The URL bar is super-slow in Firefox 3. This a quick solution to speed it up. 1. Type “about:config” in your url bar. 2. Filter for “browser.urlbar.matchOnlyTyped“. 3. Double click on the row to make it’s value change to TRUE. That’s it. This should speed up the response time on the URL bar. Firefox rox!

I just bought Huawei E169 to replace my Huawei E220. It doesn’t work out of the box but I able to get it to work on ubuntu 8.10 with a little tweak. Photo above shows how it looks like with my Thinkpad X61. 1. Download usb_modeswitch. wget http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/usb-modeswitch_0.9.5_i386.deb 2. Install it. sudo dpkg -i usb-modeswitch_0.9.5_i386.deb [...]

I tried to boot ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid) with USB Huawei E220 modem and it worked properly. But when I removed and plugged it again, it didn’t work as expected. The modem can’t detect properly. The dmesg says : [ 918.669157] /build/buildd/linux-2.6.24/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c: USB Serial support registered for airprime [ 918.669218] usbcore: registered new interface driver airprime [...]