Ubuntu

I've been running Ubuntu since early 2007. Had a few teething problems with sound cards at the start but worked around them by using OSS. Happily the necessary drivers were updated in the latest releases. Below are tricks picked up over the years of using Ubuntu.

RubyMine setup and launch application as root

Posted by Tom Eustace on February 23, 2011|Comments|Read full article
I have openjdk installed as well as sun jdk, so when I ran rubymine I was getting a warning message about using openjdk.

Public Keys accessing github gives Agent admitted failure to sign using the key.

Posted by Tom Eustace on January 21, 2011|Comments|Read full article

Got this error recently when trying to connect to github, having not connected for awhile:

Working with protected folders

Posted by Tom Eustace on November 13, 2010|Comments|Read full article
Ubuntu tries to protect novice users from doing silly things

LAMP set up but http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ not found

Posted by Tom Eustace on November 12, 2010|Comments|Read full article
LAMP set up but http://localhost/phpmyadmin/ not found

Accidentally deleted your main panel!!

Posted by Tom Eustace on December 05, 2009|Comments|Read full article
Accidentally deleted your main panel!!