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By admin, October 28, 2010 19:43

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Well it’s good to know that updates bring change.

Many times change brings about a better way of doing things.  Other times it may bring change to old familiar ways and we may not like them.  Take the moving of the Gnome window buttons for minimize, maximize, and close.

The latest version of Ubuntu decided to move these buttons to the left side of the window.  This isn’t so strange.  Many OS’s over the years have had the close button on the top left, but rarely the other buttons.  I understand that Microsoft Windows has set the position on the right and when I adopted Windows as a OS I quickly became quite familiar with this method and today, take for granted their position since both KDE and Gnome Desktops for Linux did the same thing.   However as of Ubuntu 10.04 it’s now on the left.

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By admin, January 13, 2010 10:00

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Something I heard about last week but haven’t had time to put up here is the “God Mode” feature.  If you want to have a common area to access all your settings features, rather than navigate in the normal Control Panel method you may find this mode to be a bit of a time saver.

To enable simply Create a New Folder and name it this:

GodMode.{ED7BA470-8E54-465E-825C-99712043E01C}

That will change the folder icon to a Control Panel icon and will then give you direct access to all the features in a simple list format.  If you prefer having the short explainations they will be missing.

So far no comments from Microsoft about this.  Enjoy.

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By admin, December 10, 2009 08:12

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I received a rather interesting spam the other day and it would seem to have included some well private details.  It looks like this email contains login information for various mail systems but I honestly did not follow up with it.  I figured it may be of interest to the owners of these sites so I’m posting it here rather than attempt to start tracking abuse emails for various domains.

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By admin, December 8, 2009 15:17

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If you are using Rythmbox and having trouble with getting windows shares to work, I found a neat workaround for this.  I am using Ubuntu 9.10  Karmic Koala which uses Gnome Desktop, and found a pretty simple solution, courtesy of launchpad.net which is the site where all bugs related to Ubuntu or any packages tracked back upstream can be filed, and hopefully solved.  This bug isn’t specific to Ubuntu or Gnome, but is actually a bug with Rythmbox.  You can read the bug at the link in this article, or simply follow these instructions.

From a shell or terminal (to open on click on “Applications” then “Accessories” then ‘Terminal’) copy and paste the following:

gnomevfs-ls smb://mywinpc/mymusic

Make sure before you hit enter to change ‘mywinpc’ to the actual NAME of the PC your share is located on, and ‘mymusic’ is changed to the name of the share your music is found.  This step will then display some output and tell you to then enter the username to login, the WORKGROUP name, and of course your password.  Once done it will majically mount the drive for you.

Now you should be able to start Rythmbox and select ‘Import folder’ and find this location readily available.

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By admin, October 30, 2009 15:24

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If you’ve attempted to upgrade your Java from Sun and encountered this error, you probably were left scratching your head,  The link to Sun’s Help Resources have no effective solution at the time or writing this, it simply states:

The actual root cause of this issue is still under investigation…

Isn’t that helpful…I have discovered a solution hopefully it will work for you.

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