Ok, before this post is not regarding Linux, or Ubuntu, but this regarding our mother earth..

On 28th March 2009, 8.30 PM switch off all electric purposes, release your activity from electricity, just for one hour no less (but maybe more is good.. ^_^)

For detail, please visit its homepage
Love our earth

After paused posting long enough (well, i do have activities other that sit in front of my ground-zero), yesterday i decided to take a ‘walk’ to gnome-look.org.

I see some nice black theme which says that would be proposed for Ultimate edition. The package was very nice, its given on *.deb format. just double click and install. The package consists almost everything,GDM Login, GTK theme, Emerald theme, Metacity theme, Sound scheme, Font, Icon set, Cursor set, and even Firefox theme. you can go to here for giving comments to the creator. Anyway, just for your consideration, i give my screenshots here ^_^

What i’m using is :
Wallpaper, (i got this out of nowhere, i forgot but i put that in here)
Conky with Conky Colors configurations
Avant WIndow Navigator
Ubuntu Ultimate Edition
Some Hardware sensors

Everyone now knows what google is, even google has it own verb, googling. Googling means looking for something on the internet using google seach engine.

This search engine is established by two cool man (well, that’s what i think.. ) Sergey Brin and Larry Page (i actually wonder, why i found so many in internet that mention Brin’s name first that Page’s..). This to awsome man has found something that even my always said, “just google it” (i actually do think that it was a verb…)

Nowadays, google is not a mere search engine. Google also has many services that could be found on the internet, but here i just talk about the search one.

Many ways that can we use to specialized our search query in google, you can find the tips and trick via googling. Anyway, google did provide us a complete how-to (thanks to Antonius Wijaya)

There are some useless effort if you using google as search engine, such as

Google searches are NOT case sensitive. All letters, regardless of how you type them, will be understood as lower case. For example, searches for george washington, George Washington, and gEoRgE wAsHiNgToN will all return the same results.

By default, Google only returns pages that include all of your search terms. There is no need to include “and” between terms. Keep in mind that the order in which the terms are typed will affect the search results. To restrict a search further, just include more terms. For example, to plan a vacation to Hawaii, simply type vacation hawaii.

Google ignores common words and characters such as “where” and “how”, as well as certain single digits and single letters, because they tend to slow down your search without improving the results.

If you want to improve your googling, this is maybe things are you need to do

If you want to search not only for your search term but also for its synonyms, place the tilde sign (~) immediately in front of your search term.

To see a definition for a word or phrase, simply type the word “define” then a space, then the word(s) you want defined. To see a list of different definitions from various online sources, you can type “define:” followed by a word or phrase. Note that the results will define the entire phrase.

Google ignores common words and characters such as where, the, how, and other digits and letters that slow down your search without improving the results. If a common word is essential to getting the results you want, you can make sure we pay attention to it by putting a “+” sign in front of it.

To search for web pages that have similar content to a given site, type “related:” followed by the website address into the Google search box.

Sometimes the best way to ask a question is to get Google to ‘fill in the blank’ by adding an asterisk (*) at the part of the sentence or question that you want finished into the Google search box.

To find pages that include either of two search terms, add an uppercase OR between the terms.

You can use Google to search only within one specific website by entering the search terms you’re looking for, followed by the word “site” and a colon followed by the domain name.

There is still so many thing about google that you could found in the internet. With some research, perhaps you could find another interesting way in googling.

Sources:

http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=basics&hl=en

http://www.google.com/help/features.html

http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=advanced&hl=en

http://www.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=searchguides.html&ctx=results&hl=en

Just now, i had something to print but since i just changed from Kubuntu 8.04 to Ubuntu 8.10, so i had to redo once again what i had done to get my printer works..

its always the same, download the tarball package from canon europe website (download the 2200 version, it’ll work). Unpack, convert it into a deb package using alien, install it.. do some tweak here and there, then tada.. complete.. ^_^

*i’m really sorry, i don’t include the detail how-to in here, since google will give you ease.. ^_^*

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edit: there is a way easier than google.. hehe, try read here

After doing some research regarding mac4lin, i decide i’ll give it a try..

and i had succeded!! yay..My box now has appereance like mac.. XD, after doing some vista-like on the past.. well i’d prefer this one.. (perhaps, sometimes i’d try ubuntu-like LOL). i’ll explain the tuts later, because i got to go..

Just for your consideration, i will include few screenshots

After perform an instalation to my box using a Live USB Stick, at first glance, i feel little bit awkward with the wallpaper and saying “what picture is this?”. I mean, when seeing Hardy Heron on the first sight, you will see a Heron on the screen as default wallpaper. It took one day, seeing the screen (i absolutely doesn’t mean staring, i mean working) i just realize, it is a Intrepid!! its a goat or something.. which has a long curved horn.. (i was tricked.. xp). Salute to the designer, to make such a cool art.

I take my screenshot using the default wallpaper, and a conky!! its a same conky and conky configuration like what i had post previously. But, as the time flows, there is a function from my conky configuration that doesn’t work anymore. It’s the External IP status.. I don’t know why the http://whatsmyip.org is giving error 404, (it happens when i try to visit the site via browser). perhaps it off or something. i’m working on search the alternative to the external IP generator, since i’m using curl on the conkyrc, so i would expect a precisely-same like the old whatsmyip.org.

Anyway, altough the nvidia driver is different name of package on the Interpid (since first time i use Ubuntu, i found that nvidia card using nvidia-glx or nvidia-glx-new, or something likethat as driver), but the script for GPU temperature is still usable.. (i’m kinda fond of that of course.. ^_^).

There is still many-many stuff that i should figure on this Intrepid Ibex, but i can’t write it at one time, so just stick around. I will also put my screenshot here,

Intrepid Ibex at Ground-zero

After long time off, finally i get back to the network since i was quite busy.

Tomorrow, Interpid Ibex 8.10 Ubuntu will be launched, i’m waiting for that for sure, since my old machine is having some serious error from something that i don’t realise.

Just wait for the review soon.

Hi there..

Again, i will brought you a how-to. This time is about Canon PIXMA IP1700 InkJet Printer on OpenSUSE 11.0.
Firstly, there were some package that you must install on your machine before you can continue.

First install gtk by typing “sudo zypper in gtk libxml libpng3″ (without quotes). This installation will provide dependencies that needed by the printer driver package.

Second, download the printer driver at Here. Then Extract the folder everywhere you like. After that, install all the package inside the Folder, As far as i remember there were four package inside.

Third, after the installation finished, do some touch on the provided PPD file. You can found it at /usr/share/cups/model/canonip2200.ppd. (if you prefer, this step was not needed if you don’t need it.. ^_^)

Change THIS

*OpenUI *Resolution/Output Resolution: PickOne
*DefaultResolution: 600
*Resolution 600/600 dpi: “<</HWResolution[600 600]>>setpagedevice”
*CloseUI: *Resolution

To THIS

*OpenUI *Resolution/Output Resolution: PickOne
*DefaultResolution: 600
*Resolution 600/600 dpi: “<</HWResolution[600 600]>>setpagedevice”
*Resolution 1200/1200 dpi: “<</HWResolution[1200 1200]>>setpagedevice”
*Resolution 2400/2400 dpi: “<</HWResolution[2400 2400]>>setpagedevice”
*CloseUI: *Resolution

Then save the file.

FYI, you can edit the file by using “sudo kate /usr/share/cups/model/canonip2200.ppd” or you can copy the canonip2200.ppd file to somewhere that you can edit then replace the old file with sudo command.

Fourth, Install your printer via CUPS. Open your favourite browser, then type “localhost:631″ in the address bar, this should brought you to some page with CUPS writings on top of it. Then, click add printer. After that, insert Printer name, Location, and Description. This Information is up to you. Then, assign a device that attached to your machine. Make sure your printer is turned on. And click continue. After that, use the PPD file that you had customized earlier by clicking “Browse”. Last, click “Add Printer”.

Fifth, Try Print Test Page. If There were something wrong, please give me feedback.

-poche-

OpenSUSE 11.0 KDE 4.1

EDIT

Please type the modified configuration, DO NOT COPY PASTE IT, because the quote mark may be changed on KWrite/gedit/Kate.

SInce i using openSUSE 11.0, and this Wireless USB so i need to find the firmware. Because this USB Wireless wasn’t defaultly supported.

First, i download the firmware in tarball format. Here is the link for download

After that, compile the driver inside the Module folder. Pay attention to this, to compile you need “make”, “kernel-source”, “gcc”, so you need to type sudo in zypper make kernel-source gcc. After that, go to folder Module, using cd command inside the terminal. Then, type make, then sudo make install.

After this done, type su, then modprobe rt73

What i get in openSUSE was, activity like modprobe, init, etc. you can’t just done it by sudo command, but you have to do su command, then as root, do the modprobe or init or etc command.

Happy trying, waiting for your feedback

Last night, i tried to download the openSUSE 11.0 ISO file. Since i was in the mood to try something new. This morning i try to install it, openSUSE give a nice GUI i think. FYI, i download the KDE version, not the Gnome one. Later on, i wonder where do the desktop effects going.. so i checked it. I found that it wasn’t enabled yet, so i enabled it. But still no respond. I keep looking, i found that the VGA driver was not Nvidia, so i try to install it. and the problem begins…

First time i tought that it would be easy as ubuntu did. But i was wrong. I don’t know why, but i already checked the package that i need (and so it says on many articles and threads) but my openSUSE still using VESA as the driver. Now, i’m wondering perhaps, my 7300GT was not supported by Nvidia driver that included in the package.. Or perhaps, there were anything wrong…

I dont know.. Please help.. m_ _m