[122000010010] |<title>About/Biographical Note</title>
[122000010020] |<em>Ubuntu Learner </em>tracks my adventure as a new user, newbie, noobie, in Ubuntu.
[122000010030] |Adventure begun January 1st, 2007, with flavour Edgy Eft.
[122000010040] |These notes were originally a collection of links, which quickly became too awkward to manage, so I’ve reverted to the blog format to keep track of things.
[122000010050] |<strong>BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE</strong> Philip Casey was born to Irish parents in London in 1950 and grew up in Co Wexford.
[122000010060] |His publications include a chapbook, The Planets and Stars Become Friends, (Gorey, The Funge Arts Centre, 1974); and three collections of verse: Those Distant Summers (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1980); After Thunder (Raven Arts Press, 1985); and The Year of the Knife Poems 1980-1990, (Raven Arts Press Dublin, 1991). 
[122000010070] |A fourth collection, Dialogue in Fading Light, was published by <a>New Island Books </a>in November 2005.
[122000010080] |His play Cardinal, was performed in Hamburg in 1990.
[122000010090] |He has published three novels, <a>The Fabulists</a> (Dublin, The Lilliput Press, 1994/ London,Serif Books, 1995); <a>The Water Star</a> (London, Picador, 1999); and <a>The Fisher Child</a> (Picador, 2001), which completes The Bann River Trilogy.
[122000010100] |<a>Die Träumer von Dublin</a>, the German translation of The Fabulists, was published by btb/Goldmann Verlag, Munich, in 1999.
[122000010110] |He has been a recipient of an <a>Arts Council/An Chomairle Éalaíon</a> Bursary for Literature, and was awarded the inaugural <a>Kerry Ingredients/ Listowel Writers’ Week Novel of the Year Award </a>(1995) for <a>The Fabulists</a> . 
[122000010120] |A member of <a>Aosdána</a>, he initiated and maintains the web sites <a>Irish Writers Online</a>, <a>A Guide to Irish Culture</a>, among several others. 
[122000010130] |He lives in Dublin, Ireland. 
[122000020010] |<title>Contact Me</title>
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[122000030010] |<title>Automatix Installation</title>
[122000030020] |I had been scratching my head as to why several things, including the simple playing of cds or dvds, weren’t working, when I accepted an offer from <a>Aiden O’Reilly</a> for a help out.
[122000030030] |His reply solved several problems at once.
[122000030040] |The software to play DVDs is proprietary and every DVD manufacturer has to pay licence fees apparently.
[122000030050] |Amazing really –it’s the same with mp3s –most people think they are free formats but they are not. …
[122000030060] |…A lot of the initial hard work of installing java, flash plugins, google earth, adobe reader, etc etc is done by automatix2. get it <strong><a>here</a></strong>:
[122000030070] |Automatix2 has all the goodies, including Microsoft fonts etc.
[122000030080] |My tip would be to install only one thing or two things at a time so if an error occurs you have some chance of sorting it out. 
[122000030090] |Thanks, <a>Aiden.</a>
[122000040010] |<title>Mounting Windows Partitions in Ubuntu </title>
[122000040020] |It all sounds vaguely obscene, but I’m storing the url for Psychocats tutorial on Mounting Windows for a later date. 
[122000040030] |<a>Mounting Windows Paritions in Ubuntu </a>
[122000050010] |<title>Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Starter Guide.</title>
[122000050020] |The best place to start, of course is the <a>Ubuntu Edgy Eft (6.10) Starter Guide.</a>
[122000050030] |I’ve always found that it’s best to try one’s hand first, and then go to a starter guide, because otherwise you don’t know what problem you have, and it’s all a blur, particularly the new jargon.
[122000050040] |But, dear reader, you may feel that that’s just plain stupid…
[122000060010] |<title>Ubuntu Learner</title>
[122000060020] |I was compliing a listing of links to help me get to grips with Ubuntu –Edgy Eft –but they’ve got out of hand so I’m compiling them here instead.
[122000060030] |I’ll backdate them so as to record the learning path. Today then is January 3, 2003, three days after I installed it.
[122000060040] |As others have noted, it was a doddle to install.
[122000060050] |But then came unexpected problems with sound, namely video and MP3.
[122000060060] |I’ll note the links I looked up to solve these and other problems, and then perhaps expand my thoughts on them.
[122000060070] |This blog is primarily for myself, but of course I’ll be glad if it helps anyone.
[122000070010] |<title>Migrating Thunderbird from XP to Ubuntu (simple and complex)</title>
[122000070020] |I tended to use open source wherever I could in XP, so my email client was Thunderbird.
[122000070030] |However I have several email addresses, mainly because I’ve several websites, and within my main email account I’ve up to a dozen folders for regular correspondents.
[122000070040] |Mail from those correspondents zips into its own folder, saving me having to search through hundreds of emails among other things. 
[122000070050] |So how to migrate that without building it piecemeal again?
[122000070060] |I knew something of the structure of Thunderbird, but my experience so far with Ubuntu (Linux, I suppose) is that even if it’s the same program, menus and paths aren’t necessarily the same. 
[122000070070] |I found these two links very useful in clarifying matters, and if you have a simple setup they should do the trick.
[122000070080] |<a>Migrating Thunderbird Mail Store (Ubuntu Forums) </a><a>Migrating Thunderbird Mail and settings from Windows to Linux (Taming the Chameleon)</a>
[122000070090] |But this was how I managed my own more complex migration:
[122000070100] |Go to your home folders and click on View/Show hidden files.
[122000070110] |Then find .mozilla-thunderbird.
[122000070120] |If you’re new to Ubuntu, take note of that dot before mozilla-thunderbird. 
[122000070130] |You should be at /home/yourusername/.mozilla-thunderbird
[122000070140] |Click on .mozilla-thunderbird folder.
[122000070150] |Inside you’ll find two files and a folder.
[122000070160] |The folder has random numbers and looks like xk24xlz.default. 
[122000070170] |Back up the profiles.ini file just in case. then click on the xxxxx.default. folder.
[122000070180] |Inside this resides the prefs.js file.
[122000070190] |Back this up by moving it out of harms way.
[122000070200] |(You can right-click, copy and paste it somewhere safe). 
[122000070210] |Now delete everything inside the xxxxx.default folder.
[122000070220] |Open your equivalent folder on MS Windows and copy everything inside it over into the Ubuntu xxxx.default folder. 
[122000070230] |Open the prefs.js in a text editor (right click on the file and Ubuntu will give you options).
[122000070240] |Very carefully remove any reference to extensions, as these have MS Windows paths.
[122000070250] |You should now be able to launch Mozilla Thunderbird with your multiple accounts intact Reinstall your extensions, if any. 
[122000070260] |At least it worked for me!
[122000070270] |Always back up, back up, back up before trying something like this.
[122000070280] |Good luck. 
[122000080010] |<title>Problems with Firefox in Ubuntu Edgy Eft</title>
[122000080020] |Still feeling my way around, I clicked on a Firefox system file (firefoxrc), after which I could not launch Firefox.
[122000080030] |Full error message as follows: 
[122000080040] |Could not launch application failed to execute child process “/etc/firefox/firefoxrc” (permission denied) 
[122000080050] |I found this on the Ubuntu forum to rectify permission problem: 
[122000080060] |chmod o+x /etc 
[122000080070] |or if that fails 
[122000080080] |chomod o+r, o+x /etc 
[122000080090] |I tried both eg 
[122000080100] |sudo chmod o+r,o+x /etc/firefox/firefoxrc 
[122000080110] |[<a>Ubuntu Forum Permissions</a>]
[122000080120] |It solved the permission problem, but then Firefox simply wouldn’t launch. 
[122000080130] |At this point I was totally fed up, but here’s how I solved it.
[122000080140] |Go to your home folders and click on View/Show hidden files.
[122000080150] |Then find .mozilla. back up the profiles.ini file in /home/username/.mozilla/firefox just in case. then click on the default folder which should look something like xxxxx.default. (random letters and numbers) Inside this resides the prefs.js file.
[122000080160] |Back this up by moving it out of harms way.
[122000080170] |(You can copy and paste it somewhere safe).
[122000080180] |Now delete everything inside the xxxxx.default folder except prefs.js.
[122000080190] |Open your windows folder and copy everything except prefs.js over into the Ubuntu xxxx.default folder.
[122000080200] |You should now be able to launch Firefox with all of your bookmarks, passwords and extensions.
[122000080210] |The only problem is that some extensions will need to be deleted and reinstalled, as they will have windows paths. 
[122000080220] |The same principle as above should work in setting up complex folders in <a>Thunderbird.
[122000080230] |See entry on same.</a>
[122000080240] |NB Some windows paths may survive in the about:config.
[122000080250] |See <a>View and Edit Source files in Firefox</a>
[122000090010] |<title>Totem could not play ‘dvd:///media/cdrom0′</title>
[122000090020] |Totem could not play ‘dvd:///media/cdrom0′. 
[122000090030] |Problem: when you install Ubuntu, the default player Totem will not play dvds.
[122000090040] |It requires that certain codecs be installed.
[122000090050] |The forum linked to below solves this problem.
[122000090060] |The solution is at <a>Linux Forums</a>.
[122000090070] |Thank you ‘antidrugue’ at Linux Forums
[122000090080] |<h3>update </h3>
[122000090090] |New codec problem with Totem requires MPEG 1 Layer 3 CBR
[122000090100] |Solved January 18.
[122000090110] |Unfortunately I can’t remember how I did it.
[122000090120] |Automatix?
[122000100010] |<title>Bug in Firefox on Ubuntu </title>
[122000100020] |Bug in Firefox on Ubuntu [Bug #14391: Firefox cannot save links with left-clicking on links.] 
[122000100030] |I thought this was a flaw in Ubuntu, or something to do with permissions, but it’s a bug in Firefox on Ubuntu. 
[122000100040] |<a>Firefox cannot save links with left-clicking on links</a>
[122000100050] |UPDATE: I worked around this bug by dragging and dropping the file I want to download onto the desktop (or wherever you want to put it).
[122000110010] |<title>Samsung SCX-4200 in Ubuntu</title>
[122000110020] |I needed a printer, so one of the reasons I opted for the Samsung SCX-4200 3-in-1, apart from <a>Paddy Doyle’s </a>recommendation, was that it supported Linux.
[122000110030] |But could I get it to work?
[122000110040] |Umm…
[122000110050] |Needless to say, it worked in XP for me –a smooth install from the cd.
[122000110060] |All is not lost, however.
[122000110070] |<a>Elijah Lofgren’s Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux Tips </a>has a special section called Get Samsung SCX-4100 printer and scanner working
[122000110080] |I tried this with the help of my pal Pirooz, who is a Linux veteran, but to no avail, but I think I know what’s wrong.
[122000110090] |Eternal optimist, am I. Along with the Samsung User Guide for installing the driver, and the SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver., I should get it going.
[122000110100] |The story will be told here…
[122000120010] |<title>View and edit source in Firefox </title>
[122000120020] |This problem had me stumped, as I didn’t know how to call a text editor to view and edit source files, eg to trouble shoot html files.
[122000120030] |Firefox has View/Page Source in its menus, but you can’t edit the file.
[122000120040] |After downloading some extensions, which didn’t work because I didn’t know the path to a text editor.
[122000120050] |Then through some experimentation I found out how it works.
[122000120060] |Iwanted to use the Cream text editor (I’ve since changed that to <a>Geany</a>, which I find great) but you can use any text editor.
[122000120070] |I’ll use Cream as an example here. 
[122000120080] |In the Firefox address bar you type about:config 
[122000120090] |in the filter (the address bar) type 
[122000120100] |view_source 
[122000120110] |in view_source.editor.path right click under ‘value’ and choose modify.
[122000120120] |Enter /usr/bin/cream 
[122000120130] |That does the trick!
[122000120140] |It seems that /usr/bin is where the program execs are. 
[122000130010] |<title>Samsung’s Multi Function Printer SCX-4200 Driver and Install Guide</title>
[122000130020] |I’m now on my second attempt to install the Multifunction Printer.
[122000130030] |I discovered that the driver on the cd which came with the MFP is useless, so I downloaded a new driver, without success.
[122000130040] |Now I’ve discovered a new page for the most uptodate driver and you can get it from the link below. 
[122000130050] |<a>Samsung’s Multi Function Printer SCX-4200 Driver and Install Guide</a>
[122000130060] |It’s pretty tiresome in every sense that one can’t just put in a cd and have it install.
[122000130070] |Once again I waver about leaving Ubuntu, though having said that I haven’t felt a longing to return to XP, particularly as I have no urgent printing or scanning.
[122000130080] |That could change soon. 
[122000130090] |So what am I doing wrong?
[122000130100] |I’ve followed the instructions in the Samsung pdf guide, and now I’ve followed the instructions given in <a>Elijah Lofgren’s Ubuntu and Kubuntu Linux Tips </a>, to no avail.
[122000130110] |Well, following Elijah Lofgren’s instructions actually installed the driver, I think, but there wasn’t a budge out of the printer.
[122000130120] |Re his instruction about the DeviceURI file:
[122000130130] |#Open /etc/cups/printers.conf Under “DefaultPrinter scx4100″ change the “DeviceURI” so it looks like this:
[122000130140] |DeviceURI file:/dev/usblp0
[122000130150] |when I changed this, nothing happened.
[122000130160] |When I changed it back to “DefaultPrinter scx4100″ the machine actually stirred when I tried a test page, but despite that, it didn’t print. 
[122000130170] |There’s nothing wrong with Elijah’s instructions.
[122000130180] |Somehow they didn’t work for me, though to my horror I seem to be getting better at the terminal.
[122000130190] |I hate the whole concept of a terminal. 
[122000130200] |Back to the drawing board.
[122000130210] |If I can’t get this installed, I’ll seriously have to think of abandoning Ubuntu.
[122000130220] |It just takes up too much time getting the simplest things done. 
[122000140010] |<title>Samsung SCX-4200 in Ubuntu: Fourth Attempt</title>
[122000140020] |On the fourth attempt, four Sunday afternoons, I got the Samsung SCX-4200 to print. I’m too tired to outline the details -will do so soon –but suffice to say for now that the crucial first step is to change the permissions on install.sh so that you, the owner, can read, write and execute.
[122000140030] |That last one is very important.
[122000140040] |I had to open CUPS to coax it into the final step, and the Ubuntu forums came to the rescue in this instance once again. 
[122000140050] |Essentially, follow Muntted’s steps for part one, and if that doesn’t finish the job, follow 2Beers on Page 2 of the <a>Samsung Printer Drivers </a>part of the forum. 
[122000140060] |I still can’t get the scanner to work, but for now I feel I’ve climbed a mountain and can see most if not all of the scenery. 
[122000150010] |<title>Real Audio in Ubuntu</title>
[122000150020] |Many if not most of us need to view Real Audio files on the web.
[122000150030] |<a>RTÉ,</a> the main Irish tv station, uses it extensively, for example.
[122000150040] |I had installed the open source <a>Helix Player</a> from Add/Remove Applications –or maybe it was already installed, I’m not sure.
[122000150050] |But that didn’t work for the RTÉ media.
[122000150060] |I hadn’t in truth noticed that Real Networks open source Media Player 10 was also in Add/Remove Applications, so I downloaded it from the <a>Real Site</a>.
[122000150070] |But that didn’t work either.
[122000150080] |Finally I noticed it in Add/Remove, but it wouldn’t install.
[122000150090] |The trick was to uninstall the downloaded version, uninstall Helix from Add/Remove, and then install Real Media Player 10 in Add/Remove. 
[122000150100] |To remove the original downloaded player, open your Terminal (Applications/Accessories/Terminal) and type or paste 
[122000150110] |sudo aptitude remove realplayer
[122000150120] |The relevant <a>Ubuntu Forum page is headed Remove Skype</a>, so it should work for most programs you want to remove. 
[122000150130] |I hope that works for you if you had the same problem. 
[122000160010] |<title>Litreoir GaelSpell do Mhozilla </title>
[122000160020] |Of course, being Irish, I have to mention this one!
[122000160030] |Excellent. 
[122000160040] |Litreoir GaelSpell do Mhozilla 4.1.1, by Kevin Scannell, released on Oct 18, 2006
[122000160050] |Litreoir saor in aisce don Ghaeilge, cruthaithe ag Kevin Scannell.
[122000160060] |A free Irish spellchecker.
[122000160070] |Works with: Firefox 2.0b1 –3.0a1 ALL SeaMonkey 1.1a –1.5a ALL Thunderbird 2.0a1 –3.0a1 ALL 287 KB
[122000170010] |<title>Mail alert in Thunderbird on Ubuntu –sound problem solved</title>
[122000170020] |I suppose it was inevitable that I would move to Linux as I’ve been using open source software for quite some time.
[122000170030] |One of the programs I used on Windows was Thunderbird.
[122000170040] |And as I have mentioned elsewhere, I have quite a few mail folders and it got to the stage that I had email but didn’t know I had it as it was buried in some folder or other.
[122000170050] |Enter mail alerts in the form of a pop-up and sound. 
[122000170060] |The Mailbox Alert extension for Thunderbird was a godsend for someone like me as I could assign a .wav file and popup to each subfolder for different regular correspondents. 
[122000170070] |Then I switched to Ubuntu in early January and had so many problems to solve that the lack of sound in Thunderbird (apparently Thunderbird looks for a defunct/deprecated sound system in Ubuntu) was left on the back burner.
[122000170080] |Trawls through the Ubuntu forum showed that a lot of users have this problem and that they are all as stumped by it as myself. 
[122000170090] |Until I remembered <a>Mailbox Alert</a>, that is.
[122000170100] |Now I have sound and a pop-up message when mail comes in.
[122000170110] |I haven’t used it long enough to see if it breaks some other program’s sound, so I’m not relaxing about it just yet.
[122000170120] |But in the last week I’ve solved a slew of Ubuntu problems (that I had) so I’m hoping I can settle to problem-free Linux computing before too long.
[122000170130] |<a>Mailbox Alert extension for Thunderbird 1.0 –1.5.0</a> 
[122000180010] |<title>Connect your Motorola Razr V3 to Ubuntu using moto4lin</title>
[122000180020] |I’m going to change my SIM card so I need to back up the old one on my Razr V3.
[122000180030] |The cd that came with the Razr didn’t work, so I don’t know if there’s anything on it for Linux.
[122000180040] |Hence the attempt via the net. 
[122000180050] |While everything installed according to the meticulous directions at <a>The Computech Group</a> and the Motorola for Linux manager appeared, it somehow didn’t connect with the phone. 
[122000180060] |[info] Phone pluged as AT Try to connect [error] Unable to connect
[122000180070] |The terminal spews out this while launching the manager
[122000180080] |root@Your-laptop:/home/you# sudo moto4lin X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168 Major opcode: 148 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0×0 Failed to open device X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168 Major opcode: 148 Minor opcode: 3 Resource id: 0×0 Failed to open device Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed Form1 PhoneMan New mode: 1 P2kProc::doConnect() 
[122000180090] |Of course I read down the comments but none of the solutions worked there either.
[122000180100] |Any help would be appreciated. 
[122000190010] |<title>Some progress with the Razr?</title>
[122000190020] |If you glance at the previous post [<a>Permanent Link</a>] you’ll see that the Terminal spewed out a lot of seeming nonsense when I tried to start the Motorola Linux Manager.
[122000190030] |Well, it’s not nonsense at all of course. 
[122000190040] |If you follow the instructions of <a>Jun-Dai on the Unbuntu Forum re <em>Reload this Page X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 168</em></a> you will get rid of it. 
[122000190050] |The error is most likely due to some “wacom” devices in your xorg.conf”
[122000190060] |My <em>xorg.conf</em> file is arranged somewhat differently, and yours may be too, but essentially the lines he mentions are probably all there.
[122000190070] |Be careful not to comment out any other lines!
[122000190080] |Another contributor called rand0m3r gave this formula to start the xorg.conf from the Terminal: kate /etc/X11/xorg.conf 
[122000190090] |but it didn’t work for me, somehow.
[122000190100] |Permission denied, etc even though I was using it as root.
[122000190110] |(In Ubuntu, you type in sudo su, then give your password, to work as root).
[122000190120] |So I went to File System/etc/X11/xorg.conf
[122000190130] |right-clicked on the file, chose Scripts/geddit-root, typed in the password and that allowed me to edit and save the file. 
[122000190140] |That was in the late am so when I rebooted this morning, opened the the terminal, did my <em>sudu su</em> and password, then typed: <strong>moto4lin</strong>
[122000190150] |the Motorola for Linux manager launched and lo, all of that bumpf had gone.
[122000190160] |This had replaced it (in Terminal)
[122000190170] |Session management error: Authentication Rejected, reason : None of the authentication protocols specified are supported and host-based authentication failed Form1 PhoneMan New mode: 1 P2kProc::doConnect() (E_sendControl: no connection) (E_fileCount: E001) (E_fileList: E000) doActConnect doActConnect P2kProc::doConnect() (E_sendControl: no connection) (E_drv_reboot: E001) doActConnect doActConnect P2kProc::doConnect() 
[122000190180] |It still didn’t connect to the phone but I got the intriguing message that the phone was busy. 
[122000190190] |[error] Unable to get file list Try to connect [error] Phone is busy.
[122000190200] |Please try later [error] Unable to connect 
[122000190210] |The saga will obviously continue…
[122000200010] |<title>Firefox drops connection</title>
[122000200020] |A few weeks ago I had problems with my connection to the internet.
[122000200030] |My connection had been rock solid for a year and a half, but my first inclination was to blame my provider.
[122000200040] |I quickly discovered it was to do with Firefox.
[122000200050] |I found a solution, which was to delete some file, but unfortunately in the urgency to get Firefox going again, I neglected to record it. 
[122000200060] |About a week ago I reinstalled Firefox to version 2.0.0.1, with an excellent script which can be found on <a>Ubuntu Linux Resources</a>.
[122000200070] |Everything seemed to be faster and I was happy as a pig in flight until yesterday, when Firefox started acting up again. 
[122000200080] |Unfortunately, like the first time, I was so anxious to get it going again that I didn’t keep a note of where I found the solutions, so apologies to the solution providers.
[122000200090] |It was on the <a>Unbuntu Forums </a>but now I can’t find it. 
[122000200100] |Anyway, here are a few things I tried.
[122000200110] |There is disagreement about the presence of IPv6*, but apparently it works for some and not for others. 
[122000200120] |Here is this solution: where you normally type a url, type <strong>about:config</strong> and press enter.
[122000200130] |In the same place, type<strong>IPv6</strong>.
[122000200140] |Two lines will appear.
[122000200150] |Where it says <strong>network.dns.disableIPv6</strong>, double click on that line to turn the value to <em>True</em>. 
[122000200160] |It didn’t work for me, but I’ll leave it off in case it’s part of the solution. 
[122000200170] |The next solution was to open the terminal and type <strong>sudo pppoeconf</strong> Terminal will ask for your password and then a colourful window will appear and you click yes to let it test your connections. 
[122000200180] |That wasn’t successful for me either. 
[122000200190] |What worked is this: Again in the terminal, type <strong>sudo dhclient</strong> as in 
[122000200200] |<strong>me@my-laptop:~$ sudo dhclient</strong>
[122000200210] |This is the result I got:
[122000200220] |There is already a pid file /var/run/dhclient.pid with pid 7890 killed old client process, removed PID file Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client V3.0.4 Copyright 2004-2006 Internet Systems Consortium.
[122000200230] |All rights reserved.
[122000200240] |For info, please visit http://www.isc.org/sw/dhcp/
[122000200250] |Listening on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:47:b5:a7 Sending on LPF/eth0/00:c0:9f:47:b5:a7 Listening on LPF/eth1/00:0e:35:3e:2a:a8 Sending on LPF/eth1/00:0e:35:3e:2a:a8 Sending on Socket/fallback DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPREQUEST on eth1 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 bound to 192.168.1.33 —renewal in 102280 seconds.
[122000200260] |So, a second ‘client process’ was the culprit.
[122000200270] |I tried Google, and I was back.
[122000200280] |Unfortunately, I had the same problem when I logged on this morning, so it’s not a permanent solution.
[122000200290] |Going through the above process got me back, but I’m still not sure how to make this solution permanent.
[122000200300] |If anyone knows, please leave a comment. 
[122000200310] |Note: I wasn’t previously aware of Network Tools in System/Admin/Network Tools.
[122000200320] |You might find it useful in sorting out such problems. 
[122000200330] |*<a>“Internet Protocol version 6”.
[122000200340] |A replacement for the aging IPv4, which was released in the early 1980s. IPv6 will increase the number of available Internet addresses (from 32 to 128 bits), resolving a problem associated with the growth of the number of computers attached to the Internet.</a> 
[122000210010] |<title>sudo dhclient and killing IPv6 –still no joy</title>
[122000210020] |Well, the <strong>sudo dhclient </strong>(see previous post) is a great rescue tool, but it’s far from perfect.
[122000210030] |So long as I keep using Firefox, it works, but if I leave it for a while, I need <strong>sudo dhclient </strong>again.
[122000210040] |Needless to say this is far from satisfactory.
[122000210050] |The problem seems to be, as far as I can ascertain, that there are two processes running at once, IPv4 and IPv6.
[122000210060] |So it seems logical to disable IPv6.
[122000210070] |This is the solution from <a>Ralph’s Ubuntu Linux Blog</a>
[122000210080] |If you want to disable IPv6 to get better internet connection speed just edit the aliases file sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/aliases
[122000210090] |and change the line: alias net-pf-10 ipv6
[122000210100] |to: alias net-pf-10 off ipv6
[122000210110] |Don’t forget to reboot!
[122000210120] |To check if IPv6 is running use the following command ip a | grep inet6
[122000210130] |I tried that but somehow when I rebooted the line <strong>alias net-pf-10 ipv6</strong>, and not <strong>alias net-pf-10 off ipv6</strong> was still in etc/modprobe.d/aliases. 
[122000210140] |So I clicked on the home folder, then File System, then etc, hit m on the keyboard as there’s a lot of files in there, and that brought up modeprobe.d/aliases. 
[122000210150] |There’s no point in just editing the aliases file in a text editor.
[122000210160] |It will smile at you and give you a false sense of security, allow you to save –but it won’t be saved What you’ve to do is right-click on the <strong>aliases</strong> file, chose <strong>scripts/geddit-root</strong>, after which you’ll be asked for your password and you’re working now as root –as I understand it.
[122000210170] |Now you can edit <strong>alias net-pf-10 ipv6</strong> to <strong>alias net-pf-10 off ipv6</strong>
[122000210180] |Save and you’re home and dry. 
[122000210190] |Except… in my case, even after re-booting, this didn’t work either.
[122000210200] |So I’m back to square one and I don’t know where I can go from here.
[122000210210] |I really don’t want to go back to XP…
[122000220010] |<title>Blogs about Ubuntu</title>
[122000220020] |As the subheading says, I’m new to Linux.
[122000220030] |<strong>Ubuntu Learner </strong>tracks my experience of learning by mistakes with Ubuntu, Edgy Eft, and <em>boy</em>, I’ve made a few.
[122000220040] |But by mistakes you learn, even if some of the mistakes have been like the beast who cannot die.
[122000220050] |I hope in some small way my stumblings will help others new to Linux and in particular, Ubuntu, because like most ex-XP users, I hadn’t a clue about Linux, despite fooling myself that I had read up on it.
[122000220060] |It seems I can only learn by doing.
[122000220070] |And as I tend to push out the envelope (as someone in my middle-fifties I should have learned to be more cautious!), I get myself into trouble all the time, so there are many learning curves, hopefully putting down fresh neurons on a daily basis!
[122000220080] |One of the things that attracted me to Ubuntu was the philosophy as expounded by Desmond Tutu, which the Ubuntu community has adopted: 
[122000220090] |A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole.
[122000220100] |(Archbishop Desmond Tutu, <em>No Future Without Forgiveness</em>) 
[122000220110] |Which leads neatly to the second reason: the Ubuntu Community.
[122000220120] |A very active member of this community is Carthik Sharma, who I came across in the <a>Planet Ubuntu </a>aggregator blog.
[122000220130] |In his own <a>Ubuntu Blog</a>, he has asked <a>Do you blog about Ubuntu</a>? 
[122000220140] |Which is a question that’s typical of the Ubuntu philosophy, I’d say. 
[122000220150] |In the next post I hope to write about how I got Flash 9 going last night, but this morning it was gone again.
[122000220160] |Another learning curve. 
[122000220170] |<a>Do you blog about Ubuntu</a>? 
[122000230010] |<title>Adding a line to sources list</title>
[122000230020] |It’s the simple things that stump learners. 
[122000230030] |There are occasions when for instance you have to add a line to your sources list in order to download a file or program.
[122000230040] |The instructions by well-meaning experts are often to open the Terminal, and type/paste sudo vi /etc/apt/sources.list.
[122000230050] |That’s great, it brings up the sources list –but how on earth do you add a line to it.
[122000230060] |Two minutes of trying the ‘normal’ way will show you it’s useless. 
[122000230070] |<a>23 Meg on Ubuntu Forums </a>showed one user how to do it. 
[122000230080] |Hit Alt + F2, or open a terminal, paste this Code:
[122000230090] |gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list
[122000230100] |You paste whatever line you’ve been given by the expert user, save and continue with his or her instructions.
[122000230110] |Have a look at the above link for a real life example.
[122000240010] |<title>Backing up to an external hard disk</title>
[122000240020] |Now that I know how to <a>add a line to a sources list</a>, I’ve been able to tackle a problem that’s bothered me for a while. 
[122000240030] |I got quite a surprise when I was unable to back up a file to my external hard disk.
[122000240040] |I presumed that because I was able to transfer files from the same disk to Ubuntu, that it was all a matter of course.
[122000240050] |Not so.
[122000240060] |It’s to do with different file systems on Linux and the average external usb-connected backup, which is usually formatted like Windows.
[122000240070] |Think NTFS v ext3, or Windows v Linux formatting. 
[122000240080] |I tried one or two solutions without success, but what worked is the one offered by givré at the Ubuntu Forum thread on <a>NTFS with read/write support using ntfs-3g (easy method)</a>
[122000240090] |Mind you, I could only get his solution to work as far as mounting the external disk.
[122000240100] |But that’s all I wanted for now.
[122000240110] |I’ll probably leave mounting the actual windows partition, handy though that might be, until I install the next version of Ubuntu.
[122000240120] |I opened Open Office and the file I wanted backed up, chose save as, found the folder on the external disk and saved.
[122000240130] |Thank you, givré.
[122000250010] |<title>Operation not permitted: dhclient</title>
[122000250020] |At least I don’t have to do it every half an hour, which was the case before I got rid of IPv6, but I still have to use dhclient to log onto the internet every morning, which is a pain.
[122000250030] |I think this is the relevant information:
[122000250040] |mv: cannot move `/etc/resolv.conf.dhclient-new’ to `/etc/resolv.conf’: Operation not permitted
[122000250050] |but I don’t know how to solve it. 
[122000250060] |If anyone knows how to solve this, I’d be grateful, as I can’t find the relevant solution on the forums. 
[122000260010] |<title>Connection problem solved</title>
[122000260020] |I think I’ve solved my connection problem.
[122000260030] |In the last post I outlined how I needed to fire up Terminal and type in <em>sudo dhclient</em>.
[122000260040] |Well I finally got some mental space to think about it, and this was the solution in my case
[122000260050] |Administration/Networking [password] Under Network Settings choose Connections/ Wired Connections (in my case) /Properties and choose Automatic Configuration. 
[122000260060] |You may need different settings if you have a wireless connection, for instance, but this worked for me, as I haven’t had time to get my head around setting up my wireless connection.
[122000260070] |Needless to say I’m sorely tempted to try Christer Edwards tutorial on setting up Open DNS –but I know I’d muck it up just as I’ve got this going!
[122000260080] |Still, I’ll try it when I install the next verssion of Ubuntu, probably in May.
[122000260090] |<a>How to set up Open DNS in Ubuntu</a>
[122000260100] |<a>Christer Edwards Ubuntu Tutorials</a>
[122000270010] |<title>11 Things you haven’t seen yet in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn</title>
[122000270020] |I’m posting this link as an aide-memoire as it could save a lot of time when upgrading to Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, available in a few weeks time. 
[122000270030] |<a>11 Things you haven’t seen yet in Ubuntu Feisty Fawn</a>
[122000280010] |<title>Uninstall Ubuntu</title>
[122000280020] |No, I’m not giving up on Ubuntu, but because of the constant updates, I’m running out of space, so I’ve been thinking of uninstalling Edgy Eft, and making a fresh install of the next update of Ubuntu, Feisty, in a few weeks time.
[122000280030] |If you have a dual boot system, like I have (only because I haven’t got my scanner going under Ubuntu as yet), then it’s not a simple matter of deleting Ubuntu from its partition.
[122000280040] |For one thing, the GRUB menu, which gives you a choice of operating system when you boot, is deleted with Linux and you can’t boot XP (in my case).
[122000280050] |So after searching on the forums for a while I found that <a>Herman has a tutorial about how to uninstall Ubuntu</a>
[122000280060] |For the record, I have a 60G Acer Aspire 1680 notebook, divided equally into two partitions.
[122000280070] |On the second there were some Acer files, presumably backups (sorry, I’m not tech enough to explain properly) and I installed Edgy Eft onto this.
[122000280080] |According to system monitor I’ve now used up 98% (of 13.8G).
[122000280090] |I wouldn’t mind but I haven’t yet transferred over all my files from XP… I still don’t really understand what all of these partitions mean, but if I was doing a fresh install, at least now I’d know where to look for explanations.
[122000280100] |<a>Psychocats.net</a> and <a>Ubuntu Tutorials</a>
[122000290010] |<title>Will I? Won’t I?</title>
[122000290020] |I’ve been dithering as to whether I should upgrade to Feisty (Ubuntu 7.04), just out.
[122000290030] |My main reason for saying no is that I’ve no time.
[122000290040] |Busy busy me. 
[122000290050] |On the other hand my system monitor says I have a mere 579.6MB available on dev/hda4/ ie 95% used up, so if I don’t re-install, at this rate I’ll run out of space very soon.
[122000290060] |Perhaps I’m even at a dicey level –I don’t know. 
[122000290070] |Lots of things I don’t know after four and half months.
[122000290080] |I’m pretty certain I didn’t install Edgy Eft properly, ie create proper partitions –hence, perhaps, the rapidly disappearing disk space?
[122000290090] |But now I see this in Feisty Documentation.
[122000290100] |Ubuntu 7.04 can read and write files on the NTFS drives commonly used by Windows.
[122000290110] |Ubuntu 6.06 LTS and 6.10 came with older, beta versions of the NTFS 3G driver.
[122000290120] |These worked well for many users but were not guaranteed to be stable.
[122000290130] |Use Ubuntu 7.04 for stable access to NTFS partitions.
[122000290140] |Alternatively, a stable version of NTFS 3G for older versions of Ubuntu can be obtained from a third-party software repository –see using a third-party NTFS 3G. 
[122000290150] |Now my decision to wait until I had my present work finished (hopefully October) is up in the air again.
[122000290160] |I have about 12G left on XP, plus another 12 or so on another Windows partition (where Acer put some files –never knew why) which I muscled in on to install Ubuntu. 
[122000290170] |I’ll sleep on it.
[122000290180] |A few times…
[122000290190] |<a>Community Ubuntu Documentation –Mounting Windows Partitions</a>
[122000300010] |<title>Clean install of Feisty</title>
[122000300020] |I’m inching my way towards this, and just want to record an interesting link on the Absolute Beginners’ Forum for future reference.
[122000300030] |<a>Clean install with seperate /home</a>
[122000310010] |<title>Similar Programs in Windows and Ubuntu</title>
[122000310020] |After four months on Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) I surprised myself the other day by realising how few programs I’ve actually changed from Windows Xp.
[122000310030] |Of course I used a lot of open source on windows anyway, and there have been a few programs I haven’t been able to replace on a practical level. 
[122000310040] |So here’s a list (everybody’s making them, so why not me). 
[122000310050] |<strong>PDF viewer</strong>: Xp: Adobe Ubuntu: Adobe 
[122000310060] |<strong>Browser: </strong>Xp: Firefox Ubuntu: Firefox
[122000310070] |<strong>Mail: </strong>Xp:Thunderbird Ubuntu: Thunderbird
[122000310080] |<strong>html editor:</strong> Xp: 1st Page 2000 Ubuntu: Bluefish
[122000310090] |<strong>Simple Graphics:</strong> Xp:Irfan View Ubuntu: Irfan View (via WINE)
[122000310100] |<strong>Complex Graphics:</strong> Xp:<a> Photofiltre:</a> Ubuntu: Gimp (<em>still too complicated for me but see <a>Gimp Quickies</a></em>). 
[122000310110] |<strong>Photo organizer:</strong> Xp:Picassa (K)Ubuntu: Digikam
[122000310120] |<strong>Music Organizer:</strong> Xp:Songbird Ubuntu:Songbird
[122000310130] |<strong>FTP </strong>Xp: Filezilla 2.5 Ubuntu: <a>Filezilla 3 beta</a>
[122000310140] |<strong>Word Processing:</strong> Xp: Open Office Ubuntu :Open Office
[122000310150] |<strong>Genealogy:</strong> Xp: Personal Ancestral File, GenealogyJ Ubuntu: Gramps (haven’t downloaded crossplatform <a>GenealogyJ</a> yet)
[122000310160] |<strong>Anti-virus</strong>: Xp: AVG Ubuntu: AVG for Linux (they say you don’t need it but…)
[122000310170] |<strong>Firewall:</strong> Xp: Agnitum Fireall Ubuntu: Firestarter
[122000310180] |<strong>Dictionary/Thesaurus:</strong> Xp: Wordweb Ubuntu: Wordweb (via WINE)
[122000310190] |<strong>Colour Picker:</strong> Xp: Color Cop Ubuntu: Color Cop (via WINE)
[122000310200] |<strong>Mind Mapping</strong>: Xp: Freemind Ubuntu: None (haven’t downloaded Freemind yet and apparently <a>it’s tricky to install on Ubuntu</a>)
[122000310210] |<strong>Media Pre-Production: </strong>Xp: Celtx Ubuntu: None.(haven’t downloaded <a>Celtx</a> yet.
[122000310220] |No script to write at present ;>)
[122000310230] |<strong>Astronomy:</strong> Xp: Stellarium Ubuntu: None (haven’t downloaded <a>Stellarium </a>yet). 
[122000310240] |<strong>Sound Editor:</strong> Xp: Audacity Ubuntu: <a>Audacity </a>(except it isn’t working in Ubuntu –due to clashing sound codecs?)
[122000310250] |<strong>Collection Manager:</strong> Xp: MediaMan Ubuntu: <a>Tellico</a>
[122000310260] |<strong>File Extractor:</strong> Xp: Zipgenius Ubuntu: Nautilus <em>Extract Here</em>
[122000310270] |<strong>OCR:</strong> Xp: Omnipage SE Ubuntu: hopefully the software on the 3-in-1 scanner when/if I get it working.
[122000310280] |<strong>Unit converter</strong> Xp: Numerical Chameleon Ubuntu: None (Haven’t downloaded crossplatform <a>Numerical Chameleon</a> yet)
[122000310290] |<a>Tellico</a> is for KDE, not Gnome, which I use, but works delightfully.
[122000310300] |Likewise <a>DigiKam</a> (I’d probably look at more in KDE, if every program didn’t have a K in it!
[122000310310] |The other new programs I’m very happy with are <a>Bluefish Editor</a>, <a>Gramps Genealogy Project</a>, and <a>Geany Text Editor</a>.
[122000310320] |I’d prefer to make a clean sweep and not use WINE, but GIMP is too complicated at the moment (just takes time, I suppose), and I couldn’t get a powerful enough dictionary that I could install.
[122000310330] |Bluefish doesn’t have everything I want, but I can work around that very well.
[122000310340] |I tried to use<a> Aptana</a>, but it was too much for what I needed at present.
[122000310350] |Zim Desktop Wiki is another new program which has proved useful (get it in Applications/Add Remove)
[122000310360] |That’s it, I think.
[122000310370] |Comments welcome, as usual. 
[122000320010] |<title>wireless ubuntu</title>
[122000320020] |After a couple of weeks of trying, a good and patient friend helped me set up wireless on XP.
[122000320030] |In the end we had to use the bridge method.
[122000320040] |I have a Zyxel modem and Linksys Wireless-G 2.4Ghz router.
[122000320050] |The Zyxel is now set up in bridge mode, linked by an ethernet cable to the Linksys, which is now set up with PPoE, my username and password.
[122000320060] |So far so good in Xp, from which I am writing this. 
[122000320070] |My pal was pretty sure this should work in Ubuntu (I’m still on Edgy Eft) straight away, and for once I’ve had a lucky day so I was optimistic, but no dice.
[122000320080] |And everything I’ve read on the forums seems way too complicated. 
[122000320090] |Apparently it’s quite tricky getting the Zyxel back into routing mode, so I’m left with the prospect of having no connection in Ubuntu, or moving back to XP, a thought I don’t want to entertain right now.
[122000320100] |I’ve tried the Edgy Eft network manager but to no avail. 
[122000320110] |If anyone has any tips, do leave a comment.
[122000320120] |I have an Acer Apspire 1680 notebook, and as far as I know the wireless card is Intel and that connects directly with the Linksys router in Xp. 
[122000330010] |<title>Ubuntu Edgy Eft Wireless success!</title>
[122000330020] |If you glance at the previous post you will see that after a couple of weeks of trying, a friend helped me set up wireless in Xp.
[122000330030] |The next task was to do so in Ubuntu.
[122000330040] |I thought it would take a week or so of trying this and that, but then I remembered the tutorial at <a>sub-par ubuntu</a>, as the writer has a similar setup to my own.
[122000330050] |I don’t seem to have the wireless indicator on my laptop (it may come on after I reboot) but otherwise it was pretty painless and the bottom line is that I’m writing this from Ubuntu.
[122000330060] |The main difference in his method and others I’ve read is that it’s a lot SIMPLER (thank you) and he prefers <strong>fwcutter</strong> over the more common ndiswrapper method.
[122000330070] |The only possible drawback to his tutorial is that it is for an unencrypted, broadcasting network running DHCP.
[122000330080] |But for the moment, I’m happy as a pig in flight. 
[122000330090] |Many thanks, sub-par. 
[122000330100] |<a>sub-par ubuntu</a>
[122000340010] |<title>Move /home to its own partition </title>
[122000340020] |Here is a link to a nice tutorial to rectify something most new users overlook or don’t understand. 
[122000340030] |<a>Move /home to its own partition </a>
[122000340040] |A word of caution with this one: there’s an error in the syntax which is corrected by one of the commenters.
[122000340050] |As another commenter says, 
[122000340060] |Keep in mind, this is somewhat risky… messing with fstab can be dangerous, so double check for typos
[122000340070] |as in 
[122000340080] |$sudo mount /dev/hda5 /ment/newhome
[122000340090] |“ment” should read “mnt”
[122000340100] |In fact the comments are almost as informative as the tutorial. 
[122000340110] |It would be nice if the option to have your home folder on its own partition was either the default or highlighted in fresh installs.
[122000340120] |It would save so much confusion. 
[122000350010] |<title>How to Make Open Office run faster</title>
[122000350020] |<a>How to make Open Office run Faster in Ubuntu </a>at Zolved Community Solution. 
[122000350030] |It works… 
[122000350040] |[update]
[122000350050] |…but a word of warning: if you’ve set up Open Office to look like you want it to look, you may lose all of these settings, including your Recent Documents list. 
[122000350060] |[via <a>LifeHacker</a>]
[122000360010] |<title>Samsung SCX-4200 scanner installation –A note</title>
[122000360020] |I still haven’t got around to installing the scanner on my Samsung scx-4200 –not that I’ve tried.
[122000360030] |I simply haven’t had time.
[122000360040] |(See under Printers  Scanners category).
[122000360050] |The Ubuntu forums have several more entries since I last looked, and things are looking a little clearer –and there’s a new Samsung driver –so I will hopefully make time soon. 
[122000360060] |So this is just a little <strong>nb</strong>. 
[122000360070] |<a>Ubuntu Forums Samsung MFP</a>
[122000370010] |<title>Local Wordpress in Ubuntu</title>
[122000370020] |April 2009.
[122000370030] |The information in this post is no longer valid.
[122000370040] |For information on <em>Local WordPress in Ubuntu </em>see my <a>Xampp and WordPress revisited.</a> 
[122000370050] |<del datetime="2009-04-11T13:20:58+00:00">A glance at the black and white menu at the top of this blog will show that I have several copies of WordPress in action.
[122000370060] |Moreover, I’ve installed WordPress and modified themes for a number of friends.
[122000370070] |Such constant checking means using Filezilla a great deal. 
[122000370080] |But now my carpal tunnells will be grateful that I can test WordPress offline.
[122000370090] |And that’s thanks to XAMPP and two fine tutorials.
[122000370100] |<a>XAMPP </a>is a cross-platform “easy to install Apache distribution containing MySQL, PHP and Perl.”
[122000370110] |First of all go to this <a>Ubuntu Forum thread by Petervk</a>.
[122000370120] |It will show you how to easily install XAMPP, and almost as importantly for those of us still not up to command-line finesse, how to install the “the sweet gtk/python control panel” for XAMPP.
[122000370130] |This will save endless trouble. 
[122000370140] |Once you have it running, switch to the Rumore tutorial on <a>HOWTO make a local copy of your WordPress blog in Ubuntu</a>.
[122000370150] |I should point out that its writer, problemdog, replied thus to the comment I left:
[122000370160] |You’re welcome ! –though, to tell the truth, this is quite an old post and now I can’t really remember why I would want to use XAMPP for linux instead of regular apache and mysql installations.
[122000370170] |But if it worked alright for you –i’m glad.
[122000370180] |I also actually quit using phpmyadmin –mysql-admin (GUI) being an easier (and faster) interface (to me).
[122000370190] |I appreciate that someone more advanced in these matters would move on, but for a learner like myself, this tutorial is almost perfect.
[122000370200] |I stumbled for a while at two points, due to my lack of experience, and perhaps it is worth repeating from the comment I left on Rumore. 
[122000370210] |Being a complete newbie, it took me a while to get around two instructions: 1)then go to http://localhost/phpmyadmin This (not your fault) is a bit confusing, as the newbie has created a pass for phpmyadmin –pma +pass, so the newbie assumes to get into phpmyadmin, this is what the newbie uses.
[122000370220] |However, to create a database, the newbie has to log in as root+pass, as you say.
[122000370230] |It’s obvious when you know how, of course.
[122000370240] |2)Now scroll down quite a lot until you see “Database-specific privileges” I think if you put in the ‘Go’ instruction before going to the wp-config-sample.php, it would be clearer. 
[122000370250] |One problem not covered is that you need administrative priviliges to move files such as templates to public_html.
[122000370260] |This can be a real pain, but fortunately Nautilus scripts help out here.
[122000370270] |Go to <a>Corelife </a>to see how to install them.
[122000370280] |I couldn’t install the image-converter, for some reason, but the one relevant here, nautilus-gksu, is a gem. 
[122000370290] |Once you have all of that up and running, you might want to learn how to make your own WordPress theme.
[122000370300] |Go to <a>WPDesigner</a> for an excellent step-by-step tutorial.
[122000370310] |He uses XAMPP in Windows, but once you have the XAMPP control panel mentioned above, there’s no difference.
[122000370320] |Even if you’re used to WordPress templates as I am, the thing to do is forget everything, and get down to base, typing it all by hand.
[122000370330] |If you like learning, he’s an excellent teacher. 
[122000380010] |<title>OpenDict and Dict.org</title>
[122000380020] |As a writer, one of my disappointments with Ubuntu has been a decent English-English dictionary and thesaurus.
[122000380030] |I’d tried Stardict,. and I think Moby Thesaurus, but couldn’t get them going.
[122000380040] |I’ve compensated by installing the excellent windows program WordWeb, via Wine. 
[122000380050] |But poor old WordWeb, while it works, looks a bit lame in Ubuntu (I suppose in Gnome), a bit like Skype does, apart from the fact that it takes an age to load in Wine.
[122000380060] |So this evening I found myself annoyed, and determined to find a Linux alternative. 
[122000380070] |I spotted OpenDict in Add/Remove Applications and installed it.
[122000380080] |Anything with <em>Open </em>in it has got to be good, right?
[122000380090] |I was initially disappointed, despite the accompanying Irish/English, Spanish/English, and English/German dictionaries, which I was pleased to find.
[122000380100] |But I didn’t want to go through the rigmarole of downloading and installing new English-English dictionaries, even if I could find them. 
[122000380110] |It was then I tried <em>Tools/Connect to Dict Server </em>in OpenDict.
[122000380120] |Hey presto, a great English-English dictionary, complete with etymologies, plus a Thesaurus, comprising of returns from <em>The Collaborative International Dictionary of English,</em> <em>Wordnet</em>, and <em>Moby Thesaurus II</em>. 
[122000380130] |What more could I ask?
[122000380140] |OpenDict is a multiplatform dictionary, and it’s website is <a>here</a>
[122000380150] |<a>Dict.org is here</a>
[122000380160] |Thanks to all concerned. 
[122000390010] |<title>Wondering about partitions</title>
[122000390020] |<em>Plus ca change</em>.
[122000390030] |Still thinking about upgrading Ubuntu and still haven’t got the time.
[122000390040] |However, looking ahead, I’m trying to figure out partitions again.
[122000390050] |Nip over to <a>Psychocats</a> for a few hints.
[122000390060] |One of them is to run sudo fdisk -l in the terminal. 
[122000390070] |you@yourcomputer:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[122000390080] |Password:
[122000390090] |RESULT:
[122000390100] |Disk /dev/hda: 60.0 GB, 60011642880 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 7296 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
[122000390110] |Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 255 2048256 12 Compaq diagnostics /dev/hda2 * 256 3766 28202107+ c W95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda3 3767 5468 13671315 f W95 Ext’d (LBA) /dev/hda4 5469 7296 14683410 83 Linux /dev/hda5 3767 5386 13012618+ b W95 FAT32 /dev/hda6 5387 5468 658633+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris 
[122000390120] |I didn’t realise, or had forgotten, that /dev/hda3 was in Windows (it’s actually XP).
[122000390130] |This is a GParted image of the hard drive.
[122000390140] |Click for larger image
[122000390150] |I still haven’t quite grasped what Extended means.
[122000390160] |If the above Extended partition is in winddows, can I use it for Ubuntu?
[122000390170] |Questions, questions, but the coming nights are long
[122000400010] |<title>OCR on Ubuntu</title>
[122000400020] |Yes, me musing again.
[122000400030] |I suppose I’m wondering if I can dump XP altogether.
[122000400040] |OCR has been one stumbling block, as I need that fairly often.
[122000400050] |The solution appears to be Tesseract, and here’s a tutorial on it.
[122000400060] |It seems pretty torturous, but I can’t say until I try, of course.
[122000400070] |<a>Optical Character Recognition With Tesseract OCR On Ubuntu 7.04 on HowtoForge</a>
[122000400080] |It says that 
[122000400090] |To get the best results from tesseract, you have to optimize the images. 
[122000400100] |I haven’t tried it yet, either, but <a>Phatch</a> might turn out to be very useful if one was scanning in a novel, for example, and had to optimize 250 images or so.
[122000400110] |Keep an eye on Phatch –it looks great. 
[122000400120] |<a>Tesseract OCR</a> <a>Phatch</a>
[122000410010] |<title>Installing fonts on Ubuntu</title>
[122000410020] |I needed to install a font to create an image of text for a friend, so this is the quick and dirty way I did it.
[122000410030] |I dropped the font into into my <strong>Downloaded</strong> folder, then in the Terminal, 
[122000410040] |<small>username@yourcomputer:~$ cd Downloaded username@yourcomputer:~/Downloaded$ sudo su Password: root@yourcomputer:/home/username/Downloaded# mv MISTRAL.TTF ~/.fonts </small>
[122000410050] |As I say it’s quick and dirty but it worked.
[122000410060] |I opened Open Office and there it was, fully functional. 
[122000410070] |I should have also added (and later did) fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts 
[122000410080] |<small>username@yourcomputer:~$ fc-cache -f -v ~/.fonts </small>
[122000410090] |That produces a fonts.cache-1 file in the .fonts folder.
[122000410100] |Not sure why. 
[122000410110] |For the proper way to install in Ubuntu, soee the instructions and comments at <a>Penguinfonts.com</a>
[122000420010] |<title>Philips HDD120 on Ubuntu</title>
[122000420020] |<strong>Note: In the original post I called it a Philips HDD60.
[122000420030] |What I have is in fact a Philips HDD120.
[122000420040] |Apolgies if I misled anyone</strong>
[122000420050] |Part <em>n</em> of my ongoing long-term progject to ditch windows. 
[122000420060] |I was give a present of a <strong>Philips HDD120 </strong>Mp3 player a few years ago.
[122000420070] |I don’t often use it, but at the same time when I do it’s damn handy and I’m fond of it.
[122000420080] |So it would be nice to be able to load something on it from Ubuntu. 
[122000420090] |I haven’t tried it but <em>golb </em>is the best I’ve come up with so far, so I’ll keep a note of it here. 
[122000420100] |<em>golb </em>is a piece of software which searches a directory recursively for mp3 and m3u files and creates an SQLite database out of the information found.
[122000420110] |This doesn’t seem to be usefull but it is!
[122000420120] |It’s for people that own a philips hdd0XX mp3 player (also called GoGear) because this one uses an SQLite database to save its songs.
[122000420130] |The name golb therefore means GoGear on Linux boxes.
[122000420140] |The problem with the mp3 player is that it is only usable under windows because philips didn’t make a linux software.
[122000420150] |So this is the software you need to use your mp3 player under linux.
[122000420160] |And the best thing: this software is much easier than the windows one.
[122000420170] |You only have to copy your music to the mp3 player, run the app and that’s it!
[122000420180] |I’ve seen one or two mentions of Philips MP3 players using an SQLite database, so hopefully that applies to my version. 
[122000430010] |<title>Low disk space</title>
[122000430020] |One of the reasons I’ve been preparing to move /home to a new partition is that disk space had become dangerously low.
[122000430030] |The crunch came yesterday when out of the blue Open Office and Firefox started behaving erratically.
[122000430040] |Having deleted a lot of trash, I thought I had about 300Mb to spare, but the odd behaviour including loss of work in Open Office sent me to investigate and I discovered that the system was reading 0% disk space. 
[122000430050] |Ooops!
[122000430060] |I thought this was going to be a long night, but oddly enough it was solved in about 5 minutes, thanks to another Ubuntu blog called <a>Ubuntu Linux Journey</a>.
[122000430070] |As it happens, Ubuntu Linux Journey started at almost the same time as Ubuntu Learner, with much the same aim –to chronicle a new user’s experience with the practical everyday use of Ubuntu.
[122000430080] |The author is more technically adept and considered than myself, however.
[122000430090] |If you’ve read anything here, you’ll know that it’s written mostly in haste, recording something just learned without much reflection.
[122000430100] |It’s really a quick and dirty record in case I come across the same thing again. 
[122000430110] |Anyway, the initial steps were
[122000430120] |Applications>Accessories>Terminal
[122000430130] |sudo aptitude clean 
[122000430140] |(cleans out archives)
[122000430150] |sudo du -sh /* 
[122000430160] |(shows file space usage by application)
[122000430170] |I skipped Ubuntu 7.04, so <em>Ubuntu Linux Journey </em>was writing about this version (Feisty), but the results of the above were exactly the same in that the missing disk space had been eaten up by /var/backup, in my case by 2.2Gb.
[122000430180] |That’s a lot of diskspace. 
[122000430190] |I didn’t keep the code so I’ll use that of Michael on <em>Ubuntu Linux Journey</em>.
[122000430200] |What he did was this. 
[122000430210] |My disk eater was 8.2G /var, I needed more information so I typed in 
[122000430220] |sudo du -h /var 
[122000430230] |and got this:
[122000430240] |7.9G /var/backup/2007-01-22_22.11.51.797882.michael-laptop.ful
[122000430250] |(the disk eater)
[122000430260] |To remove it I typed in the following (still in the terminal):
[122000430270] |sudo rm -r /var/backup/2007-01-22_22.11.51.797882.michael-laptop.ful 
[122000430280] |You simply copy the /var/backup line that you get when you enter <em>sudo du -h /var </em>You’ll recognise it straight away. 
[122000430290] |That erased the problem, and now he’s back with 10G of additional space on his drive, and I’m back with 2.2G on mine.
[122000430300] |He spent three hours looking for the solution, but thanks to him I only spent 5 minutes on my problem.
[122000430310] |Thanks, Michael!
[122000430320] |<a>Ubuntu Feisty Low Disk Space </a>
[122000440010] |<title>How to install Samsung Unified Printer Driver</title>
[122000440020] |Just making a quick note on an excellent tutorial in the Ubuntu Forums:
[122000440030] |How to install <a>Samsung Unified Printer Driver</a>
[122000440040] |My plans to upgrade to Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) may be put on hold as I discovered my dvd drive is scratching dvds.
[122000440050] |A tutorial on how to take out the drive for my particular notebook is at <a>Change the DVD drive of an Acer Aspire 1690</a>.
[122000440060] |It’s just a matter of making the time and space. 
[122000450010] |<title>Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10) has arrived!</title>
[122000450020] |Unfortunately it will be a while before I can upgrade, but if you have no such difficulties, go right ahead! ;>)
[122000450030] |As this blog is based in Ireland, perhaps it’s appropriate to give the Irish mirror downloand link. 
[122000450040] |<a>Irish Mirror site</a>.
[122000450050] |Enjoy
[122000460010] |<title>The Perfect Desktop –Ubuntu 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon</title>
[122000460020] |A handy reference for setting up Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon).
[122000460030] |As the author suggests, there are many ways to do it, and you may want different packages, of course, but this is a nice overall guide.
[122000460040] |This document describes how to set up an Ubuntu 7.10 “Gutsy Gibbon” desktop.
[122000460050] |The result is a fast, secure and extendable system that provides all you need for daily work and entertainment.
[122000460060] |About 23.000 packages are available in the repositories.
[122000460070] |This howto is a practical guide without any warranty –it doesn’t cover the theoretical backgrounds.
[122000460080] |There are many ways to set up such a system –this is the way I chose. 
[122000460090] |<a>Howto Forge The Perfect Desktop Gutsy Gibbon</a>
[122000470010] |<title>new laptop/notebook</title>
[122000470020] |I’m to thinking strongly of acquiring a new laptop/notebook, as my dvd drive is kaput and computing life is getting frustrating as a result. 
[122000470030] |The two I have in mind are a Sony NR11Z6 (yes, they always give you an easy-to-remember name), and an Acer Aspire –which would be an update of the model I have.
[122000470040] |I’m veering towards the Sony but I wonder has anyone out there experience of Sony and Ubuntu Linux?
[122000470050] |If so I’d be glad of a comment.
[122000470060] |Thanks in advance.
[122000470070] |<strong>UPDATE</strong>
[122000470080] |I had a look at the Sony screen in downtown Dublin today, and was not impressed.
[122000470090] |If I’m going to spend scarce money on a new machine, I want a good screen.
[122000470100] |And then a friend rang to say his experience with Sony wasn’t great (though I know others who swear by them). 
[122000470110] |So all in all I’m gone off the idea of a new computer –if I can get an external dvd drive to work. 
[122000470120] |Looking at this <a>site, William Brownstreet.net</a>, as I have an Ubuntu Live CD ordered, I think it just might work. 
[122000470130] |I connected the USB DVD-Writer before booting, inserted the Ubuntu CD and boot.
[122000470140] |Push F10 to access the boot medium chooser.
[122000470150] |Choose the DVD-Writer and follow on-screen instructions.
[122000470160] |In Ubuntu I selected the Install Shortcut on the desktop.
[122000470170] |I followed the very easy and really short instruction procedure.
[122000470180] |More anon. 
[122000470190] |<strong>Update 2</strong> <em>How to dual boot vista with linux, vista installed first</em> <a>A just-in-case link</a>
[122000480010] |<title>Ubuntu on HP Pavilion dv6575 series laptop</title>
[122000480020] |A friend ame to visit this evening and brought her HP Pavillion laptop/notebook and a very fine piece of machinery it is too. 
[122000480030] |So of course I looked it up vis-a-vis Ubuntu and found several posts complaining of difficulites.
[122000480040] |It seems it’s something to do with Sata hard drives. 
[122000480050] |So in case you have a HP Pavillion and want to install Ubuntu 7.10, here is an excellent site which gives a walk though.
[122000480060] |It’s actually very interesting whether or not you’re using an HP Pavillion –particularly if you have installed Ubuntu before. 
[122000480070] |I also like the motto of the website : <strong>Nobody was born with Linux knowledge</strong>
[122000480080] |<a>Howto: Aldebey: Ubuntu on HP pavilion dv65xx series laptop</a>
[122000480090] |<strong>NB UPDATE</strong>: I’m having <strong>serious problems </strong>loading 7.10 because I didn’t read the notes at the above link carefully. cf especially the boot notes.
[122000480100] |See also problems with <a>HP notebooks at Ubuntu forums</a>, particularly with 7.10.
[122000480110] |Which is a great pity, as the HP is a lovely notebook, I can confirm.
[122000480120] |No doubt it will be marvellous on 7.10 once the glitches are ironed out, but be warned.
[122000480130] |The gist of the advice one the forums is use or keep using 7.04 for the moment.
[122000480140] |I’m going to try one last time with the advice from Aldeby above.
[122000480150] |More later when I get time. 
[122000490010] |<title>Failure of Gutsy Install on HP Pavilion dv6558ea: Round 1(2, 3, 4, 5…)</title>
[122000490020] |In the scale of hard times, failing to install an operating system, especially when one has a backup of another computer, is small change.
[122000490030] |It can wear you out, though, and I’ve spent several long nights failing.
[122000490040] |I try to think of Beckett’s <em>Westward Ho </em>(‘No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.’).
[122000490050] |I attempted to chronicle it, but failed in that too.
[122000490060] |Below is a sample. 
[122000490070] |Last night was a very weeney small hours night, trying to install a dual-boot Vista/Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) on an Intel dual-core HP Pavillion dv6558 notebook computer.
[122000490080] |The 7.10 disc I’d got through the post didn’t work –the dvd drive went crazy before it made it into the live desktop, then failed to install. 
[122000490090] |So I tried downloading and burning. 
[122000490100] |Maybe it wasn’t the computer or Ubuntu.
[122000490110] |Maybe it was a faulty burn, and I’m hoping this is the case.
[122000490120] |Following psychocat’s Ubuntu Linux Resources) <a>instructions </a>, I first downloaded <a>Bittorrent</a> and got the iso, then downloaded <a>WinMD5Sum</a> –“it compares the the file on your computer to the original file and lets you know if they’re an exact match or not”, and it did; then <a>InfraRecorder </a>to burn the .iso file to a disc. 
[122000490130] |That’s when the fun started.
[122000490140] |Bittorrent did a wonderful job, and WinMD5Sum worked (I tried it on an incomplete file and it spotted that, so I’m confident about it).
[122000490150] |But InfraRecorder refused to burn first a DVD and then a CD-R disc. 
[122000490160] |It seems there’s an issue with HP Pavillions (and some Compaqs).
[122000490170] |See <a>this thread</a>
[122000490180] |I’ve tried a number of other burners since, including <a>Final Burner</a>, which seemed to burn it properly, but maybe not.
[122000490190] |But thinking over it, it may be that Vista doesn’t like the burning software I’ve been using.
[122000490200] |So the last thing I can think of is to burn the live cd in XP and fortunately I have a loan of a late friend’s computer which has XP (I can’t do it in Ubuntu as the DVD drive is broken on that machine).
[122000490210] |Hopefully I can use the recommended <a>InfraRecorder </a>to burn the .iso file to a disc and all will be well. 
[122000490220] |More later, if I have the energy.
[122000490230] |Here’s hoping
[122000500010] |<title>Gutsy(Ubuntu 7.10) installs but fails to boot on HP Pavillion dv6558ea</title>
[122000500020] |For the last couple of weeks the Gutsy install kept falling down on my new notebook at *Starting Bluetooth services.
[122000500030] |I discovered that inserting fb=false (F6 on boot screen of CD) that I was able to install Gutsy.
[122000500040] |Amazing! (after two weeks of trying on a HP Pavillion dv6558ea Intel Core duo, Vista Ultimate).
[122000500050] |I need to keep Vista at least until I get everything up and running, so it’s a dual boot install, disk partitioned with live GParted CD.
[122000500060] |However when I reboot, I get the *Starting Bluetooth services failure again.
[122000500070] |The details of the computer are HP Pavillion dv6558ea Intel Core 2 Duo processor.
[122000500080] |15.4 Display 120Gb HD 2Gb Ram Intel PRO/Wireless 3945a/b/g 802.11a b/g WLAN  Bluetooth dual-booting with Windows Vista Ultimate
[122000500090] |I have to disable the Bluetooth services, but as I can’t get back into Ubuntu Gutsy, it’s a catch-22 situation –unless some bright and kind soul out there knows the solution. 
[122000500100] |Ubuntu Tutorials has the solution once one actually can get to the terminal in Gutsy.
[122000500110] |See
[122000500120] |<a>Disable Bluetooth on Ubuntu 7.10</a>
[122000510010] |<title>Gutted Gibbon: Failing to boot Gutsy 31 times</title>
[122000510020] |Having managed to install Gutsy (fb=false in the boot menu) I have now failed 31 times to boot.
[122000510030] |I know this because there was a forced system check, which happens in Ubuntu when you’ve booted 31 times.
[122000510040] |I’ve tried everything I know, but it still goes to a black screen ending in *Starting Bluetooth services.
[122000510050] |I know, or think I know, how to <a>disable bluetooth </a>when, if ever I get to the desktop.
[122000510060] |But I’ve no idea how to otherwise.
[122000510070] |I tried in text mode (delete ‘splash’ from boot menu) but while I was able to 
[122000510080] |sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
[122000510090] |I couldn’t save it. 
[122000510100] |Something tells me it will be another 31 times before I get it right.
[122000510110] |Maybe it’s one of the signs of madness. 
[122000510120] |update: <a>BootOptions</a> is a useful tutorial
[122000520010] |<title>Gutsy Gibbon: following advice to get it booted: 1</title>
[122000520020] |Having tried all the codes I could find by putting them into the boot menu, I now hope to systematically follow the advice of <a>Aldeby</a> given in the comments to the last post.
[122000520030] |First of all his advice to go through the Function keys:
[122000520040] |alt+F1
[122000520050] |starting up….
[122000520060] |Loading, please wait… usplash: setting mode 1280×1280 failed usplash: setting mode 1152×864 failed usplash: using mode 1024/768 kinit: name_to_dev_t (/dev/disk/by-uuid/482503ea-1a16-4a02-a271-70cde4c9694e) =sda6 (8,6) kinit:trying to resume from /dev/disk/by-uuid/482503ea-1a16-4a02-a271-70cde4c9694e kinit: No resume image, doing normal boot…
[122000520070] |Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty1 myname-laptop login:myname Password: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx last login: Mon Dec 3 12:02:01 GMT 2007 on tty1 Linux philip-laptop 2.6.22-14-generic #1 SMP Sunday Oct 14 23:05:12 GMT 2007 i686
[122000520080] |The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software (etc)
[122000520090] |philip@philip-laptop:~$ 
[122000520100] |alt+F2
[122000520110] |Ubuntu 7.10 philip-laptop tty2 philip-laptop login: 
[122000520120] |alt+F3
[122000520130] |Ubuntu 7.10 philip-laptop tty3 philip-laptop login:
[122000520140] |alt+F4
[122000520150] |Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty4 philip-laptop login: 
[122000520160] |alt+F5
[122000520170] |Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty5 philip-laptop login: 
[122000520180] |alt+F6
[122000520190] |Ubuntu 7.10 myname-laptop tty6 philip-laptop login: 
[122000520200] |alt+F7 no response. 
[122000520210] |The question that arises from this is, once I get to
[122000520220] |<strong>philip@philip-laptop:~$</strong>
[122000520230] |<em>where do I go from there? </em>
[122000520240] |I haven’t a clue.
[122000520250] |All of the above is in a black screen. 
[122000520260] |I next tried 
[122000520270] |philip@philip-laptop:~$ sudo vim /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist
[122000520280] |Result:
[122000520290] |E325: ATTENTION Found a swap file by the name “etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist.swp owned by: root dated: Sun Dec 2 14:46:24 2007 filename:etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist modified: YES username:root host name myname-laptop process ID 5524 While opening file “etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist” dated Fri Ot 5 17:41:12 2007
[122000520300] |(1) Another program may be editing the same file.
[122000520310] |If this is the case, be careful not to end up with two different instances of the same file when making changes.
[122000520320] |Quit, or continue with caution.
[122000520330] |2) An edit session for this file crashed.
[122000520340] |If this is the case, use “:recover” or “vim-r /etc/modprobe.d/.blacklist” 
[122000520350] |I lost (3) as the screen went blank and hitting a key brings up another dense page of warnings. 
[122000520360] |So now, when I get another minute, I’m going to follow 2 of the 3 extra suggestions by Aldeby:
[122000520370] |1) upgrade your BIOS from Vista (a new version has been released recently) 2) downloading another image and burn it with a CD-R medium (or at least a new CD-RW or at least not the same cd-rw!!) 
[122000530010] |<title>Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem</title>
[122000530020] |Well, blacklisting Bluetooth didn’t work.
[122000530030] |Bootup still falls down at *Starting Bluetooth services.
[122000530040] |<a>Aldeby </a>(see comments in previous post) doubted that Bluetooth was the culprit, and it appears that he’s right. 
[122000530050] |The good news is that wireless worked out of the box, again as Aldeby predicted, so I’m inclined to listen to him! 
[122000530060] |The bad news is that Gutsy didn’t recognise my external usb hard disk, and froze after a while, probably because of that.
[122000530070] |The other bad news is that there is no logout icon on the logoff menu. 
[122000530080] |So I’m rapidly coming to the conclusion that Adleby was right about the faulty disc, too.
[122000530090] |The only trouble is I’ve tried that several times now.
[122000530100] |I can only hope with the experience gleaned so far that I won’t make as many mistakes next time. 
[122000530110] |But can you make a clean install without wiping out the grub menu?
[122000530120] |Update: it’s the simple things that an experienced user takes for granted that can flummox a new user or even someone who’s a linux user but hasn’t had to deal with the term before.
[122000530130] |Here’s a simple explanation of <a>clean install</a>. 
[122000540010] |<title>startx</title>
[122000540020] |update on the previous post:
[122000540030] |The question that arises from this is, once I get to
[122000540040] |philip@philip-laptop:~$
[122000540050] |where do I go from there?
[122000540060] |I haven’t a clue.
[122000540070] |All of the above is in a black screen.
[122000540080] |I’m not sure if this is the correct way to do it but I got to the desktop by using this: philip@philip-laptop:~$ startx
[122000550010] |<title>Memtest86</title>
[122000550020] |I ran a Memory Test as per one of <a>Aldeby</a>‘s suggestions.
[122000550030] |What I didn’t realise what that it <a>runs in a loop</a>.
[122000550040] |I let it run for 22 hours (48 passes) without it showing any faults, so I’m presuming it’s fine. 
[122000550050] |<a>ubuntu forums on Memtest</a>
[122000560010] |<title>Linux kernel parameters</title>
[122000560020] |<a>Aldeby</a> continues to give me wonderful support, for which public acknowledgement and thanks. 
[122000560030] |It’s ongoing and I haven’t got through everything by any means, but I will try to post about it here and in the forums when I’m clear about what I’m doing –or as near to to that as possible!
[122000560040] |I’ve been up so late with this so often that I’m not sure if I’m awake or asleep. 
[122000560050] |Meanwhile, I found the list of <a>Linux Kernel parameters </a>which some people might find useful. 
[122000570010] |<title>The dmesg command</title>
[122000570020] |Installed new kernel last night (from 2.6.22-24-14-generic to Latest Kernel Prepatch: 2.6.24-rc4 ). 
[122000570030] |Ongoing problems (no wireless, no sound, though usb hdd is loading), but in the meantime, here’s a useful link.
[122000570040] |<a>The dmesg command</a>
[122000580010] |<title>Up and Running</title>
[122000580020] |Well I’m delighted to say that Ubunty Gutsy 7.10 is running on my HP Pavillion dv6558ea Intel Core duo.
[122000580030] |I make a point about giving the computer its full title, as there are subtle and not so subtle variations between the dv6500 family, it would seem. 
[122000580040] |There are still a few tweaks to be made but essentially I have a working computer with sound (though not yet in Skype).
[122000580050] |The initial key was blacklisting Bluetooth.
[122000580060] |Once that was blacklisted I was able to get into the desktop at least –a very big step. 
[122000580070] |I’m too tired to give a detailed account but I will in the next few days, hopefully.
[122000580080] |I may have one major problem left, ie the system freezes on logout.
[122000580090] |I think this was due to the external usb hard disk, but Aldeby spotted something in the logs that shouldn’t have been there, so now that that’s gone it should be okay.
[122000580100] |Fingers crossed. 
[122000580110] |As I say I’ll try to explain in more detail over the next few days.
[122000590010] |<title>Irish Culture</title>
[122000590020] |Please note that <a>Irish Culture Guide</a> (see Sister Sites in side panel) has been moved to www.irishculture.ie
[122000590030] |Thank you. 
[122000590040] |<a>Irish Culture Guide</a> 
[122000590050] |More on Ubuntu soon!
[122000600010] |<title>Open Source and free software</title>
[122000600020] |I’ve just updated my <a>Open Source and Free Software</a> page, in case anyone is interested ;>)
[122000610010] |<title>Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem revisited</title>
[122000610020] |Apologies for being so long in returning to this subject, as promised on December 15.
[122000610030] |If you’ve read my entry <a>Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem</a> from December 4, you’ll have read that my attempts to blacklist Bluetooth failed. 
[122000610040] |I’ve had some comments and emails about this, and it seems to be a particular problem with HP Pavillions.
[122000610050] |Thankfully, the solution I finally found on https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug172660 (<em>no longer a valid link</em>, unfortunately) worked for me and worked for those who asked me about it. 
[122000610060] |Unfortunately it entails disabling Bluetooth.
[122000610070] |The tip is to disable Bluetooth by adding
[122000610080] |<strong>exit 0;</strong>
[122000610090] |at the beginning of <strong>/etc/init.d/bluetooth</strong>
[122000610100] |In your terminal, type or copy this. 
[122000610110] |~$ nano /etc/init.d/bluetooth
[122000610120] |Click on the image below to see where you insert <em>exit 0; </em>
[122000610130] |If you have trouble getting into your desktop, see Aldeby’s comments at <a>Starting Bluetooth Services: Gutsy bootup problem</a> 
[122000610140] |I think I tried a different code before, but failed before, but this time 7.10 generic launched flawlessly without any parameters in the boot menu.
[122000610150] |<a>Aldeby’s</a> advice to use <em>nano </em>instead of <em>vim</em> was the key –vim is too complicated for non-geeks like me. 
[122000610160] |Aldeby has a very good tutorial on HP Pavillions here: <a>Howto: Ubuntu on HP pavilion dv65xx series laptop</a>
[122000610170] |If this works for you I’d appreciated if you left a comment including what computer you have. 
[122000620010] |<title>Hardy Heron Countdown</title>
[122000620020] |I’m looking forward to the next version of Ubuntu, Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), due on April 25, as I’m hoping it will fix a few things I’ve been too busy/lazy to fix or track down myself.
[122000620030] |These include mounting usb devices without having to reboot; <a>Gnome </a>not loading properly every nine boots or so; and some sound issues.
[122000620040] |Just to explain further the last two: 
[122000620050] |By Gnome not loading properly I mean that the desktop background loads, but nothing else –no menus or icons.
[122000620060] |Usually rebooting does the trick, but on at least one occasion I had to close down and remove all power, including the battery, before it loaded properly.
[122000620070] |I thought at the time that it might have something to do with a new beta of <a>Songbird</a>, but now I’m not so sure; 
[122000620080] |The sound issue comes down to <a>Audacity</a>, really.
[122000620090] |I was hoping that the new <a>PulseAudio sound server</a> would solve it, but it seems that <a>Audacity is not compatible with Pulseaudio.The current common practice is to kill the Pulseaudio server in order to use Audacity</a>.
[122000620100] |Apparently this also affects <a>the video player MPlayer.
[122000620110] |Changes are in the works, but have not made it to the stable code base yet.</a>
[122000620120] |That’s a real pain, but perhaps I should just try another programme, like <a>Rosegarden</a>, though it seems too sophisticated for what I need.
[122000620130] |<a>Sweep</a>, perhaps?
[122000620140] |It doesn’t appear to save in .mp3, presumably for copyright reasons, though it does in many other formats. 
[122000620150] |One last thing: maybe I’ll be able to use Bluetooth with the new Ubuntu on my HP Pavillion.
[122000620160] |Not that I’d use it much.
[122000620170] |Just that it’d be nice…
[122000630010] |<title>How To Upgrade Your Desktop From Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) To 8.04 LTS (Hardy Heron)</title>
[122000630020] |I’m not yet sure whether to do a clean install or simply upgrade to the new Ubuntu.
[122000630030] |If you have the same dilemma, check this out at <a>HowtoForge</a>
[122000630040] |What to do <em>after</em> you install is covered by <a>Tombuntu</a>
[122000640010] |<title>gnome-session does not wait long enough for dbus-daemon to start</title>
[122000640020] |This bug has been plagueing me and a lot of others for some time.
[122000640030] |As I mentioned in <a>Hardy Heron Countdown</a>, below, the desktop fails to load properly every nine boots or so.
[122000640040] |It’s usually though not always accompanied by this bug notice: 
[122000640050] |<small>click on image to enlarge</small>
[122000640060] |I got fed-up putting up with it (especially as while it’s usually ok after a restart, sometimes I’m forced to take out power, including battery, before it restarts properly), so I went hunting the bug.
[122000640070] |It’s described at <a>http://bugzilla.gnome.org</a>
[122000640080] |<a>gnome-session does not wait long enough for dbus-daemon to start</a>
[122000640090] |Apparently, this is what happens
[122000640100] |dbus-daemon starts, then dies on SIGPIPE.
[122000640110] |This results in all dbus-dependent desktop components to either die (SIGABRT) or misbehave.
[122000640120] |Expected results: dbus-daemon should continue to run for the life of the GNOME session.
[122000640130] |Does this happen every time?
[122000640140] |No, but in GNOME 2.17, it is much more likely to happen.
[122000640150] |As the version of Gnome which comes with Ubuntu Hardy Heron is 2.22, let’s hope that this particular nuisance is gone for good. 
[122000650010] |<title>IrishTeam/HardyReleaseParty</title>
[122000650020] |The <a>Irish Linux User Group</a> will be having a PoTD (Pint of the Day) to celebrate the birth of Hardy Heron, on 1st May 2008 in the Long Stone Pub, Townsend Street, central Dublin. (<a>map to the venue</a>) 18:30 or so onwards
[122000650030] |<a>IrishTeam/HardyReleaseParty</a> (see <a>ILUG post about PoTD</a>) <a>The Long Stone Pub</a>
[122000660010] |<title>Wordpress 2.51 in Ubuntu</title>
[122000660020] |I’ve just installed the latest WordPress for a friend, and it’s a beauty but there are a few things to trip up the unwary, especially if you haven’t upgraded to the latest Flash in Ubuntu.
[122000660030] |There are postings around the net about the best way to do this, but the <a>Flash site </a>itself is the simplest, I think.
[122000660040] |Just click on Installation instructions and you should have installed in a few minutes. 
[122000660050] |That’s step one.
[122000660060] |The extra code that should go into the .htaccess files is at <a>B Space</a>.
[122000660070] |And finally, there is a curious and annoying quirk that distorts thumbnail images. 
[122000660080] |If you don’t want your thumbnails to get distorted, you need to change WordPress 2.5’s default setting before you upload your photos into the media manager.
[122000660090] |Go to Settings >Miscellaneous and UNcheck the “Crop thumbnail to exact dimensions (normally thumbnails are proportional)” box.
[122000660100] |Thanks to <a>Sillybean.net </a>for that one. 
[122000660110] |Yes, I’ll upgrade my own WordPress sites asap, as while every radical new design entails a learning curve, this one will be worth it, I think.
[122000660120] |But do see to the above caveats first. 
[122000670010] |<title>Use the Windows Key for the “Start” Menu in Ubuntu Linux</title>
[122000670020] |When you’ve been with Ubuntu a while, the little reminders of Windows can be a source of mild irritation.
[122000670030] |I mean, what is one to do with the Windows Key in Ubuntu?
[122000670040] |Well, as it happens, here’s what, thanks to <a>How-to-geek</a>:
[122000670050] |Ubuntu has a dropdown menu at the top of the screen to launch applications, which is very similar to the way Windows has the start menu at the bottom of the screen.
[122000670060] |If you are a windows user new to Ubuntu, you may prefer to have the windows key launch the applications menu.
[122000670070] |Thankfully this is an easy thing to do in Ubuntu.
[122000670080] |Go to the details at <a>How-To-Geek here</a>
[122000680010] |<title>SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver revisited</title>
[122000680020] |I’m bumping this again for my own convenience and hopefully someone else who needs it will find it. 
[122000680030] |[<strong>update: in case you haven't done this before and are wondering where is cdroot - when you extract the .tar.gz it extracts to a folder called cdroot</strong>.]
[122000680040] |[Ubuntu OS Installation] 1.
[122000680050] |Download and extract the driver 2.
[122000680060] |Open ”Root Terminal” 3.
[122000680070] |Execute installation program. $ sudo cdroot/autorun 4.
[122000680080] |After intall, PPD path is set again. $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/cups/model/samsung /usr/share/ppd/custom/samsung 5.
[122000680090] |Execute Configurator, and Add your printer model name by Add Printer 
[122000680100] |I’m not sure I know what all of that means, but see also <a>HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver </a>(Mini-guide to installing Samsung printers  Unified Driver:Updated 28 April 2008 )
[122000680110] |<a>SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver</a>
[122000690010] |<title>Winflash for HP Notebook</title>
[122000690020] |I’m having freezes in Ubuntu 7.10 with increasing frequency, so an upgrade is getting more urgent.
[122000690030] |I decided, having done some reading on the web, to first upgrade the bios on my HP Pavillion 6558ea, and after some difficulty in finding the right webpage, I came across this curious note:
[122000690040] |Fixes 
[122000690050] |# Modifies the thermal policy to lower the local alert temperature. #<strong> Fixes an intermittent issue where the notebook does not detect the hard drive when booting.</strong>
[122000690060] |<em>An intermittent issue where the notebook does not detect the hard drive when booting</em> sounds suspiciously like what’s been happening.
[122000690070] |It’s really extraordinary that a company of HP’s reputation would release a computer with this fault. 
[122000690080] |Anyway, the procedure went well –done in Vista of course.
[122000690090] |I’m not sure that I’ve noticed any difference, but hopefully the freezing will now stop.
[122000690100] |I’ve been reading very mixed reviews about Ubuntu 8.04 but I’ll give it a go shortly. 
[122000690110] |If you have an HP Pavillion 6558ea, this is the page for the <a>Winflash bios upgrade</a> (Release Date: 2008-04-25, Version: F.53)
[122000700010] |<title>DVD won’t play in Hardy Heron</title>
[122000700020] |I got myself a dvd of the Irish film <a>Garage</a> and after a long day sat back to enjoy it on my computer and to my surprise it didn’t work.
[122000700030] |All I got was a “Can’t read from source” error.
[122000700040] |I thought I’d all the codecs installed, but it seems it has something to do with encryption.
[122000700050] |Well, I paid good money for it on <a>Amazon</a><img/> so I had no worries about that. 
[122000700060] |Anyway, the <a>solution</a> is to go to <em>System->Help and Support</em>, then <em>Music, Videos and Photos</em>, then <em>Playing DVDs</em>. 
[122000700070] |Great film, by the way, if you like films about real people. 
[122000700080] |<strong>Update</strong>: I completely forgot that <a>Ubuntu Tutorials</a> had blogged about this just the other night.
[122000700090] |It might be simpler to go there first. 
[122000700100] |<a>Enable Commercial DVD Playback on Ubuntu 8.04</a>
[122000710010] |<title>SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver in Hardy Heron: Success at last</title>
[122000710020] |This must be my lucky day.
[122000710030] |I haven’t mentioned it here, but I recently updated to Hardy Heron, without a hitch.
[122000710040] |All my old problems with Bluetooth, crashes, and so forth, disappeared.
[122000710050] |It may have been so smooth because I updated the HP Pavillion bios (in Vista), which I think was previously causing untold problems. 
[122000710060] |Anyway, today, I installed wireless, having done without it for a few weeks, again without problems, and decided it was time to install the printer, and with a bit of luck, the scanner.
[122000710070] |To recap, I have a Samsung Laser Multifunction SCX-4200, which seems to have caused untold grief on Ubuntu, and not just for me. 
[122000710080] |I followed the <a>HOWTO Install Samsung Unified Printer Driver</a> instructions at Ubuntu Forums, but while that installed the printer, the scanner was nowhere to be seen. 
[122000710090] |It really doesn’t have to be this hard, does it? 
[122000710100] |Which is not a dig at <strong>tweedledee</strong>, who so generously got so many Samsung printers running, including mine, but I think his tutorial is now outdated with the new Samsung driver –unless of course, the Samsung instructions are a security risk. 
[122000710110] |<strong>Are they?</strong>
[122000710120] |UPDATE: I forgot I also followed the instructions <a>here</a>, which may have been crucial.
[122000710130] |Thanks <em>tayroni</em>.
[122000710140] |Anyway, I thought I’d uninstall and try again, this time with the instructions from the Samsung site, but having followed the initial tweedledee instructions –<em>sudo chown -R root:root *</em> –all permissions were locked up in root, so I couldn’t uninstall. 
[122000710150] |I’m not too good at the remembering codes but after much searching I found the code: <em>chmod -R 777</em> (thanks <a>Nihilocrat at Ubuntu Forums</a>), which get ALL the existing files and subdirectories to 777, that is, back to where you are the owner, not root. 
[122000710160] |So, if my memory serves, in the Terminal, cd ~/cdroot yourusername:~$ ~/cdroot$ yourusername:~$ ~/cdroot$ chmod -R 777 Linux
[122000710170] |That allowed me to uninstall. 
[122000710180] |So, back to the Samsung site instructions. (remember, <em>cdroot</em> is the folder the driver extracts to)
[122000710190] |[Ubuntu OS Installation] 1.
[122000710200] |Download and extract the driver 2.
[122000710210] |Open ”Root Terminal” 3.
[122000710220] |Execute installation program. $ sudo cdroot/autorun 4.
[122000710230] |After intall, PPD path is set again. $ sudo ln -s /usr/share/cups/model/samsung /usr/share/ppd/custom/samsung 5.
[122000710240] |Execute Configurator, and Add your printer model name by Add Printer 
[122000710250] |It was so simple I couldn’t believe it.
[122000710260] |Done.
[122000710270] |Just go to Applications/Samsung Unified Driver/Samsung Unified Driver Configurator.
[122000710280] |Click on the Scanner symbol.
[122000710290] |The SCX-4200 Series on USB 0 icon will appear.
[122000710300] |Highlight it, then click on Properties, and then you can scan to your heart’s content.
[122000710310] |The software isn’t as fancy as in Windows, but it works perfectly, and you can resize the image too. 
[122000710320] |I really hope there are no security issues in this.
[122000710330] |Do check the <a>forum on this</a> before risking your setup. 
[122000710340] |Now for <a>OCR</a>.
[122000720010] |<title>Compiz+Hardy Heron+HP Pavillion dv 6588ea</title>
[122000720020] |While waiting for an email to come in, I set to wondering about Compiz on my notebook, running Hardy Heron.
[122000720030] |From Add/Remove Applications I installed Advanced Desktop Effects Settings, Compiz Fusion Icon, and Desktop Effects. 
[122000720040] |These seem to have given me, via System/Prefernces/Control Center/Advanced Desktop Effects –certain effects, like transparent windows, Wobbly Windows, and the Windows open and close in a peculiar fashion, whatever that’s called!!
[122000720050] |I think it may be Fading Windows. 
[122000720060] |But I can’t seem to get the Cube, or perhaps even more useful, 
[122000720070] |I downloaded <a>Compiz Check from Furlong’s Blog</a> and got this information. 
[122000720080] |Gathering information about your system…
[122000720090] |Distribution: Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop environment: GNOME Graphics chip: Intel Corporation Mobile GM965/GL960 Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 0c) Driver in use: intel Rendering method: AIGLX
[122000720100] |Checking if it’s possible to run Compiz on your system…
[122000720110] |Checking for texture_from_pixmap… [ OK ] Checking for non power of two support… [ OK ] Checking for composite extension… [ OK ] Checking for FBConfig… [ OK ] Checking for hardware/setup problems… [ OK ]
[122000720120] |That’s all I’ve time for now, but I’ll return to this.
[122000720130] |I’ll be amazed if I get it going. 
[122000730010] |<title>New Compiz: Tombuntu shows how</title>
[122000730020] |The ever-informative and interesting <a>Tombuntu</a> shows how to install the latest Compiz and how to get the Cylinder and Sphere deformations going.
[122000730030] |Great fun. 
[122000730040] |<a>Upgrade to the Latest Compiz: Tombuntu</a>
[122000740010] |<title>Removing Moonlight</title>
[122000740020] |I needed to see a video recommended by my cousin but it required Silverlight.
[122000740030] |I should have booted into Vista and downloaded Siverlight, but without thinking I found the equivalent for Linux, Moonlight, and installed it.
[122000740040] |Big mistake.
[122000740050] |It all ran smoothly, however, thanks to instructions from <a>Tim’s Moonlight Installation Page</a> and those who want Moonlight have reason to be grateful.
[122000740060] |Tim recommends that you 
[122000740070] |sit back and relax as Moonlight is installed.
[122000740080] |It took half the night to install what appears to have been a couple of gig of diskspace.
[122000740090] |Now I want to get rid of it. 
[122000740100] |<a>Out, damned spot!</a>
[122000740110] |But I can’t. 
[122000740120] |All suggestions welcome. 
[122000740130] |For the record, the video was Muhammed Yunus speaking at the Microsoft Partners Conference and it was well worth the trouble.
[122000740140] |However, for those of you without Silverlight/Moonlight, check out this great Nobel Prize-winner <a>here</a>.
[122000740150] |There are several videos of him at this site but I recommend his talk on Social Business to the Commonwealth Club San Francisco, CA.
[122000750010] |<title> DVD-drive won’t work after kernel update to 2.6.20-16</title>
[122000750020] |Apologies for the long absence from this blog, especially as we now have Intrepid Ibex!
[122000750030] |I wasn’t well for a while, but I’m catching up now.
[122000750040] |It seems a lot of people were hit by an update to the linux kernel which disabled their dvd drives.
[122000750050] |I was one of them and it’s been difficult to find the solution, but this one from Merlin on Ubuntu Forums seems to work for me –at last!
[122000750060] |Open your fstab <em>sudo gedit /etc/fstab</em> and follow these instructions by Merlin 
[122000750070] |Try commenting out all the other lines referring to your cd drive
[122000750080] |and adding
[122000750090] |/dev/hdb /media/cdrom0 udf,iso9660 user,noauto 0 0
[122000750100] |Good luck!
[122000750110] |-merlin
[122000750120] |It worked for me, Merlin, thanks.
[122000750130] |As I like to buy a disc to upgrade, rather than through update manager, I can now proceed to install Intrepid Ibex. 
[122000760010] |<title>Lightning Thunderbird ext won’t work after upgrade to Ibex</title>
[122000760020] |I rely greatly on my Lightning Calendar extension in Thunderbird, so there was much furrowing of the brows when Lightning just wouldn’t work.
[122000760030] |After trying this and that, I found the solution.
[122000760040] |Many modern Linux distributions, and obviously Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex, only package libstdc++6, which is incompatible with Lightning.
[122000760050] |You need to install libstdc++5, which you can do in System/Administration/Synaptic Package Manager.
[122000760060] |<strong>Update</strong> You have to delete Lightning and reinstall it before everything works.
[122000760070] |But you figured that out, right?
[122000760080] |Just to reassure you, deleting Lightning won’t affect your data.
[122000760090] |Now all is well and I’m happy as a pig in flight (and about to do a clean install of Ibex, so pray for me). 
[122000760100] |Hat-tip to <strong>ssitter</strong> at the <a>MozillaZine Forum</a>
[122000770010] |<title>Intrepid Ibex is a Beauty</title>
[122000770020] |Well, I went and did it the day Obama got elected.
[122000770030] |Perhaps it was eurphoria over the American result, but I let <strong>Intrepid Ibex</strong> take over the whole disk, obliterating Vista for good. 
[122000770040] |I had tried to make a separate partition for /home with Gparted, but failed for some reason, probably tiredness.
[122000770050] |Anyway, I decided I didn’t need it after all, and let Ibex take over.
[122000770060] |It actually recognised my home contents and imported them into the new home folder.
[122000770070] |So now I’ve acres of space and a home folder instead of a /home partition.
[122000770080] |That’s okay by me.
[122000770090] |One glitch.
[122000770100] |It seemed to import an old version of my Documents folder.
[122000770110] |Newer, important files were missing.
[122000770120] |Obviously an old backup.
[122000770130] |But never fear: Ibex had renamed my /home partition as media, and the the up-to-date contents were snugly available there.
[122000770140] |I just had to click on View/Show Hidden Files to retrieve my Thunderbird and Firefox settings, and copy and paste them into the new home folder.
[122000770150] |A bit confusing and troublesome, but all was well. 
[122000770160] |If you don’t want to risk all that, have a look at Howto: <a>Fresh Ubuntu Install without losing your current settings. </a>
[122000770170] |Or simply back up everything including your .mozilla and .mozilla-thunderbird etc hidden files (see above), and copy them back into your home folder. 
[122000770180] |By the way, I found a nice, workable theme: <a>Ubuntu Dust</a>.
[122000770190] |Each to his/her own, but this is a lovely workable theme.
[122000770200] |As for my desktop image, sorry, that’s just for me. :>)
[122000770210] |Wireless worked beautifully by the way –always crucial.
[122000770220] |With Ubuntu 7.10, as is recorded on this blog, I went through endless loops to get it working on my HP Pavillion DV 6000.
[122000770230] |Now, it’s as easy as pie.
[122000770240] |Experience?
[122000770250] |Nope.
[122000770260] |It just worked, with the usual caveat of media codecs.
[122000770270] |As far as I recall, there was a prompt as to what to do to download them.
[122000770280] |I think I’m still missing Quicktime, but I’ll get around to that. 
[122000780010] |<title>OCR Revisited</title>
[122000780020] |A minor disaster the other day: my trusty Acer notebook died.
[122000780030] |I say minor disaster as my HP Pavillion is as happy as a pig in flight with Intrepid Ibex.
[122000780040] |However, the Acer still had xp on a partition, and on that xp was Optical Character Recognition software, which was ancient but still did the trick.
[122000780050] |I need this primarily for the website <a>Patrick Chapman</a> and I founded a while back, <a>Irish Literary Revival</a>.
[122000780060] |In truth the site has been neglected for a while, but both Patrick and I had discussed additions and I was half way through scanning <a>Heather Brett</a>‘s first book, Abigail Brown. 
[122000780070] |Anyway, it’s forced me to look at Linux solutions for OCR, and the only real runner that I know of is <a>ocropus</a>, the Google-sponsored open source document analysis and OCR system.
[122000780080] |I’ve downloaded ocropus-0.3.1.tar.gz, but the Google wiki Documentation for <a>installation on Ubuntu is for 0.5</a>, and looks very complicated, so I’m going to bookmark <a>nubae’s Habari | Linux and Education piece on ocrupus</a> as not only does it look simpler, but it details a bug with regard to Intrepid Ibex
[122000780090] |Tesseract source has a bug that doesn’t allow it to compile with gcc 4.3 (Intrepid Ibex comes with this default) 
[122000780100] |I haven’t time to play with it for the next while, but I’ll document my adventures here when I do. 
[122000790010] |<title>HP releases netbook interface for Ubuntu</title>
[122000790020] |This is really good news.
[122000790030] |As I noted in my last post, my old Acer notebook died recently, and I had come to appreciate the value of a second computer (my old pal <a>Paddy Doyle</a> had been preaching this for years), but was baulking at a second notebook.
[122000790040] |So I was looking askance at a netbook solution, particularly as I’ll have to do some serious library research soon. 
[122000790050] |Paddy had been singing the praises of the <a>Samsung NC10</a>, and I was pondering how to put Ubuntu onto it, as that comes with XP. 
[122000790060] |But enter the <a>HP Mini 1000 Mi Edition</a> with a custom version of Ubuntu Linux designed for netbooks.
[122000790070] |<a>See Download Squad for review and pictures</a>. 
[122000790080] |It comes in a 10.1 inch version for old eyes like mine, too.
[122000790090] |But I wonder why it uses Ubunto 8.04, rather than 8.10?
[122000790100] |I suppose these things take a while to develop. 
[122000790110] |I doubt if it’s on this side of the water (ie Ireland) yet, but I can wait.
[122000790120] |I think. 
[122000800010] |<title>HP drops Linux from European netbooks</title>
[122000800020] |Well, HP just lost a customer. 
[122000800030] |I’m a daily reader of <a>Silicon Republic</a>, which notes this morning that
[122000800040] |HP drops Linux from European netbooks
[122000800050] |06.02.2009 Computer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard (HP) has decided to no longer offer the Linux version of the new HP Mini 1000 in a number of European markets.
[122000800060] |The new netbook was due to go on sale in Europe this month.
[122000800070] |In the US, the Linux version of the Mini 1000 comes with Ubuntu’s flavour of Linux.
[122000800080] |Instead, in certain markets across Europe, including Ireland and the UK, HP will sell the Compaq 700 and the HP Vivienne Tam edition of the Mini 1000 (pictured), both of which come with Windows XP installed.
[122000800090] |Bad move, HP, in my humble opinion.
[122000800100] |And certainly bad PR.
[122000800110] |There’s such a thing as engendering customer loyalty, and I don’t think this is the way to do it.
[122000800120] |So I’ll most likely drop HP off my list for a new notebook, too, when the time comes, and certainly will give friends and relations a wider list to choose from, as a couple are in the market for computers just now. 
[122000800130] |What a pity. 
[122000810010] |<title>Oh that restricted DVD again!</title>
[122000810020] |<h3>Enable Commercial DVD Playback in Ubuntu</h3>
[122000810030] |I hadn’t played a film/movie on my computer for some time –obviously since before upgrading to Ubuntu 8.10.
[122000810040] |So furrowed brows when my Dave Allen DVD (yes, you have to be a certain age to remember Dave Allen) just wouldn’t work. 
[122000810050] |It’s funny how you forget to do things once you get them working, and I’d forgotten this one.
[122000810060] |I tried several solutions I looked up on Google and Ubuntu Forums to no avail (they were probably out of date), but <a>this one from the ever-reliable Tombuntu </a>did the trick.
[122000810070] |His suggestion re VLC is spot on, too. 
[122000810080] |<a>Dave Allen DVDs</a><img/>
[122000820010] |<title>Web-based software: steps to freedom</title>
[122000820020] |One of the perennial questions about moving to Linux is if it has the equivalent of the software that the questioner can’t live without. 
[122000820030] |In my own case I hesitated before I blitzed Windows because of the dozen or so websites I look after both for myself and my friends.
[122000820040] |How would I check how the site looked in IE?
[122000820050] |Of course there’s always <a>Wine</a>, an excellent project, and I tried that for a while, but didn’t bother to install it when I upgraded to Intrepid Ibex. 
[122000820060] |Then, how to check broken links If you have a site with over a thousand links, as I have in <a>Irish Culture Guide</a>, for example.
[122000820070] |With Windows I used the excellent <a>Xenu’s Link Sleuth (TM)</a>. 
[122000820080] |Naturally I checked its website to see if it had a Linux equivalent 
[122000820090] |No, I won’t make a Java, MacOS, Linux, Knoppix, Ubuntu, Beos, Palm, C64 or SAP version.
[122000820100] |Don’t even ask!
[122000820110] |(However I have been told that it will run faultlessly under Red Hat 8 and Ubuntu via wine, and under Crossover on a Mac <img/>) 
[122000820120] |The poor developer (Tilman Hausherr) must be swamped with requests. 
[122000820130] |The thing is, of course, that more and more software is web-based.
[122000820140] |And I’ve found two that are a godsend for anyone who does a lot of work with websites.
[122000820150] |Some professionals may turn up their nose, though I can’t think of a reason why they should. 
[122000820160] |<strong><a>IE Net Renderer</a></strong>
[122000820170] |<strong><a>Dead Links</a></strong>
[122000820180] |Their names say it all, I think.
[122000820190] |Dead Links warns that it will tag a link as dead if it takes too long to load, and a rule of thumb is that if it is the domain name, eg http://www.domainname.com, it’s unlikely to be dead.
[122000820200] |This is a sensible compromise between accuracy and speed. 
[122000820210] |So. two more steps along the road to freedom. 
[122000830010] |<title>Similar Programs in Windows and Ubuntu revisited.</title>
[122000830020] |Back in May 2007 I wrote this
[122000830030] |After four months on Ubuntu (Edgy Eft) I surprised myself the other day by realising how few programs I’ve actually changed from Windows Xp.
[122000830040] |Of course I used a lot of open source on windows anyway, and there have been a few programs I haven’t been able to replace on a practical level. 
[122000830050] |So here’s a list (everybody’s making them, so why not me). 
[122000830060] |What seems second nature now seemed pretty complicated then, so I thought I’d reproduce the list with a March 2009 update.
[122000830070] |<strong>NB</strong> Many can be simply installed through Add/Remove, or come as standard, but I give the link to the website anyway. 
[122000830080] |<strong>PDF viewer</strong>: Xp: Adobe Ubuntu: Adobe <strong>update March 09:</strong> <a>evince Document Viewer</a>
[122000830090] |<strong>Browser: </strong>Xp: Firefox Ubuntu: Firefox
[122000830100] |<strong>Mail: </strong>Xp:Thunderbird Ubuntu: Thunderbird
[122000830110] |<strong>html editor:</strong> Xp: 1st Page 2000 Ubuntu: Bluefish
[122000830120] |<strong>Simple Graphics:</strong> Xp:Irfan View Ubuntu: Irfan View (via WINE) <strong>update March 09:</strong> I now use <a>Gimp</a> almost exclusively, with occasional use of the tools in <a>Digikam</a>. 
[122000830130] |<strong>Complex Graphics:</strong> Xp:<a> Photofiltre:</a> Ubuntu: Gimp (<del datetime="2009-03-18T20:57:45+00:00">still too complicated for me but</del> see <a>Gimp Quickies</a>). <strong>update March 09:</strong> Much more familiar with <a>Gimp</a> –for what I need to do. 
[122000830140] |<strong>Photo organizer:</strong> Xp:Picassa (K)Ubuntu: Digikam
[122000830150] |<strong>Music Organizer:</strong> Xp:Songbird Ubuntu:Songbird
[122000830160] |<strong>FTP </strong>Xp: Filezilla 2.5 Ubuntu: <a>Filezilla 3 beta</a> <strong>update March 09:</strong> Filezilla
[122000830170] |<strong>Word Processing:</strong> Xp: Open Office Ubuntu :Open Office
[122000830180] |<strong>Genealogy:</strong> Xp: Personal Ancestral File, GenealogyJ Ubuntu: Gramps (haven’t downloaded crossplatform <a>GenealogyJ</a> yet) <strong>update March 09:</strong> Now exclusively use <a>PHPGedview</a>
[122000830190] |<strong>Anti-virus</strong>: Xp: AVG Ubuntu: AVG for Linux <del datetime="2009-03-18T20:57:45+00:00">(they say you don’t need it but…)</del> <strong>update March 09:</strong> Ubuntu security. 
[122000830200] |<strong>Firewall:</strong> Xp: Agnitum Fireall Ubuntu: Firestarter <strong>update March 09:</strong> Ubuntu security. 
[122000830210] |<strong>Dictionary/Thesaurus:</strong> Xp: Wordweb Ubuntu: Wordweb (via WINE) <strong>update March 09:</strong> <a>Open Dictionary</a> and <a>Open Dict.</a>
[122000830220] |<strong>Colour Picker:</strong> Xp: Color Cop Ubuntu: Color Cop (via WINE) <strong>update March 09:</strong> <a>Agave</a> (click on a color/colour button beside the drop-down menu and up pops an excellent colour/color picker, complete with eyedropper that you can drag anywhere onto your screen to select that color/colour.)
[122000830230] |<strong>Mind Mapping</strong>: Xp: Freemind Ubuntu: None (haven’t downloaded Freemind yet <del datetime="2009-03-18T20:57:45+00:00">and apparently <a>it’s tricky to install on Ubuntu</a>)</del> <strong>update March 09:</strong> <a>Xmind</a> (though I haven’t used it much.
[122000830240] |I believe<a> Freemind is easier to install now. </a>
[122000830250] |<strong>Media Pre-Production: </strong>Xp: Celtx Ubuntu:<del datetime="2009-03-18T20:57:45+00:00"> None.(haven’t downloaded <a>Celtx</a> yet.
[122000830260] |No script to write at present ;>)</del> <strong>update March 09:</strong> <a>Celtx</a>
[122000830270] |<strong>Astronomy:</strong> Xp: Stellarium Ubuntu: None (haven’t downloaded <a>Stellarium </a>yet). <strong>update March 09:</strong> ie I haven’t installed it yet.
[122000830280] |It’s in Add/Remove.
[122000830290] |<strong>Sound Editor:</strong> Xp: Audacity Ubuntu: <a>Audacity </a>(except it isn’t working in Ubuntu –due to clashing sound codecs?) <strong>update March 09:</strong> Still have the sound problem. 
[122000830300] |<strong>Collection Manager:</strong> Xp: MediaMan Ubuntu: <a>Tellico</a>
[122000830310] |<strong>File Extractor:</strong> Xp: Zipgenius Ubuntu: Nautilus Extract Here (on the right-click menu)
[122000830320] |<strong>OCR:</strong> Xp: Omnipage SE Ubuntu: hopefully the software on the 3-in-1 scanner when/if I get it working. <strong>update March 09:</strong> Nope, no ocr in the software.
[122000830330] |Scans okay, but no OCR.
[122000830340] |Hoping that <a>ocropus</a> will do the job. 
[122000830350] |<strong>Unit converter</strong> Xp: Numerical Chameleon Ubuntu: None (Haven’t downloaded crossplatform <a>Numerical Chameleon</a> yet) <strong>update March 09:</strong> <a>ConvertAll</a>
[122000830360] |<a>Tellico</a> is for KDE, not Gnome, which I use, but works delightfully.
[122000830370] |Likewise <a>DigiKam</a> (I’d probably look at more in KDE, if every program didn’t have a K in it!
[122000830380] |The other new programs I’m very happy with are <a>Bluefish Editor</a>, <del datetime="2009-03-18T20:39:54+00:00"><a>Gramps Genealogy Project</a></del>, and <a>Geany Text Editor</a>.
[122000830390] |<del datetime="2009-03-18T20:52:57+00:00">I’d prefer to make a clean sweep and not use WINE, but GIMP is too complicated at the moment (just takes time, I suppose), and I couldn’t get a powerful enough dictionary that I could install.
[122000830400] |Bluefish doesn’t have everything I want</del>, but I can work around that very well.
[122000830410] |I tried to use<a> Aptana</a>, but it was too much for what I needed at present.
[122000830420] |<a>Zim Desktop Wiki </a>is another new program which has proved useful (get it in Applications/Add Remove)
[122000830430] |That’s it, I think.
[122000830440] |Comments welcome, as usual.
[122000840010] |<title> Ubuntu 9.04′s New Themes</title>
[122000840020] |<a>Softpedia reports</a> that 
[122000840030] |What else can we tell you?… the new themes look and feel great!
[122000840040] |Once again, we would like to mention the fact that the above themes are created by third-party authors: New Wave is created by Anton Kerezov, Dust and Dust Sand are created by Rico Sta. Cruz and Kido Mariano.
[122000840050] |And, now that we have a new login screen, new notifications and three new nice themes… all we need is a breathtaking wallpaper.
[122000840060] |Well, that’s great.
[122000840070] |I can testify that Dust is a great theme.
[122000840080] |I’ve been <a>using it</a> since installing Intrepid Ibex. 
[122000850010] |<title>Xampp and Wordpress revisited</title>
[122000850020] |I do very little website design these days.
[122000850030] |I only ever did it for myself and some friends, and we are mostly catered for now.
[122000850040] |However I’ve moved most of us to a wordpress cms, and finetuning can be a pain if you have to ftp every change.
[122000850050] |Enter Xampp and WordPress.
[122000850060] |I had installed xampp a few years ago, thanks to a tutorial by a blogger called Rumore.
[122000850070] |Unfortunately Rumore seems to have gone offline, and I had forgotten how to do it. 
[122000850080] |Complicating matters was the fact that every time I tried to download Xampp for Linux, the download would first of all download quickly and then very soon crawl to a halt.
[122000850090] |I didn’t realise for a while that the the reason terminal couldn’t unpack the file properly was because it was so incomplete.
[122000850100] |What to do?
[122000850110] |I tried several times, before I realised I’d have to rely on wget in terminal. 
[122000850120] |But I didn’t know how to do that either. 
[122000850130] |After much searching I found the perfect tutorial: <a>Install XAMPP on Ubuntu</a> on <a>Human Language Weblog </a>(there’s also an How to Install Lamp tutorial on the same Weblog).
[122000850140] |Previously I couldn’t figure out what was causing the slow download.
[122000850150] |The Xampp website redirected me to Sourceforge and that obviously spotted I was in Ireland and so I was marked for download from <a>HEANet</a>. 
[122000850160] |I’ve noticed that Ubuntu update is very slow too.
[122000850170] |Is it HEANet, a fault in the download manager, or my serivce provider?
[122000850180] |I’m not sure. 
[122000850190] |Anyway, wget ran into the same problems of a slow and disconnecting download, the difference being that it reconnected automatically, and eventually I had my full 54 Mb package, and everything installed without a hitch. and I secured Xampp as per instructions. 
[122000850200] |Then I realised I’d forgotten how to create a MySql database for WordPress.
[122000850210] |Fortunately, I found another excellent tutorial How <a>To Create A New SQL Database using phpMyAdmin</a> on <a>My Own Server Personal Web Server Howto</a>.
[122000850220] |It’s illustrated so you can’t go wrong.
[122000850230] |In the introduction on the home page the author says he has put many hours into making his tutorials simple, and certainly in this one he’s succeeded admirably. 
[122000850240] |So now you’ve the database, with username and password.
[122000850250] |Paste the db name, the username and password into wp-config.sample, save it as wp-config as usual, make sure Xampp is up and running, and type http://localhost/yourubuntuusername/wordpress and WordPress will finish the installation as on the web. 
[122000850260] |One last thing.
[122000850270] |If you’re happy with the permalink stucture as it is, well and good, but if you prefer a Custom Structure go to Settings, Permalinks in WordPress, choose your preferred permalink structure, eg /%postname%/ save changes and paste the generated code into a text editor and save it as .htaccess to your wordpress folder, /opt/lampp/htdocs/yourubuntuusername/wordpress
[122000850280] |There’s <a>lots of things you can do with a .htaccess file</a>, but that’s enough for now
[122000860010] |<title>More grief from SCX-4200 MFP</title>
[122000860020] |I thought I had it sussed. (see <a>SCX-4200 Unified Linux Driver in Hardy Heron: Success at last</a>)
[122000860030] |It was going fine under Hardy, but then I did a clean install back in the winter and didn’t bother reinstalling the printer as I was sick for quite a while and then had a loan of a windows printer and installed the windows version instead.
[122000860040] |But now I need the Linux version so I went full of confidence to the Samsung Download Centre.
[122000860050] |Incidentally the link I had in the post mentioned above didn’t work.
[122000860060] |That may be my fault but I think there is a new page. ie <a>Samsung Download Centre</a>.
[122000860070] |I was delighted to see that the driver build date was 2009-04-03, or April 3, 2009. 
[122000860080] |That must mean it’s vastly improved, right?
[122000860090] |So I followed the instructions but didn’t think of plugging in the printer till the last moment, so maybe that’s my fault too.
[122000860100] |But I don’t think this is my fault.
[122000860110] |I tried to uninstall, having done a chmod -R 777 to enable an uninstall, as was my previous experience. 
[122000860120] |username-laptop:/home/username/cdroot/Linux# ./uninstall.sh
[122000860130] |Failed to load widget from 
[122000860140] |QMutex::unlock: unlock from different thread than locker was locked by 0, unlock attempt from -1222330688 root@username-laptop:/home/username/cdroot/Linux# 
[122000860150] |What in the name of all that’s holy does that mean?
[122000860160] |It <em>Failed to load widget from cdroot/Linux/i386/share/ui/uninstalldialogbase.ui</em> because the widget isn’t there.
[122000860170] |All that’s in cdroot/Linux/i386/share is a folder called images, which contains Testpage.ps.
[122000860180] |I have Show Hidden Files ticked, so it’s not that. 
[122000860190] |The Samsung is a lovely machine when it works, but I bought it because it claimed to work in Linux, and it seems you have to sell your grandmother and every other living ancestor to get a new version of the driver working. 
[122000860200] |Incidentally, under windows it comes with OCR.
[122000860210] |Just download the driver and install, no fuss.
[122000860220] |But no OCR and no dice under the antidiluvian Linux configurator.
[122000860230] |For the record, the help pdf hasn’t been updated either, and the graphic Uninstall Samsung Unified Driver on the Applications menu is useless, because you can’t uninstall unless you’re the god-forsaken root. 
[122000860240] |If I try to print a file from say the text editor, SCX-4200 is there all right, but so is CLP-300splc, which is what is in the configurator.
[122000860250] |Never heard of it.
[122000860260] |I’ve set SCX-4200 as default but no dice. 
[122000860270] |So here I am back where I started when I got the godforsaken MFL in the first place.
[122000860280] |I feel like an idiot and I probably am.
[122000860290] |However, just as I was about to completely despair, I found this measured <a>solution in Ubuntu Forums by nickpaton</a>.
[122000860300] |It’s dated February 1st, 2009, and for Intrepid Ibex, so I’m hopeful, but too tired to go through the detail just now.
[122000860310] |I suspect I’ll have to somehow uninstall the unified driver first, but we’ll see.
[122000860320] |More anon. 
[122000870010] |<title>My Samsung SCX-4200 MFP now working</title>
[122000870020] |I managed to get my Samsung SCX-4200 MFP running…. (see previous post) The key was to <em>gksudo nautilus</em> to change permissions (press Alt-F2 and type <u>gksudo nautilus</u>), so I could uninstall the Samsung driver.
[122000870030] |Then I re-installed it over splix2 (see <a>here</a>) The scanner was now producing root-free scans, but the printer didn’t work.
[122000870040] |At least the Samsung Configurator was available.
[122000870050] |I had another look at Administration/Printing, then took the plunge and deleted the printer there, the clp-300, then clicked <em>add new printer</em>, found the scx-4200 driver on Ubuntu’s printer list, and hey presto, I’ve a fully working machine.
[122000870060] |So simple when you know how. 
[122000870070] |The Configurator looks a bit clunky in comparison to the Windows version, and as I mentioned before, does not include ocr, as does the windows version.
[122000870080] |I’ll be coming back to the question of ocr shortly. 
[122000880010] |<title>Downloading Ubuntu 9.04 via Bit Torrent</title>
[122000880020] |Having just got my Samsung Multifunction running under Ubuntu 8.10, I thought I’d leave 9.04 for a while, but then I made the mistake of reading Tombuntu’s <a>Ubuntu 9.04 Released</a>.
[122000880030] |When I started using Ubuntu a few years ago, I had a hard time getting started and I suppose blamed the downloaded .iso.
[122000880040] |As a result I’ve tended to buy a few CDs for each version, partly for convenience, but also to help the Ubuntu foodchain, as it were.
[122000880050] |I was going to do the same this time around, keeping a few spare to give to any friend who might want to try Ubuntu, but the sites I previously bought cds from are gone, even if they are listed on the Ubuntu download page.
[122000880060] |In fact I can’t find any English-language vendor of Ubuntu CDs in Europe.
[122000880070] |So I thought I’d leave it be for a while, but then I read this line. 
[122000880080] |If you need a CD, be sure to use the <a>Bit Torrent downloads</a>.
[122000880090] |So I clicked on <em>ubuntu-8.04.2-desktop-i386.iso.torren</em> and up pops Transmission and it’s downloading as I write.
[122000880100] |I’ve no idea when I’ll have time to install it, though.
[122000880110] |Some time over the summer perhaps.
[122000880120] |8.10 has been so rock-solid I’m reluctant to give it up, truth be told. 
[122000890010] |<title>Xampp Control Panel won’t start on its own</title>
[122000890020] |I’ve been doing a lot of testing a WordPress template for a friend, so <a>Xampp</a> has come in very useful. 
[122000890030] |There’s one problem, though.
[122000890040] |The Xampp Control panel won’t start on its own.
[122000890050] |The solution, with thanks, is at <a>Human Language Weblog</a>:
[122000890060] |If Apache2 or MySQL is already running, then XAMPP will not start.
[122000890070] |You must stop these applications, if you want to use XAMPP: sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 stop sudo /etc/init.d/mysql stop
[122000890080] |Then Xampp is happy and starts Apache and MySql.
[122000890090] |The Xampp control panel used to work without the above stop commands, ie it worked a few years back, which makes it particularly frustrating, especially when using it a lot.
[122000890100] |I’ve searched high up and down in Google, but no solution in sight.
[122000890110] |Anyone any ideas? 
[122000900010] |<title>Desktop Icons Missing, No Right-Click, etc </title>
[122000900020] |Booted up this morning to find that the desktop icons were missing and I couldn’t right-click on the desktop.
[122000900030] |Everything else worked and I could access the icons via Places/Desktop, but still the Desktop was bare and unclickable. 
[122000900040] |Thanks to this <a>Ubuntu Forums thread</a> I got it back.
[122000900050] |In my case it was enough to CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, and sign in again.
[122000900060] |(I didn’t have to use terminal and enter <em>sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop</em>)
[122000900070] |Not sure why it happened, but it could be Firefox 3.0.1.1.
[122000900080] |I’ve noticed that every time I open my History and leave it open, it slows the whole system to a standstill.
[122000900090] |The solution for this is to simply close the history as quickly as possible. 
[122000910010] |<title>Ubuntu as Gaeilge/Using Ubuntu in Irish</title>
[122000910020] |via Twitter
[122000910030] |donnchaRT @czajkowski: Ubuntu as Gaeilge/ Using Ubuntu in Irish http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/node/36 #ubuntu #irish #translations
[122000910040] |Clickable link: <a>Ubuntu as Gaeilge</a> 
[122000920010] |<title>Preparing to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10</title>
[122000920020] |This is a personal list for my own use, but if you’re curious or think such a list might be useful then by all means read on.
[122000920030] |I’m preparing for a clean install, especially I didn’t upgrade to 9.04, but it’s probably a good idea to back up anyway.
[122000920040] |If you read on and spot something I’ve missed, do leave a comment. 
[122000920050] |<h3>Backup</h3>
[122000920060] |<strong>Firefox</strong>
[122000920070] |<li>Firefox Profile</li>
[122000920080] |<li>Firefox passwords</li>
[122000920090] |<li>Firefox bookmarks.</li>
[122000920100] |<li>names of Firefox plugins</li> 
[122000920110] |<strong>Thunderbird</strong>
[122000920120] |<li>Thunderbird Profile</li>
[122000920130] |<li>Email Address Book</li>
[122000920140] |<li>Lightning Home.ics</li> 
[122000920150] |<strong>Passwords</strong>
[122000920160] |<li>Personal passwords</li>
[122000920170] |<li>FTP passwords and settings</li>
[122000920180] |<li>WordPress passwords and settings</li>
[122000920190] |<li>Xampp passwords and settings</li> 
[122000920200] |<strong>Blue Fish Editor</strong>
[122000920210] |<li>custom menu</li>
[122000920220] |<li>external browser code firefox -remote ‘openURL(%s, new-window)’ || firefox %s
[122000920230] |<strong>Documents</strong>
[122000920240] |<li>Current work</li>
[122000920250] |<li>Notes for novel</li>
[122000920260] |<li>New poems</li>
[122000920270] |<li>etc</li>
[122000920280] |<li>updated family tree</li> 
[122000920290] |<strong>Folders</strong>
[122000920300] |<li>Collections</li>
[122000920310] |<li>Ebooks</li>
[122000920320] |<li>gpodder downloads</li>
[122000920330] |<li>Music</li>
[122000920340] |<li>Notes</li>
[122000920350] |<li>Pictures</li>
[122000920360] |<li>Videos</li>
[122000920370] |<li>Websites in my care</li> 
[122000920380] |<strong>Non-standard software to be re-installed</strong>
[122000920390] |<li>Agave</li>
[122000920400] |<li>Celtx</li>
[122000920410] |<li>Songbird</li>
[122000920420] |<li>Tellico</li>
[122000920430] |<li>Convert All</li>
[122000920440] |<li>Skype</li>
[122000920450] |<li>Digikam</li>
[122000920460] |<li>Pencil</li>
[122000920470] |<li>Lynx Document Processor</li>
[122000920480] |<li>Red Notebook (+backup)</li>
[122000920490] |<li>Referencer</li>
[122000920500] |<li>Google Earth</li>
[122000920510] |<li>XMind</li>
[122000920520] |<li>Xampp</li>
[122000920530] |<li>Bluefish</li>
[122000920540] |<li>Geany</li>
[122000920550] |<li>Avidemux</li>
[122000920560] |<li>VLC</li>
[122000920570] |<li>Samsung Unified Driver</li> 
[122000930010] |<title>Secrets of line spacing in OpenOffice Writer</title>
[122000930020] |Who knew?
[122000930030] |I am writing a very long document in Open Office.
[122000930040] |One of the problems I find is that, as I move text around a lot, copying and pasting, some lines tend to ‘scrunch;, ie the line is not fully visible.
[122000930050] |Hitting enter at the end of the line, then pulling the line back up to its original position solves it, for that instance.
[122000930060] |But in a document that may well be over 500 pages when it’s finished, that’s a pain.
[122000930070] |I’m not sure yet, but I’m hoping the solution may be in this article.
[122000930080] |In any case it’s reassuring that Open Office Writer is designed to write long documents. 
[122000930090] |The fact that OpenOffice.org Writer is more than a word processor is an open secret.
[122000930100] |Designed to write long documents, Writer is in many ways a document processor comparable to FrameMaker, suitable for designing books and dissertations while falling short of a complete desktop publishing solution.
[122000930110] |For this reason, it includes a number of tools for tweaking lines of text, including Tools >Language >Hyphenation and the tools for adjusting character width and letter space for individual characters.
[122000930120] |However, by far the least understood of these high-end tools is Writer’s ability to adjust line-spacing.
[122000930130] |<a>Secrets of line spacing in OpenOffice.org Writer</a>
[122000930140] |See also <a>bad font substitution causes line spacing to be wrong</a>
[122000930150] |1. Ubuntu 2. “openoffice.org” package 3.
[122000930160] |Bugs 4.
[122000930170] |Bug #126784
[122000940010] |<title>To Do List After installing Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx</title>
[122000940020] |<a><img/></a>Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx is due next month (April 2010) so here is a useful link to help with setting up programs post-install.
[122000940030] |<a>To Do List After installing Ubuntu 10.04 aka Lucid Lynx</a>. 
[122000940040] |see also <a>Installing Java under Ubuntu</a>
[122000940050] |It isn’t to be confused with the to-do list <em><a>before</a></em> you install the new Ubuntu.
[122000950010] |<title>Galaxy Spica i5700 and Ubuntu</title>
[122000950020] |<small>Galaxy Spica i5700 image: <a>Samsung on Flickr</a></small><img/> By way of celebration of a big event in my life I splashed out and bought an Android phone.
[122000950030] |So what has that to do with Ubuntu?
[122000950040] |Well, this: <a>Android, as most tech-minded people will know, is based on Linux</a>, but my phone, the <a>Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700</a>, came with Android 1.5 (Cupcake), but Galaxy in its wisdom has only provided (recently) an upgrade to the version 2.1 via its Windows software.
[122000950050] |The only people the irony appears to be lost on are most Windows users and <a>Samsung</a>. 
[122000950060] |Meanwhile, in the spirit of sharing and of gratitude to the developers who made them available at 0 cost, these are my favourite Android Apps so far: Spanish Verbs – Robert Muth Accuweather.com Swift App for Twitter-Sebastian Delmont Aldiko Book Reader – Aldiko Limited Book Mobile – James A. Wilson Barcode Scanner -Zxing Team Astro File Manager – Metago Beamreader PDF Viewer – SLG Mobile Inc Ringdroid -Ringdroid Team Handcent SMS – handscent_admin <a>RTE News – Takca</a> (website coming soon) Get the Focal Irish Translator – Maithú Irish Breaking News – Maithú Unit Converter ConvertPad – Mathpad Software Ultimate Stopwatch -mippon.com <a>3 (Cubed) Music Player – Felipe Abrantes</a> (formerly Rock On) [<a>on YouTube here</a>] aContacts – <a>Yermek Zhumagulov</a> (twitter link) Battery Status – Monmonja
[122000950070] |Most of these have 5 stars, a few have four.
[122000950080] |Comments are a very powerful filter on the Android Market.
[122000950090] |I may change one or two when/if I can upgrade to 2.1, but they’re so good I’m sure I’ll keep most of them.
[122000950100] |I was having problems matching album art to the music collection but 3 went off and found them for me.
[122000950110] |Can’t praise it highly enough so far, and I’m not a real music head.
[122000950120] |And just as a bonus: <a>Android barcode scanner in 6 lines of Python code</a>
[122000950130] |Update: had links to the apps developers, but hit the wrong button and lost them all.
[122000950140] |Will update soon. 
[122000960010] |<title>How to Create a separate /home partition</title>
[122000960020] |Image: <a>Wikimedia Commons</a>.
[122000960030] |Click to enlarge.
[122000960040] |With Ubuntu 10.04 almost upon us, it might be an idea to look to a separate home partition again.
[122000960050] |I had one, and then in one upgrade I forgot about it. 
[122000960060] |This is arrimapirate’s guide on Ubuntu Forums
[122000960070] |By default, Ubuntu only makes one partition (/) unless you create a partition setup when you initially install Ubuntu.
[122000960080] |Im going to show you how/why you can/should set up a /home partition after you install Ubuntu.
[122000960090] |Advantage: If Ubuntu for some reason crashes and becomes unbootable and unfixable reinstalling will not delete all of your important data and settings.
[122000960100] |You simply specify the /home partition to be mounted at /home when reinstalling.
[122000960110] |Disadvantages: Partitioning can end very badly if you dont know what your doing.
[122000960120] |To help make this easier, everything we do will be done with a GUI.
[122000960130] |All of these steps can also be accomplished with the Terminal though.
[122000960140] |Step 1: Boot into the live CD Reboot your computer with your Ubuntu (or any live linux cd) in the cd drive and boot into the live system.
[122000960150] |<a>Continue reading at Ubuntu Forums</a> <strong>UPDATE:</strong> I realise that what I want to do is move my home folder (identified by your username) to a separate partition, /home.
[122000960160] |See <a>Partitioning/Home/Moving</a> Pretty daunting, but once it’s done it’s done for good, and you can install new versions of Ubuntu or whatever Linux system you choose while keeping your data and settings. 
[122000960170] |<a>See also HowToPartition</a>.
[122000960180] |Remember, I’m no expert.
[122000960190] |I’m just finding my way here just like you. 
[122000970010] |<title>O2 Broadband E1752 Dongle Working on Ubuntu </title>
[122000970020] |<a><img/></a>I’m considering my broadband options at the moment so this a link to <a>O2 Broadband E1752 Dongle Working on Ubuntu 9.1</a>, posted by Ciarán Mc Cann last year.
[122000970030] |Update.
[122000970040] |Updated for Ubuntu 10.04
[122000970050] |As I say it’s one of the options… (which I didn’t, in the end, take).
[122000980010] |<title>Ubuntu 10.04 and Me</title>
[122000980020] |<a><img/></a>Well, I went ahead and did it, and a lovely beast it is.
[122000980030] |In the end I was too lazy to make a separate /home partition beforehand and took a chance in making it during installation.
[122000980040] |It worked although not seamlessly, obviously due to something I left out.
[122000980050] |Once I had made the root / and /home partitions (reformat the first but not /home –leave that alone) during installation, and Ubuntu had looked after importing my home folder, I thought I was home and dry.
[122000980060] |But instead of my home folder named for my username, if you follow me, my ‘username’ folder was in a subfolder of a subfolder of Home.
[122000980070] |Don’t ask me how.
[122000980080] |Anyway, it was a matter of copying and pasting all my folders into where I wanted them. 
[122000980090] |I thought for a day or so that 10.04 had a serious bug on my computer.
[122000980100] |My screen dimmed and forced me to log in after five minutes of inactivity.
[122000980110] |It seemed to be replicated in other complaints on the web, mostly to do with a clash of compiz and firefox(???) so I took the plunge and filed a bug.
[122000980120] |Within minutes I got back this email from Andrea, who I believe is in northern Italy. 
[122000980130] |Hi and thanks for your bug report.
[122000980140] |I suspect the issue you are seeing is caused by the screensaver.
[122000980150] |May you please open System→Preferences→Screensaver and check the options here?
[122000980160] |Never have I been so glad to discovered I’d been so foolish.
[122000980170] |One untick later, and I was free of all bugs. ;>) Andrea marked the ‘bug report’ as invalid, and all was well. 
[122000980180] |One other thing was annoying me.
[122000980190] |Maximize, minimize and close were on the left hand side of the screen, which is probably good for left-handers and Mac users, but I found it difficult.
[122000980200] |The solution to change it back, in case you’re interested is here: <a>Move Window Buttons Back to the Right in Ubuntu 10.04</a>.
[122000980210] |However… I still found the theme to be dull.
[122000980220] |One of the changes I made this time around was to abandon Songbird, a faithful companion since its early versions.
[122000980230] |But I read that it’s dropping support for Linux, so I dropped support for it, and installed <a>Banshee</a>.
[122000980240] |As Ubuntu users will know, Rhythmbox is the default player but I’ve never taken to it, somehow.
[122000980250] |Banshee does everything I want and looks good, except… it looks dull in the theme I had.
[122000980260] |As does Open Office.
[122000980270] |I use the latter all day and the Grey was getting to me.
[122000980280] |So the solution was to <a>change the theme</a>, or actually just the controls in this case.
[122000980290] |I tried a few and chose <a>Serenity</a>, by Jean-Paul Bizet.
[122000980300] |What a difference it made!
[122000980310] |I even went back to the default skin in Thunderbird.
[122000980320] |The window buttons have gone back to the left but now that they look so well I don’t seem to mind and haven’t bothered to see if I can put them back on the right. 
[122000980330] |Different tastes for different folks, of course, but this suits me very well indeed, as my old eyes get tired unless I have a good colour scheme. 
[122000980340] |What else?
[122000980350] |The look of the Ubuntu software center has improved greatly, and while I don’t use Evolution, clicking on the envelope icon gives me Broadcast, so I can nip into twitter via gwibber handily –and nip out again!
[122000980360] |Thunderbird is on version 3.0.4.
[122000980370] |As I’ve several email accounts, the smart folders were a pain, but them I discovered it was just a matter of clicking the right arrow at the top of All Folders and it reverted back to a sensible layout. 
[122000990010] |<title>Jajuk</title>
[122000990020] |I’ve long been a fan of Songbird, but when I updated Ubuntu and tried to download a fresh Songbird, I discovered that Linux wasn’t supported any more.
[122000990030] |What a pity.
[122000990040] |A community supported replacement, <a>Nightingale</a>, is on the cards and I look forward to that, but in the meantime, what to do?
[122000990050] |With all due respect, I don’t really like Amarok or Rhythmbox.
[122000990060] |Lots of people do.
[122000990070] |It’s a personal thing.
[122000990080] |I settled on Banshee for a while and that is indeed a fine player, doing almost everything I wanted.
[122000990090] |But I’m a visual person and I like to change how a program looks and I couldn’t see any way of doing that.
[122000990100] |So I looked a bit closer at the Ubuntu Software Center and after several tries, found what is probably my ideal player, <a>Jajuk</a>. <img/>
[122000990110] |<img/>As the website says, the software is designed to be intuitive and provide <a>different visions</a> of your collection.
[122000990120] |It also has skins.
[122000990130] |It’s really easy to make a grey geek happy.
[122000990140] |Really. 
[122001000010] |<title>Android sdk and Ubuntu</title>
[122001000020] |<a><img/></a>Eclipse Android Source
[122001000030] |No time to write about this other than to say I downloaded it and played with it –before I had my phone upgraded to Android 2.1.
[122001000040] |I failed miserably to upgrade the phone (<a>Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700</a>) myself.
[122001000050] |It has to be done through windows, strangely enough, but though I was kindly loaned windows computers on two occasions, and followed instructions to the letter, it was one big fail.
[122001000060] |<a>Android DIY – How to Setup Android SDK on your Ubuntu/Debian Linux!</a>
[122001000070] |<small>photo credit: <a>farblog, by Malcolm Rowe</a> some rights reserved.</small>
[122001000080] |Meanwhile, I still haven’t got around to installing wordpress on 10.04, but I presume the instructions will still hold on 10.10.
[122001000090] |<a>Installing WordPress on Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx</a>
[122001010010] |<title>Upgrade to Ubuntu 10.10</title>
[122001010020] |<a><img/></a>Well, I had the same problem as the upgrade to 10.04.
[122001010030] |It’s obviously due to how I set up the /home partition in 10.04, but for the life of me I think think why. 
[122001010040] |As I didn’t format the /home partition, I fully expected my documents, music etc to be where I left them, but for some reason Ubuntu shifted them to File System/Home/Username.
[122001010050] |Wish I knew why, but at least all my stuff was there. 
[122001010060] |<h3>The little things: </h3>
[122001010070] |<strong>create a link to home folder on Desktop</strong> 
[122001010080] |ln -s ~ ~/Desktop/home 
[122001010090] |thanks to <a>andii</a>
[122001010100] |<strong>Flash in fullscreen is choppy, completely white or crashes</strong> solution at <a>Firefox tutorials: Flash Issues  Solutions</a> (via <a>Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu 10.10 and Adobe Flash</a>) 
[122001010110] |<strong>In terminal try these commands: </strong>sudo mkdir /etc/adobe echo “OverrideGPUValidation=true” >~/mms.cfg sudo mv ~/mms.cfg /etc/adobe/
[122001010120] |Restart the browser.
[122001010130] |That solved it for me. 
[122001010140] |<strong>Move Window Buttons Back to the Right</strong> It’s a matter of taste, right?
[122001010150] |Press Alt+F2 to bring up the Run Application dialog box, enter “gconf-editor” in the text field, and click on Run.
[122001010160] |In the Configuration Editor click on apps, then metacity, then general.
[122001010170] |Double-click button_layout to edit it.
[122001010180] |I changed it to<strong> menu:minimize,maximize,close</strong>, but again it’s a matter of taste, so you can juggle them around to suit you.
[122001010190] |Hat tip to <a>How-to Geek</a>, who has illustrations
[122001020010] |<title>Penguspy Database for Linux Games</title>
[122001020020] |<img/>Penguspy
[122001020030] |I’m not a gamer but I like what this guy, Kostas Mavropalias, has to say.
[122001020040] |In part:
[122001020050] |’I am a gamer in a state of denial.
[122001020060] |I refuse to use windows anymore!
[122001020070] |I love the speed, stability and ease of use of my Linux pc and I also love games.
[122001020080] |One of the hard parts in Linux gaming is to find the actual games!
[122001020090] |Being a professional Designer  Developer, I decided to create Penguspy as my contribution to the Linux ecosystem.
[122001020100] |The goal of this project is to act as a showcase of the best Linux games (not all games, just the good ones), raise awareness of Linux as a gaming platform and provide an easy way to install all these games, in an aesthetically pleasing, feature-rich and easy to use environment.
[122001020110] |Penguspy is constantly been updated with more games and extra functionality.
[122001020120] |On the technical side, Penguspy is built in pure HTML 5 and CSS 3 awesomeness (more cool bits are implemented as browsers add support for them) and some JQuery magic on top of WordPress, so if you use an old browser it’s time to update!.
[122001020130] |<a>Penguspy</a> [via <a>Lifehacker Linux</a>]
[122001020140] |Speaking of html5, check out <a>html5Games</a>.
[122001020150] |When I say I’m not a gamer, I’m temporarily [ahem] hooked on one of its featured games, <a>Agent 008 Ball</a>, until, that is, I sink ‘em all.
[122001020160] |Up to 1400 so far…
[122001030010] |<title>La Dolce Vita dvd</title>
[122001030020] |I’ve been quite preoccupied for one reason or another since updating to Ubuntu 10.10, so I hadn’t got around to viewing a movie –or as we call it here in Ireland, a film, on my computer, my only means of playing one. 
[122001030030] |<img/>La Dolce Vita
[122001030040] |I’ve long been a fan of <a>Fellini</a>, and had bought a copy of La Dolce Vita some years ago, only to have it fouled up by a faulty dvd player.
[122001030050] |So some time earlier this year I purchased another copy. 
[122001030060] |But dammit, it wouldn’t play on 10.10.
[122001030070] |I had installed the Ubuntu-restricted-extras.
[122001030080] |I had installed libdvdread4, libdvdnav4, libdvdcss2.
[122001030090] |No dice. 
[122001030100] |What was frustrating was that other dvds played fine.
[122001030110] |I tried <a>Rebel Without a Cause</a>, for example.
[122001030120] |No problem. 
[122001030130] |But still no La Dolce Vita. 
[122001030140] |I gave up. 
[122001030150] |But back fresh after the Yuletide break, I went hunting for the solution again, and I have <a>sir_robert007 on the Ubuntu Forums</a> to thank.
[122001030160] |Here’s his solution. 
[122001030170] |First open Synaptic Package Manager and install Ubuntu-restricted-extras.
[122001030180] |Then open up a terminal and execute the following:
[122001030190] |sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh
[122001030200] |Make sure any media players you have open are closed or you may get errors.
[122001030210] |Bingo. 
[122001030220] |But why does it take the genius of one user in 2010/2011 to play a dvd I’ve paid for –twice?
[122001040010] |<title>Philip Casey</title>
[122001040020] |<img/>I was resolved to wait until both Firefox 4 and Libre Office were included in Ubuntu 11.04, but when I was too tired to work yesterday and came across a method to download the new Firefox 4 safely I went for it. 
[122001040030] |Install Firefox 4 In Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 Via PPA Repository –The Proper Way Add the Firefox 4 PPA and install FF4 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or 10.04 Lucid Lynx using the commands below:
[122001040040] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox ubufox
[122001040050] |[<a>thanks to WEB UPD8</a>] 
[122001040060] |It went very well and to my mind Firefox 4 is a fabulous upgrade, with the new default Tango them blending beautifully with my Ubuntu theme.
[122001040070] |I didn’t think I’d like the tabs on top, but I do.
[122001040080] |There were a few quirks.
[122001040090] |There was no refresh icon that I could see, and as I’m right -handed, the home icon was very awkwardly placed on the right.
[122001040100] |However, it was simple to resolve.
[122001040110] |On the Navigation Toolbar rightclick and choose Customize.
[122001040120] |Drag the home icon into it, and then drag it to where you want it.
[122001040130] |The refresh icon is in there too, so just drag and drop. 
[122001040140] |I’m one of those people who don’t like the Google search.
[122001040150] |If you don’t either, just drag it into the open Customize box.
[122001040160] |Gone.
[122001040170] |But here’s a tip.
[122001040180] |Just type g into your url box followed by your query, and up comes google with the result.
[122001040190] |Much better! eg 
[122001040200] |g Ubuntu Learner. 
[122001040210] |I was startled however to find that an add-on I rely on, namely <a>Zotero</a>, was incompatible with Firefox 4.
[122001040220] |Fortunately, you can now install the updated version directly from the <a>Zotero</a> website, which is pretty nice.
[122001040230] |I added the Zotero Open Office.org integration extension, but I’m still not sure how that works. 
[122001040240] |Once you’re happy with all of that, you can have some fun with Firefox 4′s new html 5 features at <a>Mozilla’s Web O’(pen) Wonder</a> –not all of them work without webgl, but <a>The Planatorium</a>, for example, is pretty impressive. 
[122001040250] |A couple of other add-ons were also incompatible, Foxclocks was the main one I was peeved about as I need a world clock, but I went for Simple Clocks instead –much lighter and does the job. <img/>
[122001040260] |<img/>All of that worked so well, and I still didn’t feel like working, so I decided against my better judgment to get rid of Open Office and install LibreOffice.
[122001040270] |The fact that you have to get rid of Open Office before you install Libre Office makes it a bit complicated, so I’ll hand you over directly to the illustrated instructions at <a>Softpedia</a>.
[122001040280] |It downloads LibreOffice 3.3.1, and it’s for 10.04 as well as 10.10 and in my experience is painless. 
[122001040290] |I’m delighted with LibreOffice.
[122001040300] |It seems a lot faster, and everything just works, as far as I can see.
[122001040310] |I had always suspected I hadn’t OpenOffice installed correctly, but altogether LibreOffice feels more solid, and has some nice improvements like Title Page, and a search bar with up and down arrows.
[122001040320] |Well worth a whirl. 
[122001040330] |Needless to say, your Mac and Windows friends can download it too. 
[122001040340] |One final update: Shotwell, and I was delighted that I could finally Adjust the Date and Time.
[122001040350] |It had far too many photo folders listed with dates 2012-2017, but the adjustment does the trick and updates a folder by click on one photo within it and adjusting the date and time. 
[122001040360] |I’m a happy camper, with 11.04 to look forward to in a few weeks time!
[122001050010] |<title>Upgrade Heaven</title>
[122001050020] |<img/>I was resolved to wait until both Firefox 4 and Libre Office were included in Ubuntu 11.04, but when I was too tired to work yesterday and came across a method to download the new Firefox 4 safely I went for it. 
[122001050030] |Install Firefox 4 In Ubuntu 10.04 / 10.10 Via PPA Repository –The Proper Way Add the Firefox 4 PPA and install FF4 in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat or 10.04 Lucid Lynx using the commands below:
[122001050040] |sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-stable sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox ubufox
[122001050050] |[<a>thanks to WEB UPD8</a>] 
[122001050060] |It went very well and to my mind Firefox 4 is a fabulous upgrade, with the new default Tango them blending beautifully with my Ubuntu theme.
[122001050070] |I didn’t think I’d like the tabs on top, but I do.
[122001050080] |There were a few quirks.
[122001050090] |There was no refresh icon that I could see, and as I’m right -handed, the home icon was very awkwardly placed on the right.
[122001050100] |However, it was simple to resolve.
[122001050110] |On the Navigation Toolbar rightclick and choose Customize.
[122001050120] |Drag the home icon into it, and then drag it to where you want it.
[122001050130] |The refresh icon is in there too, so just drag and drop. 
[122001050140] |I’m one of those people who don’t like the Google search.
[122001050150] |If you don’t either, just drag it into the open Customize box.
[122001050160] |Gone.
[122001050170] |But here’s a tip.
[122001050180] |Just type g into your url box followed by your query, and up comes google with the result.
[122001050190] |Much better! eg 
[122001050200] |g Ubuntu Learner. 
[122001050210] |I was startled however to find that an add-on I rely on, namely <a>Zotero</a>, was incompatible with Firefox 4.
[122001050220] |Fortunately, you can now install the updated version directly from the <a>Zotero</a> website, which is pretty nice.
[122001050230] |I added the Zotero Open Office.org integration extension, but I’m still not sure how that works. 
[122001050240] |Once you’re happy with all of that, you can have some fun with Firefox 4′s new html 5 features at <a>Mozilla’s Web O’(pen) Wonder</a> –not all of them work without webgl, but <a>The Planatorium</a>, for example, is pretty impressive. 
[122001050250] |A couple of other add-ons were also incompatible, Foxclocks was the main one I was peeved about as I need a world clock, but I went for Simple Clocks instead –much lighter and does the job. <img/>
[122001050260] |<img/>All of that worked so well, and I still didn’t feel like working, so I decided against my better judgment to get rid of Open Office and install LibreOffice.
[122001050270] |The fact that you have to get rid of Open Office before you install Libre Office makes it a bit complicated, so I’ll hand you over directly to the illustrated instructions at <a>Softpedia</a>.
[122001050280] |It downloads LibreOffice 3.3.1, and it’s for 10.04 as well as 10.10 and in my experience is painless. 
[122001050290] |I’m delighted with LibreOffice.
[122001050300] |It seems a lot faster, and everything just works, as far as I can see.
[122001050310] |I had always suspected I hadn’t OpenOffice installed correctly, but altogether LibreOffice feels more solid, and has some nice improvements like Title Page, and a search bar with up and down arrows.
[122001050320] |Well worth a whirl. 
[122001050330] |Needless to say, your Mac and Windows friends can download it too. 
[122001050340] |One final update: Shotwell, and I was delighted that I could finally Adjust the Date and Time.
[122001050350] |It had far too many photo folders listed with dates 2012-2017, but the adjustment does the trick and updates a folder by click on one photo within it and adjusting the date and time. 
[122001050360] |I’m a happy camper, with 11.04 to look forward to in a few weeks time!