SOHO Ubuntu

Experiences installing and maintaining an Ubuntu Linux installation on various home and small office PCs.

Friday, July 15, 2011

Gnome Panel Slow to Appear

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I have a single gnome panel at the top of my screen that holds all the applets I need.  It started taking ages to appear (tens of seconds) a...
Tuesday, June 28, 2011

How to Delete an Invisible Panel Applet

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Something went wrong with my Weather Report applet.  It had disappeared from its panel but was still present as it kept displaying a warning...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

InstallShield Wizard Fails With OpenJDK

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I tried installing software packaged using InstallShield but each time I ran the installer it would fail with the message: could not load w...
Thursday, August 05, 2010

External Monitor as Primary/Default Display

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I recently installed Lucid Lynx on my Dell Inspiron 9400. One niggling annoyance was that the Dell's LCD screen was the primary displa...

Installing Lucid Lynx 10.04 on Dell Inspiron 9400

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After successfully installing Lucid on a Compaq Evo 510s and a Fujitsu-Siemens Lifebook T4020 I decided to get serious and upgrade my workh...
Sunday, May 30, 2010

Lucid Lynx cifs support needs smbfs package

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After a recent upgrade to Lucid Lynx I attempted to mount a network drive using mount -t cifs ... It failed each time with the following i...
Saturday, May 22, 2010

No XDMCP in Lucid Greeter

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I recently upgraded a Compaq Evo 510s from Hardy to Lucid. The Evo is essentially a thin-client via XDMCP. However, after upgrading I fou...

X unstable running Lucid on a Compaq Evo 510s

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I recently upgraded a Compaq Evo 510s from Hardy to Lucid. The first problem I encountered was instability running X-windows. The display...

Installing Lucid Lynx 10.04 on a Compaq Evo 510s

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I have a policy of only installing Ubuntu's LTS releases, so with the release of Lucid Lynx it was time to migrate from Hardy. I starte...
Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Java Plug-In Next Generation with Firefox 3.0

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I wanted to use Sun's Java Plug-In "Next Generation" (NG) with Firefox 3.0. However, at the time of writing the latest packa...
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