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March 2010

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
Feb 21, 2010
#GIMP
Feb 19, 2010
#GIMP #clipboard
Feb 19, 2010
#dual boot #mount

Is the screen lock password box supposed to shake around erratically when you enter the wrong password?  It looks like a bug, but maybe it’s some basement nerd’s attempt at being cutesy.

Feb 18, 2010
#GNOME

Trying to play audio in Wine.  It stops for no reason after 10 seconds, the program locks up, and then it screeches a burst of noise into my ears.  It used to work fine, but now it locks up and hogs the CPU.  Inexplicable as usual.

Feb 17, 2010
#Wine #PulseAudio

Why is my CPU throttled-down to 1.8 GHz instead of 2.0?  Is it seriously overheating from playing a Flash video?

Feb 17, 2010
#Flash #CPU

Why can’t I double-click on .sh files to launch them?  Or right-click and open them with some kind of launcher?  I thought there used to be a way to do that.

Feb 16, 2010
#GNOME #Nautilus

I set Simple Backup Suite to back up to a 1 TB drive on my other computer.  However, the drive no longer mounts when the machine boots up, so it wasn’t making backups for months, with no warning or error messages of any kind.

So then I set it up to back up to another drive with a FAT filesystem.  I checked after a few weeks and it had a bunch of folders of backups.  Great, it’s working!

Except not really.  Since it backs up everything to a single .tgz file, and FAT filesystems can only accept a maximum file size of 4.0 GiB, it’s been silently halting and leaving corrupt, useless backup files.  Smooth.

Feb 16, 2010
#backup #mount

Why do I need to manually refresh Nautilus after a file is created?  I thought that used to be automatic.

Feb 16, 2010
#Nautilus

STOP INTERRUPTING ME BY POPPING UP WINDOWS WHILE I’M TYPING! It’s 2010 and you still do this shit?!

Feb 15, 2010
#GNOME #window management #infuriating

Why is my CPU locked at 600 MHz!? I try to set it to back to normal and it just sits there and does nothing.

Feb 15, 2010
#CPU

Why won’t Firefox start?  Why aren’t there any error messages when it terminates?

Feb 15, 2010
#Firefox
Feb 6, 2010
#Beagle #error
Feb 4, 2010
#GNOME #error

January 2010

Jan 31, 2010
#Bluetooth

Why does the bottom right corner of my touchpad act like a right-click button now?  Why is there no option to change this?  Did this start happening after the upgrade to Karmic?

And why do I need two completely independent and partially redundant apps just to change the settings for my touchpad, anyway?

Jan 26, 2010
#mouse #GNOME
Jan 7, 2010
Jan 6, 2010
#upgrade
Jan 5, 2010
#upgrade #Why Windows is better than Ubuntu

December 2009

Why does my computer keep wigging out?  The CPU goes to 100% and the mouse cursor repeatedly changes from arrow to I beam to finger, preventing me from using the mouse for about 5 seconds at a time.

Dec 13, 2009
#mouse

Since Jaunty, the OSD volume control with multimedia keys randomly stops working.  Right now, for instance, when I push the keys, the OSD pops up, but it just shows the “Mute” display no matter what I’m pushing, and the sliders don’t move.  It’s not in mute, though.  I’m sick of all these PulseAudio bugs.

Dec 12, 2009
#PulseAudio #Ubuntu

After installing Karmic, my Bluetooth keyboard stopped working.  Maybe it will work again in six months.

Dec 5, 2009
#Ubuntu #Bluetooth

November 2009

Nov 24, 2009
Nov 4, 2009
#CPU

October 2009

Oct 30, 2009
#mount
Oct 22, 2009
#Firefox #modal dialog
Oct 11, 2009

September 2009

Sep 23, 2009
#fail #GNOME #clipboard

Why don’t untrusted .desktop files have an icon?  They look like text files, which is stupid.  Give them an “untrusted” icon.

Sep 10, 2009
#GNOME #Nautilus

August 2009

Aug 29, 2009
Aug 15, 2009
#gibberish #user-friendliness #camera
Aug 15, 2009

July 2009

Jul 22, 2009
#cron
Jul 18, 2009
#Firefox #media #MPlayer
Jul 18, 2009
#Firefox #media #MPlayer
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