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Numerical pad against my consent |
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Asus C90s
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Sunday, 17 August 2008 |
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One of the typical things of a laptop keyboard is that it's too small to also contain a numerical pad area on the utter right of the keyboard (Except for some 17inch laptops). To cope with this loss, most manufacturers project the numerical keypad on some other keys. By having some kind of "modifier" key, there can be switched between normal alphabetical character or the values and symbols of the numerical pad.
Unfortunately, something is wrong with either Ubuntu, Gnome or the Asus C90s: once in a while it enables the numerical pad. It could also be that I myself press sometimes a secret keyboard combination that I did not discover yet. Nevertheless, it causes me to have the numerical pad enabled against my will. Although uglier things happen with people against their will, it would not be as bad if you knew how the reset the keyboard. And as I'm not a bookkeeper and never will enable this feature-for-some for myself, I have no way to disable it.
It happened to me some time before also and after a while I remembered that I found out that the problem only occurred during gnome, and the gnome session of my own user in particular. So knowing this, it was pretty easy to solve it: remove all your .gnome-related directories in your home directory.
As I did not want to reconfigure my gnome desktop again, I decided to do some research to see where the wrong setting came from. Well, it was:
.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard
This entry contained a host-(hostname) entry and that contained directory called '0' (zero). Here a %gconf file was standing that contained the following line:
<gconf>
<entry name="numlock_on" mtime="1218998942" type="bool" value="true">
</entry>
</gconf>
Removing the keyboard directory altogether (as I did not have any special keyboard things installed) solved my problem. Or will there be an easier way to solve this?
.gconf/desktop/gnome/peripherals/keyboard
This entry contained a host-(hostname) entry and that contained directory called '0' (zero). Here a %gconf file was standing that contained the following line:
<gconf>
<entry name="numlock_on" mtime="1218998942" type="bool" value="true">
</entry>
</gconf>
Removing the keyboard directory altogether (as I did not have any special keyboard things installed) solved my problem. Or will there be an easier way to solve this?
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You hear sound but you cannot rec |
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Linux
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Friday, 18 July 2008 |
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I've been struggling getting audio to work for the past our. I finally found out what was wrong...
I have a number of machine that all need to record from their line-in input. The system administrator already set-up two machines but I needen third one. Somehow I did not get it to record the line-in by recording from the /dev/dsp device, even after I double-checked all alsamixer settings. I could hear the music passing through via the speaker out though!
Finally I found out that the way to indicate what channel to capture was to use the "alsamixer -V capture" command. By using the space bar you can select what input will be used for capturing.
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Turning wireless on in Ubuntu |
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Asus C90s
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Thursday, 17 July 2008 |
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During installation of the ndiswrapper (note; 32-bit only!),I found the following:
Sometimes, wireless is disabled during start, so trying wifi will not work.
To enable the wirelessdo the following as root (sudo su -):
. /usr/share/acpi-support/state-funcs
setLEDAsusWireless 1
This saves a lot of time figuring out why you cannot get wireless to work under (Ubuntu) linux...
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Webcam not supported in linux |
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Asus C90s
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Thursday, 13 March 2008 |
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The build-in webcam (the 270 degrees turnable on top of the LCD) is not (yet) supported under linux. It seems to run on the GL860 chipset, not to be mistaken for the GL860A (which is supported). The GL860 has not yet linux drivers.
lsusb shows the following line for this device:
Bus 001 Device 003: ID 05e3:0503 Genesys Logic, Inc.
See the following links for more details:
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Stieren! |
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Carmen
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Wednesday, 23 January 2008 |
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Ik kan ook al stieren, dus pak maar snel je ski's papa!
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My Vondelpark run in Google Earth |
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Gadgets
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Wednesday, 26 December 2007 |
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The latest version of Garmin Training Center also includes an export to KML format, the XML-based format for Google Earth. This creates a wonderful view of my last run, in this case a round through Amsterdam's Vondelpark.
You can also open the KML file directly by clicking on this link, as long as you have the .KML file connected to your Google Earth application.
As you can see in Google Earth, each square represents a logging from my Garmin forerunner 305 GPS. It records ran distance, heartbeart and speed.
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