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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.

I couldn’t upgrade my Eee PC 701 from Jaunty to Karmic without finding more drive space. I did it by borrowing space from the /home partition using a symbolic link.

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 [...]

ShipIt has begun taking pre-orders for Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala CDs.

Begone vol_id… long live blkid!