Remote Desktop history

It seems to like a common feature on modern software that record your recent visits to places. However, this can also be an annoying feature as it keeps a trail on where you have been. For instance, the remote desktop keeps a trail of IPs where you have connected to.

Anyway, in order to remove these IPs from the history, open up

~/.local/share/vinagre/history

with your favorite text edit, and remove IPs you don't want. Save the file, and you are done.

Ralink rt3090sta and Ubuntu

I have trouble to get the rt3090sta to work on my Ubuntu. There are many solution, but this one I found is the most easier!

To get it work, you simply create the directory

/etc/Wireless/RT2860STA

Then, create the RT2860STA.dat inside the directory, e.g.

touch RT2860STA.dat

Ralink Wifi Adapter Driver

Recently I had got myself a netbook due to its weight and its bargain price (it was heavily discounted when I got it). Unlike the Asus book I got for my sister which I needed to download a custom driver or two in order to get it fully work, Windows has all its driver for this little things. However, the default Ralink driver for the WiFi network seems a bit flaky after sleep. Hence I decided to install the driver from the Ralink directly. On the same website, you can also find the Linux driver. I have not tried it myself, but newly Ubuntu 10.04 certainly needs it.