Tag: Ubuntu

  • F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr

    F-Spot failing to upload to Flickr

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    Simon Scullion

    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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    Simon Scullion

    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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    Simon Scullion

    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…

  • Got my music collection back

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    Simon Scullion

    So how did I lose it in the first place? Well I didn’t really, just not had good access to it. The default player in Ubuntu, Rhythmbox, was giving me problems, it was pretty slow and lacked a few nice features like random playlists. (It does do semi-random play-lists, where you enter keywords, but not…

  • One less Windows PC in the world

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    Simon Scullion

    This was a while ago now, but back over Christmas I got rid of a buggy install of Windows on Mum and Dad’s PC, and installed Ubuntu for them instead. I hope they get on all right with it, Dad seemed a little worried for a while, we had a go with the liveCD before…

  • How to load Web site faster in Mozilla Firefox

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    Simon Scullion

    The title says it all! I guess this applies to any install of Firefox, not just a linux version. Check it out, mine was almost unusable before making these changes. Begs the question why the settings weren’t defaults….? Update: Following a little more digging, also found these quite useful: lifehacker.com: top firefox 2 config tweaks…