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Under Ubuntu 6.10, after installing flashplugin-nonfree 9.0.21.78.ubuntu through Synchronization Software Manager, when the browser plays flash media, it may crash. The answer is uninstall the plugin and re-install flashplayer-mozilla 6.0.79-0.2. Also there might be another way, please refer to: http://blog.richliu.com/2006/11/22/388/ and http://people.debian.org.tw/~chihchun/2006/11/02/flash-player-9-for-linux/

Check this out! It is awesome. Apple releases iPhone 1 See Apple homepage: http://www.apple.com/iphone/

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Fort Worth, Texas, December 15, 2006

The Lockheed Martin [NYSE: LMT] F-35 Lightning II lifted into the skies today for the first time, completing a successful inaugural flight and initiating the most comprehensive flight test program in military aviation history.

The first F-35 Lightning II flew for the first time on Friday, Dec. 15. The plane is shown climbing out shortly after takeoff from Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas. The stealthy, multi-service F-35 is the most powerful single-engine fighter in history, and is designed to replace the F-16, F/A-18 Hornet, the Harrier and the A-10.

“The Lightning II performed beautifully,” said F-35 Chief Pilot Jon Beesley following the flight. “What a great start for the flight-test program, and a testimony to the people who have worked so hard to make this happen.” The most powerful engine ever placed in a fighter aircraft – the Pratt & Whitney F135 turbofan, with 40,000 pounds of thrust – effortlessly pushed the F-35 skyward.

The flight of the conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) F-35 variant began at 12:44 p.m. CST at Lockheed Martin in Fort Worth, Texas, when the jet lifted off and began a climb-out to 15,000 feet. Beesley then performed a series of maneuvers to test aircraft handling and the operation of the engine and subsystems. He returned for a landing at 1:19 p.m CST. Two F 16s and an F/A-18 served as chase aircraft.

The stealthy F-35 is a supersonic, multi-role, 5TH Generation fighter designed to replace a wide range of existing aircraft, including AV-8B Harriers, A-10s, F-16s, F/A-18 Hornets and United Kingdom Harrier GR.7s and Sea Harriers.

“The first flight of the F-35 Lightning II is an historic moment because, for the first time ever, we are seeing the dawn of an aircraft with all the 5TH Generation attributes – including advanced stealth,  fighter agility, sensor fusion and greatly improved supportability – combined in an affordable package,” said Ralph Heath, president of Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Co. “The F-35 will be the most advanced and most capable multi-role fighter on the international market for many, many years to come.”

Dan Crowley, Lockheed Martin executive vice president and general manager of the F-35 program, said the aircraft has continued to meet or exceed expectations during its assembly and pre-flight checkouts. It has now embarked on a 12,000-hour flight-test program designed to validate tens of thousands of hours of testing already completed in F-35 laboratories. “The F-35 will enter service as the most exhaustively tested, most thoroughly proven fighter system in history,” Crowley said. “And thanks to its all-digital design, an exceptionally talented international engineering team and the world’s best assemblers and mechanics, the F-35 has completely rewritten the book on fighter assembly precision and quality.”

The United States and eight international partners are involved in the F-35’s funding and development. The U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps, and the United Kingdom’s Royal Air Force and Royal Navy plan to acquire a total of 2,581 F-35s. Italy, the Netherlands, Turkey, Canada, Australia, Denmark and Norway also are partners in the program and are expected to add about 700 more aircraft to the total. F-35 sales to other international customers could push the final number of aircraft to 4,500 or beyond.

“We believe the F-35 is poised to become the world standard-bearer of fighter aircraft,” said Tom Burbage, Lockheed Martin executive vice president and general manager of F-35 program integration.

Three versions of the F-35 are under development: a conventional takeoff and landing (CTOL) variant for conventional runways, a short takeoff/vertical landing (STOVL) variant for operating off small ships and near front-line combat zones, and a carrier variant (CV) for catapult launches and arrested recoveries on board the U.S. Navy’s large aircraft carriers.

Lockheed Martin is developing the F-35 Lightning II with its principal industrial partners, Northrop Grumman and BAE Systems. Two separate, interchangeable F-35 engines are under development: the Pratt & Whitney F135 and the GE Rolls-Royce Fighter Engine Team F136.

Headquartered in Bethesda, Md., Lockheed Martin employs about 140,000 people worldwide and is principally engaged in the research, design, development, manufacture, integration and sustainment of advanced technology systems, products and services. The corporation reported 2005 sales of $37.2 billion.

Contact:

John R. Kent
817-763-3980
e-mail: john.r.kent@lmco.com

John Smith
817-763-4084
e-mail: john.a1.smith@lmco.com

Article from: here.

Although the reason caused this problem is still unkown…I should be aware of that in case it might happen again.

Steps:

1. Put the Windows installation CD into DVDRom then restart.
2. Let it scan the PC, then choose R to recover.
3. Choose to identify the existing Windows system.
4. Or type in:
   C:\BOOTCFG \LIST to list all booting system
   C:\BOOTCFG \ADD to add one booting system or
   C:\BOOTCFG \REBUILD to rebuild the booting .ini file.
5. Note that the BOOTCFG “Identifier” is the identifier like “Windows XP Professional”.

Now restart and enjoy.

This might because I pluged in Nicole’s harddrive and copied some movie into the hard disk. Damn..

To solve this problem: Windows root\system32\hal.dll missing

— Replies to this Problem —
From: KuilanKTech on 01/06/2007

Before you guys go thru all the above steps, try the simple steps.

If you are getting the hal.dll error, most likely you have more than one hard drive/partitions. Don’t think replacing it right away solves the issue. Majority of cases it wont. In fact if you do, your problem most likely wont be resolved and replacing the hal.dll you will have to reinstall drivers for all existing hardware.

Unplug all your secondary hard drives and leave your main harddrive connected. Boot up using a “BootCD” or some kind of NTFS boot floppy or whatever. Enough to get you to a dos prompt. Go to the root of your c:\ drive. You will see your BOOT.INI file. There is also a backup of this file, most cases called BOOT.BKK Rename the boot.ini to bootback.bak, then rename boot.bkk to boot.ini

Reboot the system. You should be good to go. If success, reconnect your other hard drives. Also make sure you are booting the correct drive thru bios boot priority.

Do this as a simple step first. If still having a problem. Boot directly from the XP CD, and choose R for recovery console. For those that say “I can’t boot from CD…”, go into your bios, and have your system boot from CD Drives FIRST. Reboot and leave XP CD in. You will see a quick “press any key to boot from CD”. Hit a key. Wait till a minute or so after loading. Hit R for Recovery console.

Quick notes..before I continue. If you do decide to go this route. Make sure to leave all hard drives connected. Upon Recovery Console executing, it will scan hard drives for windows installations. If you have more than one installation, it will ask for which installation to log into. Please be sure to log into the primary installation. Also, if there is a main password. Make sure to have it handy. Your normal account password wont do. If you installed XP and created a password for ‘Administrator’, this is THE password you need.

After successfully login in to the installation. Do the commands.

Chkdsk /f
bootcfg /rebuild
fixboot
fixmbr

Reboot, and you should be good to go. Replacing the hal.dll is not a option. Even if you are getting the missing hal.dll error, I will bet you if you boot with a bootcd and manually check the windows\system32 directory, you will see a hal.dll file there. If for some reason you will just go ahead and want to try the replacing hal.dll file, at least rename the existing hal.dll file to hal.bak, then replace.

Good luck.

Go to:

System -> System Management -> Synchronize Software Updater -> Refresh -> Multimedia (universe) -> xmms (4 or more packages..)

Remember to set:

Preference ->Codec & demuxer -> Audio codec family -> FFmpeg/libavcodec audio decoders , so we can play mp3s without prompting error messages.

The original texts says: Who needs Windows Vista? Give Ubuntu (or any distribution of Linux) a try. XGL/AIGLX effects with Compiz or Beryl leaves Window’s puny Aero in the dust. Hasta La Vista baby… En...

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yang@JackUbuntu:~$ cd Downloaded

dpkg -i bmpx_0.34.4-0ubuntu1_i386.deb

1. Download the Firefox2.0 Linux version package from the official website. Unpack it.
2. We need a library to update. [root@localhost firefox]# yum install libstdc++.so.5
3. [root@localhost firefox]# ./updater

1、Back up xorg.conf:

sudo cp /etc/X11/xorg.conf /etc/X11/xorg.conf_backup

2、Add one resolution:

sudo gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf

3、Find “Section “Monitor””;

4、Change “HorizSync” and “VertRefresh” like:

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "Generic Monitor"
Option "DPMS"
HorizSync 28-90 (After changing)
VertRefresh 43-70 (After changing)

5、Find “Section “Screen”” and change. For my notebook, I change like:

SubSection "Display" 
Section "Screen"
Identifier "Default Screen"
Device "Intel Corporation Mobile Integrated Graphics Controller"
Monitor "Generic Monitor"
DefaultDepth 24
SubSection "Display"
Depth 1
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
SubSection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1440x900"
EndSubSection
EndSection

Restart…