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So it’s been about a week since Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx reached the Alpha 3 stage. With it comes what I can only describe as the most stable pre-release of Ubuntu throughout its entire schedule that I’ve ever had the pleasure to use. I don’t have it on a physical machine, yet, but in [...]

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.

I finished reading Stephan Hermann’s blog post, Myths of Linux Distributions and other operating systems, where he lambastes several common Linux distro myths, and I had a moment of reflection. Part of his #5 wherein he states…
…You get your stupid Linux Kernel and Linux Distro for free, I repeat, You don’t pay anything for it….
…made [...]

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.

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 [...]