Heratech

I just bought an album from the Ubuntu One album store. It was very quick and easy to buy but as with many things, once you have handed over the money it got alot worse. Basically the music was 'in my cloud' but it wouldn't sync to my local machine...
Ubuntu has status page
Which linked to a bug report
Which said to open Applicaitons->Accessories->Terminal and run: This will put a "placeholder" file in your ~/.ubuntuone/Purchased from Ubuntu One/ folder and then force the syncdaemon to reconnect and try to sync that folder.

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...