Category Archives: Linux

Fedora 13

I’ve had a problem on Ubuntu for a while, or at least I thought it was Ubuntu-specific.  The problem is with suspend-to-ram (aka, what you get when you click suspend; the computer goes into a low-power state, and comes back … Continue reading

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Ubuntu: The Hanging Purple Splash Screen of Doom

A couple weeks ago I upgraded my laptop to Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx.  (It’d previously been running Karmic.)  The upgrade went well.  Since this machine was not very critical to me for school, I had opted to do this one … Continue reading

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Quick Ubuntu Tip: Not Enough Space Left to Update

So just today I went to run updates on my Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) machine, only to get an error message stating that there was not enough space left.  Now, I saw this once before, and luckily the fix is pretty … Continue reading

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RMS at RIT

So last week Richard Stallman came to RIT to speak.  I went, and got some pics: (Edit: Click the thumbnails for full, non-horrendously cropped versions of the pics.) It was an interesting experience, I even got to shake his hand. … Continue reading

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A Little Scripting

I just completed the 5th gig night in a row with Jack Swift.  If you haven’t, go check out the blog.  I haven’t posted there in a while, but the other guys have and there are pics.  Recordings too. In … Continue reading

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Battery Life and Other Nonsense

As I mentioned before, I have switched my laptop to Gentoo again after getting a new battery for it.  When I first finished my Gentoo install there was this beautiful feeling of euphoria…  It was just a raw Linux system, … Continue reading

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Back to Gentoo

When I first started on Linux, my distribution was RedHat 8.0 on our old HP Vectra.  After installing it I found that I couldn’t get X to start, and so I had to navigate the system from the command line, … Continue reading

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New Ubuntu

Ubuntu Intrepd Ibex (8.10) is out.  If you want to upgrade, I say wait a day or two before upgrading anything.  Also, choose a mirror close to you for a normal upgrade, or go get a torrent if you’re doing … Continue reading

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Keeping Flash Stable in Firefox

There is a bug in the current flash player for Linux which, in Ubuntu, will cause FireFox to crash during YouTube videos.  Now, a quick solution to this is to simply remove the package libflashsupport, but this keeps you from … Continue reading

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Getting Help With Linux

Typical open source *nix distributions open up quite an array of possibilities.  Using one you can easily set up a Web, Email, Database or whatever server.  You can do it with anything from an old PC you have laying around … Continue reading

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