Archive - Sep 9, 2008

Question:

I have an HP Media Centre PC m7170n, Dual-core Pentium D, 250GB SATA primary HDD, and 500GB USB HP Personal media Drive. Windows XP Media Centre is installed on my Primary HDD[(hd0,1)]. I seemed to successfully install Ubuntu 8.10 Alpha 5 on my USB HDD [(hd1,0)]using the 64bit Alternate CD.

When I boot I see the GRUB menu and various selections for my ubuntu OS and two selections for my Windows XP OS.

Question:

on a fresh install of 8.04.1, got my voodoo3 card setup for 1280x1024 and all is well except...

the login screen is at the wrong resolution. the user/password entry is in the lower right corner of the screen rather than centered.

I tried the Startup-Manager tool and it did not help.

any ideas?

Thanks,
Dave

I've read a few methods on how to convert from one to other, all of which required a surplus of programs and none of which came remotely close to the accuracy I wanted. Using PassCrypt, you can import _some_ passwords from Roboform and export them to csv. From there you have to hack your way to get it to work with KeePass and then import it into KeePassX. I've done it this way, but the problem is that PassCrypt is not very good at finding your passwords in the Roboform export file.

And thus, I present you with my simple python method. I migrated over 600 passwords with an estimated 95% accuracy.

Source: http://www.thevarguy.com/2008/09/08/microsoft-novell-making-virtualizati...

The VAR Guy is hearing rumblings from Novell about potential virtualization news at this week’s Microsoft GetVirtualNow event or the upcoming VMworld, scheduled for Sept. 15-18 in Las Vegas. The news will likely involve bi-directional virtualization efforts with Microsoft, according to our resident blogger. Here’s the scoop.

Some Linux bloggers spent the week kicking around ideas for attracting the next generation of computer users to Linux, while others were simply distracted by the nonsensical commercial Microsoft put out on Thursday featuring highly paid spokesperson Jerry Seinfeld.

Well, it was a comparatively quiet week on the Linux blogs last week, due at least in part, no doubt, to the Labor Day holiday.

Source: http://wiki.openice.org/index.php/Sept-05-08-OpenICE.org_official_launch

September 5, 2008 OpenICE.org, a community of engineers, hackers, and users, launches today going up against two giants in the mobile computing industry, Microsoft, with its Sync product and Intel with their moblin based car infotainment platform.

The goal of OpenICE is to provide a comprehensive, scalable and flexible set of tools to build a mobile system for Car Infotainment. This is done by a grass roots effort to collect the latest technologies developed in the open source community and combine them with custom built interfaces and tools tailored for car infotainment. These components result in the OpenICE platform: Entertainment, Information, Connectivity and Mobility.