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 […]
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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 […]
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 […]
New Ubuntu User Interface
Almost all of my personal computers run Ubuntu as the main system software. As the next version of Ubuntu will be released soon, I have been running a test install in a virtual machine. I’m really not sure what to think about this release. There are some interesting initiatives from the projects commercial sponsor, and […]