Archive for September, 2009

Ubuntu on HP Mini 2133

Friday, September 25th, 2009

I guess it’s officially called “HP Mini-Note PC 2133″ : http://h40059.www4.hp.com/hp2133/

A couple of good sites dedicated to this netbook:

Both have active forums. And of course, ubuntuforums is always a good source of help.

I’ll try installing 9.10 alpha 6 on this machine shortly.

rename (1) is different on Debian vs RH

Monday, September 21st, 2009

Crazy! The Debian one is better, of course :)

debian-box# rename --help
Unknown option: help
Usage: rename [-v] [-n] [-f] perlexpr [filenames]

vs

rh-box# rename --help
call: rename from to files...

The Debian one is the one that takes standard Perl regexes (and is in fact a simple Perl script).

need to disable “visual effects” to get some old X apps to work in Ubuntu

Tuesday, September 8th, 2009

This is Ubuntu 9.04 (x86_64). I had Visual Effects turned on because I have a newish nVidia card, using the proprietary nVidia drivers. Trying to use IBM’s “Storage Manager 10″ aka SANtricity, you get just blank windows for some of the windows. The workaround is System -> Preferences -> Appearance -> Visual Effects -> None

Now the windows show up in all their asstastic X11 motif glory.