Recently, there was a new release of Ubuntu. I’ve had relatively good experiences with past releases, and I was looking forward to trying out the new notification system, so I decided to run the upgrade from 8.10 to 9.04. This turned out to be a very bad idea. I think it might have been something […]
Category Archives: My Computer Hates Me
Mozilla: Web Feeds vs. Delicious Add-on
19 April 2009 – 4:24 pm
I have the official Delicious extension installed in Firefox. It’s a great extension and I use it somewhat regularly, but I recently noticed a problem with it. I was trying to use the Web Feed icon that appears in the address bar to add a feed to Google Reader. Normally, this should not be difficult […]
Flash on Ubuntu 64bit
4 January 2007 – 10:44 pm
My primary computer at home has an AMD64 processor so I’m using the 64bit edition of Ubuntu Linux (currently release 6.10). I recently set it up to run Adobe Flash 9 (beta 2) using nspluginwrapper. It worked out really well, but I had to do one thing I didn’t see on the PluginDoc page at […]
Brandon Sun Access Problem
27 August 2005 – 7:15 am
I discovered today that the problem I’ve been having with the Brandon Sun website is related to DNS somehow. I looked up the site’s IP address this morning and was able to access the site using the IP when I couldn’t with the domain name. I still don’t know why this keeps happening, but the […]