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Rescuing Settings From Broken JDownloader Installation in Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 15:40:45 +0000

Somehow I broke my JDownloader installation, by meddling with the network settings. As I had quite a lot of download packages queued, I wanted to rescue them and use them with the latest version of JDownloader. I managed to do this successfully, here's how:

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Normal User Unable to Write to FAT32 Partition Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Sat, 23 May 2009 12:44:49 +0000

Just when I though I had finished reviving my parent's computer with Ubuntu, I discovered that the normal user was unable to write to the shared FAT32 partition.

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Partition Displayed as ’40.0 GB Volume’ Instead of Mount Name Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Sat, 23 May 2009 07:14:41 +0000

Installing Ubuntu on my parent's computer today I ran into this problem: though the Windows and Storage partitions were being mounted correctly at login, they were displaying as "40.0 GB Media" and "80.0 GB Media" respectively.

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Gwibber Daily Build PPA Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Sun, 17 May 2009 03:57:33 +0000

Thanks the comments in this post from The Open Sourceror: “Twitter, Tweets and all that?” I installed Gwibber. Shortly afterwards I noticed that Gwibber wasn’t updating – the errors window showed numerous “400 – Bad Request” errors. Turns out Twitter changed their API, and Jaunty’s repository hasn’t updated to the new version of Gwibber. Problem [...]

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Installing JDownloader in Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Thu, 07 May 2009 03:02:12 +0000

JDownloader is an excellent download manager. When I had a Mac I used Speed Downloader, but when the free trial period ran out I switched back to DownThemAll, a download manager plugin for Firefox. The only thing I missed about Speed Downloader was its ability to store my Rapidshare Password: a feature not supported by [...]

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No Sound in Ubuntu Jaunty With Intel HDA VT1708B

Michael Robinson — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:28:29 +0000

After becoming terminally annoyed with a my broken Intrepid installation, I decided to install Jaunty. While I was enjoying the new growl-esque notification system, I noticed a flaw – no program would make any. Not a peep. Headphones plugged in, check. Volume sliders in gnome-sound-properties all the way up, check. Hmm… Restart. Same. Uh… Reinstall. [...]

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Normal User Unable to Write to FAT32 Partition Ubuntu Just when I though I had finished reviving my parent's...
Partition Displayed as ’40.0 GB Volume’ Instead of Mount Name Ubuntu Installing Ubuntu on my parent's computer today I ran into...

OpenCyc/ResearchCyc in Ubuntu

Michael Robinson — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 00:51:59 +0000

The following are the exact steps I took to get OpenCyc running in Ubuntu 8.10. Without this thread I wouldnâ€™t have been able to do it.

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Rescuing Settings From Broken JDownloader Installation in Ubuntu Somehow I broke my JDownloader installation, by meddling with the...
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Ubuntu 8.10 on a Macbook

Michael Robinson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:56:13 +0000

Installing Ubuntu 8.10 took 15 minutes. I cannot believe how easy it was.

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Installing JDownloader in Ubuntu JDownloader is an excellent download manager. When I had a...