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so, when other distros fail me, i always return to debian. it's a little bit harder to setup, but it (almost) always works on any hardware i have.

• first i download this debian installer mini.iso
• i dont burn it. coz, i cant use the cd drive anymore.
• extract 2 files from the iso into (say) c:\debinst: linux and initrd.gz
• edit c:\menu.lst and add this:

title install debian
kernel /debinst/linux acpi=off
initrd /debinst/initrd.gz

• reboot
• on boot, choose grub. then choose install debian
• that's it. i install debian (again!)
  

btw. you can use this way to install ubuntu using Ubuntu Minimal CD

update:

• first, you need to install grub on ntfs. 
• instead of getting the mini.iso, we can directly get the linux and initrd.gz images from debian installer or ubuntu installer
• also check additional debian installer boot parameters 
• see also: debian minimal desktop installation guide
  

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this is how i install freevo on ubuntu hardy using apt-get to get packages from ubuntu intrepid.
First, from Freevo Apt Ubuntu Doc

# Add Medibuntu
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/hardy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update && sudo aptitude install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update

# Mandatory dependencies
sudo aptitude install libglib2.0-dev libimlib2 libimlib2-dev libdvdread-dev python-xml python-pygame python-twisted python-dev python-beautifulsoup xmltv lsdvd aumix mplayer libdvdcss2

# Optional packages
sudo aptitude install w32codecs python-pylirc lirc tvtime xine-ui

now, install Python XML

# install dependencies
sudo apt-get install python2.5-dev

# download and unzip pyxml
wget http://superb-west.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/pyxml/PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz
tar -xzf ./PyXML-0.8.4.tar.gz
cd PyXML-0.8.4

# build and install pyxml
python setup.py build
sudo python setup.py install

# remove temporary files, be careful where you point that loaded rm -rf!
cd ..
rm -rf ./PyXML-0.8.4

then, some apt pinning

# sudo vi  /etc/apt/preferences
# then paste these into it:
Package: *
Pin: release a=hardy
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release a=intrepid
Pin-Priority: 90

now, get the intrepid repo:

# sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.d/intrepid.list
# then paste these into it:
deb http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid main restricted universe multiverse
deb-src http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu intrepid main restricted universe multiverse

finally, do the install:

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get -t intrepid install freevo

that's all it. i got freevo up and running on my hardy

btw. similar setup can be used to make it work on debian stable.

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continuing my popular howto easily configure x display, here are other ways to configure X display driver in Linux.

first, we should backup the original xorg.conf, just in case...

cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf xorg.conf.backup1

and when we need to restore:

sudo cp xorg.conf.backup1 /etc/X11/xorg.conf

you might also want to backup xorg.conf from each step result and then choose the one that satisfy you most.

so here's many ways how to configure your X display driver:

• sudo rm /etc/X11/xorg.conf # just remove the xorg.conf. usualy, X will try to configure itself.
• if you have gdm installed, kill it with Ctrl-Alt-Backspace until it gives safe mode. or intentionally breaks xorg.conf with wrong entries. 
• sudo X -configure && sudo cp xorg.conf.new /etc/X11/xorg.conf
  
• sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg
• sudo displayconfig-gtk
• try paste xorg.conf from failsafe / default xorg.conf
• Fix Video Resolution Howto on ubuntu
  

as always, most stuffs should also works with debian and derivatives.
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i got a laptop with built-in Atheros 5007 wireless LAN (AR2425 chips). and the driver came with ubuntu is not working at all. i also tried ndiswrapper that works but causing a lot of crash. so, after google a lot i found many (somewhat outdated) solutions to make this wireless works but not working anymore...

until i found a ticket at madwifi, then follow this guide. but it's so very long conversation to digest...

so, here i try to summarize it in case i need to repeat the whole steps:

wget http://snapshots.madwifi.org/madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
tar zxvf madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current.tar.gz
cd madwifi-hal-0.10.5.6-current/scripts 
sudo ./madwifi-unload
sudo ./find-madwifi-modules.sh $(uname -r)
cd ..
make
sudo make install

that's all it. now i can use the wifi from ubuntu.
(it should also works on all other linux distros).

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after few times you do aptitude full-upgrade, you will end up with many kernel images. many people new to linux dont even know it's there. but it's there. and it can be many of them. wasting quite some spaces, especially if you're on old small 4gig harddrive, it matters a lot.

well... there're many ways you can remove old kernel on ubuntu. and here's my way..

first... find out which kernel installed:

aptitude search linux- | grep ^i

that will also show installed old linux-header (source). you might want to remove them too.
now let's remove them:

sudo aptitude purge linux linux-headers-2.6.24-16-server linux-image-2.6.24-16-server linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-16
sudo aptitude purge linux linux-headers-2.6.24-17-server linux-image-2.6.24-17-server linux-ubuntu-modules-2.6.24-17

that's all it.
that should reclaim at least few hundreds megs space.

guess what... it also works on debian and all distros based on these two.

update. shorter, easier...

sudo apt-get purge '.*-2.6.24-16-*' 
sudo apt-get purge '.*-2.6.24-17-*' 

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blogspot now have a new gadget that allow us to put our blog list to our sidebar. you might already have blogrolls using some other services. maybe the google reader's or others.
but all that mostly using javascript! you get what i mean? js means only browsers can see it and search engine bots cant see your blogroll.

and you can guess it already. this new blog roll is 100% SEO and it can even raise your other blogs pagerank.

let's see it in action...


update: wonder why ajaxsearch do not include bloglist in the search result?

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• anothr.com
  

imfeed need you to sign up and logged in first. works great for me.
feedcrier says we need to confirm the subscription. but the confirmation message never arrive.
cant make zaptxt works. it always say the feed is not validated.

try them out. tell me what you think. share your thought and post a comment.
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also, it have very nice and almost complete htaccess stuffs.

then, it's also building so-called 3G - third generation - blacklist which include a bunch of redirectmatch stuffs. but be carefull with these. they could/might breaks your cms if you do not understand the logics there.

among all, i will certainly put this into my htaccess:

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SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Y!OASIS/TEST"    keep_out
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "libwww-perl"     keep_out
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "MOT-MPx220"      keep_out
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "MJ12bot"         keep_out
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "Nutch"           keep_out
SetEnvIfNoCase User-Agent "cr4nk"           keep_out

just go check it out for all those .htaccess stuffs and come back tell me what do you think and how you build your htaccess

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