Fix The Shutdown/Reboot Issue With Multiple Users on Ubuntu

March 24, 2012 by · Leave a Comment
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A while back I purchased a nice LG Smart TV for my living room. Besides having the standard Smart TV applications like internet browsing and NetFlix, my TV can stream media from my PC either through a DLNA server or through LG's Media Link. In order to use the Media Link, you must install the Plex Media Server on your computer. Read more

Installing LAMP on Ubuntu 10.04 and 10.10 (Lucid Lynx, Maverick Meerkat)

April 29, 2010 by · 468 Comments
Filed under: HowTo, linux, Ubuntu, web development 

If you're developing websites, it's nice to be able to test your code in the privacy of your own computer rather that out in the public internet. In order to do that, you'll need to install a webserver on your development computer. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) is one of the most common web hosting platforms, so it's a perfect environment for you to build and test your website code. If you carefully follow these step by step instructions, you'll have your own LAMP setup, configured, and running in no time.  Read more

Use Nautilus Location Entry in Ubuntu Lucid

April 25, 2010 by · 15 Comments
Filed under: gnome, HowTo, linux, Ubuntu 

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) uses the latest version of the Nautilus file manager (version 2.30.0). If you've been using Ubuntu for a while then you might be accustomed to using location entry in Nautilus.  By default, Nautilus came up with the Button Bar to represent the current location in the file system.  Read more

How To Select The Splash Screen in Ubuntu Lucid

April 10, 2010 by · 9 Comments
Filed under: gnome, HowTo, KDE, linux, Ubuntu 

I've recently been doing a lot of testing on the next version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. After installing Ubuntu I also decided to add the Kubuntu packages to my system. This is easy to do with a simple

sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop

One of the annoyances I have with this is that adding the Kubuntu packages through this method also hijacks the startup splash to that of Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. It's not a deal breaker, but I want to change it back. Read more

Ubuntu Lucid Works on the MSI Wind U100

March 9, 2010 by · 15 Comments
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The MSI Wind U100 netbook has been plagued by a bug in the Ubuntu Karmic kernel mode setting (KMS) that causes the screen brightness to flicker upon startup. As a result of this, I've been running Ubuntu Jaunty which continues to run well.

This past weekend I decided to download the Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx Alpha3 release and give it a try. I can confirm that based on booting a Live USB, the screen flicker issue has been fixed on the U100. Good news for the MSI Wind owners out there!

So if you're one of the Wind users that's been avoiding the update to Karmic, things are looking good for installing Lucid.