I was happy to discover recently that the Brandon Sun has RSS feeds available. The feeds are very nice because there isn’t a lot of regional news available via RSS, and I almost never read print news. Plus, unlike it’s sister publication in Winnipeg, the Brandon Sun’s articles aren’t locked behind a subscriber wall. However, […]
Category Archives: My Computer Hates Me
Ubuntu Audio Problem
1 July 2005 – 9:30 pm
It was likely due to stupidity on my part, but recently I’ve been experiencing a mysterious sound problem with my Ubuntu install (Hoary Hedgehog). For some reason I had absolutely no sound output whatsoever on a machine where I’d been successfully using Totem and the Music Player (Rhythmbox). I tried all the tips I could […]
Starting Over With Ubuntu
8 May 2005 – 3:35 pm
Due to the difficulties I was having with Ubuntu I finally decided to just try reinstalling everything. (Fortunately, I have my home folder on a separate partition so I didn’t need to reconfigure too many things.) The reinstall turned out to be a really good idea: all the major issues I described are gone. It […]
Ubuntu Problems
27 April 2005 – 10:20 pm
My main PC at home has been running Ubuntu since the release of Warty Warthog last October. I’d experimented with Linux desktop software in the past, but was never very successful at making it work nicely for me. Using Ubuntu has been very smooth, and upgrading from 4.10 to 5.04 also went very well. I’m […]