Archive for March 28th, 2008

Pidgin on Ubuntu

Friday, March 28th, 2008

Pidgin works pretty good for an all in IM client., however the default install that comes with Ubuntu doesn’t have any kind of notification module installed.
If you want messages in the tray when you get IM’s go into the Synaptic Download manager and install  pidgin-libnotify

Configuring Grub on Ubuntu

Friday, March 28th, 2008

I configured grub so that I can pick which Hard drive to boot to.  Ubuntu Linux is on hd0 and Vista is on hd1.
the grub config file is located at /boot/grub/
  title        Ubuntu hardy (development branch), kernel 2.6.24-12-generic
root        (hd0,0)
kernel        /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.24-12-generic root=UUID=74ca9bbe-a6a5-4ecf-b0f0-4e42c3907886 ro quiet splash
initrd        /boot/initrd.img-2.6.24-12-generic
quiet
title        Ubuntu hardy (development branch), kernel [...]

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