First of all, I want to apologize for the blog downtime. So, I decided to move this blog to another server.

So, last week, I moved AllForLinux.com blog to a paid hosting. But, not like other hosting, I can pay with my mobile phone (with SMS) or home phone. I don’t need a credit card to pay.

The new host is http://www.crylix.com/ it is a cPanel web hosting. See the features here: http://www.crylix.com/features.html

I have 10 invitations only to give to you, loyal AllForLinux readers. If you want one, email me at jonathan[at]allforlinux.com First come, first served.

Ubuntu 10.04 has been released on 29 april 2010, although the ISO is available in 30 April 2010(In my country). I’ve just downloaded the ISO of Ubuntu 10.04, and this is my personal review about it.

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I’m back for posting again after a few month of vacuum in this blog. I’m truly sorry for that because I have to focused on my college subjects. Since I already have passed the whole subjects, now it is the right time for me to start to make more postings for AllForLinux.com

I already missed a lot of things in Linux world, now let’s try to catching up on some Linux news:

1. Gnome 3.0 shell has been released(maybe a long time agoo), but that’s not a big deal since I just came back from the death
2. Ubuntu 10.04 is set to be released on 29 april 2010, it’s quite a good news since I had a bit of compatibility problem with the current Ubuntu version(9.10).
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3. The next version of Ubuntu(10.10) codename has been released, Maverick Meerkat. Well, it’s way much better than Marlyn Monre
4. Avant Windows Navigator 0.4 final has been released(installation tutorial will be added soon!)
5. gThumb 2.11.x Removed From Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx; Latest Version Adds Facebook Export

Well, that’s only some news that I can provide to you, I’m promise you that I will give tutorials, reviews, & more news about Linux.

Cheers!

This is a quick and dirty method of backing up each and every directory that you have in your home folder. Most of you would probably know this anyway, but I thought I might just repost it here.

tar cvpf backup.tar `ls`

Perhaps a better way is to create an incremental backup each time.

tar cvpf backup.tar -g snapshot `ls`

This command compares the timestamps of files in the current directory with that of snapshot, and the resulting differences are written into backup.tar. This method ensures that you only write incremental changes and not the whole directory over and over again.

If there is any particular file/folder you do not want to backup, you can specify the –hide option in ls as follows:

tar cvpf backup.tar -g snapshot `ls --hide=Desktop`

That will ensure that the Desktop folder is not backed up.

I refer to my previous post about Karmic’s kernel not detecting webcam by default. To enable this feature, you’ll have to make changes to the kernel configuration before actually installing. However, don’t worry if you have already compiled the kernel; it’s still possible to re-configure and re-compile the kernel with the new settings you’re about to see.

Follow the steps in my previous post. But when you get to the configuration step, i.e.

make menuconfig

make gconfig

make kconfig

you’ll need to go Device drivers > Multimedia support > Video capture adapters > V4L USB devices and enable support for the corresponding webcam. Since I owned a Logitech Quickcam, the support that I had to enable was the GSPCA options (all SPCAXXX USB Camera Drivers). However, I read somewhere that SPCA561 support is sufficient. The following is the output of `lsusb | grep -i quickcam` on my machine.

Bus 001 Device 005: ID 046d:09c1 Logitech, Inc. QuickCam Deluxe for Notebooks

Screenshot of the config option after enabling webcam support.

Then, just do the rest of the kernel setup and you’ll end up with a kernel image with webcam support. Good luck!