@ lynx e nor work jare. i dey go villa dis evening to go fight with the chap wey sell me the cable. maybe i will change it to something else make my money nor waste.
i don try like 5 tvs sef. one dey show small, garbled screen, balck and white. guess it probably needs some converter or sumtin.

i for try the DVi one but i no ready for trial and error jare. i need know say e go work b4 i try am


u get idea how much bluetooth mouse or keyboard goes for? make i take my 1.2 k collect that or what else do u think will be useful

Wish I had anything to chip in on the cable issue @ 4ller

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But guys una be oga for this Ubuntu o.

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Konboot - can be used to byepass windows log on

Konboot is magical!!! and d best part of it is dat its so small, it takes like 1 second to burn to a CD.

most of d time, i forget to report about things like this when i find out about them and only after someone else posts it dat i remember and chip in so, i'm chipping in

u can find it @ http://www.piotrbania.com/all/kon-boot/ enjoy.

on a different note, i've been thinking about us creating a blog for nglug. it could be hosted on blogger (or wordpress) and have a redirect to a URL like www.nglug.com.ng or something like that but we'll have to figure out who will pay d hosting fees . anyway, we all that post here on a regular basis could be admins on d site and we get to post tutorials that will be useful to beginners and even advanced users on linux and other FOSS software. we would then direct anyone seeking info to those places. it could also serve as a way to connect pple to d closest linux geek to their vicinity for personal assistance. it could also be used to distribute free CDs, aggregate useful links we have collected on d net over d years and arrange them under relevant headings etc. the posibilities are endless. . something similar to what i describe exists (or existed) but it seems to nolonger be actively revised (i think it actually sprang out of this same thread). u can check it out here http://ubuntunigeria./ last post was sometime last year. oh and just as a disclaimer, if we actually do this, there'll have to be some boundaries , like no post on how to setup Y-F (dont want my post deleted hence d hyphen) on ubuntu or something like that. what do y'all think about this? can we get guys to commit/ fork out cash for a URL / post useful things / spread d word / etc.?

i was also thinking of using something like a planet http://www.planetplanet.org/ http://planet.ubuntu.com/ that'll aggregate blog posts related to linux from our personal blogs but i reasoned that i dont tink most of us keep personal blogs at least not one linux/ubuntu centric (i know i don't) so i fell back on d blog idea. just brainstorming here so guys, let me know what u tink, fail or brilliant or impracticable etc. lets here it!

Another credit to Open Source
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@ Muyiscoi: It is a good idea.

You can go further by having Remote Tech support for Ubuntu.

hmmnnn muyi nice idea.

i would be game, if and only if the blog never loses its way, cos from that point onwards i will miss.
anyway, i dont keep a blog, just never got round to it and i probably would post irrelevancies there sef lolz.
lets see how it goes, but then we can get free hosting no? wordpress etal?


for the konboot, hmmn, well but cant u get access to a drive with a live cd? i do that with no issues, whether passworded or not!!! hmmn anyway, im guessing it allows u to remove the password? i will try it out sha!

@4llerbuntu yes u can get free hosting but it will be . which doesnt feel very professional to me IMO. we can always start from somewhere though. so, what's d consensus? plus, did anyone check out d link for d other site? here it is again in case u didnt http://ubuntunigeria./.

as for konboot, its not for accessing windows partition. its for logging into windows without knowing the password. u can check d site for a better explanation but from d way i grab it, it acts as a bootloader for windows which does some voodoo to d windows kernel while it is booting thereby not requiring u to enter a password. so if all goes well, u slot d CD into ur drive n it boots up windows for u up to d desktop without needing to enter password.

I should point out here that i've never actually used it b4 myself. might try it out now though.

Battery-life on Ubuntu

My 2 year old Dell Latitude D630 lasts 3.5 to 4 hours on Windows 7 (wifi off, lowest screen brightness, low cpu load). But on Ubuntu Lucid, it barely manages 2 hours b4 going off. Given the current NEPA situation, I find this completely unacceptable and it's now the main reason why I still boot into windows.

Ubuntu doesn't seem to have any simple, built-in way to reduce eye-candy and clock speed in order to improve battery life like in Win Vista/7.

Are there any good power management tools that I can use to do this? I remember that there used to be something like that in Mandriva but I'm not sure if it was a separate program or built into KDE.

that is a major issue for most people. power management on linux is to be perfectly honest, lacking behind other OSes. there are tools however and i came across one not too long ago called jupiter. it was made to optimize netbook power usage but should work just fine for laptops too n it should be a breeze to in stall (provided ur using GNOME). i havnt actually tested it so i dont know how good it is but here is d link to a blog post on it with install instructions. maybe u can let us know if it helps after installation

http://www.webupd8.org/2010/07/jupiter-ubuntu-ppa-hardware-and-power.html

Gained a reasonable 5 min 'cos of Jupiter.

hv neva really had any power issue while on ubuntu

My precious 4 hour life battery lost 1 hour.

The problem could be applicable to the particular laptop I am using.

HP 6735s

I will switch to my pavllion if it maintained the right battery life.

nazzyon:

Gained a reasonable 5 min 'cos of Jupiter.

That is not very encouraging

True but I imagined how many things I can do that 5 minute while posting.

It is fair.

It is a work in progress.

aww, i know i saw a solution somewhere.
unfortunately my internet is not working now so i cant hunt it down. but even me never got round to using it too. guess i forgot.

yes the power thing is not too good, and it seems its just not a priority for devs. u cant blame them, they live in enviroments where outages is a non-occurring phenomenon and even when mobile you can get somewhere and hook up power with little fuss


which even reminds me, my power management thingy doent work!! my laptop deosnt hibernate when battery is low it just goes off, i think i set it to 10% but doesnt work. i have to shut down myself b4 it gets that low!!

yeah. mine didnt used to hibernate till like 9.10. it doesnt sleep yet though

same tin happened to me recently on 10.4. . . . . guess its a glitch or smtin

sup pple


@ lynx dont mean to raise ur hopes but i think i may have found the solution to that wine/connectivity thingy. it has to do with installing stuff with winetricks script.

havent tried it, dont think i will have time till sunday but i got stuff from oe of my long hikes in the hack worlds underground. there an a exe app for viewing coded streams online, works fine in windows, the maker says he tried it in mint with wine and that it works.

he gave a how-to, short, basically install WMP10 and some stuff (.ocx files) register them and pronto. im dying to try it too, but have to chill till sunday. im occupied otherwise.


but then have u ever tried starting any networking app with sudo in terminal? sudo wine bal bla bla?
cuz i was able to use IWP with sudo (didnt work as normal user) and it made me wonder if those exe will network with sudo

have fun pressing ur keyboard furiously

funny tin is,, . . am on windows now, my 10.4 connects to the net but cant view pages wit any of the browsers but d download managers r working fine
will try out wat u said wen i switch back
cheers

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

A Step close to Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1

gud ol' xp

This has happened to me a lot in d past in different forms but it happened again 2day n i decided to post about it.

so, where i work, i get to deal with a lot of computer noobs or below average users on a daily basis. today, user A comes in and after doing his business, tells a colleague of mine that his flash is "virusticated" and asked if there was a system with an update antivirus software he could use to scan it. my colleague handed his laptop to him which has an updated version of AVG. after d scan, AVG found 26 infections but couldn't heal them. there was a button to delete infected files but he wasn't sure if he should click it or not as it could delete his files. he called my attention n i helped him click the button Grin

after AVG had done its voodoo, checking d flash on windows explorer revealed that those files had been "deleted". the guy was extremely sad. he started lamenting about how he will have to type all his work all over again, bla bla bla.

Enter Ubuntu to d rescue.
while he was lamenting to that same colleague of mine who gave him the laptop to use (i wasnt in d office at d time , maybe i mighta lost my head or something Grin), my colleague told him to wait for me to return that something might still be possible with **Ubuntu**.

On my return, i was handed the flash drive. i plugged it into ubuntu and nautilus just popped open with all the guys files intact as if nothing had happened. it turns out that d virus does not corrupt d main files but instead, hides them and create a duplicate as an executable which when double clicked, runs d virus. a couple of those dodgy .exe files were still on d flash n after searching for them using ".exe" in d search box for nautilus, i dispatched them swiftly with shift>delete>enter.

after this, i plugged in d flash to a win xp system n some more of d files were showing but those word docs d guy was so particular about weren't. even though i could view them just fine on ubuntu. at this point, d guy began losing hope of recovering his files. i then plugged in d flash back to my system, copied out all d guys files n used the disk utility to format d flash. i then used cd -r to copy d guys files back into his flash (cos nautilus didnt want to copy them as a result of a corrupted folder). after doing this, i ejected d flash n he checked it on win xp n all his precious word docs were back to where they belong. i humbly extracted myself from dat location for a few minutes. leaving them to awe at d power of Linux.

you do realize you could have easily achieved the she same thing much quicker on any (windows)system, no?

hiding real folders and replacing them with exes with a folder icon is the oldest trick in the book of viruses. . .

to rectify(windows), simply go to folder options>view>then select show hidden files/folders>>deselect hide protected operating system files>deselect hide extensions for known file types(to identify file-types quicker)OK.

OR go to cmd then type the letter of the drive followed by a colon i.e- "f:". then at the drive prompt type "attrib -h -s".

either method would make your explorer window display hidden/system files(viruses masquerade as them).

Then use the run function(winlogo+R) to open the drive by typing in the letter assigned to it followed by a colon, i.e run "f:". this method prevents the system from getting infected via the virus' autorun.inf file. DO NOT open an infected drive by double/right clicking it!

Then simply delete all unfamiliar executables/folders. Restore "real" folders by rightclick>properties>uncheck the "hidden" checkbox in the attributes section.

The autorun file is harmless on it's own. You can keep it as a souvenir

nazzyon:

sudo do-release-upgrade -d

A Step close to Maverick Meerkat Alpha 1

Seriously buggie

@ritch would have said the same thing myself - though maybe not so detailed; all files are always visible on all my pcs and whenever i'm doing that attrib thingy people thimk==nk i'm doing something really difficult; i think microsoft spoiled us with the windows thing, remember the days when anyone who knew how to use a computer KNEW how to use a computer -not like in these days of drag and drop

^^^ lookeee here, see who honors us with his presence

well firstly u have ahefty fine payable to me (on behalf of the thread ) for running away without permission.

where have u been? u deserted ur constituency!!! whats good, cant seem to find ur no on my fone anymore.



@ all pls who knows how to register .dll/ .ocx files in wine? its supposed to be the same as windows bla bla bla but i keep getting an error.


f4ll3rbuntu@4ll3r:~$ regsvr32 Flash8.ocx
fixme:ntoskrnl:KeInitializeSpinLock stub: 0x548024
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x100778a, 0x100a060, {485e7de8-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}, 1, 0x33fe18, (null), (null), 0x100a068,)
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x100778a, 0x100a080, {485e7de9-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}, 1, 0x33fe18, (null), (null), 0x100a088,)
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x100778a, 0x100a0a0, {485e7dea-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}, 1, 0x33fe18, (null), (null), 0x100a0a8,)
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x100778a, 0x100a0c0, {485e7deb-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}, 1, 0x33fe18, (null), (null), 0x100a0c8,)
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x100778a, 0x100a0e0, {485e7dec-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}, 1, 0x33fe18, (null), (null), 0x100a0e8,)
fixme:advapi:RegisterTraceGuidsW (0x100778a, 0x100a100, {485e7ded-0a80-11d8-ad15-505054503030}, 1, 0x33fe18, (null), (null), 0x100a108,)
fi[b]xme:win:RegisterDeviceNotificationW (hwnd=0x128880, filter=0x54e93c,flags=0x00000001) returns a fake device notification handle!
err:module:map_image Could not map section .text, file probably truncated
Failed to load DLL Flash8.ocx
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@4llerbuntu do i detect some sarcasm? i've been coming around once in a while but u guys are always talking some funny software and i'm like "WHAAT! this 4llerbuntu guy has really infected these nairaland ubuntu guys" i mean what on earth is konboot? why would i want to mess around with the kernel on the fly (ok so that's probably not a very good idea since i probably won't mind trying that but i've seen you guys talk about some "funny" stuff and i'm lost so i just keep my mouth shut before i look like an idiot)

SARCASM? no not at all!!!

what stuff, a whole guru like u? we just catching fun na!!,

could someone be so nice as to write a script for the following for me? i need a custom launcher for it


f4ll3rbuntu@4ll3r:~$ cd '/home/f4ll3rbuntu/YF7'
f4ll3rbuntu@4ll3r:~/YF7$ sudo java -jar freedom.jar
[sudo] password for f4ll3rbuntu:


the place for the password just highlight so i can input and save the script as a custom launcher!!! make una nor fail me oooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

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4llerbuntu:

could someone be so nice as to write a script for the following for me? i need a custom launcher for it
f4ll3rbuntu@4ll3r:~$ cd '/home/f4ll3rbuntu/YF7'
f4ll3rbuntu@4ll3r:~/YF7$ sudo java -jar freedom.jar
[sudo] password for f4ll3rbuntu:
the place for the password just highlight so i can input and save the script as a custom launcher!!! make una nor fail me oooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!

Roger

Good Idea, Muyisco. UbuntuNigeria was co-managed by myself, Bigbrovar and Adewale but as real life got busy, we failed to keep it updated. I wouldn't mind rekindling the project, though.

-[n3rve]

wud be great to have ubuntunigeria. truly truly great.

by the way, can anyone recommend a good gui based, graphical bandwidth monitor for ubuntu. i need to monitor my glo modem connection.

and a question? any idea why ubuntu and linux generally is so unpopular here in nigeria?

thought d discussion was dead. nice to see u guys still like d idea. have been quite busy d past few days but i think we can give it a go now. maybe, we could just continue using ubuntunigeria on wordpress if we can get the admin details for it. @[n3rve] could u help us out with that?. we'll have to have at least 3 guys committed to posting stuff at least intermittently. u can also post links to interesting sites, e.t.c. do i hear someone say i commit?