Tag: Ubuntu

  • F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr

    F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr

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    Part of my excuse for being so far behind uploading to my Flickr-stream 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…

  • Update Manager hangs in Ubuntu 8.04 (and how to fix it)

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    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 this post on Joe Wein’s blog with a clear explanation on how to solve the issue: Last month I upgraded my…

  • kacpi_notify you bad boy!

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    My Ubuntu PC at home occasionally has suffered with a rather annoying issue, whether the CPU runs at pretty much 100%, and the temperature to rise causing the BIOS to make an awful and incessant beeping sound! Well tonight it just got too much for me, and I decided it was time to look into…

  • IBM warming to Ubuntu?

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    Tell me its true! Glen on his blog lets on: 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 also picked up by Julian over at nsftools: Ooo, that sounds tasty. A package of…

  • 10 Rocking Features in 10 Days – Countdown to Ubuntu 7.10

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    Simon Scullion
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    As we close in on the release of Ubuntu 7.10, codenamed Gutsy Gibbon during the development cycle, we thought we would tell you a little bit about some of the new features and improvements that make the release exciting. So over the next ten days, we will talk about one rocking feature each day until…

  • Ubuntu 7.10 is coming…

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    James posted on this yesterday. 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!