Category Archives: Hacks, Fixes, and Solutions

Hacks, fixes, and solutions to random problems or issues I encounter and solve.

Spam and CAPTCHA

Posted on July 29, 2010 by Ben

So after leaving this place for a month (probably more), I log in to find that there are over 6300 comments pending.  I have WordPress set up to automatically queue comments there that contain more than three hyperlinks, which tends … Continue reading →

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Ubuntu: The Hanging Purple Splash Screen of Doom

Posted on May 21, 2010 by Ben

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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OpenOffice

Posted on April 16, 2010 by Ben

Well, I hope everyone has been having a good April.  Here in Rochester it’s rainy right now, but it’s warmer out, so that’s good.  It’s certainly nice to be out of winter. I don’t really have much in the way … Continue reading →

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Quick Ubuntu Tip: Not Enough Space Left to Update

Posted on March 4, 2010 by Ben

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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Solar Powered Web Server

Posted on January 12, 2009 by Ben

As you have probably noted from past entries I like to run my own servers.  I’m not running a big enterprise here, so they don’t have to be extremely reliable (though they have been very reliable).  Mostly, I like the … Continue reading →

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Keeping Flash Stable in Firefox

Posted on September 8, 2008 by Ben

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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Decent Toshiba CPU Speed!

Posted on July 20, 2008 by Ben

I have a Toshiba Tecra M2 laptop that normally runs Ubuntu.  It used to run Windows a while back, and after that Gentoo.  One thing I noticed while running Linux on it was that I could never get the CPU … Continue reading →

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