Recently, building my interactive tables, I faced with the need to choose the right monitor card for my LCD LED panel.

Common problems today, as I can see it is as follows: there are no monitors on the market with screen size 15.6 inches, as most monitor makers are focused on scree size more than 20 inches. In the same time, we can easily find on the market plethora of monitor card, but it is difficult to find those card, which are compatible with 15.6 inches panels. This is where reprogramming need arrives…

Yesterday, I found in our local store Manor a model which is very interesting from HP as follows – i5 3rd generation, 8Gb RAM 500Gb HDD + 32Gb SSD, integrated video, WiFi, Bluetooth 4.0 and the screen 1366x768. While everything was perfect, the screen is something which is outdated nowadays but because I need a computer for quick development, I decided to take it. As the computer is intended to be a development machine for Windows 8 applications, the first thing in the morning was to install Windows 8 and this article is about how it went.

Credits: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Plymouth

If you build your own kiosk system based on Ubuntu Linux, you might need to customize boot screen, splash screen, login screen as well as wallpaper.

In this article I collect information how one can change the slash screen (plymouth screen) in ubuntu.

I am not alone who installed Kubuntu 11.10and tried to use OpenERP Client 6.0.3 on it but experienced a problem as follows:

1. You can open the client;
2. You can connect to your server;
3. You can browse menu;
4. But each time, you double click on a menu item, nothing happens;

You can read the full story here (my credits): http://www.pds-host.co.uk/blog/?p=49, but the fix is relatively simple, just install the following libraries:

sudo apt-get install python-egenix-mxdatetime python-egenix-tools

Enjoy KDE in business environment!

Each time I use OpenERP for real life work, I experience luck of business guidance. Due to I use this system a lot of time and I was forced to learn the system and apply my knowledge to the real business cases, I decided to publish some business related OpenERP guidance in my blog.

This post is about Swiss TAX(es) configuration.