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Can’t get Ubuntu 9.10 to boot from EFI.

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: December 21, 2009
It’s rather ironic that after a week of research on free software, software compatibility and protocols I was unable to get Ubuntu 9.10 to boot from EFI on my MacBook Pro 5,1 (late 2008). It’s not the fault of Ubuntu or grub2 developers. It’s Apple’s implementation of EFI, they weren’t loyal to the standards. I [...]
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A change of development environment.

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: July 1, 2009
I have been developing on a Mac for 3 years (give or take). I used to do projects using RubyOnRails and PHP Frameworks. For a year now I have been enjoying Django. Ruby (and Rails), Python and PHP all come built-in latest Mac OS X (Leopard). It may sound good enough but it is really [...]
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Fixing Low Microphone Volume Problem with PulseAudio/ALSA on Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex running on Dell XPS M1330

By Fırat Can Başarır | Published: October 28, 2008
Open Application -> Sound & Video -> PulseAudio Device Chooser Click on the “PulseAudio Applet” on the system tray and open “Manager”. Click on the “Devices” tab, select “alsa_output.pci_8086_284b_sound_card_0_alsa_playback_0.monitor” which is the “Monitor Source of ALSA…” Click properties and set the volume to maximum (480% on my computer) Record a song using the gnome-sound-recorder for [...]
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  • Hello, I am Fırat.

    I am a CS student from Turkey. I can't stop learning new things every day and rant about them!