Ubuntu Linux on DELL Vostro 1510

Recentley I recieved my brand-new DELL Vostro 1510 with the following hardware built-in:

  • Intel Core 2 Duo T5870 (2.0 GHz, 800 MHz, 2 MB)
  • 15.4″ Widescreen Display WXGA+
  • 3 GB 667 MHz DDR2 Dual Channel RAM
  • 256 MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS
  • Intel Next-Gen Wireless-N Mini-PCI-Card
  • 1.3 MP built-in Webcam

Installing Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS (codenamed Hardy Heron) wasn’t really that though, but some issues arised. Continue reading

Here we go again!

I updated the software to WordPress 2.5 and created (with the help of the most beautiful woman in the world) a new template, which is mainly a crossover of the default theme and BlixKrieg.

You can view some pictures of my trip to the USA in my gallery, where you’ll also find a bunch of pictures of other places.

Hopefully I’ll update this page a bit more often in the future, but who knows…

Hide unmounted volumes in Nautilus

I’ve just updated my DELL Inspiron 6000 to Ubuntu Linux 7.04 (Feisty Fawn), before that I used 6.06 LTS (Dapper Drake). Having missed nearly one year of development, I noticed that Nautilus shows all partitions (no matter if mounted or not) in the places area. I’ll never need to mount DELL’s rescue and restore partitions and therefor don’t want them to be listed there. Here you go: Continue reading