System->Preferences->CompizConfig Settings Manager->General Options

Uncheck  ”Undirect Fullscreen Windows”!!!

This problem had been with me for some time, and I only got to fix it today after my last paper for this semester. Hell yeah!

update-manager -d

The whole process took.. approximately 2 hours? To be honest I was a little nervous because I vividly remember my earlier attempts at such upgrades over the past few releases were not exactly pleasant.

But it turns out to be an uneventful journey this time! Once rebooted, I am greeted with the now-famous purple desktop.

All things well and dandy, everything seems to just work, and wow, I must say Lucid Lynx is MUCH prettier than I imagined. A long way since I first started my Linux adventure more than 10 years ago.

One thing though, I do not see the point of Plymouth thus far, and it doesnt seems to speed up my boot process compared to the past! And seriously, Plymouth boot screen looks kinda dull.

Anyway, I am in the middle of exam preparation this week, I’ll probably spend more time dissecting the system next weekend.

So here’s the assignment 2 of HCI, of which we did a mockup of a recreation of an existing website, mathsisfun.com, and turn it into something completely different.

I did the graphical design, while my teammates worked on the document. Here’s a sneak peak.

Click here for all the assignment files.

Well, Singapore is not listed under the default Locale list under Settings, so the trick is to install this app called “MoreLocale 2” from the market. Using MoreLocale 2, add Singapore as a custom Locale and voila, News & Widget is relevant to me again.

My Nexus 1 is getting more and more useful each day. Seriously. I only wish I have some time to work on creating stuff for it.

IDM_Presentation

So I tried many methods, using mysqladmin command to reset doesnt work for some weird and unknown reason, and it always end up screwing the root account that I cant login with it anymore. Maybe its just me, but I always have problem with MySQL root account, maybe it just hates me.

The only success comes when I use the steps listed here, and voila, all the steps works like magic, EXCEPT for the last one which I think should be modified.

After you are finished close the first command prompt and type “exit;” in the second command prompt windows to disconnect successfully. You can now start the MySQL service.

You see, if I close the first cmd window that starts the mysqld process, that process refuses to die and I will not be able to start MySQL service normally after that. The correct way to do this would be to manually shutdown the mysqld process from the Task Manager window, and then start the MySQL service.

But anyhow, this is the only method that works for me, and I am thankful.

If I remember correctly, prior to Karmic I used to be able to disable the sound via the Preferences -> Sound menu, but its no longer there. So to do this now, I have to go Preferences -> Startup Applications, and look for this item called “Gnome Login Sound”. Untick it, and feel free to start Ubuntu in library now.

When I was creating this, had some frustration on producing HD format video, tried a few video producing software but ended up still using the easy and free Windows Movie Maker 2.6 on Windows 7. Although its missing some nice feature like zooming and panning of video, but the ease of use wins all the rest.

While working with robocopy on Windows Server 2008, I spent hours just to learn that in order to get %ERRORLEVEL% within a For loop, you need to use the setlocal command followed by the !ERRORLEVEL! variable, like this…

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion
echo off
set EXITCODE=0
FOR %%i IN (file_exists file_not_exists) Do (
dir %%i

REM
if NOT !ERRORLEVEL!==0 set EXITCODE=1
)
endlocal
echo EXIT CODE IS %EXITCODE%

exit %EXITCODE%