I experiencing random screen distortion & flicker after upgrading to Ubuntu 10.04, I’m using Acer Notebook.
After searching in internet, there’s many forum thread & bug report discuss about this but mostly they have different hardware.
Finally I tried this method and no flickering so far.

What I do is I change my grub configuration, adding kernel parameter “i915.powersave=0”.

For Linux expert probably this is not an issue, so I dedicate this step for the newbies like

1. What I do is I modify the grub configuration which is located on /boot/grub/grub.cfg (backup before you edit it)
2. Because the access right is set to read only, let’s change it so the owner can modify it.
   > sudo chmod -c u+w /boot/grub/grub.cfg
3. Use vi or your other prefered editor to edit it.
   > sudo vim /boot/grub/grub.cfg
4. Locate the menuentry of your Linux. Example:
   menuentry ‘Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic’ –class ubuntu –class gnu-linux –class gnu –class os {
   recordfail
   insmod ext2
   set root=’(hd0,4)’
   search –no-floppy –fs-uuid –set xxx-xxx-xxx
   linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=xx-xx-xxx-x-xx ro quiet splash
   initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
   }
5. Add “i915.powersave=0” to the linux kernel line as parameter. It will become:
   menuentry ‘Ubuntu, with Linux 2.6.32-22-generic’ –class ubuntu –class gnu-linux –class gnu –class os {
   recordfail
   insmod ext2
   set root=’(hd0,4)’
   search –no-floppy –fs-uuid –set xxx-xxx-xxx
   linux /vmlinuz-2.6.32-22-generic root=UUID=xx-xx-xxx-x-xx ro i915.powersave=0 quiet splash
   initrd /initrd.img-2.6.32-22-generic
   }
6. Save & restart to check if you still experiencing screen flicker

That’s it
Hope it can work on other Notebook/PC

*Additional tips from tipster2010:

Thanks for this tip. It will work but after some time, flickering returns. I think I know the reason why:
1. Remember to turn off all screen saver and any power saving feature of your laptop after you did this.
2. Any time you change the theme of your desktop, the screensaver and power saving feature sometimes go back to default so you may need to manually change them again.

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Untuk menggunakan server kambing.ui.ac.id sebagai repository di Centos :

• Buat file dengan extension repo di directory /etc/yum.repos.d/ (Contoh: vim /etc/yum.repos.d/Kambing-Base.repo)
• Isi file:

[base]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Base
baseurl=http://kambing.ui.edu/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#released updates
[updates]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Updates
baseurl=http://kambing.ui.edu/centos/$releasever/updates/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#packages used/produced in the build but not released
[addons]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Addons
baseurl=http://kambing.ui.edu/centos/$releasever/addons/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

#additional packages that may be useful
[extras]
name=CentOS-$releasever – Extras
baseurl=http://kambing.ui.edu/centos/$releasever/extras/$basearch/
gpgcheck=1
gpgkey=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5

• rename file /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo menjadi extension lain (contoh : mv /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Base.repo.old)
• Saat anda menginstall dengan yum anda akan melihat repository yang digunakan adalah server UI.

Versi Centos yang dicoba dalam pengetesan adalah Centos 5.4 tetapi seharusnya berjalan disemua versi Centos (tentu asalkan repository versi tersebut dihosting di server kambing).

Enjoy ^^

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Simple but I think it will help JBoss newbie (like me :]) when searching the internet.

By default when you run JBoss ( ./run.sh in Linux) it will bind to localhost/127.0.0.1
This will cause the JBoss default port 8080 cannot be access from other computer, because you need to open http://127.0.0.1:8080/ instead of your IP http://<your IP>:8080/

To make the JBoss binding to specific IP you need to run it with :
./run.sh -Djboss.bind.address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
*which of course the xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx is your IP

Other PC will able to access the JBoss with that IP

For Windows I think it will be the same :
./run.bat -Djboss.bind.address=xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Cheers ^^

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Starting June 18 I started having problem connecting to YM with Pidgin.
Somehow it’s random I can connect or not.

I google and several article/forum writing that need to flush dns cache and also about several YM server cannot be accessed from Pidgin.

I try my friend advice to change YM server configuration to IP rather than domain name.
And it’s worked..
You will need to use cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com as Pager server since June 24, or you can update to pidgin 2.5.7 to solve this problem

Some people are reporting changing the Pager server didn’t solve the problem, you can follow these instruction to update your pidgin to latest version (for Ubuntu) : Updating Pidgin to latest version in Ubuntu

The steps: 1. Select menu Accounts – Manage Accounts

2. Select your Yahoo Messenger account & click ‘modify’

3. Select advanced tab

4. Change your pager server to : cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

5. Then disabled & enabled your account. Or restart the pidgin.

And your Pidgin should able connect to YM

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66.163.181.179 – 66.163.181.180 – 66.163.181.181 – 66.163.181.182 – 66.163.181.183 – 66.163.181.166 – 66.163.181.167 – 66.163.181.168 – 66.163.181.169

Starting June 24 using IP doesn’t seems to work anymore, try to use : cn.scs.msg.yahoo.com

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The strange thing the only data dir seems working is putting it on /var/lib/mysql which is the default directory for mysql data dir.

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When debugging my wapsite, I want to know the header from mobile HTTP request.
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