project, a promising community-driven fork of OpenOffice.org (OOo). The project has seen considerable growth during its first year of existence. TDF estimates that there are now 25 million LibreOffice users worldwide.

TDF and LibreOffice were originally founded in response to the long-standing governance problems that have historically afflicted OOo. Under Sun's leadership, bureaucratic barriers and concerns about the project's copyright assignment policy impeded participation in OOo development. Friction between Sun, independent community members, and other corporate contributors created an unhealthy environment for collaboration. The problems only worsened after Oracle's acquisition of Sun.

Some key OOo project members banded together to create the LibreOffice fork—based partly on Novell's excellent Go-OO patchset—and decided to establish TDF to provide a truly vendor-neutral setting for future development. The early TDF participants initially hoped that Oracle would embrace the effort and be willing to participate on equal footing with other community members. Unfortunately, Oracle wasn't interested in aligning with the community's vision and forced TDF backers to step down from the OOo community council—thus formalizing the split.

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Compiz running on Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric)

Ubuntu 11.10 will not include the classic GNOME desktop which is available alongside Unity in Ubuntu 11.04. Instead, Unity 2D will be installed to provide the Unity desktop even on systems without 3D graphics capabilities. Fortunately for fans of the old desktop, it will still be available to install from the repositories.

Install the classic GNOME desktop by installing the gnome-panel package.
sudo apt-get install gnome-panel

Before you log in, click the gear icon and select GNOME Classic. This will give you a traditional GNOME desktop with top and bottom panels and the Compiz window manager. If you don’t want Compiz’s desktop effects, select the GNOME Classic (No effects) option for the Metacity window manager instead.

If you have problems with the theme being messed up and gnome-settings-daemon crashing, make sure you have installed any available updates. I had this problem before upgrading my Ubuntu 11.10 Beta 1 installation.

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Installing Ubuntu 11.10 on the Eee PC 901

I haven’t had time yet to rebuild my main system with Ubuntu 11.10, so I did a fresh install on my netbook to try it out. My Eee PC 901 originally shipped with Linux, but it was very Ubuntu unfriendly until 9.04. Since then, all the hardware has been well supported by Ubuntu.

As usual, I ran the installer from a bootable USB drive created with Ubuntu’s Startup Disk Creator. Ubiquity, the Ubuntu installer, is more polished than ever in this release. It can now turn on the webcam to take an account picture, which worked perfectly with the built in webcam. I encountered two minor installer bugs: an incorrect report that the system’s name already exists on the network, and the window becoming taller than the screen.

I wish that I could have aborted the language pack downloads during the install. Since the repository mirror was slow, they took over an hour to fetch.

Disk IO seems to really slow the system down. The Eee PC 901 has dual solid state drives: one 4 GB and one 16 GB which is slightly slower. This time, I installed Ubuntu to the slower but larger drive because I’ve had trouble keeping enough free space while installed to the smaller one. I might have to switch back to the faster drive to speed things up again. Using Chromium is a big improvement to Firefox, which freezes up briefly while accessing the disk. Even without the disk issue, Unity feels a bit sluggish on this 3 year old netbook. There’s a noticeable delay drawing menus and opening the dash.

There are a few bugs to work out:

• Dragging with the touchpad is now very difficult.
• I had the touchpad stop working entirely once (a USB mouse continued working). I haven’t been able to reproduce this.
• I couldn’t get the launcher to appear with the mouse after it auto-hid. After closing the windows I had open, the problem went away. I haven’t been able to reproduce this.
• The system seems to have started randomly having kernel panics today. One happened while copying a file to a flash drive, and another while filling out the bug report for the first.

I’ve never had a problem with Ubuntu as severe as the kernel panic crashes. Fortunately I don’t rely on the netbook for much right now.

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Sushi File Previewer in Ubuntu 11.10 Unity

One of the new features in GNOME 3.2 is quick file preview. Pressing space while a file is selected in the file browser will open a window with a preview of the file contents. Previews of images, videos, music, PDF documents, and more are supported.

The preview feature is provided by an application called Sushi. Since GNOME and Ubuntu Unity use the same file browser, no configuration is needed to use Sushi in Ubuntu.

Search for and install gnome-sushi in Ubuntu Software Center, or install it from the terminal:
sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi

Sushi has a plain black user interface, but features nice animated effects when zooming in and out of images, and slick transparent controls over videos. Since Sushi runs in the background once it’s started, it should appear fast when launched.

The file preview feature isn’t very discoverable. The only way to launch Sushi seems to be pressing space while a file is selected.

There seems to be some minor issues with Sushi and Ubuntu’s theme. Also, Sushi doesn’t play very well in VirtualBox. It sort of worked in Unity 2D, but under any compositing window manager it had major problems. I’ll have give it another try once Ubuntu 11.10 is out and I have it installed on a real system.

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How-to Change Boot Order (boot grub) in Ubuntu 11.04

If you’re dual booting Ubuntu with other Linux distributions or Windows, you may wish to change the which operating system starts by default. Ubuntu uses the GRUB boot loader to display a menu of installed operating systems and boot them. If you don’t see the menu before Ubuntu starts, hold down the shift key while your system starts up.

This guide is intended for Ubuntu 11.04 and 11.10, which both use GRUB version 1.99. If you’ve upgraded from an older Ubuntu installation, you may still have an older version of GRUB. Search in Ubuntu Software Center for grub-pc and check the version if you’re not sure.

There’s a graphical configuration tool for GRUB called StartUp-Manager. Unfortunately, judging by its reviews in Ubuntu Software Center the application has not been updated for the latest version of GRUB and has some problems. But if you’re comfortable with editing a configuration file and running some terminal commands it’s not difficult to change the default operating system manually.

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How-to Install Adobe Flash Player 11

Release candidate 1 of Flash 11 is available from Adobe. As well as 3D graphics support, users of 64-bit systems will be pleased that Flash 11 will be 64-bit native. This means that the old workaround for running Flash in 64-bit browsers will no long be needed.

[update: Flash 11 has been released, and the final version is now available from the Ubuntu repositories.]

Here’s how to install Flash 11 in recent versions of 64 or 32-bit Ubuntu:

1. If you’ve already installed Flash, you’ll need to remove it first. If you installed it from the Ubuntu repository, make sure the packages flashplugin-installer and flashplayer-downloader are removed.
   sudo apt-get remove flashplugin-installer flashplayer-downloader
2. Go to Adobe’s download page for Flash 11 and select either the 32 or 64-bit tar.gz archive download for Linux.
3. Extract the libflashplayer.so file from the downloaded archive.
4. Open the file browser and navigate to .mozilla in your home directory. Since this is a hidden folder, you’ll need to press Ctrl+L and type the path in, or enable the Show Hidden Files option in the View menu in order to get to it.
5. Create a folder called plugins if it doesn’t already exist, and move the libflashplayer.so file into it.
6. Restart your browser.

Firefox or Chromium (which will load plugins from the same directory as Firefox) should now have Flash 11 installed.

You can also use an unofficial PPA with Flash 11 packages (make sure you trust a PPA’s owner before adding it).

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Unity personalization in ubuntu

In such a short time of development, improvements in speed, aesthetics, usability and more have come to life in the Compiz version of Unity. But, what about customization?  €œIf you have no will to change it, you have no right to criticize , a wise man once said.

The purpose here is not to teach you in detail how to customize the various options, but rather to just show you where they are and that they do exist. As for creating a style, that’s up to your creativity!

Unity panel/icons to follow users theme

Considered by many as the “killer app” on linux, theming returned to Ubuntu on February 17, 2011. Tweakers rejoice! The theme applies to the panels and everything else like it used to. The icons of the launcher now adheres to your chosen icon set as well. Cool.

Changing wallpaper, icons, theme.

The icons in the launcher can be moved around or completely removed as well.

Unity Compiz options allow changing animations, panel transparency, size & more

The options to choose between 'Blink' or 'Pulse' animations on launching apps and apps demanding attention is available. Optionally both can be set to 'None'. The transparency of the panel can be chosen along with the size of the launcher. Personally I set the panel a bit smaller for use on my netbook and made my panel slightly transparent because it looks sexy.

Personalized panel & launcher.

Put your own twist to your Workspaces

As I read through the comments of some users from different posts, many thought that the gray reflexion area when the Workspace Switcher is activated is too large. Although being a mandatory Icon in Unity, it does not mean users can’t change it up. Simply open Compiz Config, go to the Expo settings and there you go! Change every detail you can think of.

Here is my end result:

Unity Lenses: Endless possibilities!

In 11.04,2 lenses are included (previously named places). The Files Lens and the Applications Lens. Where it gets interesting is that you can create and add lenses to the shell as you please. Still in early stages of implementation, lenses add a depth of customization never before seen. Many hope once there is enough lenses out there that they will be easily available from the Software Center. Here are some great ideas from some of you awesome readers:

• AskUbuntu Lens
• Package Lens
• Active Project Lens
• RSS Lens
• Inbox Lens
• People Lens

And so much more!

A lot of people seem to forget that nearly all the personalization from Classic Ubuntu can still be used with Unity. Screenlets are back in development and work just fine with the new Desktop Ubuntu. The much loved Faenza Icons & Nautilus-Elementary can still rock out Natty. The almighty Compiz Fusion is in full force with all of it’s power too.

Ubuntu 11.04: same great Ubuntu, all new features.

Like what you see? We would love to see how you readers can personalize Natty! Post images in the comments bellow.

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Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) Tips ‘n’ Tricks

Ubuntu 11.10 (Oneiric Ocelot) is expected to release on 13th of this month, I’ve tried the beta versions. Few months ago, just after the release of Ubuntu 11.04, I published a post on Ubuntu 11.04 Tips ‘n’ Tricks, and it was a big hit – I got a lot of positive feedback. In fact, it was lot useful for a beginner Ubuntu users – specifically those who are coming from the Windows background. Some of the tips explained there are also valid for 11.10 (perhaps for all version of Ubuntu or may be for all Linux based OS) but most of the tricks are obsolete due to some major change like GTK 3 (instead of 2.3).

That’s why I thought to write an updated version of those cool tips ‘n’ tricks, and the expected users are absolute beginners but intermediate and advanced users might benefit from it. If you’ve just installed a fresh version of Ubuntu 11.10 then first go through this post – 10 things to do after installing Ubuntu 11.10, then come back here and apply some tips/tricks  to customize the Ubuntu in your way.

So here is my most favorite collection of Tips and Tweaks, for a beginner Ubuntu 11.10 user. If you have something to say (e.g if you want to add or improve an existing tips or you want to share you experience or have some feedback) then feel free to share with us (using comment box).

Top 10 – Ubuntu 11.10(Oneiric Ocelot) Tips ‘n’ Tricks

The tips and tricks described here, are primarily aimed for Ubuntu 11.10 users but some of the tips may works seamlessly with other Linux distributions (specifically Debian based) such as Linux Mint, Opensuse, Fedora, Debian, or other Ubuntu derivatives such as Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu, MythUbuntu, Ubuntu Studio etc. So feel free to experiment but – always keep a backup to encounter any unexpected results.

1. Try GNOME Shell

Ubuntu 11.10 uses Gnome 3 (based on GTK 3) but the default user interface is Unity. Unity has improved a lot, but if you want to try something new or you like Gnome 3 (or you might be hating Unity), then it’s time to enjoy the next generation revolutionary desktop – GNOME 3. Gnome 3.2 is the latest version. It has a lot of new and innovative features.

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