After facing for a while the extremely annoying bug that shows itself as
- losing the touchpad vertical scroll functionality after a while
- losing the touchpad sensitivity after some more time, this occurs more and more often during the same session
- ending with both stuck touchpad and keyboard
I managed to figure out a workaround.

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Despite the slightly higher resolution (800 vs 768) vertical space is always a bit constrained on widescreens. This is even more noticeable with Gnome which has two panels, at the top and at the bottom, that use at minimum size 50 pixels both. Some other 20 px get wasted in the application titlebar, around 15 [...]

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Undervolt your notebook CPU for longer battery life
“Undervolting is the practice of reducing the supply voltage of a computer’s CPU. There are mainly three reasons to do so:

Reduce power consumption
Reduce heat generation
Reduce fan noise

Performance will not be affected as the energy you will save was just wasted (as heat) before.

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This post aims at drafting a blueprint for future implementation in Ubuntu Linux.
Any comments and suggestions are welcome!
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Duplex printing [1] is currently available only to mid-high-end printers.
However same goal can be achieved with minimal effort and minimal user interaction also on simplex low-end printers via a software hack.
Procedure:
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If you installed java-gcj and openjdk the Mozilla Firefox browser java plugin wouldn’t work. The only working browser plugin is currently sun-java6-plugin.
sudo apt-get remove gcjwebplugin-4.2 java-gcj-compat java-gcj-compat-headless java-gcj-compat-plugin libaccess-bridge-java openjdk-6-jre openjdk-6-jre-headless openjdk-6-jre-lib
sudo apt-get install odbcinst1debian1 sun-java6-bin sun-java6-jre sun-java6-plugin unixodbc
optional: delete pluginre.dat file in your browser profile directory
(usually in $HOME/.mozilla/firefox/[something].profile/ )

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Firefox 3.0 stable default setup has these features disabled

direct printing from print preview
ability to zoom page before printing from print preview
ability to change printing page orientation (portrait/landscape)

all this can be achieved by setting string print.whileInPrintPreview in about:config as true
(this now defaults to false).
I filed a bug report about this issue here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/245772

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Due to the very high pace of Free and OpenSource Software development it often occurs that program versions shipped with a distribution are already quite obsolete, hence the need to upgrade to its latest version.
Compiling the sources can be a little annoying sometimes, since you have to take care of the many multiple dependencies [...]

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Ever since I installed Ubuntu Linux Hardy 8.04 I’m facing problems in browsing Windows shares with samba.
Even though I can see the Windows Group and the Windows Hosts when I click on them I only get an empty window. No shares are listed.

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In the following tutorial you are going to fine tweak your Ubuntu Linux setup in order to speed up the boot process as well as the startup time of some frequently used applications.

use bootchart to profile boot times and bootlenecks easily through an intuitive image graph
install with
sudo apt-get install bootchart

then you’ll get a graph in [...]

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Blueman is a GTK+ bluetooth management utility for GNOME using bluez dbus backend. It has many more features than standard GNOME blutooth applet, among which you can find:
* Easy to use interface
* Storing Favourite devices
* Send files
* Browse files on devices
* List all seen devices

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