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This is an update on my unbootable laptop. For the initial repair operation you can read here: Ubuntu saved me once again. It seems that my fix using the Ubuntu was just temporary Today when I arrived from work, started my laptop but surprise, it didn’t boot again. It entered the recover console again. I [...]

Well, maybe that’s what I get get for trying to play Prince of persia – The two Thrones without the original CD and without installing the crack I installed it using an image of the game taken from a tracker but somehow forgot to overwrite the original files with the cracked files. I restarted at [...]

Today I started a new project that I’m developing for school and I thought I’d do it using cakePHP. I went ahead and downloaded xampp for linux and a fresh copy of the cakePHP framework, 1.3.0-RC3, and I extracted it to my webroot. After I created a virtual host for it, it was time to [...]

I’ve noticed that after updating my Ubuntu system, my wireless connection was a bit unstable. What I mean by that is loosing the connection shortly after getting connected. I don’t know if it’s a problem specific to my wireless card, but this fix worked for me and I’m going to share it with you now. [...]

As we all know, after each kernel update we must use a sudo apt-get autoremove to get rid of the old kernel images. This, however, does not take care of the grub menu which is updated with the new kernel along side with the old kernel entries. To update the grub menu, you must use [...]

Before I found out about this method to reset my root password, I was forced to reinstall Ubuntu. Now, in just 6 easy steps, everything is as good as ever, with the root password changed. This is the method that Jason Striegel posted over at Hackszine.com and it is very easy to use if you [...]