There are many good tutorials on the web about installing Gingerbread on the Ace (like this one). Once you have Gingerbread installed what can you expect from your new system? Other than the already present updates to Android, here are a few notes I made: The Default language at the start is not English. To […]
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To get the best graphics performance out of your Samsung NC20, you will need to install the latest graphics drivers. These drivers unfortunatey are not easy to find on the web, so here is a step-by-step installation instructions for driver installation on Ubuntu 10.10. Special thanks to the wonderful folks at Ubuntu Forums(Wonderful source, thumbs […]
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Playing DVDs in Ubuntu
Image via Wikipedia Ubuntu by default does not play encrypted DVDs. This is because most commercial DVDs are encrypted with CSS (Content Scrambling System), which restricts the software that can play a DVD. To enable you must install the libdvdcss2 package to allow Ubuntu to play DVDs. For that you need to run the following […]
Image via CrunchBase The HP Tx1000 series laptop has a unique problem with its Nvidia chip. Due to a really poor design wrt to the heat sink to the GPU, the chip reaches very high temperatures during operation causing the system to not boot properly. This problem is apparently very common and occurs within about […]