Testing a picture email

This is going to be the weather in Austin for the entire summer.

Test blog post

I'm testing out sending an email to my blog from my cool new iPhone :)

E6400 Ubuntu 9.04 Install

I just got a new Dell E6400. I like it ok so far. I upgraded from an old IBM T30. The buttons are still a little better on the T30, but all in all I think I'm going to like the Dell just fine and as I type on it I think I like the keyboard better. Here's an issue I ran into that seemed pretty common, getting the NVidia driver to work for the Quadro NVS 160M (rev a1). I installed Ubuntu 9.04 without any problems. Loaded it up and the background was all grainy. I went to the System->Administration->Hardware Drivers but there wasn't anything in there. So I followed these steps and now it seems to be working just fine & there is an NVidia XServer Settings program in the System->Administration menu.

Helpful Commands

lspci -- this will tell you what video card you have
uname -r -- this will tell you the name of the kernel release

Steps

* Some other blog mentioned that you needed the kernel headers first to get things to work. I didn't test this without doing this first so I don't know if this is completely necessary but either way it's not going to hurt anything.

* sudo apt-get install linux-headers-2.6.28-11-generic (run uname -r to determine the version you should specify for this command)

* sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-180

* Restart X

* System->Administration->Hardware Drivers

* It will search for drivers and find the NVidia ones. It found two and I picked the latest 180 that was the recommended one.

* Restart X again and then you should be good to go.

Big Fan of Dropbox

Yeah I'm not really a blogger of any sort. I stumble back to this page every now and again to see what new features google has cooked up. I found a better tool which pretty much eliminates the need to use this page. Initially, I wanted it to keep my .emacs file so I could share it between multiple machines & dropbox does that fantastically. I just figured I would add another link out there for the google crawler to help out the dropbox team. Thanks guys, it's a great product.