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April 2010

And why does every other program have a different file chooser?

Apr 18, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #stupidity

Huh.  The hacky kludge that Ubuntu used to allow us to run Firefox 3.5 in Jaunty (sorry, I mean “Shiretoko”) has left a redundant folder called firefox.3.0-replaced in my home directory.   But don’t worry, it’s only wasting 600 MB of space.

Apr 18, 2010
#Ubuntu #Firefox

Windows’ directory chooser is better than Gnome’s.

Apr 18, 2010
#Ubuntu #Why Windows is better than Ubuntu

I love how you have to left-click on the PulseAudio control to get the menu to display, while every other icon in the universe uses the right-click.  Oh wait, no; I hate that.

Apr 14, 2010
#Ubuntu #PulseAudio

I finally got video chat working!

After rebooting into Windows for a few weeks, because Pidgin and Skype don’t do video chat in Linux, I discovered that if you run Empathy (which is shit), you can video chat with people on Gmail.  In 2 out of 3 calls, one person can’t see the other, and you have to hang up and try again.  It crashes, the video locks up permanently, and while working correctly, it uses 100% of the CPU, but it works!

Take that, capitalist pigs!

Apr 14, 2010
#Ubuntu #video #infuriating

Why don’t SSH bookmarks ever work when I try to open them with Gnome Do?

Apr 13, 2010
#Gnome #Ubuntu #Gnome Do #Gnome Don't #SSH
Apr 13, 2010
#Ubuntu #error #WTF

If I edit my Wine menu entry for “Mozilla Firefox” to “Mozilla Firefox Wine”, it remembers the change, but it’s still not displayed in the menu.  This is because

  1. The menu entry editor only changes the Name[en_US]= value in the .desktop file.
  2. Gnome only reads the Name= value, which does not change when you edit it.
Apr 9, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #Gnome #stupidity
Apr 9, 2010
#Ubuntu #Rhythmbox #error

In Sound Preferences, if you turn the volume down to the bottom, it mutes automatically.  Ok.  OS X does this, too.

But then if you drag the volume slider back up again… it stays muted.

>:0

Apr 9, 2010
#PulseAudio #Ubuntu #Why OS X is better than Ubuntu
Apr 9, 2010 2 notes
#Ubuntu

Why does the .deb package installer have to ask me for my password every time?  Just remember it for several minutes, like every other program does.

Apr 6, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #package-management
Play
0:08
Apr 5, 2010
#Ubuntu #cryptic #gibberish

Ubuntu: “Your laptop battery is low.  I’m going to shut down in 3 minutes.”

Me: “3 minutes??  Isn’t that a bit… last minute?”

*plugs in computer within 10 seconds*

Ubuntu (plugged in, charging the battery, less than 30 seconds after the last warning): “Battery is critically low, shutting down.”

Me: “FFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU”

Apr 4, 2010
#Ubuntu #battery #infuriating

I can’t even play a .wav file in Audacity anymore without it skipping constantly, on a 2 GHz machine with 2 GiB of memory. Works fine in Windows. I find it very hard to believe that anyone has ever used Ubuntu to produce music.

Apr 3, 2010
#Ubuntu Studio #PulseAudio #Audacity

When you switch the “fallback” from one audio output device to another, and then push the hardware volume buttons, it adjusts the new default device’s volume, as it should.

Instead of adjusting relative to the new device’s current volume, though, it starts adjusting at the old device’s previous volume, resulting in a sudden, deafening increase if the previous device was at full volume. 

Thanks, guys.

Apr 3, 2010 1 note
#PulseAudio #Ubuntu
Apr 2, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #Google trends #Google #Linux

Apparently PulseAudio mixer cannot control the entire volume range of my USB audio interface.  alsamixer can, but PulseAudio cannot. 

Of course, after increasing the volume with alsamixer and then closing the entire Terminal, my CPU usage starts maxing out.  The culprit?  alsamixer.

Apr 2, 2010
#Ubuntu #PulseAudio #ALSA
Apr 2, 2010
#Ubuntu #shutdown #reboot
Apr 2, 2010
#Ubuntu #mount

March 2010

My mouse pointer is freezing every few seconds. 

I closed all apps, the CPU is not active, and I didn’t do anything that I know of to trigger this, but it’s still happening.  Great.

Mar 29, 2010 1 note
#mouse #Ubuntu

~> man grub
No manual entry for grub

Oh, FFS, FSF.

Mar 27, 2010
#documentation #freetard #FSF #Ubuntu
Mar 27, 2010 1 note
#Skype #package-management #Ubuntu
Mar 25, 2010
#GNOME #Nautilus #Ubuntu #Windows 7 #Why Windows is better than Ubuntu
Mar 25, 2010
#Ubuntu

If you set a USB audio device as the default in OS X, unplug it, and replug it, it will become the default again.

If you set a USB audio device as the default (the “fallback”) in Ubuntu, unplug it, and replug it, your settings have been forgotten.

Mar 23, 2010 1 note
#PulseAudio #Ubuntu #Why OS X is better than Ubuntu

So Karmic comes with this new Disk Utility called Palimpsest.  It lets you manage disks and partitions, warns you if a disk is failing (finally!), etc.

So I tried using it to delete a partition on a USB flash drive and recreate it.  Just a FAT32 partition; shouldn’t be too difficult.

After it’s done creating and formatting the partition, it displays it as “4.1 GB Unrecognized”.  I go into GParted and the partition is “Unknown”.  Smooth.

Mar 23, 2010
#GParted #Palimpsest #Ubuntu #partitioning

Video chat is supposed to be available in both Pidgin and Empathy, but it doesn’t work in either of them.

Mar 21, 2010
#Pidgin #Empathy #Ubuntu #video #chat
Mar 21, 2010
#Compiz #Gnome #Ubuntu
Mar 19, 2010 1 note
#PulseAudio #Ubuntu #media

In Windows, I can upgrade to Firefox 3.5 (the single piece of software that I use more frequently than any other) or Thunderbird 3.0 the day they are published.

In Ubuntu, I get to wait 4 or 5 months for it to trickle down with the next release.

(Of course, you should never upgrade on the day of an Ubuntu release.  How naïve!  You have to wait at least a few more months until they iron some of the bugs out.  (But not all of the bugs.  Those will have to wait until the next release…))

Mar 18, 2010 1 note
#Firefox #Ubuntu #upgrade #Why Windows is better than Ubuntu
Mar 18, 2010 1 note
#Gnome #PolicyKit #Ubuntu
Mar 18, 2010
#Synaptic #apt #package-management #Ubuntu

Both of my Ubuntu computers have locked up with unresponsive black screens in the past few days.  Thanks to the latest 2.6.31-20 kernel, or just more of the same old random failures?

Mar 17, 2010 2 notes
#Ubuntu #crash #BSOD

I like how old kernels are never removed when you update them, leaving lots of options that nobody uses in the GRUB menu and hundreds of MB of hard disk wasted.  It should offer to remove older kernels after you’ve been using the new one successfully for a few weeks/months.

Mar 9, 2010 1 note
#kernel #Ubuntu

Sometimes I’ll move the mouse pointer with the touchpad, and when I stop moving, the mouse keeps going in the same direction, resulting in my clicking the wrong thing.

Mar 9, 2010
#mouse
Mar 9, 2010
#Firefox #Why Windows is better than Ubuntu
Mar 9, 2010 1 note
#fail #Ubuntu
Mar 9, 2010
Mar 9, 2010
#package-management #apt

So today, I turn on my computer. It shows the GRUB boot menu, as usual.  I let it automatically choose the first of several cryptic options, as usual.  It shows an Ubuntu logo, as usual.  After a minute or two, the Ubuntu logo disappears and, instead of the Gnome Desktop Manager, a console login prompt appears.  No errors, no indication that anything is even wrong.

I turn off the machine and try again, with the same result.  I turn off the machine and try again with a different kernel, with the same result.  To my knowledge, I have not changed anything that would cause this.

So I’m in Windows XP.  What do you know?  It boots with absolutely no problems, as it always has.  Of course, all the stuff I’ve been working on exists only on my Linux EXT3 partition, which Windows can’t open.  (No, Ext2IFS does not work, and I don’t trust it, anyway.)

“But Mi¢ro$oft Windoze is so buggy and unreliable!  OMG BSOD LOL!  You should switch to Linux, it’s sooo much more stable and reliable than that Bill Gate$ shit.  Did I mention Linux is freeeeeeeeeeeee?”

Fuck you.  Seriously.

Mar 6, 2010 2 notes
#infuriating #boot

And why the hell did they change all the program names in Karmic?  Instead of “Text Editor”, it’s “gedit”.  Instead of “Gnome Partition Manager”, it’s “GParted”.

Is this part of some campaign to make things more difficult to find?

Mar 3, 2010
#user-friendliness #Ubuntu
Mar 2, 2010
#Synaptic #apt #package-management

February 2010

Clicking on a link to a media file in Firefox is infuriating.  Totem (which sucks) is the default media player plugin.  It plays the file using the entire Firefox viewing area.

  • It always stutters and glitches when it starts playing.
  • There’s no way to rewind it and start over.  If you’re quick, you can grab the slider and move it, but it just ignores the position of the slider and keeps on playing, no matter what.
  • There’s no way to replay the file after it’s played once.  The Play button is now grayed out.
  • It always shows its extremely shitty visualization while playing sound files.  No, you cannot turn it off.

And no, MPlayer is not any better.

Feb 25, 2010
#Firefox #Totem #infuriating #media

Pidgin often crashes for no apparent reason.

Feb 25, 2010 1 note
#Pidgin #crash
Gnome Don't

Gnome Do has has the ability to run “Home Folder”, which opens your home folder.  Except not really.  You run it and nothing ever happens.

This bug was reported three releases ago, can be solved by adding a space and a dot to a text file, yet it still hasn’t been fixed.  This is the norm in the wonderful world of Open Source.

Feb 24, 2010
#GNOME

So if Pd is running, Nautilus and Totem refuse to play any sound, but if Totem is playing sound, Pd refuses to play sound.  Also, running Pd apparently causes Firefox to lock up.

Neither produces any error messages or explanation, of course.

Trying to run it through padsp is even better, with glitches and stuttering galore.

I thought PulseAudio was supposed to fix Linux sound, not make it worse.

Feb 24, 2010
#PulseAudio #Ubuntu Studio
Feb 23, 2010
#camera #error

Sometimes the touchpad scroll inexplicably stops working, so I have to use the arrow keys.

Sometimes the arrow keys inexplicably stop working, so I have to use the touchpad scroll.

After a while, they spontaneously start working again.

Feb 22, 2010
#mouse #Firefox

Not a huge big deal, but if I’m browsing another computer’s files through SSH, and then move them around or extract a .zip, couldn’t it tell the other computer to do the work locally instead of transferring all the files over the network and then transferring them back when it’s finished?  Super slow.

Feb 21, 2010
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