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Downgrade Grub 2 to Grub Legacy (Ubuntu 9.10)

I have experienced a load of problems with GRUB 2 (betas that are included in Ubuntu 9.10–why did they include a beta, anyway?) so I sought a method to downgrade, or revert to GRUB legacy (ver 0.97).

Posted 23 November 2009 † brett § linux ‡ Comments (34) ° Also tagged: , ,

Fix Ubuntu / Kubuntu 9.10 Screen Brightness Problem

I recently purchased a Lenovo IdeaPad Y450 Laptop, but the screen brightness was not being adjusted when I used the proper key combination (FN+UP/DOWN).

Posted 21 November 2009 † brett § linux ‡ Comments (24) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , , ,

Dropbox on Linux without Gnome (for KDE users)

A quick how-to to get dropbox on your linux distribution without being required to use nautilus (for us KDE users)! Works with dolphin! Credit: antrix.net

Posted 01 November 2009 † brett § how-to ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , ,

Speed up OpenOffice.org

A quick guide to speed up openoffice.org: Launch the OpenOffice.org Word Processor. Left-click the Tools menu. Left-click Options. Left-click Memory on the left side of the window. Change Number of steps to 20 or 30. Change Use for OpenOffice.org to 128. Change Memory per object to 20.0. Left-click Java on the left side of the [...]

Posted 28 October 2009 † brett § how-to ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , ,

Making the Switch: Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

Towards the middle of May, i’ll be finally making the switch from Vista to Linux, specifically Ubuntu 9.04 which was officially released today.

Posted 23 April 2009 † brett § linux ‡ Comments (0) ° Also tagged: , , , , , , ,
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