Sunday, November 15, 2009

How To Install Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Desktop


Yesterday my friend asking me How To Install Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Desktop. She is really new on ubuntu and I hope this posting can describe all of the step to install it. For all of you, who want to try ubuntu and little bit scared how to install, maybe this posting can help you.

  • Download the Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) Desktop iso image and burn it into cd, you can get it from http://ubuntu.com.
  • Booting from ubuntu cd, then choose English Language and option Try Ubuntu without any change to your computer.
  • Wait for a while until the Desktop ready, like this screenshot :


  • If your ubuntu partition has not been set up before, you can set up from the GParted application.


  • Ubuntu partition minimally need one root partition and optional swap partition if your memory less than 1 GB. Below is the screenshot of the partition set up, i have been made. On root partition I use 10 GB of Ext3 fileystem and 1.6 GB of swap.


  • After the partition have been set up, now is time to install the ubuntu. Double click on icon Install Ubuntu on the Desktop Shortcut.

  • The installation window will show up.


  • Set your Location setting.


  • Set your Keyboard Layout setting.


  • On the Partition setting, I choose Manually to set where is the mount point each of all my partition.


  • Here come the list of my partition. Click on the row you want to edit the mount point of each partition.


  • On the Edit Partition window, choose the filesystem of the partition, you want to format or not, and mount point path. On the mount point field, I'm ussually set with format "/media/_PARTITION_LABEL_". Replace the _PARTITION_LABEL_ with your partition label name. Where the partition will be automatically mount on that path when you login to ubuntu. Repeat for all partition except the root and swap partition, set with filesystem of that partition and the mount point.


  • On the root partition, I choose Ext4 filesystem and the mount point is "/". Checked on the "Format this Partition" checkbox, If you want to format it.


  • Here is the screenshot of all my partition setting.


  • Go to next step is setting your User Account.


  • Then the Document Migration setting from your last Operating System.


  • The last is Start the Installation process.


  • The installation may take 20 minutes or more, depend on your hardware.


  • After the Installation finish, you will be prompt to Reboot or still want to use the Live CD.


  • Reboot and login, here is the result of my Ubuntu.


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Saturday, November 14, 2009

Wibiya Toolbar For Your Website


Wibiya is the blog toolbar to make te reader more closely to your page. There is many feature offered on this toolbar. The display who similar with Facebook toolbar, make users more easily to use it.

This is step by step to add Wibiya Toolbar to your Blog or Website :
  1. You must have a blog or website.
  2. Go to Wibiya Website and register it.


  3. After registering, you must wait for couple hours to get an Token key. This token key will be delivered to your e-mail address on your sign up.


  4. Login to Wibiya website with your token key, and complete your website information.


  5. And then just follow it the instruction to set up the Theme and Application for your Toolbar.

  6. Last step is to plugin your toolbar into your Blog or Website. Choose where you to added this toolbar from the menu.


  7. Try open your Blog or Website to see the result.

Great, the toolbar is successfully added.
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Friday, November 13, 2009

Ubuntu 9.10 Ship It has been arrived


My Ubuntu 9.10 Ship It order, has been arrived today . I'm order 1 CD Ubuntu 9.10 Desktop, 1 CD Kubuntu 9.10 and 1 CD Ubuntu 9.10 Server. But in this delivery, I do not see any sticker on it . But anyway thanks to Canonical for this delivery , now it's time to try it .
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Friday, November 6, 2009

Double Click Setting on Dolphin


Dolphin is a file manager for KDE focusing on usability. It was a great file manager with many features inside. By default, Dolphin is using Single Click to view and opening a file or folder.

If we use KDE desktop, we can simply change the setting by using the menu, like this screenshot :
  • Here comes dolphin screenshot :


  • Choose Settings -> Configure Dolphin


  • On Navigation menu, choose click setting you want :

The problem is appear when we use dolphin on Gnome desktop. On Dolphin Preferences, there is no Navigation menu. We can change the click setting manually on KDE file setting.
sonic2epix@sonic2epix:~$ gedit ~/.kde/share/config/kdeglobals
Find the [KDE] section, then change the SingleClick variable with false.
...
[KDE]
AutoSelectDelay=-1
DoubleClickInterval=400
ShowDeleteCommand=true
SingleClick=false          # change this setting
StartDragDist=4
StartDragTime=300
WheelScrollLines=3
...
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Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Website Translate With Google Translate


It's take a few a day until I found article about How To Translate a Website With Google Translate. Thank's to Mr. Gilluts, who support me to do it on this blog, and Mr. Angga, who give me a article link about how to do that. Basicly, if you want to Translate your Website, you can open Google Translate and then type your Website URL. Choose your source language and the target language. After that, easily click on Translate button to begin the translate.
  • Here come the screenshot on Google Translate :


  • And the Translate Result :

Now if you want to give a link inside your Blog to easily reader translate the blog language, you can download first the icon Flag Country of the language. There is two model of the icon, Rounded and Square, just click on the link to start download. Then upload the icon image you want to use, you can upload to Flickr or Photobucket. Copy the image location, and then use to image source on the link. Adjust the URL language setting as you want.

The link code :
<a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&langpair=en|in&u=http://sonic2epix.web.id">
<img src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_enfQ3XAS_oI/SvBUyierP5I/AAAAAAAAAKg/g5ovda9EuS8/s320/indonesia-language.jpg" title="Indonesian">
</a>

Adjust the first line script hl=en&langpair=en|in&u=http://sonic2epix.web.id, replace with your URL site, and language configuration you want. On langpair=en|in script, en define the source language, and the in is the target language.

The language configuration example :
Indonesian  : en|id
Korean      : en|ko
German      : en|de
France      : en|fr
Netherlands : en|nl
Bulgaria    : en|bg
Chezch      : en|cs
Croatia     : en|hr
Denmark     : en|da
Finlandia   : en|fi
Yunani      : en|el
Italy       : en|it
Hindi       : en|hi
Portugal    : en|pt
Rumania     : en|ro
Rusian      : en|ru
Spanish     : en|es
Swedia      : en|sv

Here is some of the icon preview :


For complete language code, can you read on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_639-1
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Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Disk Manager on Ubuntu


For Linux newbie, may be feeling a little bit difficult to adjust the drive configuration when should always edit the fstab manually. This problem arises when the user wants to use the existing partitions on the hard drive but has not appeared when installed in the system. Manually editing sometimes make the user confused as how to and like what its configuration.

In the old version of ubuntu, there is application can we use to facilitate the hard disk settings. It's called disk-manager, but unfortunately this application project is not being continued, and the last still to be found in the Intrepid version. If you want to try, can search on Google.

  • Disk Manager notifies about new drives :


  • Disk Manager allows the user to mount or unmount drives without any hassle, even by providing a simple name for them :


  • Disk Manager allows to easily enable NTFS writing support :


  • Disk Manager allows to keep track of mounted / unmounted partitions and free space on them :


  • Disk Manager allows the user to edit drives info :


  • Disk Manager can display drives information :


  • Disk Manager About :


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Eeebuntu

Eeebuntu is a variant of Ubuntu specifically for the asus eee-pc and other netbook type computers. Eeebuntu have 3 kind of type :
  1. Eeebuntu Standard

    Eeebuntu Standard contains everything you need to get working and playing on your EeePC from the beginning. It includes a full suite of internet applications, including Firefox for browsing, Pidgin for IM chat, and Thunderbird for mail. For work, a full suite of OpenOffice applications; Database, Presentation, Spreadsheet and Word - all Microsoft Office compatible; and a selection of multimedia applications: VLC for watching movies and Banshee for listening to music. You even have support for your iPod with gtkpod!

  2. Eeebuntu Netbook Remix

    Is similar to Standard, except it uses the Netbook Launcher, customised for the small screen of the EeePC and over 71,000 downloaders to date have chosen it for their installation! Instead of the usual Eeebuntu desktop, the main launcher provides a tabbed environment with easy to access icons for all the applications and documents you use day to day. It's easy to customise and much quicker to navigate through when you're on the move. As with Standard, the Netbook Remix comes with a complete set of applications so you can start working and playing on your EeePC straight away.

  3. Eeebuntu Base

    Is the smallest, lightest and most stripped down of the three ISO's. Apart from Gnome and its usual configuration applications, Firefox, restricted extras and the Eeeconfigure application, there's little else, which means it's up to you to add as few or as many as you need. To date, over 33,000 pro users have installed it onto their machines. Some of the other things that have been removed to save space are: Compiz, additional language packs (you can install your own later), all office, media and internet applications and their support files (apart from Firefox and Remote Desktop tools), and Java. Ideal to save space on the SSD and for those who know exactly what they need in their install, Eeebuntu Base gives you just enough without loading you down with unnecessary applications.

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