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4llerbe, these puppy linux people don come again o, i was really intruiged when i found out that puppy had the second highest number of page hits in the past week on distrowatch.com (behind ubuntu) it seems they've created a series of puppy that will work with ubuntu packages, the latest is lupu which is compatible with lucid. ontheir site it says Puppy's own Puppy Package Manager will install any packages from the vast Ubuntu repositories! anyway i'm currently downloading it to see how good it really is; nowadays i don't even bother to "install" it, just extract the image to a folder, create a filesystem file and create an entry in grub and i'm up and running

someone who identified himself as "DrLuv" stopped by the ubuntunigeria blog and posted a comment which i felt we should all ponder on and discuss feasibility. so here it is

I will like to give kudos to you guys for taking it upon yourselves to start and drive this effort. I’ve been on nairaland for a long time but didn’t stumble upon the Ubuntu thread until today. Unfortunately, I couldn’t participate in the discussion on nairaland because my posting privilege was revoked for reasons best known to the moderator(s).

Having read some of the discussions and comments, I will like to put forward some suggestions that could help in furthering the cause. Linux generally is not a difficult operating system platform to learn. However, change is something everyone is initially resistant to. I observed that a lot of the folks who complain about Linux will readily adopt Mac OS, which incidentally is a Unix variant as well. This makes me believe that the issue is not of complexity but of brand preference. By that I mean, “what is cool”. Most people don’t see Linux as cool. Our selling point therefore should be to make it appear “cool”.

The strategy I’m proposing is for us to identify the cool applications and functionality that Linux provides in every thriving profession in Nigeria and use it for demonstration. For instance, music and movie production is thriving and growing business in Nigeria. There are tons of free open source software in that space that are far better than the commercial proprietary ones most of the studios are currently using. A demonstration of Ubuntu Studio will surely convince most of the skeptics. To achieve this end, we would need someone who knows the lingo of that space to produce the demonstration. In the area of movie rendering, one could build a render farm using a cluster of Linux machines and demonstrate how rendering time can be reduced without paying a steep price for expensive hardware. We could put up a Yearly or Quarterly Linux Exhibition at various locations throughout the country. The first one might be the hardest. I’m sure for subsequent ones, we would get sponsorship from various organizations and bodies.

What do you all think about this promotion concept?

so what do u guys think?

great idea

muyiscoi:
someone who identified himself as "DrLuv" stopped by the ubuntunigeria blog and posted a comment which i felt we should all ponder on and discuss feasibility. so here it is

so what do u guys think?

I feel it is a welcome idea and a good one.

Who knows Ubuntu Nigeria may be able to adopt the Pirillo kinda service.

what a great idea just hope it turns out to be true,

nnamdizobs:
what a great idea just hope it turns out to be true,

I believe that we have to bring it to pass.

new post on the ubuntu nigeria blog. check it out

http://ubuntunigeria./2010/08/24/get-free-ubuntu-cds/

All gurus, I need ur help. I just bought an anydata adu-510d multilinks modem. I can't get it to work with my ubuntu. can u pls help me out? thanks

plug it in, restart the system with the modem plugged in

check network manager if its detected, then configure

if its not then:


open a terminal,

type dmesg and find / dev/ttyUSB0 or / dev/ttyACM0

the modem should be detected on either

then do hardlink to the appropriate one:

type

ln /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem

or if its the other its detected as do:

ln /dev/ttyACM0 /dev/modem

then go to network manager and setup a connection as apprpriate for multilinks



OTHERWISE, GET ALTERNATIVE INTERNET ACCESS:
then install Gnome PPP or GPPP as its called

that will help u set up a wvdial connection easily with a graphical interface.

plug it in, restart the system with the modem plugged in

check network manager if its detected, then configure

if its not then:


open a terminal,

type dmesg and find / dev/ttyUSB0 or / dev/ttyACM0

the modem should be detected on either

then do hardlink to the appropriate one:

type

ln /dev/ttyUSB0 /dev/modem

or if its the other its detected as do:

ln /dev/ttyACM0 /dev/modem

then go to network manager and setup a connection as apprpriate for multilinks



OTHERWISE, GET ALTERNATIVE INTERNET ACCESS:
then install Gnome PPP or GPPP as its called

that will help u set up a wvdial connection easily with a graphical interface.

i tried what u wrote., i checked dmesg. There was no modem listed. I opened gnome-ppp and checked. There was also no modem. I then typed lsusb which showed the modem as a usb mass storage device. I haven't got it 2 work, yet. Pls, i need a workaround

install a small package called usb modeswitch

just type that in the search box in synaptic, and install. the dongle is not recognised as a modem, just as a storage device.

furthermore you can just try ejecting the storage thingy, rightclick on the icon on desktop ad eject. some modems behave like that but switch to modem mode when ejected.

if it still doesn't work pls past the output of lsusb, perhaps we could figure out what is wrong, besides if you're using the latest version of ubuntu, modeswitch should come installed by default

anyway if you have modeswitch installed then do this:
type lsusb you might see a line like 05c6:1000 or 05c6: <some other number>
the 05c6 is the vendor id the anydata (the manufacturer of your modem) while the product id is 1000, for your modem the product id might actually be different; just note the product id
note the number that comes after the colon
type: ls /lib/udev/rules.d | grep modeswitch you should see a file like 40-usb_modeswitch.rules (it might be different on your system, while i'm typing this thing from linux i'm not using ubuntu)
now type:
sudo nano /lib/udev/rules.d/40-usb_modeswitch.rules (for example; only if the modewitch file is actually called 40-usb_modeswitch.rules)
(note you could also use sudo gedit instead of sudo nano - i think)
now add the following line to the end of that file:

# AnyDATA ADU-500 Series, older Option devices
ATTRS{idVendor}=="05c6", ATTRS{idProduct}=="1000", RUN+="usb_modeswitch '%b/%k'"

if the product id that you got when typing lsusb is not 1000 replace the 1000 with whatever you got;
now save and exit then tyoe sudo modprobe option; afterwards remove the modem and plug it again
type dmesg | tail after about 10-15 secs of plugging in, you should see something like ttyUSB0, ttyUSB1, ttyUSB2 etc, that's the sign that your modem has been detected
your dialer should now work

did what you wrote again. Searched in /lib/udev/rules.d for files with modeswitch. Checked d files. D product vendor and model were seen in the files with correct configuration. I however notice that when i plug in d modem, 3 cd drives show up in my computer n i can't eject any of them. Still need a solution. I easily got a huawei e 160g to work sometime ago

Hi guys, just wondering, what are your browser recommendations? I have both
Chromium and Mozilla but i want to get rid of one of them cos i can't keep seeing my bandwidth fizzle away because both Mozilla and Chromium have security updates.

The annoying part is that when i download chromium on one pc, and try to use aptoncd to install it on my other pc's it refuses to install.

So, know, which do i keep, mozilla or chromium?

keep both

seriously , i used to be a major mozilla fanboy but now, chromium does it for me all the time, esp as it now has adblock thats effective.

sigh, well i dunno o, but i vote chromium, ditch mozilla, at least till firefox 4 gets outta beta then we see what they come up with.

early impressions for me is that they just ripped chromium up anyway, esp with looks

funny thing is, im sure u know you could always skip updates if it bothers you so much!!!!, or select the ones u want. it NOT A MUST U UPDATE, ITS JUST adviceable, to enjoy the latest improvements. and there are times updates bring regressions too so . . . . . .


and u can also turn off the notifications too if the update mgr is bothering you!!!


right now my fear is when the next release comes out, i love upgrading, but right now i have so many apps and tweaks that i hate to think of where to start to get my pc back to what it looks like
yet am desperate to try gnome 3, its not coming with meerkat i know, but a fresh install is all the excuse i need to try it

yeah, i know i don't have to upgrade everytime, its just that usually, the browser upgrades are security upgrades so thats why i want to cut down to just 1.

if you have a working and tweaked distro, i wonder why you would just want to abandon it for "gnome3". I believe in, if its working, don't fix it. Why? After years of fixing perfectly working things, and then those things go wrong just after my "fix", i have begun to see reason in leaving things the way there are as long as there is no vulnerability issue involved.

i like chromium, and i think i will stay wit it. but i also like a lot of mozilla's addons.

next question? do you guys use firewalls for your linux pc's? Which would you recommend? Please leave firestarter out of the recommendations. I currently have ufw as a frontend, but don't really understand it yet, sha. Im still suffering from windows style laziness. You know, you don't really have to read documentation in windows. you just install it and forget abt and it pretends to be working even if it isn't.

Muyiscol, i too read "Dr. Luv"'s suggestion, but i think that idea would be a bit difficult to implement. But who knows, maybe we could stand up to the challenge. How? is the question. Anyway, in my daily activity, i preach the linux gospel like a Jehovah's Witness. My bros, who is a pure windows guy is even irritated. but i can't stop preaching about the things i have seen, used and benefited immensely from.

^^^ lol
wekll lemme just say that in my experience, the next release of ubuntu is always by far better than the previous one. . . . believe me in my case i know, having suffered some . , . . yeah it may seem to be alrite but you do know how suddenly every one is talking abt the new release and you're still talking abt your 2 release old install


that said, its a matter of choice, i know someone who still runs 8.10 and isnt willing to change

for firewalls, any will do, just note that ALL ports are closed, except the ones you expressly open, either by way of using an app like browser (80, 8080, 443) or u expressly open it, so it really doesnt matter if its firestarter or ufw or wateva. (firestarter is ok though, pretty simple). so u need a firewall config tool to OPEN stuff, ordinarily they are all closed!!!

for doc luv's suggestion believe me i have been toying with that idea a long time and even discussed i think with lynxnoon at a point. my fear is MONEY MONEY MONEY, TIME TIME TIME, COMMITMENT. VERY VITAL~!!!!!!

im idle, and i feel like formatting my pc., there is no space for anor partition or os

i have immensely valuable tweaks on it, and apps, but i gave my guinea pig pc to my bro, im idle, i feel like trying out mint(i dont really like mint lol)

but im idle, pls talk me out of it b4 10pm

4llerbuntu my man. it seems NL wants you to delete your partition cos they keep deleting my post where i give u a reason not to. anyway sha, u can check it out from my profile.

In other news, there is a new post on the ubuntunigeria site. go check it out. PS: its not written by me. so what r u waiting 4? where is ur own post?

http://ubuntunigeria./2010/08/28/which-buntu-to-pick/#comment-218

4llerbuntu:
that said, its a matter of choice, i know someone who still runs 8.10 and isnt willing to change

The last installation I did for company  last month was Old boy 'Gutsy Gibbon' - 1 server and 40 Desktop version.


It felt like a request for for Windows 98. Was just cursing under my breathe.

I don talk to their IT manager but his reason was simple "The Last he used was Gutsy".
,

4llerbuntu:
im idle, and i feel like formatting my pc., there is no space for anor partition or os

i have immensely valuable tweaks on it, and apps, but i gave my guinea pig pc to my bro, im idle, i feel like trying out mint(i dont really like mint lol)

but im idle, pls talk me out of it b4 10pm

It is already late.

Format the thing put Maverick.

I am using it. E no disappoint.

@ muyiscoi, i saw ur post, well actually ur too late ooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

i did the do already. hating all the greenery in mint already

i wil try put up some stuff on ubuntunigeria, its just that im scared of putting my unorthodox ways of doing stuff up and being found out as a total ignoramus-forming guru



@ nazzyon, i almost died with laughter, Gutsy Gibbon eh!!< that chap needs to be flogged into the 21st century, he cant even get updates anymore.

im not as brave as you are, i dont do beta stuff, naaah, will not be a scape goat , maverick i will install in november! chikena
i do hope i can put Gnome-Shell on this mint, or else i do mac4lin again, i dont understand how anyone likes so much greenery.

4llerbuntu:
@ muyiscoi, i saw your post, well actually your too late ooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!

i did the do already. hating all the greenery in mint already

i wil try put up some stuff on ubuntunigeria, its just that im scared of putting my unorthodox ways of doing stuff up and being found out as a total ignoramus-forming guru



@ nazzyon, i almost died with laughter, Gutsy Gibbon eh!!< that chap needs to be flogged into the 21st century, he cant even get updates anymore.

im not as brave as you are, i dont do beta stuff, naaah, will not be a scape goat , maverick i will install in november! chikena
i do hope i can put Gnome-Shell on this mint, or else i do mac4lin again, i dont understand how anyone likes so much greenery.

After I finished I prayed for them and since then dem no call me say probs dey.

Old or New ,  I just dey happy say Naija eye don dey open to Ubuntu.

now pls i did an offline install of JRE, so as to get up and running, now i want to install JDK, which i prefer this days, but the issue is i already did a sym link to the jre install to provide java

how do i get rid of it and switch to JDK? just deleting the directory i installed it in wont do will it?

Remove it via Synaptic Package Manager


That is how I remove the annoying Part in Grub

err just found that merely deleting it does the magic

good. naw if only i can remember all the apps i previously had, they are in my cache but i justy cant remember like that. . . . . . . hehehehe. fun fun fun, will sleep around 2 maybe, this internet slow dis nite

4llerbuntu:
err just found that merely deleting it does the magic

good. naw if only i can remember all the apps i previously had, they are in my cache but i justy cant remember like that. . . . . . . hehehehe. fun fun fun, will sleep around 2 maybe, this internet slow dis nite

4llerbuntu,

I think i have just the right tool for you to backup all your applications and reinstall them into your a fresh installation. Check ubuntunigeria. before the end of the day. I hope im not too late with this info.

PS: i have used the process twice and it saves you having to download, codecs, apps and settings again.

4llerbuntu:
err just found that merely deleting it does the magic

good. naw if only i can remember all the apps i previously had, they are in my cache but i justy cant remember like that. . . . . . . hehehehe. fun fun fun, will sleep around 2 maybe, this internet slow dis nite

@4llerbuntu,

this is for you http://ubuntunigeria./2010/08/30/ubuntu-backup-all-your-applications/