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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.

All of my Karmic Koala installs had missing icons. Apparently they’re defaulted to off. One check mark later and they returned.

Karmic introduced Gnome’s new sound setup which includes sound themes, but with no clear way of changing them. Here’s how I hacked them.

Imac: I’m trying 9.10 and after I suspended it asked for my password when went back to the computer. How do I disable that feature?
Not that I would recommend it, I can understand the need to turn the password prompt off when returning from suspend. On Ubuntu 9.10, Gnome has that as a setting which [...]

I keep forgetting exactly how to do this without searching for it, so what better than to post it here for myself and others?
I enjoy installing games that are either not in the official Ubuntu repositories or are newer versions than what is available. After downloading and extracting, I move them to /opt and add [...]

Here’s a small introduction to using aliases on the command line to shorten commands.

Quick and easy guide to upgrading your OpenOffice.org to 3.1 on Ubuntu Hardy, Intrepid, or Jaunty using the Scribblers PPA.

You can upgrade Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex’s vlc package from 0.9.4 to 0.9.8a with a few easy steps.

Here’s how we add items to Ubuntu’s main menu.

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