published by flevour on Fri, 08/10/2010 - 16:13
Due to a now resolved bug, if you start/stop or reboot an pre-2010-09-09 official ubuntu image running on t1.micro Amazon instance, you would end up with a ec2-brick.
That is, the system would hang on reboot and you would be stuck out of your image with no luck.
The problem was caused by /etc/fstab referring to a partition that is usually available on all other instance types, but not in t1.micro.
These are the steps to follow to fix the problem:
published by flevour on Wed, 09/01/2008 - 21:12
All problems (such as the one found below) when compiling Cisco vpnclient on Ubuntu should go away when using version “4.8.01.0640-k9”. Fear not even there is a mention about 64bit version in the name, the tar is packed in biarch mode.
See this link for little further details.
(Obviously you find such links after wasting at least 5 hours trying other solutions).
published by flevour on Sat, 01/09/2007 - 02:42
Via Lifehacker I got to this Ubuntuforum thread and in a matter of minutes fixed a problem that kept me away from using my laptop touchpad.
It’s pretty common in fact that you accidentally bump on the it while typing, and that means the cursor will randomly move, eventually selecting some text or moving your caret lines away from the point you are typing.
published by flevour on Sat, 25/08/2007 - 13:05
Being stupid with friends a couple of nights ago, this is the way I shutdown my laptop (fixing a typo, you know):
echo "sudol init 0" | sed 's/sudol//'|xargs sudo
Using
xargs makes me feel better.
published by flevour on Sat, 18/08/2007 - 18:25
I found out you may need to install gstreamer0.8-plugin-apps in order to get more visual effects available. You also may need to restart GDM in order for them do be loaded (after installing them of course, aptitude install gstreamer0.8-plugin-apps is your friend).
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