Nokia N95, 3G, Bluetooth, And Ubuntu Intrepid - 3G Tethering Howto

The following steps are instructions to surf the web using a Nokia N95 with 3G, connected to your Intrepid laptop via Bluetooth.

1. Make sure you have the required packages installed:

sudo apt-get install bluez-utils bluez-pin ppp

2. Find out the phone’s MAC address. Enable Bluetooth on phone and …

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Trying Google’s Native Client

From Google Blogoscoped:

Google has released something to the open source world they call the Native Client. It is meant as a way for website developers to execute rich code faster within the browser… by having it run “natively” on the computer. This could help any program needing fast graphics …

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Trying Arch Linux

I’ve been hearing some good things about Arch Linux lately, and I wanted to see how it compares to Ubuntu, which I’ve been using for a few years now. I loaded up a new VMWare virtual machine and mounted the iso. Let’s see how this goes…

I …

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Sacrifice Revisited

A while ago I posted on this blog how you could resolve the “Insufficient page file space” problem in Sacrifice. Since then a few people have emailed me, saying that the fix described in that post does not longer work. After trying various things with various people (thanks for all …

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Virtualbox: Expanding A Disk Drive

I love Virtualbox, it’s definitely my virtualization platform of choice for daily tasks [1] on a Linux-host, and it’s quickly replacing VMware on Windows hosts as well.

However, recently I had to expand a virtual partition of a Windows guest. There are already lots of options and methods …

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ODBC Missing Driver On 64 Bit

Note to self, if you can’t find your installed ODBC-driver. It might be because you installed a 32-bit driver on a 64-bit system. Try looking in C:\Windows\SysWOW64\odbcad32.exe

That’s all.

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Is w32codecs Freezing Your Ubuntu?

Wanted to play an Realmedia file? Installed w32codecs? Now Totem is freezing your Ubuntu Hardy? And by freezing, I mean: you can move the mouse, nothing else works, no ctrl-alt-backspace, no ctrl-alt-F1.

Then do the following:

  1. Make sure you have gstreamer0.10-pitfdll installed.
  2. Install (if you haven’t already) w32codecs …

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