I have run into this situation too many times now… Ubuntu wont accept all of the 4gb RAM that my laptop has.
free -m shows that its using only 3. This week I checked out a bunch of Linux distributions (like SimplyMEPIS, Fedora, Pardus and of course the new Ubuntu Lucid Lynx). Pardus was awesome but I went right back to Ubuntu anyways. So I had to reinit all of the 4gb RAM each time I went Ubuntu.
Here is what I did based on this link, I am putting it here so that I can quickly refer to it when I try out some distros again before coming back to Ubuntu. Ideally I d like to use Windows through VirtualBox on Ubuntu and have it run on its own desktop space.
So for using all of the RAM we need to install the PAE enabled kernel
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install linux-headers-server linux-image-server linux-server
And then reboot.
Date/Time: May 20, 2010 at 1:15 pm |
Category: Ubuntu.
I got 2 new iPhone apps recently and they solved 2 very dear issues of mine.
One was to be able to read the many txt and pdf files I have in a bunch of DVDs (labeled eBook Treasure) with scores of text encompassing a wide variety of topics ranging from Philosophy to Health and of course computer languages. It can be quite cumbersome to read txt files on a computer screen and on a phone it becomes all the more cumbersome… not to mention pdf files… adjusting the page width so that one can comfortably read takes away all the time. So I bought this iPhone app called GoodReader that lets you read big pdf files or txt files with reflow. The width of the text snugly fits across the screen. It even wraps within the screen and you can increase the font size. It costs only $0.99 and is worth it.
Second was having a GTD based system that could let me assemble new tasks in an inbox and then categorize further to projects/contexts and of course ‘next action’. There was Things for iPhone for $9.99 and I was about to buy it when I stumbled upon an app called EasyTask which did the needful. A free app with all the bells and whistles of a dedicated GTD app.
So hopefully I ll ‘get a lot of things done’ and ‘read all about it’ 
Date/Time: April 26, 2010 at 6:45 pm |
Category: Apps.
I love the color lemon green and it looks stunning with white. So I extended this love to my Ubuntu theme and here are the results. I used:
- the Clearlooks-LemonGraphite theme for the ‘controls’
- Alphacube 0.9b Metacity color for the ‘window border’
- Humanities-Leaf for the ‘icons’
- DMZ black for the ‘pointer’
- Lucida Grande for the system font at size 8 and Lucida MAC bold for window title again at size 8
Click on the images to see a full preview
Desktop
Expanded Menu
GEdit
Utilities
All of the elements used in this can be found
here with little amount of effort.
Date/Time: March 13, 2010 at 5:47 am |
Category: Ubuntu.
There has been a long standing discussion on the irregularities of the way the CSS properties ‘padding’ and ‘margin’ render themselves in IE as opposed to Firefox. I was recently stuck for a bit while adding block level elements like ‘ul’ and ‘form’ inside a floating ‘div’ element(which is yet another problem!). The first thing I did was to also float the block level item inside, in this case a form. I assigned float:right to it(the parent had float:left assigned to it). But then IE rendered it the way I wanted it to but Firefox slid the form about 100px to the right!
Padding the form on the right would render it correctly in FF but not in IE. So I used the FF specific -moz CSS extension, -moz-padding-end and that solved the problem.
Just a foot note: any CSS property preceded by a hyphen means that it is a browser specific property.
Here is the complete -moz CSS extensions reference.
Date/Time: March 4, 2010 at 4:11 am |
Category: IE6, Notes to myself.
I recently bought the Motu Ultralite Mk3 and a pair of Yamaha MSP5 Pro speakers, installed the drivers and CueMix using the easy install option on my MacBook Pro running Leopard and noticed that
- It installed the windows versions of the software along with the mac versions… so I had .exe files in the Applications folders!
- The common input for XLR and phono had only the microphone working with or without CueMix fired up and the phono only when CueMix was NOT fired up!
- The multiple outs behaved weirdly… If I sent one channel (in Live) to Main 1-2 and another to 3-4, it would play out of only one pair at a time! None of the muliplte (phono) inputs worked either.
Solution (that worked for me 
)
Remove the installed drivers and software and reinstall, this time I did not select Easy Install and from the Custom menu I selected only the mac specific stuff… Voila, all problems solved!
Well there is one small glitch,
- Main Out (1-2) channels act as 1 and 2 (:P)
- Analog Out 1-2 act as 3-4
- Analog Out 3-4 act as 5-6
- etc.
This is applicable to Live as well as Reason
Date/Time: December 28, 2009 at 6:30 am |
Category: Sound.
