Andre Noel

Last week I had to install a M-AUDIO Fast Track Pro USB sound card on a computer with Ubuntu. Well, I’m not so good on audio subjects, so I asked Oraculo about ‘m-audio fast track ubuntu‘, where I found some good info.

But, to ease your work if you have to install such sound card, I wrote a step-by-step tutorial on how to install it on Ubuntu 8.04:

• Step 1: Plug the sound card on the computer via USB.

Thus, I finish the step-by-step tutorial.

When I connected the sound card, I looked what dmesg said. As I connected the USB, Ubuntu has registered the driver needed. So I tested and everything seemed ok.

Don’t you wonder why some operating systems ask you to install the driver from a CD?

I agree with “repurposing Planet” post of Jordan Mantha. I saw once a post suggesting to create the Universe Ubuntu, where all topics would be placed.

I’m not writing too much on my English blog, but I’ll follow what Jordan said. I’ll correct the tags of my posts and keep on Planet Ubuntu only the posts tagged as ubuntu.

I’m alive! And with new theme on blog…

I’ve been using it on the portuguese version, and now I set it as default here too…

On my last post I wrote about how to use your cell phone as a remote control on Ubuntu. On it, I wrote about how to use a modest cell phone (with bluetooth at least) to control OpenOffice.org presentations, games, etc.

Now I’m talking about a more advanced cell phone, the Nokia 6110. I started with file transfer. See how it is a simple thing to do on Ubuntu…

Using data cable

With any USB -> mini-USB data cable (it is included on cell phone pack), you just plug one side on the phone and the other side on the computer. The cell phone will ask you about connection type. Choose “Data trasfer”.

And voi lá, Ubuntu mounts it as a drive, like it does with a pen drive.

Using bluetooth

Right-click on the bluetooth applet (near the clock) on Ubuntu, then choose “Explore drive…”. Select the cell phone and answer it on the phone options (it will ask you a password that you define for the connection). And voi lá again, Ubuntu mounts it as a drive, like it does with a pen drive.

I prefer use the bluetooth way, because it’s simpler and it gives you the option to access the phone memory or the memory card as different drives.

On my next post I’ll talk about how to use Amora on this phone.

Finally I bought a USB bluetooth adapter to use on my Eee PC.

Sometime ago, I saw some tips on how to use the cell phone as a remote control. As my cell phone has bluetooth, and as I never used it for something useful, I was willing to test this feature.

I heard about amora, but it seems to work on super cell phones (not my case). I didn’t test it, so I don’t know if it will work for me, but before buy this adapter, I saw this post, talking about bluepad. It sounds like a good solution for mortals like me…

So I installed BluePad on Hardy (Ubuntu Beta) on my desktop and on Gutsy (Current Ubuntu) on my Eee PC. In both it works good. On Ubuntu I sent to the cell phone the part that runs on it.

The Gutsy bluetooth support is very good, but on Hardy it’s even better. I’m using bluepad + Ubuntu on class and speeches. Maybe I’ll record bluepad running on my Eee PC and put it on youtube…

Yesterday I bought a Epson Stylus C92 printer (finally!). I will share about how to install it on Ubuntu.

First unpack it (the manual told to do so)…

Uh, another important thing the manual says is: Do not drink the ink!

After “unpack” as the manual says, plug the USB on the computer.

Wait 2 seconds.

Alright! Ther printer is now installed.

However, the C92 driver still isn’t on the foomatic package (accordind OpenPrinting database). Gutsy installs it with C88 driver, so it doesn’t works.

I tried to follow the instructions provided by OpenPrinting (ex-LinuxPrinting.org), and tried what they say on some foruns, but still doesn’t work.

So I installed TurboPrint. The driver works very well, but I’m not fully satisfied ’cause it’s not free software. I believe that soon it will be on foomatic or gutenprint.

So do this: download the turboprint driver (you could just click on “open with”, if you want to). Open the downloaded .deb file (will appears a window like that):

Click on “Install Package”.

After install it, you must just change the driver on the printer setup. Go to System > Administration > Printing. Select the printer e click o “Change” to change the driver:

After it, select Manufacturer and the option Epson_StylusC9x:

Go next and next… Your printer might be correctly installed on this moment. Print a test page and hug someone near you.

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I won an Eee PC!!!!!

This morning I received a call from 4linux, saying that I am one of the winners!!!

Thanks to everyone that helped me voting on my phrase… Now I can see better the power of our community…

Now I’ll only wait it to let it to FISL!

This one I received on my mail, but it’s worth to be here…

1. Go to Google
2. Type “find Chuck Norris”
3. Click on I’m Feeling Lucky

So this is Christmas…

Time to give and receive gifts. A big big table with all the family…

I like this time… My wish is that in this Christmas time we remember the one who birth on this date… That “little child born in Bethlehem” who became the divisor of the history…

Remember that baby who became the man that carried over his shoulder the weight of the sin and died for we live…

A very merry Christmas for all and may Jesus be on every party tonight…

Image: José Vitor’s Blog

Avi Alkalay translated to english the Jomar Silva’s Post about standards, ISO and etc. It’s a very good post.

It seems that all the mess Microsoft made about “ODF or OOXML” will repeat on the question “PDF or XPS”. Remeber: ODF and PDF are already standards, but Microsoft wants to force the use of their formats.

Microsoft has released Windows Vista along with a new standard for non-editable electronic documents, called XPS (XML Paper Specification), which uses the same packaging concepts of OpenXML (OpenPackaging Convention) to represent non-editable documents. Who guess where XPS is standardized as another “Open Standard” wins a gift… ECMA… A lot of creativity is not needed to understand that this standard will also be submitted to ISO through a FasTrack in the coming months, just following the OpenXML opened path to that.