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Previously I wrote that suspend/resume was not working in Karmic on my MacBook Pro 5.1, and I posted a solution. Now I found a better solution from the Apple Users forum on Ubuntu. The advantage is that with this fix, the suspend/resume is much faster. First you need to revert the change I suggested previously. [...]

I updated today from Jaunty to Karmic and, as effect, I had Suspend/Resume/Hibernate broken. But reboot and shutdown works; before with Jaunty the reboot was frequently crashing. To fix the Suspend/Resume, I modified /boot/grub/menu.lst to add the kernel option acpi=noirq Example: title Ubuntu 9.10, kernel 2.6.31-14-generic uuid 5daec709-2655-4d7c-9968-969143e31fbd kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.31-14-generic root=UUID=5daec709-2655-4d7c-9968-969143e31fbd ro quiet splash acpi=noirq [...]

I bought my Mac with the "International Keyboard". Which layout should you use on Linux? The keyboard layout looks like this one: As far as I know the "USA Macintosh" is the one that fits better, but still you have the §± and `~ keys inverted. To fix this I've added to Gnome Session Startup [...]

The reverse horizontal scrolling problem is due to some old compatibility quirk on Apple's mouse that was using reversed scroll, and the problematic code is still there in newer kernels. See the bug: 291408. If your mighty mouse scroll ball is horizontally reversed, it can be solved in this way: - open file /var/lib/bluetooth/xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx/did - [...]

Since the 24th of August a new beta of Skype is available. Some little look and feel changes, contact groups support, nothing really new, except for the native 64bit support. And I hope it will be more stable. Download it from here: http://www.skype.com/download/skype/linux/ I updated it because the old 32bit version recently is very unstable [...]

Ram disks are virtual disks that use RAM as super fast storage, with the "side effect" that they are not reboot persistent. Modern computers have a lot of RAM, and sometime one may need a super fast disk storage of a limited size to speed up some disk intensive tasks. On Linux you can mount [...]

This tutorial will guide you through installation of Apache, HTTPS, Subversion and Trac, in order to have an (almost) complete development environment for your team. This article is divided in following steps 1. Installing Subversion 2. Installing Apache 3. Configuring Apache with SSL 4. Configuring Subversion with Apache (and SSL) 5. Installing Trac You may [...]

Apart from the basics, which you should know to use vim, there are many useful commands that I always forget, and every time I need to search on Internet. Here's my very little cheat sheet. Enabling/Disabilng row numbers: :set number :set nonumber Enabling/Disabling Syntax Highlighter: :syntax on :syntax off Text search tips (where "text" is [...]

Today I resumed my Linux laptop, after trying hard to use OSX for work... Got this when updating the packages, after some weeks of abandon: W: GPG error: http://archive.ubuntu.com jaunty Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 40976EAF437D05B5 Ubuntu Archive Automatic Signing Key W: A error occurred during the signature verification. The repository is not [...]

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