Uploading media to WordPress using the built-in Flash uploader has been broken on Ubuntu for a long time (Karmic 9.10 + Flash 10.0 r42). The problem seems to be in Flash itself since I can upload fine to the same blog from a Windows machine. But I just installed the Flash Plugin 10.1 beta 2 and [...]

I recently had a hard drive go bad on me which actually turned out to be a motherboard going bad. The hard drive may be fine but I don’t want to take any chances, and anyway, you can buy 1 terabyte now for about $70 US. There was definitely something goofy going on with access [...]

Information on changing the default Gnome terminal size is out there but it is scattered and scarce. I have two 20 inch monitors. The default size (80×24) is too small. Here’s how you can change the default. This applies to all launchers, menu items, and keyboard shortcuts: Run gconf-editor Open desktop → gnome → applications [...]

Kind of a mish-mosh of snippets below. A lot of them are useful if you’re managing servers. The rest are useful more generally and occasionally. Many of these utilities may already be on your system, others you may have to install. (Hopefully you’re using a Linux distro that has all of these in its standard [...]

Last week I asked for some help finding a new note taking application. I was becoming frustrated with BasKet Note Pads because, despite all of its great features, it would intermittently delete notes when I moved them (obviously, unacceptable). Otherwise, BasKet is a very good application for general note taking if you like the outline [...]

I’ll try to keep this brief but I wanted to post it because I couldn’t find exactly this procedure anywhere online. Here’s my situation: when I installed Ubuntu I didn’t just repartition my Windows drive—I added a whole new hard drive for it. So I ended up with Windows XP on /dev/sda1 and Ubuntu on [...]