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WINE needs your votes
WINE, the ten yesr old open source program layer that lets Linux users run Windows programs (the name is an acronym for Wine Is Not an Emulator) is preparing for their 1.0 release in June and needs...
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Fixing the borked numeric keypad in Ubuntu Hardy
I was finally able to do some hunting around Launchpad to find out why the numeric keypad on my keyboard “broke” once I got Ubuntu Hardy installed, and I was able to find a workaround for it. It’s also...
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Ubuntu fixes the Hardy NumLock bug
Many of us who have been testing Ubuntu Hardy have found there’s a bug that leaves the NumLock setting off as it boots up, despite our having it turned on in our BIOS. I’m glad to be able to report...
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Is GNOME Do launching Synaptic without admin rights?
Last week I took some updates that left me unable to use GNOME Do to launch Synaptic. After a bit of hunting I eventually posted a question on the GNOME Do Google Group asking about it. Igor asked me...
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[RESOLVED] Does anyone know what borked WINE this week?
Somehow in the past week I went from having apps I could use with no trouble to not being able to see squat in WINE windows. I made a thread on the Ubuntu Forums about the issue yesterday but haven’t...
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I dood it
As promised I managed to snag the update to Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Beta yesterday. The first thing I noticed, even as I was taking the update, is that the estimated time for the update was 3...
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Installing files on a PDA in Ubuntu 9.04
One of the issues that has arisen in Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope is the fact that the panel icon for the gpiloted panel applet has gone from a visible icon to a simple dot. The problem is that there’s...
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[HOWTO] QuickTip: Amarok broke on upgrade with complaints about MySQLe
As I said in my earlier post I upgraded my Linux Mint Debian Edition +KDE laptop to the testing repositories yesterday and other than the changes in Gimp I just wrote about I also discovered that...
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[RESOLVED] [HOWTO] QuickTip: Fixing KOrganizer’s “No calendars found, event...
Updated 23 August: It turns out I posted too soon. I can see my calendar items when I open KOrganizer when I specifically open the calendar I created, but I can’t see the entries when I merge it into...
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