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Tiger in Water

Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, Vallejo, CA

At Yahoo Camp 2008

Enabling Suspend and Hibernate in Ubuntu 8.04 on Toshiba Tecra M9 Laptop

The following are the steps I took to make suspend and hibernate (kind of working) on the Toshiba Tecra M9 laptop. They did not work out-of-the-box in my installation. When waken up from suspend, the screen stays black and I was not able to find a way to get to my desktop.

There may be other ways to make them. These were what I did chronically. After these steps, the screen is white when waken from hibernate. I can get to my desktop by typing in my password. 'Suspend' works without any issue.

1. Following this note,
   1. Add the following to /etc/X11/xorg.cfg.

      Section "Device"
              ...
              Option          "NvAGP"       "1"
      EndSection
             

   2. Set the following in /etc/default/acpi-support.

      POST_VIDEO=false
      SAVE_VBE_STATE=false
      

2. Goto System/Administration/Hardware Drivers, turn on Nvidia vendor's driver.

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C vs C++: an interesting debate

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643/focus=57815

Installing SXDE Build 64a in Parallels - Screen Resolution

The screen resolution is 1024x768 after the default installation. Need to change it to 1280x800 as the native resolution of the MacBook.

1. "cd /etc/X11"
2. "cp .xorg.conf xorg.conf"
3. "vi xorg.conf" so that

           Section "Monitor"
              ...
              UseModes "Modes0"
           EndSection
           Section "Screen"
              ...
              SubSection "Display"
                 Viewport 0 0
                 Depth 24
                 Modes "1280x800" "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
              EndSubSection
           EndSection
           Section "Modes"
              Identifier "Modes0"
              Modeline "1280x800" 104.3 280 1360 1496 1712 800 801 804 834 -Hsync +Vsync
           EndSection
   

Installing SXDE Build 64a in Parallels - Memory

Zillions of people have posted how to do this. The following are the steps I took to make it work. The setup:

• MacBook, Core 2 Duo 2.16GHz, 1GB Ram
• Parallels 3.0 (Build 4128, June 9, 2007)
• Solaris Express Developer's Edition (SXDE) 5/07 Build 64a (Nevada + Sun Studio 12)

The SXDE installer quits if the memory is less than 768MB. My MacBook came with 1GB. And Parallels allows a max of only 604MB for Solaris 10 VM when I have only 1GB memory. Fortunately, in another experiment, I bought Kingston KVR667R2K2SO/2GR (1GBx2, PC5300 667MHz) which fits the specification of my MacBook. So I swapped them with the two 512MB DIMMs. Then I was able to create a VM of 1GB memory and install SXDE. The Kingston KVR667 did not work with MacBook very well and caused a panic after my installation. I swapped them out and put the old 512MBx2 in, and reset the memory of the VM to 604MB.

Make Picture Movie Like

This web site shows how to do it.

I tried it with Photoshop Elements.