The Ji Village News

Category: Linux

  • Resolving nvidia card display issue on Ubuntu

    Today I purchased a HP Pavilion p6130y desktop as my main development workstation at home. I pulled the Intel X-25M SSD out of my laptop, and put it into this new box as the primary disk, and loaded Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit on it. So far, I am impressed. Things are fast and the machine is…

  • Geeky notes: monitors, WinSplit, PrintServer, Intel SSD

    Long time no see, dear reader. Quite a few things have happened. Frankly, I feel pretty drained in the last a year or two. Lately, I’ve spent time pondering about some metaphysical questions, such as the meaning of life, identity issues, and things of that nature. Hopefully those thinking will make me a better human…

  • Get to MySQL data directory on Ubuntu

    I’ve been asked about this and realized that it may not be obvious to people who are more familiar with Windows than with Ubuntu. So here is a tip. When learning MySQL on Ubuntu, it is helpful to be able to get to MySQL’s data directory and observe file creation and modification while you are…

  • Enter Chinese and do msn chat on Ubuntu

    Version: Ubuntu 7.10, the Gutsy Gibbon released in Oct. 2007. I run it on VMWare Player. Assumption: Ubuntu is connected to the web. Do msn (Windows Live) chat on Ubuntu: 1. Application -> Add/Remove… 2. Click Internet tab on the left pane, then pick aMSN for install. As this writing, it has 4 stars under…

  • My best investment so far

    I’ve been using Jon’s excellent tools, ViEmu for Visual Studio, Outlook, Word, and Sql Server Management Studio for close to a year now. They make the default editor in those tools behaves like VI, with regular expression support. I bought the Enterprise Pack. Highly, highly recommended. Of course you need to know VI first. I…