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Ubuntu Math
The version number of Ubuntu is 9.04 and is based on the year and month of release. So 9.04 means 2009 month 04 (April). Therefore given that Ubuntu maintains a 6 month release cycle we can postulate: 4 + 6 = 10 So the new release 9.10 is due this month (October). And...
Ubuntu cannot Ping a FQDN when avahi-daemon is running
My work laptop recently suffered a massive loss of disk space on the Windows XP partition resulting in Ubuntu 9.04 appearing in the boot menu 🙂 but I ran into a ... Problem: I was trying to setup Evolution Exchange by entering the Exchange Server name using the Fully...
Ubuntu 9.04 – How to map the Windows + E keys to open Nautilus
Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard ==> Layouts ==> Layout Options Set Alt/Win Key Behaviour as show in next graphic Goto System ==> Preferences ==> Keyboard Shortcuts ==> Desktop ==> Home Folder and set the Windows + E combo (it will appear as Mod4+E)
Installing VMWare tools on a Ubuntu 8.10 Guest
I logged into my Ubuntu VMWare Guest and found the time had drifted by about 15 minutes... I have seen all sorts of conjecture as to why you should / shouldn't run ntpd to keep your vm time in-sync. So I thought I would install vmware-tools... which does it for you....
Ubuntu 9.04 – jaunty released
I have been running a release candidate version of Ubuntu 9.04 on a laptop for a few months now, and it has given me confidence that the latest version of Ubuntu will be good to install on the desktop. Several of the nagging annoyances that caused me to bypass Ubuntu...
fixme:ntdll: … Can’t find matching timezone
I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on a laptop. I installed 9.04 by doing a distribution upgrade from 7.04 to 8.04 and finally to 9.04. I tried to run wine recently and came up against this error: fixme:ntdll:find_reg_tz_info Can't find matching timezone This error seems to...
Ubuntu Annoyances
Update: This has been fixed in Ubuntu 9.04. Excellent! tsclient is a Microsoft Remote Desktop work-a-like for Linux only better (it supports VNC, RDP, XDMCP & ICA) The bug: On Ubuntu versions greater than 8.04 it has a _really_ annoying bug. I call it the "tsclient...
Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 3.0.1 Australian Spellchecking
I just removed all the standard Ubuntu 8.04 OpenOffice 2.4.1 packages and installed Openoffice from Openoffice.org's download area by following the howto here. After going into Tools ==> Options ==> Language Settings ==> Languages and setting everything to English...
Ubuntu 8.10, Fedora 10, CentOS 5.2 FAIL. Return of Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
OK so I attempted CentOS 5.2 as a desktop OS but it just doesn't cut it. You have to Google till you're cross eyed to get MP3/WMV support. Then when you enable the right YUM repositories you get cross repository conflicts that can't be resolved. Fooey. I also found...
Ubuntu 8.04 Printing Stops with /usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip error
Problem: looking in /var/log/cups/error_log E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:03 +1100] PID 6548 (/usr/lib/cups/filter/foomatic-rip) stopped with status 2! E [28/Oct/2008:10:26:04 +1100] [Job 13] Job stopped due to filter errors. Cause: I think this was caused by me running sudo...
Beta means Beta Ubuntu 8.10 is definately Beta
So I installed the development version of the upcoming Ubuntu 8.10 and thought this is great, but when it came time to drill down to actually using it I ran into the following. Network Manager PPTP client connects but builds tunnel which allows ping and smb to pass...
rpm2cpio: not found error OpenOffice 3 installation on Ubuntu 8.10 (dev)
I went to Openoffice.org and blindly downloaded the default package "OOo_3.0.0_LinuxIntel_install_wJRE_en-US.tar.gz" which is the wrong package for Ubuntu 8.10. The Fix: Go back to openoffice.org, under "I want to download OpenOffice.org" click the "Get more platforms...
Installing WxPerl on Ubuntu 8.04
Using apt-get or synaptic install lynx libwxgtk2.8 libwxgtk2.8-dev libgtk2.0-dev Test::POD::Coverage As root run CPAN with the command to install wx. You may have to configure CPAN prior to using it. I chose to follow dependencies and kept most of the defaults. sudo...
VMWare Server 1.0.7 libgcc_s.so.1 error
The errors: /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_3.4' not found (required by /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2) /usr/lib/vmware/bin/vmware: /usr/lib/vmware/lib/libgcc_s.so.1/libgcc_s.so.1: version `GCC_4.2.0' not found...
Windows XP printing to a HP PSC1610 connected to a Ubuntu Computer
On Ubuntu Using sudo system-config-printer publish the printer and enable sharing for the LAN. This will allow IPP printing but restrict clients to the local network IP Addresses only. On Windows XP Add a printer and choose: A network printer, or a printer connected...
Ubuntu Disk Stuff – running fsck at next reboot
How to schedule a disk check for the next reboot. As root or using sudo do the following: Method 1: Use the forecfsck file method touch /forcefsck shutdown -r now Note: This command seems to check all partitions when run Method 2: Up the mount count above the fsck...
Ubuntu build depency installation command
If you download and install programs from source on Ubuntu / Debian you may have been through the process of running ./configure, then noting what it complains is missing, then apt-get install missing <package name>, then repeat till you have everything you...