Tag: Ubuntu
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Saving a computer with Xfce
Regular readers will know of my contempt for Ubuntu Linux‘s standard “Unity” interface. Sadly I could find no simple way to transition to the Mint distro (which keeps Ubuntu’s simplicity but ditches the abomination that is Unity) and so thought I had no choice but to live with it. But, bluntly, Unity was making the […]
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Another one bites the dust – but files on LVM are saved
Chucked another computer tonight. This one had been ill for about a year and stopped working about two months ago (the Raspberry Pi now does all that it used to do, except run a SCSI tape backup). But I had to rescue an LVM set to get the files – so here’s how I did […]
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It’s Friday afternoon…
…and I could really do with an answer to this question I have posted over on “Superuser”: I am seeking to back up an encrypted volume used by Virtual Box on one OS X machine to another using rsync (I will eventually stick this into cron). This is the command line (I am […]
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Odd looking Microsoft logo
Is it just me who thinks that Microsoft’s cloud computing logo reminds them of Ubuntu? I cannot believe that Microsoft feel so threatened by Ubuntu and Canonical that they have done this deliberately, but it still seems like a very odd choice to me. PS: Remind me never to use OS X to write blog posts – this […]
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Death of a bridge
It looks as though my wireless bridge, which relied on equipment more than a decade old – a Ricoh pci pcmcia bridge and a 801.11b DLink card – has died. The network interface won’t come up on booting the system and lspci just lists the device as an unrecognised non-VGA card (interestingly the BIOS still […]
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The more people use “Unity” the less they like it
Admittedly this is a “focus group of one” but returning home from some weeks away, the other half says “you know the way my computer works now?” Me: “oh, Unity?” Her: “Yes. Well, it’s ****. Can you get rid of it?” Me: “I thought you said you liked it?” Her: “That was before I had […]
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Ubuntu annoyances and some fixes
OK, after a week of 11.10 I thought I’d list some of the problems and what to do about them. It’s not happy reading – I think it is fair to say Canonical have dropped the ball on this one. Unity – this is the joke Ubuntu think we should be using as a desktop […]
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Upgrading to Ubuntu 11.10 and getting rid of “Unity”
I have now upgraded the laptop on which this is being typed to Ubuntu 11.10 and there were a few problems and issues: The upgrade killed the wireless connection and then failed (late on) because it could not download the Adobe Flash installer – but it was late enough in the upgrade process to allow […]
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