Azwar

After almost a year without any posting here. Now I want to share something that you may find interesting. Maybe some of you out there already now about running Adobe Photoshop CS4 in Ubuntu Lucid (although I find GIMP is good enough). Ok first grab this file from my dropbox link here

This file is actually a pre-compressed portable Adobe Photoshop CS4 (I've not fully test all its functions) and required no installation. You can find more portable apps here.

What you need are

wine1.2 (sudo apt-get install wine)
winetricks (sudo apt-get install winetricks)
a portable Adobe Photoshop CS4

1. First install atmlib into wine by running this command in terminal

winetricks atmlib

2. Extract the portable Adobe Photoshop CS4

3. Browse into the extracted folder and run PhotoshopCS4.exe with wine.

4. If the splash screen really annoying you, browse to the Data folder and open PhotoshopPortable.ini and set DisableSplashScreen=true

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New Dell Studio 1450 - my new laptop

Saturday, January 30, 2010 4:59:35 PM

ubuntu

Huh...

At last I can buy a new laptop. There's no option in Malaysia to get Ubuntu pre-installed on your DELL laptop/desktop. So the default OS was Windows Vista Home Premium 64 bit.

Within 24 hours receive the laptop, the Win Vista has been purge(sudo apt-get remove --purge winvista he he he he).It is now a Dell Studio 1450 run on ubuntu karmic.

Here a few screen shot.

Actually, I'm facing few problem doing fresh install for karmic. The sound not working. No sound at all. So, again I purge the default pulse audio and install the OSS solution. Great, I never thought that OSS work out of the box.

Then I choose skype OSS and install. It is easy to configure sound/mic with OSS. I got the mic/speaker/headphone working with OSS.

The Intel wireless 5100agn support monitor mode. Althought some people say it also can inject network but after a few retry seem it fail to inject network connection.

Anyway, It's the best laptop I've ever buy.

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Welcome to KDE 4.3 (final)

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 9:51:02 AM

KDE 4.3

A few minutes after I posting the last post the KPackage Kit pop-up a new update. I then fire up my konsole

sudo apt-get upgrade

sudo apt-get dist-upgrade

The upgrade includes kernel, grub and the KDE 4.3 (final). The KDE 4.3 most notable upgrade are Kwin. Its now more snappier and fast. The desktop effect run smoothly.For more details check here

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KDE to be openSUSE default desktop?

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 7:22:50 AM

opensuse, KDE4

There has been spark and heated due to this controversy. It was start at the end of July, when a new KDE eV Board member send a proposal to openSUSE's openFATE suggesting that the distribution should select KDE as the default desktop environment.

This has been backed by the recent survey, that more opensuse's user use KDE than Gnome. This has been resulted a heated discussion on the project mailing list. Michael Löffler, Product Management (SUSE LINUX Products GmbH) than post to mailing list that this features need to be address and will bring this matter to the openSUSE Board.

Several minutes later, after Michael Löffler post, Andreas Jaeger Director of Platform and openSUSE post to mailing list a Draft of Desktop Policy and suggested that this matter should be discuss openly at the openSUSE Conference, Germany this September.

From those mailing list, the opensuse team did not abundant the Gnome Desktop from the project. It's just a matter of choice to make KDE as their default Desktop Environment (DE). On the other hand, even if KDE has been chosen as the default DE, user still have a choice to select Gnome during pre-install or post-install.

Neither Gnome nor KDE are superior than others. Both of them are the descendant of the Free Open Source Software. We are living in the world of freedom. We are free to choose what is right for us. Right.

I love opensuse Gnome Desktop. It has a better look, polish and nice color palette. The next release Opensuse Sonar theme.

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Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3 Test Drive

Wednesday, August 5, 2009 4:47:15 AM

distro preview, Kubuntu 9.10 Alpha 3 Test Drive

Recently, the ubuntu team has announce the alpha release for 9.10. I'm writing this post on KUBUNTU 9.10 alpha3. For more details on kubuntu release go here. After having a test drive with my most use applications for almost 1 week so here what I can summaries:

Kubuntu 9.10 use KDE 4.3 rc3. It has a lot of bugs but it becomes more polished looks. It's ok coz this is an alpha kubuntu release and the KDE itself still a release candidate.
Kubuntu 9.10 KDE 4.3 rc3 use Arora as a default web browser other then Konqueror.
Another test drive with Google Chrome in Kubuntu 9.10 KDE 4.3 rc3. The browser itself now stable but without flash plugin. You can however get the flash support by doing the instruction on linux-splash like this.
The lovely Opera Dragonfly in action
The OpenOfficeOrg 3.1 has KDE4 unified look on toolbar and menubar provided you install the openoffice.org-gtk
The Metatrader4 + wine on Kubuntu with OSX msstyle

The problem I'm facing are:

Kopete frequently crash but solved after apt-get upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade command
Arora frequently crash
Kmail seldomly crash but solved after apt-get upgrade & apt-get dist-upgrade command
Grub 2 seem to install properly but cannot detect my windows xp. You will have a problem running on dual boot. But it's solved after running grub command from recovery mode at boot.

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