I found a faster way to change your display from terminal.

To check what resolution does your monitor support type:

adamz@UBUNTU:~$ xrandr -q

It will show something like this:

adamz@UBUNTU:~$ xrandr -q
Screen 0: minimum 320 x 200, current 1024 x 768, maximum 4096 x 4096
VGA1 connected 1024×768+0+0 (normal left inverted right x axis y axis) 0mm x 0mm
1360×768 59.8
1024×768 60.0*
800×600 60.3 56.2
848×480 60.0
640×480 59.9 59.9

Example I’m on 800×600 resolution and I want to change to 1024×768. I type this:

adamz@UBUNTU:~$ xrandr -s 1024×768

Thats it!

If you want to specify a refresh rate when switching your resolution, you can do it like this:

adamz@UBUNTU:~$ xrandr -s 1024×768@75

Doing maintenance on a client PC is an annoying task especially when you have to download and re-install back every tiny software, drivers and whatever as it consumes alot of my time. Plus with Streamyx downloading would is a burden to everyone. And for me the annoyance is when I am on-site without an internet connection and I cant download a specific software or driver that is needed to get the job done.

Normally for a company I would suggest them to have an exact specification for all their computers or printers and what not which would save me a lot of valuable time when doing maintenance. For instance, if PC A is down and needs to be formatted, I would just plug in my Hiren BOOTCD and do commands or simply use Norton Ghost and clone any other well working PC’s hard disk to the problem PC. After that with minimal re-setting everything’s done. Just like that. It normally takes me less than 15 minutes to fix anything. But I’m not only talking about Norton Ghost, Hiren BOOTCD has like tons of useful applications to be used. So today I’ll be featuring Hiren’s BOOTCD – The ultimate All-In-One (AIO) Bootable CD

Hiren’s website didn’t have a lot of information though so I copied this from another website:

Hiren’s Boot CD 10.1 & All Other Versions

Hiren’s BootCD is a wonderful live CD containing various programs such as Hard drive recovery, Hard Drive Partition, Hard Drive Backup, Hard Drive Testing, RAM (Memory) Testing, System Information, MBR (Master BootRecord), BIOS, MultiMedia, Password, NTFS (FileSystems), Antivirus, AntiSpy, Process, Windows Startup, Registry tools, Windows Cleaners, Optimizers, Tweakers, and many others… As it is a bootable CD, it can be useful even if the primary operating system cannot be booted.
We may call it as an emergency cd which every computer technician or home user must have.

Here are some other useful information:

Before you download check the screenshots here.
How to burn the ISO from Nero here.

How to boot Hiren BOOCD from a USB pen drive here.
For more information on Hiren’s BOOTCD check it’s wikipedia link here.

After upgrading my Ubuntu box I find that everytime I boot up I see alot of items on my GRUB list.

So I decided to delete the useless ones.

So just so that I wont forget next time here’s how I did it:

Hit ALT+F2 then type the following & run:

gksu gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst

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Scroll down to the bottom of the page. Select & delete the ones you dont want.

Here’s a screenshot of my case:

(If you cant see the image then click to view larger size)

I deleted the ones that I have selected (highlighted) & “Save” the file.

Reboot & there you go. All those useless items are gone!

I finally decided to upgrade my 8.04 (Hardy Heron) to 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

It’s AWESOME!! I love Ubuntu & I love linux OS! I can really feel the huge difference on 9.04 compared to 8.04.

Here’s a tutorial on How-To Upgrade to your latest Ubuntu distribution, in my case Ubuntu 9.04 using Torrent.

The first thing I did was:

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Go to http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/downloadmirrors#alternate

Then, I download:

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ubuntu-x.xx-alternate-i386.iso.torrent

* I assume that you are on i386 platform.

Since I do not want to waste my CD/DVD, i mounted the ISO file directly from terminal by typing:

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sudo mount -o loop /location/of/ubuntu-x.xx-alternate-1386.iso /media/cdrom0

And then from terminal, I typed the following:

gksu sh /cdrom0/cdromupgrade

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Lasty, we wait untill all the updating & installing is completed, restart your computer and there you go. Full upgrade yo!

Here’s a screenshot of my desktop:

As I was installing the latest WordPress on my localhost, I found out that my mod_rewrite wasn’t working properly. So What I did was first I typed:

sudo apache2ctl -l

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To know if this module is already loaded. Turns out it’s not, so what I did after that was I typed in:

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a2enmod rewrite

To enable the mod_rewrite module. So i tested accessing my localhost link and it didn’t work. I checked back by typing the first command line and it says that the module isn’t enabled yet. So what I did next was I typed in:

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sudo gedit /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

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Then I looked for AllowOverRide and change it from None to All

I restarted Apache2 by typing:

sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 restart

And everything works perfectly fine! My mod_rewrite is working!