As Conrad.de offers this WLAN USB adapter for € 9.95 at the moment, I decided to try one with Ubuntu 9.10.
Having a Realtek chipset - as the earlier described HAMA stick - just swapping the 2 sticks was successful!
So sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic is the solution here also!
Is there any cheaper Ubuntu compatible WLAN stick?
Friday, March 19, 2010
Thursday, March 18, 2010
SCALEO P D1740 Upgrade
I replaced the motherboard again with a Biostar GF8200C M2+, installing the recovery XP. Installation of drivers was very easy, due to the installation application from Biostar.
SATA Adapter
IDE auf Serial ATA SATA Adapter Konverter Trifoo works perfectly to connect an old IDE HD to SATA.
Monday, March 08, 2010
HAMA 150M WLAN USB-Stick
Works perfectly under Ubuntu 9.10 after
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic
;-)
sudo apt-get install linux-backports-modules-karmic
;-)
Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Next update
As one of my Vista systems showed more and more signs of aging (spooler subsystem problems) I decided to upgrade it to Windows 7.
Took again about 2 hours and showed no problems so far.
Took again about 2 hours and showed no problems so far.
Saturday, February 13, 2010
Friday, January 29, 2010
Another HTPC
As my parents asked for their own HTPC, I built one for them ;-)
This time I am using an Asus M3N78-VM motherboard with an AMD Athlon II X2 240 CPU and 2 GB RAM as basis, again in a Digitainer case. A 1 TB WD10EADS harddisk from Western Digital completes the system, no optical drive has been installed so far. The motherboard is larger than the one I used to refurbish my Digitainer, but it just fits into the case.
Software is again Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 and XBMC.
This time I am using an Asus M3N78-VM motherboard with an AMD Athlon II X2 240 CPU and 2 GB RAM as basis, again in a Digitainer case. A 1 TB WD10EADS harddisk from Western Digital completes the system, no optical drive has been installed so far. The motherboard is larger than the one I used to refurbish my Digitainer, but it just fits into the case.
Software is again Ubuntu 9.10 amd64 and XBMC.
Monday, January 11, 2010
HTPC and LCD
When I first connected my old (but refurbished) HTPC via VGA to the LG LCD TV the screen resolution was auto configured to 1360 x 768. Changing via nvidia-settings to 1920 x 1080 was only possible for the running session and gone after reboot.
Trying to make it permanently via the "Save configuration to X conf" button resulted only in "Failed to parse existing X config file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’"...
Solution was found at Wetware:
recreate xorg.conf with sudo nvidia-xconfig and save the settings permanently with sudo nvidia-settings afterwards ;-)
Thanks to Wetware!
Trying to make it permanently via the "Save configuration to X conf" button resulted only in "Failed to parse existing X config file ‘/etc/X11/xorg.conf’"...
Solution was found at Wetware:
recreate xorg.conf with sudo nvidia-xconfig and save the settings permanently with sudo nvidia-settings afterwards ;-)
Thanks to Wetware!
Saturday, January 09, 2010
Recent positive experiences
With the following products I have made positive experiences recently:
- Sony BDP S360 Blu-ray player
- LG 32LH3000 LCD TV
- Epson SX600FW printer, scanner, copier and fax with WiFi
- DIGITUS external NAS case for 3,5"-HD
Sunday, January 03, 2010
Ubuntu servers
Recently I had to configure two servers on older hardware, in both projects I chose Ubuntu 9.10 32bit Server edition as base for the systems.
- Server 1 (AMD Athlon Processor 1.1 GHz, 640 MByte RAM) is an internal file server with remote access via SSH and Apache on the stored files.
- Server 2 (AMD Sempron Processor 3000+, 768 MByte RAM) publishes an Oracle Apex driven website with about 10.000 views per month.
For remote administration webmin is being used in both cases.
Friday, January 01, 2010
Digitainer upgrade
Since being replaced by the new HTPC, the Digitainer which served this part for nearly 3 years, was due for an upgrade:
As remote controls I use
- Biostar GF8200C M2+ motherboard
- AMD Athlon II X2 215 cpu
- 2 GB RAM
- 500 GB Samsung HD502HI harddisk
As remote controls I use
Friday, December 25, 2009
Home Theatre PC
My new HTPC is making progress:
Hardware
- Sapphire PI-AM3RS785G motherboard
- AMD Athlon II X2 250 cpu
- 2 GByte RAM
- Samsung 750 GByte HD HD753LJ
- Samsung DVD writer
- Auvisio remote control VRC-1100 (Vista MCE Remote Control)
- Compucase 7K09B-FP25U black case
- Asus VW161D TFT monitor
Software
- Ubuntu 9.10 amd64
- XBMC 9.11
Thanks to Klaus Hertle for support!
Thursday, December 24, 2009
Notebook upgrade
The upgrade from Windows Vista to Windows 7 on my Medion Akoya P6620 took 2 hours without any problems.
Tuesday, November 17, 2009
Presentation at DOAG Conference
Today I gave a presentation about Application Express in teaching "APEX in der Lehre" where I shared my experiences with APEX in various courses.
You can download the presentation here.
Wednesday, October 07, 2009
Arnoldshain IX
The ninth Arnoldshain Seminar takes place at the moment in Montevideo and Punta del Este in Uruguay - we have near live coverage with pictures due to wireless LAN and my Netbook ;-)
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Monday, September 14, 2009
Tuesday, September 08, 2009
Anspach & Hahnweide
You can find pictures from Taunus-Flugfest and Hahnweide Oldtimer Meeting here:
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| Hahnweide 2009 |
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| Taunus-Flugfest |
Sunday, August 30, 2009
Multimedia remote control
Just bought a Auvisio remote control VRC-1100 (Vista MCE Remote Control) from Pearl for my Xubuntu-based HTPC, it works out of the box as remote for the Listen music player!
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Upgrading
Two old Athlon-based systems of mine were in desperate need of an upgrade - this kit Biostar Mainboard 8100M2+ SE AllInOne Athlon 5200+ X2 incl. 2GB RAM from Pearl worked perfectly. Windows 7 RC and Ubuntu 9.04 are the new operating systems.
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