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

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

The OpenOffice.org Scribblers PPA has been updated to include OO.o 3.0.1 for Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron users.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron reaches 8.04.2

Ubuntu’s numerous releases enjoy both life and death throughout the year. Now that it’s 2009, we look forward to six milestones for five different versions.

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

TualatriX keeps improving Ubuntu Tweak with each new release. For version 0.4.4, the theme is definitely the number four with four areas of improvement.

I wanted to burn a dual-layered DVD with Brasero 0.7.1 and found it was unable to. With Ubuntu’s backports repository, we can make it happen with an update to 0.8.1.

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.