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April 2010

Apr 25, 2010
#Gnome #PDF #Ubuntu #inexplicable #Evince

Why is my mouse pointer frozen???

Apr 23, 2010
#Ubuntu #mouse

File creation date.

Apr 22, 2010
#Ubuntu #Why Windows is better than Ubuntu #filesystem

When you use Nautilus to copy multiple things to multiple places, is it just me or does it do all the operations concurrently, slowing them all down as it scrubs back and forth between disk locations?

And why doesn’t it have a Pause button?

Apr 22, 2010
#Ubuntu #Gnome #Nautilus #file-management

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
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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
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