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Charging the Novatel MiFi while using WiFi

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: March 7, 2010
The Novatel MiFi is one of the most innovative and darn useful devices to have been released in the last couple years. For all its merits, the MiFi is plagued with a dark secret: for some oddball reason, Novatel decided to disable wifi functionality while the MiFi is plugged into a computer’s USB port. They [...]
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Logitech MX1000 under Ubuntu

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: August 26, 2005
This one’s a quick-and-dirty one, folks. Just got myself a new mouse recently and was tired of the “back” and “forward” thumb-buttons not working in Firefox under Ubuntu 5.04. For those of you in a similar predicament, edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf and replace the appropriate “InputDevice” with the new configuration as shown below. First, we’ll make a backup [...]
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The State of Laptop Linux

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: April 8, 2005
LinuxWorld’s senior editor James Turner reports this month on what he calls The State of Laptop Linux in 2005 and says it’s a lot better than it was in 2004, but adds after conducting his own new test to see if any Linux distro is yet really laptop-ready: “What’s needed to make things better? Well, [...]
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IBM Introduces ThinkPad Software Installer

By Oliver Aaltonen | Published: April 7, 2005
Any owner of a ThinkPad (or any notebook, for that matter) has faced the following dilemma: you want to reinstall Windows, but don’t want to deal with the hassle that reinstalling the huge amount of drivers and utilities that make the ThinkPad experience complete: skip the drivers, none of your devices will work; miss the [...]
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