Heratech

http://blog.getfirebug.com/2010/01/19/64-bit-firefox-on-linux-crashes-wi...

Use 1.4.5 for now

http://getfirebug.com/releases/firebug/1.4/

 Fix found here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1381318

Basically I wasn't in the vboxusers group:

1) Check if your username is in the group: 

cat /etc/group | grep v*box

2) If it isn't add it and logout/login.

sudo usermod -G vboxusers -a YOURUSERNAME

Problem installing PDT on Eclipse/Aptana on Ubuntu 9.10?

You need to add the galileo update site first:

1) Help > Install new software > Add

2) "Galileo Update Site" : http://download.eclipse.org/releases/galileo

3) Go back to plugin manager and try again

The best linux blogging client that I have found (just now) is called bilbo blogilo (they recently had to change their name).

Website: http://blogilo.gnufolks.org/

To install in Ubuntu Karmic: sudo apt-get install bilbo

 

I just formatted my Vista install and installed Windows 7.Microsoft being Microsoft it assumed it was the only OS on my disk and replaced grub.To fix:

Just a quick note that I plugged a WG111v3 into my OpenSuse 11.2 and Ubuntu 9.10 (both x64) and it seemed to just work. However it only seemed to connect to my WPA wireless-not WPA2. Haven't tested it fully so perhaps have a quick look at the hardware support list before buying:

Amazon link: Netgear WG111

Ubuntu forum: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8442769

I previously posted about my Asus Xonar DX in Ubuntu. I have found a better fix after my reinstall.

The problem I was having was when I adjusted the volume it stopped/stuttered for a few seconds.
The solution: here.

I enabled the backports repository and installed
GUI way:
System>Administration>Software Sources>Updates>tick Unsupported updates
System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager>click Reload then search for inux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic
and install and reboot. Done.

Terminal way:
Uncomment backports lines in /etc/apt/sources.list (sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list)
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install inux-backports-modules-alsa-karmic-generic

I am back using Ubuntu 9.10 x64 (Karmic Koala). I tried to use Suse 11.2 for a week but in the end I just couldn't. Suse is normally so polished but this release felt half-baked.

Ubuntu is just so much faster to do things in. Faster to update. Faster to install packages. Faster to find packages because of the bigger community/repositories. Things that would take minutes and lots of clicking in Suse's Webpin/Yast gui thingymajig take seconds with a sudo apt-get install.

Also does Suse even have mirrors? Downloading packages from them took hours and I could'nt find an easy way to set a mirror.
Another thing that worried me was that to get software I quite often had to install from locations that I didn't fully trust- repositories created by users that are on the suse site but I don't know how much checking they receive.

My wireless on Suse also felt buggy and my dmesg logs were full of weird messages about it that could not be explained by a quick google-perhaps another sign of a smaller community.

Suse did some things very well: Beautiful installer, pretty default theme, sound worked great out of the box, nice choice of default graphical effects when enabled.
The main bad points were: terrible menu by default, terrible 'traditional' menu layout, package management still sucks and a smaller community than Ubuntu.

Perhaps if I had used the full DVD install things would have been better? Or perhaps if I had used the KDE live install?
I will try Suse again in a year and hope things have changed. Until then back to the wonderful, easy, quick world of Ubuntu (and its ugly default theme).

Update: Better fix here http://heratech.net/blog/sham/asus-xonar-dx-ubuntu-better-fix

My new soundcard the Asus Xonar DX is a right pain to get working nicely in Ubuntu 9.10 x64. It was detected right away but whenever I changed the volume it would stutter for a good 5 seconds.

I really should have checked this page more thoroughly: http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/Matrix:Vendor-Asus

This script seemed to get it working nicely though (so far!) : http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1046137&highlight=alsa+update+s...

Fix for: 'Firefox doesn't know how to open this address, because the protocol (spotify) isn't associated with any program.' In the Spotify instructions (here) it says: You also need to add boolean: with type false. This worked for me. The fix is from grus comment here. Thank you grus!