I think it is not a problem for many people to find out every time you start your Ubuntu and find out the boot up splash screen is 640 x 480, instead of your preset resolution. But for perfectionist, it is very suffering.

Ok, here is a 3 steps method to solve this.

type “sudo gedit /etc/usplash.conf” in your terminal. After accessing with your root permission. You will see something like

# Usplash configuration file
# These parameters will only apply after running update-initramfs.
xres=640
yres=480

Just change the xres and yres to what your favourite resolution. Maybe 1024 x 768, then xres=1024, yres=768. After that, save it.

The last step, you need to type “sudo update-initramfs –u” to update your initramfs.

Reboot your PC and see whether you have a nice boot up GUI.

While I have been away for quite a long time, there were many software upgrades we commonly used on Linux. So, it is time to upgrade your outdated software.

Releasing of Ubuntu 8.04.1 - http://releases.ubuntu.com/8.04.1/. 8.04.1 was based on LTS 8.04 and make great amendment.

Opera 9.51 - http://www.opera.com/download/. Although more preferable browser on Linux is of course Firefox! But if Opera also open source, I would say it is not a bad choice either. The loading speed and light weight has been great improvement since the last update. However, I still very not use to their widget things on browser.

Pidgin 2.4.3 -  http://www.pidgin.im/download/. While waiting Digsby to come onto Linux, Pidgin has come out a release. But I really hope Pidgin can have social network and email notification feature like what Digsby have.

Wine 1.0 - http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/wine/wine-1.0.tar.bz2. After long wait, we have Wine1.0 final release. Trust me, you need it if you rely on MS Windows a lot in your life.

Songbird 0.6 - download. I still think it is buggy, however they claimed the memory reduction of 15~20%.