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Today we and no doubt countless other Ubuntu 10.10 users got the dreaded: You can read the official announcement here. As everyone is aware, Ubuntu and Gnome have both moved towards a new desktop environment paradigm which is designed to be a bit more dumbed down and accessible to less technical users. Unfortunately its not [...]

If you find yourself typing away whilst something else loads or another window pops open and all of a sudden your typing has gone into a different window then this solution is for you Open gconf-editor. Open a terminal and type gconf-editor and hit return. Now navigate to /apps/compiz/general/screen0/options/focus_prevention_level key and set its value to [...]

Not many people are aware of the Path Tools extension for netbeans, and even fewer know how to make it really useful. Effectively it provides 4 buttons - Copy Path, Open Folder, Open Terminal and Edit Path, the latter three being configurable. Its default for Open Folder is great (for gnome users) but that's the [...]

So there is often a requirement for sharing files but what happens if those files are files that absolutely must be secure, like private ssh keys? Well Dropbox whilst a good product is third-party and not encrypted so if there's an exploit, the contents of the files could well be exposed to people you don't [...]

If you need to extract the information from a PDF table sometimes when you copy and paste it into a text editor the formatting is incorrect making the information useless. In cases like this, you can use pdfedit to extract the text in the correct formatting and then do what you need with it. To [...]

After a bunch of digging around trying to find out how to get my internal SD card reader working in Ubuntu 10.10 I have found this solution: Looking at dmesg, the error I was getting was this: PLAIN TEXT CODE: mmc0: ADMA error mmc0: error -5 whilst initialising SD card I found the solution here: [...]

If you are tearing your hair out trying to figure out why trying to run something is complaining that it doesn't exist when it clearly does, this is quite possibly your solution. The problem is most likely that you are trying to run a 32bit package on a 64bit system. The solution is easy enough, [...]

Bash provides many powerful functions but how can you use these easily? If you spend any time using the command line, either to manage a server or on the desktop, you have to quickly become proficient with bash. You will also find the you carry out many of the same tasks time after time. This [...]

If you have a secondary hard drive that you have to manually mount in Ubuntu/Linux everytime you boot up and you are not too comfortable with the syntax for fstab, this is a possible easy shortcut for you. You can view the currently mounted partitions by looking at mtap PLAIN TEXT CODE: cat /etc/mtab If [...]

Trying to upgrade to Natty and it seems to have tried to set up a RAID array which is causing me issues. After a bit of messing around, the easy solution is to run: PLAIN TEXT CODE: sudo dmraid -rE More Reading:Netbeans Uppercase, Lowercase and Switch Case – useful key comboUbuntu 10.10 is Dead… What [...]