Configuring Ubuntu on my new HP G62-a55SF

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }code.cjk { font-family: "DejaVu Sans",monospace; }a:link { } As usual, after the Operative System installation, there are some drivers to configure and some programs and features to install.Comparing to previous releases of Ubuntu an impressive progress has been done on the version 10.04, all the hardware (except the sound card) was recognized after the installation and I only added some plugging to create a better feel-looking.A....

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Installing Ubuntu on my new HP G62-a55SF

p { margin-bottom: 0.08in; } I recently bought a new laptop (see Fig.1) and of course, the first thing I did when I just arrived home was to format it and install a Ubuntu. I tried to perform this process even before to run Windows 7 for the first time but unfortunately it was not possible. Why? Because HP G62 series has an incompatibility with the Linux power administration, making the installation fails (black screen) even before the first welcome...

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Hello World!!

Hi everybody,Today at work I have been trying to develop a little application with the idea of generating a simple xml including a set of data retrieved from from an Oracle data base.For someone with some knowledge on computer science it could look like not a big deal. I have been developing for almost five years on C# and recently I decided to move into a Linux/C++ development team in my new company (the last year I've worked as a “Product Definition”).Linux and C++ is another world, that is a fact, but feeling like a complete newcomer after...

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