Rebel Zero

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.

Every now and then, I find I need to reset the Gnome desktop environment. I’ve either hacked it beyond repair, come across an instability with an old home directory on a new machine, or would just like to start with a “fresh template” in which to build another masterpiece. Whatever the case, it’s easier than it sounds.

The flashplugin-nonfree package sometimes results in a checksum error, and there’s a perfactly good reason for that with a solution to avoid it in the future. Mackenzie Morgan explains it all with her recent blog post at Ubuntu Linux Tips & Tricks.

Huh!? luke@digglers is what you really picked for a hostname? You really wanted luke@skywalkers and this is how you change it.

Using a dark GTK theme sometimes causes OpenOffice.org 2.4.x applications to default to high contrast theme making them difficult to use. Here’s a workaround that forces OpenOffice.org to use an alternate GTK theme.

After upgrading to Hardy Heron, I feared it didn’t like my DVD drive any longer.