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Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1411998

Hey guys

I've got a ThinkPad W700 and I've been using Karmic on it since its release. I finally got around to really tweaking the TrackPoint's settings.

ThinkWiki describes how to configure TrackPoint using a variety of methods. However the article is a little out of date, incomplete, and confusing.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1426863

WPA connection on demand - Mini HowTo for UBUNTU users

I put this guide together while being on extensive travels. In many occasions, I got connected through the router using WPA/WPA2 certification program, using PSK mode (pre-shared key), which is the method prevailing to obsoleted WEP. You can find more info on WPA at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi_Protected_Access, as going into further details is beyond the scope of this article. I do not cover the installation of the driver as well, so make sure you have it up and running before you go any further. Google is your friend here. The main purpose of this mini how-to is to put across the most straightforward and simplest way to establish quick connection on demand. It is fairly easy under Linux, if you are not scared of typing commands in terminal window. I found it more flexible, and far more easy than any GUI application (wpa_gui, for example).

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1423423

I have tested this on the following:

Ubuntu 9.04 (GNOME)
Ubuntu 9.10 (GNOME)

Please tell me If it has worked out on another version/DE.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1413126

Hi,

I looked around for a tutorial on this but couldn't find one. So I wrote this myself. This setup worked for me. Hope it works for you too. Let me know if you face any issues.

UBUNTU PXE BOOT INSTALLATION

Ubuntu is usually installed on a system using a Live CD. Another method of installing it is over the network! PXE stands for Preboot eXecution Environment which is an environment for booting the Ubuntu installer off the network.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1413313

1) Introduction

Here's a longish guide to unlock, root and run Debian on your Nexus One.

It's based on various guides and forum posts around (see embedded links), but with more details, with some missing pieces and corrected mistakes, all compiled into a (hopefully) newb-friendly step by step guide.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1407598

We had an OP who had gotten a little carried away with removing old kernels via Synaptic .. Yeah, you're well ahead of me on this one

Took a little while, and a couple of attempts.. But, this works.. As just as it was written, we had another OP who'd aborted an upgrade to Media after installing the RT kernel, they got his 'normal' kernel back as well. May help someone else

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1393576

Like WebUpd8 reader StoneCut said in a comment on it's previous tip, he wrote yet another post for iPhone & iPod touch owners which use Linux. So here it is:

In our previous tutorial we showed how you to access the iPhone & iPod touch OS 3.x filesystem and read/write to its music database using iFuse and by compiling our own libgpod4. Then we had to create a file on the iPhone & iPod touch, manually mount the iPhone & iPod touch each time and so on. Maybe a bit complicated for an average user.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1404156

Firstly, go to the OpenOffice website: http://download.openoffice.org/ and download the Linux .deb file.

1 - Once you have done that, extract the .deb file,

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1398554

This all-in-one is supposed to work out of the box in Ubuntu 9.10 but the scanner didn't work when I plugged it in. In fact, scanimage -L didn't even list it.

Karmic comes with hplip 3.9.8 which should support the f4440. I tried installing the newest version of hplip from http://hplipopensource.com (3.9.12 at the time of writing this) but the script kept aborting due to an error when it was running the make command. So here is what I did to get the all-in-one working.

Source: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1399975

sudo -v
    echo "deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/cairo-dock-team/ppa/ubuntu $(lsb_release -sc) main ## Cairo-Dock-PPA" | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list
    sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys E80D6BF5
    sudo apt-get update