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

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:

Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope)

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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!

I have a CPU running on Ubuntu and a Laptop running on Vista. I use my Ubuntu box as a test server for my projects while Vista for my daily use. My monitor is placed on my left side and my laptop on the right.

So basically here’s how my setup would look like:

Left – Ubuntu (no keyboard & mouse)

Right – Vista (with keyboard & mouse)

Left – Ubuntu (Client)
right – Vista (Server)

Setup Synergy on Vista

Download Synergy here and install it.

On Vista run Synergy & configure the server

• Click the Share this computer’s keyboard and mouse (server) radio button
• Click the Screens & Links Configure… button
• Click the + button to add the server to the Screens list
  • Enter the name of server (the computer’s name is the recommended name)
  • Optionally enter other names the server is known by
  • Click OK
• Use the + button to add your other computers
  • Using a computer’s name as its screen name is recommended
  • Choose desired screen options on the Add Screen dialog
• Use the controls under Links to link screens together
  • Click (once) on the server’s name in the Screens list
  • Choose the screen to the left of the server; use — if there is no screen to the left of the server
  • Choose the screens to the right, above and below the server
  • Repeat the above steps for all the other screens
• Click OK to close the Screens & Links dialog
• If the server’s screen name is not the server’s computer name:
  • Click Advanced…
  • Enter the server’s screen name next to Screen Name
  • Click OK

Now click Start, your server is running!

Setup Synergy on Ubuntu

Open up your terminal and type:

sudo apt-get install synergy

Then type:

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synergy -f ip-address-of-server

Now your client is running. You can move your mouse and see that it is working superbl

Autostart on GNOME

If you want to run your client on autostart, just go to Systems > Preferences > Sessions

Click Add and put the following:

Name: Synergy
Command: synergyc -f ip-address-of-server

Click OK, restart and your DONE!

I learned all these from:

* http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/index.html

* https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynergyHowto

Click image above to see a bigger view

So, have you ever wanted to record your desktop to create video tutorials, or to show off your desktop to your friends on Youtube? recordMyDesktop is a simple and easy application for these desktop recording and I have been using it since forever!

recordMyDesktop is a desktop session recorder that attempts to be easy to use, yet also effective at it’s primary task. As such, the program is separated in two parts; a simple command line tool that performs the basic tasks of capturingand encoding

To install recordMyDesktop, we start with typing the following to the terminal:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install recordmydesktop gtk-recordmydesktop

Now you have two ways to use recordMyDesktop:

• Terminal
• GUI

To use it through terminal just type the following:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ recordmydesktop

recordMyDesktop will start capturing and once you’re done press Ctrl + C

and the video file will be stored in your /home/username/ directory.

If you prefer to use the GUI, go to Applications > Sound & Video > gtk-recordMyDesktop

From there you can record your desktop straight away, to stop the recording just click on the white box on your system tray.

The default video output will be in OGG format. Though you can convert it to AVI using mencoder. You can install it by typing the following on your terminal:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ sudo aptitude install mencoder

Once you’re done installing mencoder you can start converting your OGG file to AVI format using the following:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ mencoder -idx ogg_format_filename.ogg -ovc lavc -oac mp3lame -o new_avi_format_filename.avi

Hope it’s useful :)

If you’re using Ubuntu and you have RPM files that you wish to install and want to change it’s format to .deb debian package, then you’ll need to use alien. Alien is a program that converts between rpm, dpkg and slackware tgz file formats.

To install it simply go to your terminal and type:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install alien

To use alien type the following on your terminal:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ sudo alien -k rpm_file_name.rpm

And it will convert your .rpm file to .deb format. This might take a while depending on the size of your file.

To install deb files type the following on your terminal:

adamz@Ubuntu:~$ sudo dpkg -i deb_file_name.deb

And your deb file will be installed.

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