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Mostly my desktop upgrade from dapper to edgy went well, though there were a few hiccups along the way. The most serious problem was that neither silky nor gaim’s silc plugin were working after the upgrade. So I finally got an account on the ubuntu forums and wrote Silc support in Ubuntu: From [...]

I finally updated the ubuntu kernels on my laptop and checked in on the ipw2200 and ieee80211 driver projects. The ipw2200 driver has a new stable release at version 1.2.0 and the ieee80211 driver is up to version 1.2.15.  In the ipw2200 makefile I made sure that the MONITOR, RADIOTAP, and PROMISCUOUS options were [...]

I had always had issues with getting azureus to work properly under Ubuntu. Turns out I just needed to rud “sudo update-alternatives –config java” and select sun’s java 1.5 as the default java for the system. After that azureus ran fine.

Seems that machines running initramfs-tools will hang on boot while any degraded array is being rebuilt. What should happen of course is that the machine should boot and the array should be synced in the background. While this isn’t as bad as the yaird error it’s still far from ideal and is a [...]

Compiz is really cool stuff but I’ve been struggling to find the best way to play video such that it can play well at actual size, maximized, and full screen. This proved to be more difficult than it should have been. It should be noted that this system has an nvidia geforce video [...]

Just follow the directions at Quinn’s Compiz Packages. Very impressive stuff.

I always disliked that the desktop version of Ubuntu would try and start PCMCIA services and report that they failed. I don’t have any PCMCIA services so I’d prefer it not waste the time. Ideally there should be a PCMCIA entry under in the Administration – Services section but for now the change [...]

I agree with some that have suggested that this feature should be built into Ubuntu as it has been integrated into KDE. On Windows systems I always find myself installing PDFCreator to get the same functionality. I don’t actually need paper copies very often and by printing to PDF there is always a [...]

I added the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:
deb http://mirror.noreply.org/pub/tor experimental-0.1.1.x-breezy main
More details can be found on the tor wiki page TorOnDebian.

So when you run Ubuntu’s Update Manager in the lower left there’s a triangle next to “Show details”. When you click on that it will show a panel with the changes in the package to be updated, and can also show a description of the package (presumably so you can learn what a package [...]

This has caused me problems for sometime as the gaim-silc-plugin is not available in Ubuntu (or Debian). Finally I found a way to get it to work

While investigating personal finance software for GNU/Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular I installed the demo version of the commercial software Moneydance.

I’ve had to get java applets working in Firefox when using Ubuntu a couple of times recently; it’s easy to do but worth noting.

A basic yet essential skill to have when using Ubuntu is how to install packages. Here are a couple of ways to do this.