Category Archives: *buntu

Mikä on Ubuntu? Mikä VALO?

Posted on March 8, 2011 by Risto H. Kurppa

Facebookissa tuli vastaan erään naispuoleisen ystävän statuspäivitys: “N.N ei osaa käyttää omaa konettaan. Pitäiskö hommat mac tms?” Ensimmäinen kommentaattori heitti että “Sitä ei ainakaan osaa”. Toiseksi kommentiksi laitoin osoitteen www.ubuntu-fi.org. Reaktio oli yllättävä: kommentaattoreiksi löytyi kaksi muuta Ubuntua käyttävää naishenkilöä … Continue reading →

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Time lapse photography: Frost flowers

Posted on February 19, 2011 by Risto H. Kurppa

Time lapse photography is a method of creating films by taking a series of photos with constant interval, for example one minute, and then combining them together as a movie. I was sick a while ago. The first day I … Continue reading →

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GPS (+Heart Rate) trackers for Linux

Posted on August 11, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

I’ve been recently playing with GPS devices on Linux (for example i-gotU gt-120, and the linux software to download tracks). I’ve also been discussing gps+heart rate data storage options. The obvious choice is (ex-Nokia) Sports Tracker and it didn’t even … Continue reading →

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How long has your system been up’n running?

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

I’m planning to wipe my Kubuntu desktop box root partition to re-install Kubuntu 10.04 LTS. I don’t have any major problems that would force me to reinstall the system, but I’ve installed many apps and packages from outside the repositories, … Continue reading →

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Install Ubuntu on USB hard drive

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Risto H. Kurppa

sudo qemu -hda /dev/sdc -cdrom kubuntu-10.04-desktop-i386.iso -boot order=d That’s it. (you can also try VirtualBox) Except that I get an error: “Executing ‘grub-install /dev/sda’ failed. This is a fatal error.” After this Ubiquity crashes.

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