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F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr
1716 days
Part of my excuse for being so far behind uploading to my is that F-Spot, the program I’m using on Ubuntu to manages my photo collection, had been failing to upload.
Basically it was never completing the upload, no time-out, no error, nothing.
A LOT of digging around out there via google eventually landed me on a which mentioned changing the MTU settings in the network config. I found this taking you through making the changes.
For the record, I changed my MTU settings to 1450 via the network connections gui, and hey presto, uploading to Flickr is working again! 
So one less excuse at least….!
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Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)
51335 days
by Simon Scullion
in Ubuntu
Since I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04, I had noticed that Update Manager was hanging, but not bothered to look into fixing it.
Tonight I did, and a quick search on google lead me to on with a clear explanation on how to solve the issue:
Last month I upgraded my notebook from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04 (”Hardy Heron”). Since then, whenever I tried tried to install the up to 133 updates that had become available, the Update Manager would hang indefinitely instead of prompting me for the user password.
If you’re in the same situation, the following tips might help you. Edit /etc/hosts with an editor of your choice (e.g. sudo vi /etc/hosts). There should be two entries with IPv4 addresses starting with 127.0.x.x, like this:
127.0.0.1 localhost
127.0.1.1 mycomputername.mydomainRemove the domain name from the entry starting with 127.0.1.1, leaving only the computer name and save the file. Now try again.
When I made this change I got the password prompt as expected and all the updates where downloaded and applied.
Thanks Joe!
IBM warming to Ubuntu?
71567 days
by Simon Scullion
in Lotus
Tell me its true!
on his blog :
So it was a big (and welcome) surprise to find not one but two groups within the company putting together distributions of the IBM desktop products for Ubuntu.
This was by Julian over at :
Ooo, that sounds tasty. A package of IBM products specifically for Ubuntu. I know it’s internal to IBM and not-for-the-public and unofficial and all that, but very interesting to hear. Maybe that’ll get us one step closer to official Debian support.
Lets hope so. I know it would make a lot of people happy, and would get IBM products in front of a lot of linux users. Imagine Dell flogging laptops preloaded with Ubuntu + Notes + Sametime + Symphony! That’d be nice!
This also gives us a glimpse of the power of social software tools behind the firewall. Without them, Glen would have found it extremely hard, if not impossible, to locate this kind of virtual community within such a large organisation. The truth is though that all organisations have these kind of dispersed groups with common interests, and tools like Sametime and Lotus Connections can allow them to unite and achieve results.
It would not surprise me to see this made available in some form at some point in the future. Please IBM!
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Ubuntu 7.10 is coming…
01586 days
by Simon Scullion
in Linux
Today I found this:
Cool huh! Added to the sidebar!
Can’t wait for the release, will be upgrading and looking forward to the Compiz Fusion magic!
Linux elegance and aesthetics
21642 days
by Simon Scullion
in Linux
In terms of elegance and aesthetics, Microsoft and Apple are many years ahead of Linux.
451 Group analyst Raven Zachary
Ignoring Mac OSX for now, I’m not sure what this is being based upon. I’ve been using Ubuntu since 5.04, and in its current form I’d say it is every bit as elegant and aesthetic as Windows XP.
I’m not sure Mr Zachary is being fair calling the Linux OS “scrappy”. Is he talking about the OS, the UI, the applications, or all three? Comparing just the Linux OS with Windows, which one would likely justify the description given proper investigation? The UI, if comparing Gnome and KDE with Windows Vista, he has a point, but if we don’t need or want the effects, its a much closer call. And as for the applications, I think we’ve all had to use some pretty poorly designed UIs for applications running on Windows, right? (Mentioning no names! 
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IBM support for Ubuntu
01650 days
of raised a that has come up a few times in the Lotus blogsphere, on the subject of as an IBM supported OS.
the fact that DB2 is supported on Ubuntu, a fact which doesn’t really fit with some of the justification for not supporting Lotus Notes and Domino, that Ubuntu is not an “enterprise” operating system.
, and wonders whether
Ubuntu really just isn’t seeing much in the way of enterprise adoption as yet
Sounds like a chicken and egg situation to me!
Ubuntu is an extremely popular desktop distribution, so in my opinion, chances are support for software like Lotus Notes on Ubuntu would go a long way to opening the door to further enterprise adoption. I realise this is not an adequate cost justification, but if we’ve managed to get the Notes 8 Beta running on Ubuntu by ourselves, my guess is there isn’t a hell of a lot that IBM would need to do to get this sorted.
One other point I have mentioned before (can’t remember where!) is that with Ubuntu support, could IBM Lotus not look to provide more of an “appliance” (along the lines of ), if not for production, at least for testing or demonstration purposes?
With a consistent support for Ubuntu across the IBM portfolio, they could potentially provide a serious offering to the SMB market. Taking the appliance approach and therefore “hiding” the underlying technologies somewhat, certain barriers to entry could be eliminated, at least from an install / admin standpoint.
Good luck trying to get more on this one James, there are lots of us very interested in where it could lead!