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June 2010

Jun 16, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #kernel #boot #BSOD #fail

Desktop Search used to work fine, but now it can’t find any of my files.  I can’t think of anything I’ve done that would make it stop working.  This process is familiar to anyone who has used Ubuntu.  Something works great for a few weeks/months, and then inexplicably stops, and I have to spend a few days trying to figure out how to fix it.

Jun 15, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #Beagle
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Jun 11, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #fail #BSOD #video
Jun 9, 2010
#Ubuntu #fail #USB #boot

“Upgraded” my desktop to Lucid. 

“An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb”.

And the Bluetooth keyboard is no longer recognized, so my computer is unusable until I find an old-school keyboard.

Jun 8, 2010 2 notes
#Ubuntu #fail #USB #boot

The last three kernel upgrades have all caused my computer to stop booting correctly.  In different ways.  Re-installing the kernel package fixes it.  Awesome.

Jun 7, 2010
#kernel #Ubuntu

May 2010

May 15, 2010
#Ubuntu #kernel #kernel panic #BSOD #boot

After an update with a new kernel, my computer got stuck in a reboot loop.  Reinstalling the kernel fixed it. 

Seriously?  This can happen?

May 14, 2010
#ubuntu #kernel #upgrade #update
May 11, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #Ubiquity #WTF

beagled-helper is hogging the CPU.

May 10, 2010 1 note
#Ubuntu #CPU

When I try to play 10 seconds of audio in Audacity, it plays a bunch of noise for 1.5 seconds and then stops.

May 8, 2010 1 note
#infuriating #PulseAudio #Audacity #audio #Ubuntu

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

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
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