I was a bit disappointed last time when I disabled the Wifi under Windows XP and booted from Ubuntu Lucid. The wireless card wasn’t working anymore, with no apparent means to revive it. I had to boot back in Windows and let the magic do his work. I had to find a way to this under Linux without the need for a Microsoft OS and I did
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Ubuntu Lucid Lynx on Toshiba nb 200 slow/no boot
I just upgraded to Ubuntu Lucid Lynx and just found that with the provided kernel the boot is incredibly long (more than 5 minutes).
After a bit of upgrading to the last-last kernel available to date (2.6.22-32) with no aid, I decided to have a look around and see what other people were experiencing.
A Gnuplot tutorial
Gnuplot is a free, handy software to plot mathematical functions. It runs on various system 
(on Windows, too)
Ubuntu karmic koala and Glassy bleu theme
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala 64bit.
I must say I’m impressed.
I also installed the HP glassy bleu theme, and it looks gourgeus.
a GNOME/KDE virus in 5 steps…
http://www.geekzone.co.nz/foobar/6229 Speaking of false sense of security …Interesting point of view.
SRIM+(linux/wine)
I made a bit of mess with SRIM and linux/wine. if you are interested in running SRIM outside Windows, give it a look.
Flash 9 on AMD64 Ubuntu 7.04 (feisty fawn)
I finally fixed the remain issue with the missing flash plugin on my amd64 base pc running ubuntu 7.04 Feisty.
I don’t want to upgrade right now, and swf-player wasn’t working for me.
I decided to follow the steps outlined here (in Italian, and it’s a wiki, so I’m not responsible for what you may found there!)
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