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A change in Gnome’s gnome-power-management package has hidden the “Do nothing” option making it difficult to run an external monitor on a laptop with the lid closed. Here’s a workaround.

Reset your Firefox settings to their default state without deleting all of your saved data.

I finally figure out how to force all of my Firefox 3.0.x plugins to work with Firefox 3.5. All were enabled, but one was broken.

Here’s a short example showing how to enable Firefox 3.0 plugins to work with Firefox 3.5.

An email from Martin Pitt that went out across the ubuntu-devel-announce mailing list warns about a possible failure with the new gdm 2.26 that just landed for those taking part in testing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala.
“… if you upgraded to gdm 2.26 since last Friday, updating your system under GNOME will kill the upgrade and [...]

Pidgin releases 2.5.7. Fixes the issues users were experiencing with Yahoo.

Yahoo decided to update their Messenger server software causing havoc for non-Messenger clients like Pidgin. Here’s a temporary solution.

Finally figured out why gufw’s “Autostart with session” option was grayed out.

The Evolution RSS Plugin was causing Evolution to segfault and prevent it from restarting.

I spent the evening relocating a local mirror of Ubuntu’s Hardy and Intrepid repository from one machine to another. When I was finished, I went about updating the sources.list files on the various computers when I encountered a GPG error. One of the four Launchpad PPA repos I follow added a signature and I didn’t have the public key in which to verify it.