Tag Archives: ubuntu

Fedora 13

Posted on July 10, 2010 by Ben

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

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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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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New Laptop

Posted on May 19, 2009 by Ben

Well, I mentioned before that my trusty old Toshiba laptop finally kicked it.  Well, I am now on a shiny new Lenovo G530 laptop, and so far it’s going good!  I’m running Ubuntu 9.04, and am impressed with how well … Continue reading →

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Battery Life and Other Nonsense

Posted on April 10, 2009 by Ben

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

Posted on January 20, 2009 by Ben

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

Posted on October 30, 2008 by Ben

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

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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Fun With Wine

Posted on June 20, 2008 by Ben

A lot of the things most people do on their computers are really operating system-independent these days, if you consider the major OSes to be Windows, OS X, and some Linux distro, Ubuntu let’s say.  Generally, people want to surf … Continue reading →

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