For second time in a week the numeric keypad on my keyboard stopped working under Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). And since I had to, once again, Google the solution, I might as well post it here as a mental note-to-self: CTRL + SHIFT + NUMLOCK
Tag Archives: mental note to self
Het zal toch niet?
December 7, 2010 – 21:51
Korte versie, en tevens extragratis tip: Pizzakoeriers van rechts hebben ook voorrang. De lange versie van het verhaal is dat ik bij het oversteken in Zwolle met gemak tussen twee auto’s door kon, alleen in de overdaad aan koplampen die van een pizzabezorger over het hoofd zag. Brommer raakt fiets, ik maak een zwieper en [...]
Copying a DVD in Ubuntu
December 2, 2010 – 22:58
Total geekpost warning. Suppose that you’re using Ubuntu and you want to copy a DVD. There are of course several ways to do it, but if you’re not opposed to command line wrangling, just open a terminal and issue the following commands: sudo umount /dev/dvdrw1 readom dev=/dev/dvdrw1 f=/path/to/file.iso Where /dev/dvdrw1 is the path to your [...]
Re: Number 69
November 21, 2010 – 12:17
Since I installed Ubuntu on my PC, two new versions have been released. Yesterday, I first upgraded to 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) and then to 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat). As the update process went by like a breeze, this post, then, is just for future reference: As my Terratec EWX 24/96 sound card still does not seem [...]
Number 69
January 18, 2010 – 22:08
The last couple of months I came to the conclusion that my Windows XP installation was getting real messed up. Something had to be done. So yesterday I decided that it was time to ditch Windows altogether and installed Ubuntu 9.10. That’s a big fat check-mark next to number 69 on my list of 100 [...]
