Friday, July 18, 2008

Ubuntu Linux X Server Problem

You cannot complete your Ubuntu Linux installation and see an error message like this:
Failed to start the X Server (your graphical interface). It is likely that it is not set up correctly. Would you like to view the X Server output to diagnose the problem?

Then, you are given a "Yes" or "No" option, and you are stuck. What to do next? This is probably due to your graphical interface, meaning your graphic card driver. In Windows, you can easily install the motherboard driver which includes the onboard VGA driver.  Whereas in Ubuntu, you cannot do that with the motherboard driver given by the manufacturer (because most are built for Windows).

Saturday, July 5, 2008

Join or Split with HJSplit

Have you ever seen files that end with .001, .002 ...as the file extension? These files are actually separated from one whole file for easy distribution / storage. Most of the time you will see such files when you are downloading files from Rapidshare or MegaUpload or other file hosting service.

They look something like this:



HJSplit is what you need to join these files as one.

What is HJSplit?
HJSplit is a popular set of freeware file-splitting programs created by Freebyte.com in collaboration with various programmers. HJSplit supports many platforms (Windows 3.x/95/98/ME/2000/NT/XP, DOS, Amiga, Java, etc.).

HJSplit will enable you to split the large file into smaller chunks, which can be much more easily sent and stored. HJSplit can join these split parts back together again, so that the original file is restored.