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I wanted to see if I could install Linux Desktop on my MSI GL62 Laptop. So here is some basic steps I needed to take to make it work.   Created a bootable USB key with Elementary OS on it.   This setup even works with UEFI, you may need to disable the secure boot. ..

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Playing around with Tutum which is a web gui frontend to Docker. Right now they only support Ubuntu as a Bring Your Own server.   Goto Tutum and setup a free account. There will be a free account that you can use even when the company is out of beta.     Deployed a Ubuntu 14.04 VPS ..

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I've been wanting to try out Openstack for a while and I finally made the time to do a test setup. Now there is a Devstack setup which was really easy to setup. So here are the steps I took. Of course I haven't added all the information here. I do have a reference section ..

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I've been wanting to try out Openstack for a while and I finally made the time to do a test setup. Now there is a Devstack setup which was really easy to setup but I wanted to do a full production setup. So here are the steps I took. Of course I haven't added all ..

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If you are using Ubuntu or one of the Ubuntu based Linux Distro's you may not want to install or see that there is a new release version.   What I found is that if you update a Ubuntu based distro's with the new release version it could break some of the custom changes the ..

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This is my setup of running LXC Linux Containers on my workstation Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 and wanting to run test servers running CentOS 5 x86_64. Runs very well in this configuration because of the container base setup instead of full virtualization like VMware, Virtualbox and KVM. Here are the steps I took to get it ..

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If you are still having problems try theses commands to collect more information. # lspci 00:00.0 Host bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Host Bridge (rev b1) 00:00.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1) 00:03.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation MCP79 LPC Bridge (rev b2) 00:03.1 RAM memory: nVidia Corporation MCP79 Memory Controller (rev b1) 00:03.2 ..

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So I purchased a Acer Aspire Revo Model AR3610-E9012, wanted a computer that is small, uses less power. Wanted to watch streaming video's and play music and of course Web browsing. With this computer I received a 500G hard drive so I split it up in half, Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. Here are some ..

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Updated July 16 2012, this was done on Lubuntu 12.04 and VirtualBox 4.1.18   My Setup, 24 inch LG flat screen with 1920x1080 resolution, Wanted to play around with new ubuntu 10 workstation, Installed Ubuntu but defaulted to only 640x480, 800x600 and 1024x768.   So this is the steps I had to take to have ..

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Install Conky, Debian based system, like Linuxmint, Ubuntu, use apt-get install conky ArchLinux, use pacman -S conky. Installing Forecast for conky ArchLinux Install # yaourt -S conky-forecast Debian based system Install # apt-get install conkyforecast if not isn't part of your installation you can download it here. Copy conkyForecast.config to your home directory and make it hidden. ..

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