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Fixing Google Contacts on Ubuntu 11.04

April 16th Update: I’ve added some bug reports related to Evolution contacts at the bottom of the post May 13th Update: Still no Google Contacts (except for small addressbooks) on 11.04 More here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/evolution-data-server/+bug/755043

Last week the Ubuntu Beta 1 was released.  The first beta is typically when I jump on board.   This [...]

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Watching CTV 2010 Olympics on Ubuntu

I had checked out the version of Novell’s moonlight linked through Microsoft from CTV’s site, in order to try to get some Olympic coverage on my PC. I obviously did not look hard enough. I stumbled upon the pre-release version just in time for the Super Sunday gold medal rematch series!

http://www.go-mono.com/moonlight/prerelease.aspx

Grab it [...]

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64bit Flash Arrives on the Ubuntu Desktop

There is now a Ubuntu packaged 64bit version of Flash. This is something that any user running Ubuntu Linux on current hardware (P4/Athlon64 or newer) should be pleased to hear (just skip on over this post if you are running a 32bit OS on your 64bit hardware).

For quite some time there have [...]

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Avatar powered by Debian based Linux

A few nights ago I watched Avatar for the second time in 3-D, in an effort to qualify the difference between regular 3D and IMAX 3D. The difference was astounding, both in the picture quality due to the 10x resolution jump IMAX frames provide, the super-sound and the fact that many scenes seemed to [...]

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Google Gears Install Help for Ubuntu Karmic

Installing Google Gears is a piece of cake: #apt-get install gears

This allows for offline blogging allowing you to make good use of authoring moments away from the Internet.

The interesting part is that Google nor WordPress make it that evident that gears is available via the packaging system for Ubuntu.  The typical [...]

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A SMART view of Drive Health and Disk Integrity

Better to be upgraded and safe then sorry [...]

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AMD-V issue using Virtualbox 3.1.x on Ubuntu Karmic

It seems that Virtualbox 3.1.x now implements a quick check to see if the hardware virtualization extensions are in use before launching AMD-V enabled guests. There seem to be two key issues with this change

Buggy BIOS’s that do not clear a VERR_SVM_IN_USE flag properly on boot KVM modules that set the VERR_SVM_IN_USE flag [...]

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ACPI Thermal Zones on HP dv5z (1008ca)

Lately I have been getting a hard lockup on a work laptop, and I suspect it may be temperature related. Unfortunately with the latest Karmic kernel (2.6.31-17-generic x86_64) I am seeing the following message on boot:

[ 0.943491] ACPI Exception: AE_OK, No or invalid critical threshold 20090521 thermal-384

Additionally, there is no output reported [...]

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UMTS on Karmic

Recently I acquired a Novatel Ovation MC950D UMTS Modem. A quick google to find links on how to setup revealed a few generic methods, with nothing very Ubuntu specific. As is turns out, the Mobile Broadband setup is build right into the Network Manager.

I simply configured a udev script to activate the [...]

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HP Laptop Accelerometer

For some time now I have observed the Ubuntu dmesg line [ 10.799981] input: ST LIS3LV02DL Accelerometer as /devices/platform/lis3lv02d/input/input8 and wondered if this was (a) a properly recognized piece of hardware, (b) a feature of my laptop or my Seagate STxxxxxxxx hard disk and (c) what applications might take advantage of it, assuming I [...]

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