Now comes the hard part, deciding to buy. I seldom bought anything expensive or luxurious for myself. So I need time to think over. Nexus One also seems very nice....
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Showing posts with label FOSS. Show all posts
Saturday, March 13, 2010
Want to buy a new phone
I really want to buy a new phone. My current phone is really nice despite missing all the functions like camera, bluetooth etc. However, the battery is giving me headache and it keeps switching on/off. My dream phone will be HTC Dream. Manufactured by HTC, running Androic, an ideal phone. Even though this is an older model, it suits my need. And it also got a real keypad unlike other HTC Android phones.
Now comes the hard part, deciding to buy. I seldom bought anything expensive or luxurious for myself. So I need time to think over. Nexus One also seems very nice....
Now comes the hard part, deciding to buy. I seldom bought anything expensive or luxurious for myself. So I need time to think over. Nexus One also seems very nice....
Friday, May 1, 2009
MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference
Official Website
This looks like an interesting event. Too bad I cannot make it. Whoever is interested in Open Source Software should go there and take a look. Need to pay though.
This looks like an interesting event. Too bad I cannot make it. Whoever is interested in Open Source Software should go there and take a look. Need to pay though.
Thursday, April 30, 2009
Saturday, April 25, 2009
Using Ubuntu 9.04
Firstly, I want to say that I am no expert in computer and definitely a noob in Linux and Windows.
This post will be about Ubuntu.
Ok, I had used Ubuntu 8.04 before, dual booting with windows using Wubi. It was a good experience, introducing me to GNU/Linux Operating System. However, I want to really try dual boot so I uninstall Ubuntu 8.04. I partition my hard disk. This is really troublesome since DELL has already partition my hard disk into four parts, C: Drive containing Vista, D Drive for recovery, Media Direct and EISA configuration. Luckily, Ubuntu can be installed on extended partition logical drive. I shrink my C Drive to give some 7 GB for Ubuntu. Then I downloaded the Ubuntu Desktop 64bit iso and burn in onto a cd. I booted the cd, tried out the live cd first to make sure my hardware is recognised and installed it.
After installing, I tried out the operating system. Looks fine, but not as blazing fast as some of the beta testers said. Nonetheless, it was very responsive. Then I tried to enable desktop effect. To my dismay, it said that desktop effect cannot be enabled. After running compiz-check, I found that my graphic card is blacklisted. This is really shocking to me since I used my laptop to run Ubuntu 8.04 without any problem. After some googling, I found the reasons of blacklisting but i cannot make head or tail of it so I decided to bypass the blacklist. I really missed the graphic effects. Nevetheless, I also feared the consequences so I just enabled those effects that are really useful like desktop zoom.
Then, I tried to connect to internet. As I was back in my house in Kampar, I used the command 'sudo pppoeconf' to configure my connection. I did this before many times so I was pretty confident it will work. Who knows? After rebooting my computer, I need to reconfigure it again. After googling agian, I found that someone had reported this as a bug but no response yet. I found another alternative solution which is enabling the network manager. I tried, and it worked, for now. I hoped that the wireless and DHCP will work when I am back in NTU.
Another thing worth mentioning is booting to Media Direct wont work anymore. I think this is because the computer is using grub boot loader now. But I didn't use Media Direct a lot so this is not a big problem for me.
Despite all the problems I face, this is still a pretty decent OS. I recommend anyone who want to know more about Linux to try Ubuntu.
This post will be about Ubuntu.
Ok, I had used Ubuntu 8.04 before, dual booting with windows using Wubi. It was a good experience, introducing me to GNU/Linux Operating System. However, I want to really try dual boot so I uninstall Ubuntu 8.04. I partition my hard disk. This is really troublesome since DELL has already partition my hard disk into four parts, C: Drive containing Vista, D Drive for recovery, Media Direct and EISA configuration. Luckily, Ubuntu can be installed on extended partition logical drive. I shrink my C Drive to give some 7 GB for Ubuntu. Then I downloaded the Ubuntu Desktop 64bit iso and burn in onto a cd. I booted the cd, tried out the live cd first to make sure my hardware is recognised and installed it.
After installing, I tried out the operating system. Looks fine, but not as blazing fast as some of the beta testers said. Nonetheless, it was very responsive. Then I tried to enable desktop effect. To my dismay, it said that desktop effect cannot be enabled. After running compiz-check, I found that my graphic card is blacklisted. This is really shocking to me since I used my laptop to run Ubuntu 8.04 without any problem. After some googling, I found the reasons of blacklisting but i cannot make head or tail of it so I decided to bypass the blacklist. I really missed the graphic effects. Nevetheless, I also feared the consequences so I just enabled those effects that are really useful like desktop zoom.
Then, I tried to connect to internet. As I was back in my house in Kampar, I used the command 'sudo pppoeconf' to configure my connection. I did this before many times so I was pretty confident it will work. Who knows? After rebooting my computer, I need to reconfigure it again. After googling agian, I found that someone had reported this as a bug but no response yet. I found another alternative solution which is enabling the network manager. I tried, and it worked, for now. I hoped that the wireless and DHCP will work when I am back in NTU.
Another thing worth mentioning is booting to Media Direct wont work anymore. I think this is because the computer is using grub boot loader now. But I didn't use Media Direct a lot so this is not a big problem for me.
Despite all the problems I face, this is still a pretty decent OS. I recommend anyone who want to know more about Linux to try Ubuntu.
Saturday, October 4, 2008
GIMP
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GIMP( GNU Image Manipulation Program) is a free alternative for Adobe Photoshop. As I am a noob in computer graphic design and image editing, I don't know the difference between this two software. However, I want to learn more about image editing and GIMP is the perfect tool for me as it is free. I tried some of the tutorials and this is what I get. Don't make fun of it cause this is just my first try. Hope I can progress in this :)
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Lack of awareness in Open Source Software among NTU students
Today is the NTU Software Freedom Day. Although a lot of activities are planned by the NTU Open Source Society throughout the whole day, nobody really knows about this particular event. In most of the talks and workshops, there were just around 10-20 people in the lecture theatre It's partly due to the lack of publicity but the main reason is that many NTU students are not aware of the free and open source software development. I am no expert in computer but I use a lot of FOSS in my daily life. In my opinion, open source is the future for all software. And as students, we may not have enough money to buy proprietary software like MS Office, Adobe Photoshop and so on. In this case, free and open source software can be a perfect solution for the students who are not financially independent. After writing this, I hope that free and open source software will continue to develop and to all NTU students, let us embrace the world of FOSS.
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