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ViewSonic Proview 780 with Ubuntu Gnu/Linux

Just a quick post to let everyone out there that still owns this monitor that you can use it nicely under Gnu/Linux, you just have to set the sync and refresh rates in your xorg.conf. My Ubuntu install didn’t do it auto-magically, so I had to go look. Looks like someone was still using theirs [...]

[ More ] March 27th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in gnu/linux, hardware, ubuntu |

Turn off the prompt for installing Windows Desktop Search in Outlook

Go Microsoft! An annoying reminder that is really hard to figure out how to disable.

[ More ] March 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in software |

Boot.ini, XP, eeepc

Boot.ini is whack. After a lot of searching, I finally found a page that kind of describes what the options of boot.ini are. So I finally got my D:\ drive root eeepc to boot nicely. The weird boot.ini is a remnant of the USB install I did of XP, I think.

[ More ] March 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in hardware, software |

nLite for eeepc 4g

Ok, so I’m going to follow this guide. I followed the whole guide to nLiting the install, with a few tweaks for my own uses (kept IIS for example). Anyway, I burned the cd. But wait, no usb cable here at work. I brought the external dvd burner, but not the cable, since I figured [...]

[ More ] March 25th, 2009 | No Comments | Posted in hardware, software |

Hard Reset Nokia s60 Phone – n93i

Here’s the link. I used only one ‘code’ – hard reset. To do a hard reset: Turn the phone off. Hold down: 3 button Green button * button While holding these down, turn on the power. All done, should be all reset. Make sure to format the memory card too!

[ More ] March 20th, 2009 | 2 Comments | Posted in hardware, n85 |