There are some great posts in forums and other blogs about getting the Broadcom 43xx Wireless card working in Ubuntu, which really helped me get on the right road to setting mine up (see the end of this post). However, I’m running 64 Bit Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire 5052, so I had a little [...]

There’s a huge Lisu Partyin a village not far from where I live, starting today, and ending on the 24th. There are Lisu from pretty much every Lisu village in North Thailand, who will spend the next couple of days (and nights) dancing and singing. There were hundreds of people this afternoon, in a spectacular [...]

When I first installed, I had no sound. So, I played around with the sound control panel (double click on the speaker in the top right), looked at the drivers (ALSA installed correctly), and eventually found that Ubuntu sees my laptop speakers as “Surround”, and not the default setting of “Front”. So, right clicking on [...]

When I first installed Ubuntu, I had a minor problem – well, more of an irritation – whereby the boot up splash screen was blank. The OS booted no problem, but the geek in me likes to see feedback on what’s happening when the OS is booting! Usplash is the application that controls the boot [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I decided to shrink my windozzze partition, and give the extra space to Ubuntu. I’ve been using Linux on and off for some years now, so I have a bunch of commands and methods stored away in my memory, and as such, I remembered that I probably wouldn’t be able [...]

Why 64 Bit Jungle? Well, I live in the Mountainous Jungle of Northern Thailand, near the Burmese Border, and I’ve always been interested in Computer Technology. I’m currently using an AMD 64 Bit Acer Aspire 5052 Laptop to work, and play. I’ve been meaning to set up a blog for some time now, and the [...]