Update HP Slimline 3200T to Ubuntu Hardy

Use your update manager from system -> administration menu.

Everything will work fine, except nVidia proprietary driver. I have nVidia 8500GT card installed in the system and as soon as I installed nvidia-glx-new package from synaptic. Oh my! Fan will run full speed and noise from GPU fan will disturb you. I disabled the driver. I am waiting for next driver release.

Noticeable improvement is wireless. RT73 driver runs way stable in hardy. I don't have to connect lan cable to my router anymore.

Thank you Ubuntu team

World Wide Soccer Manager 2007 runs great on Ubuntu under Virtualbox

Wow, I thought I could run this application natively on Ubuntu since this game is written in Java. If somebody who is good at programming can make wrapper for linux, I am sure this game will run in linux natively.

By the way, I could run this game smoothly under VirtualBox. I installed windows xp on VirtualBox and installed this game and it runs great.
This is the screen shot

Enable AHCI on HP S3200T after Windows XP installation

Wow, This was one of the hardest task I have ever done. Damn Microsoft.
Okay, as a supplement for the previous post, I will explain one by one how to enable AHCI on HP slimline S3200T after windows XP installation.

Follow the instruction carefully

1. You need to download Intel Chipset Device Software installer from intel website
the file name is infinst_autol.exe

2. Install that software

3. You need to download Intel Matrix Storage Manager from intel website
the file name is iata78_enu.exe

4. Next run that application in the command mode like this (of course you need to go to the directory where you downloaded the file)

iata78_enu -a

5. Default location of the extracted file will be c:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager

6. go to that directory and copy iaStor.sys to c:\windows\system32\drivers

7. open notepad and cut and paste following code

Code: (<= do not copy this line =>)

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\ControlSet001\Control\CriticalDeviceDatabase\pci#ven_8086&dev_27c1&cc_0106]"Service"="iaStor""ClassGUID"="{4D36E96A-E325-11CE-BFC1-08002BE10318}"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor]"Type"=dword:00000001"Start"=dword:00000000"Group"="SCSI miniport""ErrorControl"=dword:00000001"ImagePath"="system32\\drivers\\iaStor.sys""tag"=dword:00000019"DisplayName"="Intel AHCI Controller"
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor\Parameters]"queuePriorityEnable"=dword:00000000
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\iaStor\Enum]"0"="PCI\\VEN_8086&DEV_27C0&SUBSYS_2A53103C&REV_01\\3&2411e6fe&0&FA""Count"=dword:00000001"NextInstance"=dword:00000001

8. Save the file as ahci.reg on your desktop (don't forget to choose file type as all files. Don't leave it to txt)

9. now right-click on the file add it to registry.

10. Restart computer

11. open your eyes wide & Don't go to the rest room and keep pressing F10 to go in to the BIOS set up and choose AHCI for HDD control instead of IDE

12. save and exit

13. Now windows will boot without blue screen of death.

14. Windows will look for drivers then point the driver location by manually choosing directory to c:\Program Files\Intel\Intel Matrix Storage Manager\Driver

15. Now windows will install new drivers properly then reboot.

16. Now you installed windows XP on HP S3200T slimline with full power.


Peace out vista and enjoy your new year with XP and Ubuntu.

Installing Ubuntu AMD64 on HP Slimline S3200T

Yeah, Ironically, it is easier to install linux on HP slimline S3200T than to install
Windows XP. Of course, Vista sucks. Microsoft I am talking to you. You are a big loser. I worked on this new machine which I purchased after I sold my macbook pro to install Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon AMD64 version. Man, I love linux no matter what. Installation can not be any easier compare to Windows XP Pro.
This is the information that I want to share

Machine Specification:
CPU: Intel core 2 duo 2.2GHz
RAM: 4GB DDR (3.5GB on Linux, HP said max ram is 2GB, hey this machine can hold more than that and I am quite happy)
Chipset: intel 945G
Video: nVidia Geforce 8500GT <=works out of the box
HDD: 500GB DVDRW light scribe
Lite-On USB 801.11b/g (Ralinktech RT2571 usb) <= hey this works right out of box. Amazing! better than XP)
Ethernet: Intel 82562 <= works out of the box
Audio: RealTek HD audio ALC 888 <= of course works out of the box
13in1 card reader

Windows XP and Ubuntu 7.10 dual boot note
well it is same as other dual boot procedures. I will list things you have to be careful.
First, most of you would start installing windows XP. Be careful not to use AHCI. If you set HDD controller in BIOS as AHCI then you will get blue screen of death. Set it as IDE. I am working on it now to enable AHCI. I will post update ASAP.

Second, when you install ubuntu go to bios set HDD controller to AHCI. Sounds weird right? but you have to do this way. It will work better. Install ubuntu and set up dual boot.

Now, set your HDD controller back to IDE. You can boot both OS without a problem. And yeah you find XP drivers on your own. What the crap! But if you go to corresponding manufacturer website you can find driver easily. Of course, our lovely UBUNTU will work out of the box.
Enable nVidia proprietary driver using restricted drivers manager.
Oh man you will love this environment.

My final note for 64bit Ubuntu is that go to this link to enable adobe flash. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=476924

And for SCIM input method go to the following links:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SCIM

Hey make sure you enabled --> apply --> disable --> apply --> enable --> apply --> log out --> log in for complex character input check box. This would sound weird but you have to do this, otherwise SCIM will not show up Okay?

Windows XP and Xubuntu Dual Boot Success!!

I have old gateway M405 laptop with 1.3GHz celeron processor. I have been trying to install windows and linux. The main problem was after xubuntu or whatever ubuntu installation windows gives me many different errors and refuse to boot.
Errors were;
NTLDR missing
BSOD with unbootable disk volume errors ....

Finally I solved the problem by leaving about 8MB gap between Windows partition and Linux partition. You can do it by using fdisk and tweaking around little bit.
Also, for linux, I only used logical partition instead of primary partition.

After that, everything is good to go.

McCain for President?

I do not believe in politics but I think it is necessary to mention one thing. 

John McCain's son is in Iraq serving in military and he never use or abuse the fact for his campaign. What an noble man for this country! 

Many times one action is better than thousand words, right? 

None of the candidates are closer to the real war than McCain. 

I think he is the one for America.

 

Applecare Protection Plan??? Be careful

If you have a plan to buy applecare protection plan, make sure you keep the original receipt and make sure if you are buying from apple authorized reseller. This company will ask you the proof of purchase (mainly the purchase receipt) any time they want and will refuse the service or transfer of ownership if you purchased APP from non-authorized reseller. 

I could avoid damage by obtaining the receipt again from the store, but think what if I couldn't get it? 

Also, if you got financially damaged by this Apple's policy just drop me an e-mail, we may can start class action. I personally think that the policy is very selfish for the company and damaging many loyal users. I had very unpleasant phone conversion with apple customer relations representative treating me like a thief. 

This is my e-mail:

gthapple@gmail.com

Nvidia 9755 driver and Ubuntu

NVidia 9755 driver works excellent on my Ubuntu edgy 6.10.

Download driver from nVidia website

and follow this instruction

don't forget to disable "nv" module no matter what.

I like new nvidia-settings utility.

Now you can set up dual screen on the fly. You dont' have to restart your x-server to set up dual screen

What an improvement! Now I dont' have to stick to OS X to do my presentation.

Here is the thing I still don't like.

For dual screen, both monitor should have same horizontal lines, otherwise you would have ghost screen area that you can not see.

Verizon wireless LG chocolate + bitpim

You guys already know that latest bitpim support LG chocolate VX8500. But be careful after you manually set the phone to VX8500 because at first it will give you an error while you are trying to sync the phone. The trick is you need to connect the phone after bitpim started. And make sure if you are using proper USB cable.

By the way, many people complained since there was no speaker phone on VX8500. As a matter of fact, LG did firmware upgrade. All new chocolate has speaker phone and old chocolate can activate speaker phone by simply upgrading firmware. Just take it to the verizon wireless store.

Merry Christmas and Happy new year.

Upgrade to Macbook Pro

Okay Macbook almost arrived dead.

Although it was impulsive decision, I returned Macbook and got Macbook Pro. Well I am happy with Macbook Pro.

New Macbook with Core 2 duo ordered

Now, finally I ordered my new macbook with core 2 duo.

I am ready to install Linux on this machine either using VMware fusion or using bootcamp.

I am going one by one to build ultimate computing using Linux.

Yes, Penguins

It has been 10 years since I started using Linux as my desktop.

I wish I can share my tips about Linux and furthermore about how to apply Linux on dentistry.