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Google Android-based T-Mobile G1 Released

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 06:38:00 +0000

Yesterday marked a historical moment for Google Android as T-Mobile released their HTC designed G1 (was code-named as HTC Dream). Wired described this phone as "Neither open or exciting". Crave of...

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Issue: Keyboard stop working

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 13:07:00 +0000

Sporadically Ubuntu will refuse to acknowledge the keys i pressed in certain application, particularly nautilus (when try to rename a folder), pidgin conversation window, gedit and more. The problem...

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Howto: mount a LVM2 hard disk

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:26:00 +0000

This is not really a Ubuntu feisty specific instruction, but heck works well. I was looking for a way to retrieve some of my useful data stored on an old hard disk which refused to boot into the...

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Issue: Chinese font in OpenOffice cannot be used

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Wed, 23 May 2007 13:47:00 +0000

Last time I used fedora, it does not support all my nice chinese true type font (ttf) which downloaded from Taiwan websites. For now, ubuntu 7.04 feisty, makes little difference. 1. We can now...

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Issue: after hibernate sound will stop working (2)

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Wed, 23 May 2007 12:09:00 +0000

A tip from user kg, an unofficial kernel patch is released to fix the issue (as mentioned in previous post). The fix is as stated in ubuntu launchpad :) According to the discussion in the...

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howto: photoshop in ubuntu

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Mon, 21 May 2007 15:51:00 +0000

By the title itself you can assume either: 1. we run adobe photoshop in ubuntu. 2. we run a software similar with adobe photoshop in ubuntu. In this post, we're focusing on no. 2 instead of 1 as we...

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issue: problem of Realplayer in full screen mode

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Mon, 21 May 2007 13:13:00 +0000

Have you ever tried to watch a real media video (rmvb) file in ubuntu, in my case, ubuntu 7.04 feisty? One thing for sure, you will get frustrated as realplayer fail to display the movie entirely in...

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issue: firefox can't connect securely because the site uses a security protocol which isn't enabled

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 16:42:00 +0000

Most of us access to some secure website daily to view our bills, make payment online and more. Firefox, our best companion by default has disabled some security protocol that will prompt an error...

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issue: cannot use scim in firefox or openoffice

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Mon, 23 Apr 2007 15:56:00 +0000

Using a free input program for chinese characters is absolutely cool, since I don't need to fork out a fortune in purchasing Chinese Star - a widely/commonly used CJK input program in Windows...

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howto: scim chinese input

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 15:55:00 +0000

SCIM is the default language input software made available to all ubuntu users. However, it does not provide chinese input out of the box. In this case, a quick apt-get will lead us to a cool smart...

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Issue: after hibernate sound will stop working

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Sat, 21 Apr 2007 08:45:00 +0000

A follow up post on "after hibernate wireless will stop working", I confirmed a second glitch found for ubuntu 7.04 feisty hibernation issue - there will be no sound after waking up from hibernation....

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Issue: no sound after install thinkpad related programs

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 10:32:00 +0000

As I was bowling in 1 Utama, I showed one of my colleague how well ubuntu 7.04 (feisty) works in my IBM X40. He asked whether can run all those IBM applications in ubuntu or not, and I showed him...

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Issue: after hibernate wireless will stop working

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:16:00 +0000

Thanks to my brother, I have the idea of hibernating my notebook instead of shutting it down for nearly three years. It's a neat trick for users who want to resume their work without the hassle of...

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Issue: USB External HDD Refuse to Eject

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 13:16:00 +0000

For my first day and second, I able to remove my USB External hard disk (HDD) easily through disk mounter application on the top panel. The slick tool provides me with option to unmount the disk by...

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the fork

noreply@blogger.com (kiawin) — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 12:49:00 +0000

nope, it has nothing to do with the actual cutlery, neither it has anything to do with the four letter word. this is the fork of my current to be or not to be blog, dedicated for all tech related...

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