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Big Day: Wine 1.0

Beside Firefox 3 officially released today, Wine also released its long waited non-beta/RC version, Wine 1.0.

You can download Wine 1.0 source code here; or you might want to wait for your distro’s update, I believe they all will update very soon!

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Solution to Lenovo Y410 Sound Problem On Ubuntu 8.04

Update 30/04: This script will only make speaker work, but not headphone. As Sam mentioned, there is another easy way to get sound work without installing anything: Suspend your machine and resume. The drawback is you have to do it every time after you (re)boot.
Well, this is another post about Ubuntu 8.04!
As I mentioned before, [...]

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How to Play Rmvb Files In Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

If you experienced this topic earlier, you know that it’s tough to solve. Playing Real video format files (e.g. rmvb files) is still a problem in Ubuntu 8.04, but don’t worry, it’s now much easier than before.
So, here we go:

Follow the official instruction to install all the restricted formats:

sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras

Install MPlayer:

sudo apt-get install [...]

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Hardy Heron

This post is composed under Ubuntu 8.04 — Hardy Heron.
I installed Hardy in my Lenovo Y410 half an hour ago. Most hardware (monitor, video card, wireless card, wireless mouse, webcam, etc.) work out of box, but like 7.10, the sound card still requires some efforts to make it work. In software, Gimp is upgraded to [...]

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There is a bug, Gnome…

You might also hear about that Flickr added a feature for uploading videos.
Cool, so I attempted to try it out, but…
When I clicked the “Choose photos and videos” link in the upload page, I got a very long and very ugly popup window in Gnome! See below:
IMAGE IS MISSING, SORRY!
You can tell even just from [...]

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Hey DistroWatch, it’s a joke, right?

After I finished reading the latest DistroWatch Weekly and hit the back button, I saw a pretty scary distro rank ladder:

I was scared so I even actually checked top three’s homepages and the result was even more scaring: they DO exist!
What the heck is going on here? Where is Ubuntu? Where is Debian? I couldn’t [...]

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Solving Cyclic Dependencies Is Hard

I am a C/C++ beginner but I’d been already taught that dependency cycles are generally evil since it’s very hard to solve. I haven’t realized how hard the problem is before, because all the works I’ve done are “one file” programs or I can just simply throw all the files into a single gcc/g++ command.
However, [...]

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LINKSYS-WPC54GS(BCM43xx) in Debian 4.0

If you’re using Debian 4.0 but you find your 2-3 years old Linksys WPC54GS wireless card doesn’t work even though the system can “see” the hardware, then you may want to continue reading.
Because the Linux kernel has already supported any BCM43xx wireless card, the only thing you need to make Linksys WPC54GS wireless card work [...]

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Gutsy and Chinese

After 3 days playing with Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, I would say that I am not very satisfied with it; the ratio between excitement and disappointment is 4 to 6.
The excitement comes from the new Compiz and all the new upgrades and features, the disappointment comes from the support to Chinese language.
I love beautiful desktop [...]

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UW is ready for Gutsy Gibbon

Ubuntu 7.10, Gutsy Gibbon, will be released some time today and I cannot wait!

I know that there will be a big rush into Ubuntu’s servers at the time of the release, so I decided to download the CD image from a mirror site. I then went to the mirrors list, and surprisingly, I saw UW [...]