Archive for November, 2008



What I have always wanted to do… not that I’m proud of it

Published on November 17, 2008

I was at Starbucks in a neighbourhood looking for a seat to have a cuppa with a friend.
So I saw this untaken table with all the emptied cups and tissue paper.
I tidied up the table by shifting the cups and stuffs aside and then sat down.
2 minutes later, this guy came up to [...]


Compiz eye candy on Ubuntu Hardy on a HP2133 laptop? No problem (Warning: Geek content)

Published on November 13, 2008

I had been trying ways to get compiz working on a HP 2133 laptop.
For a while I thought “damn, it just couldn’t work!”.
Only just I came across a post in a forum that I am finally able to get it to work.
In short, here it is:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Backup /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
sudo mv /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.bak
3. Make [...]