Preparing to upgrade to Ubuntu 9.10

This is a personal list for my own use, but if you’re curious or think such a list might be useful then by all means read on. I’m preparing for a clean install, especially I didn’t upgrade to 9.04, but it’s probably a good idea to back up anyway. If you read on and spot [...]

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Ubuntu as Gaeilge/Using Ubuntu in Irish

via Twitter
donnchaRT @czajkowski: Ubuntu as Gaeilge/ Using Ubuntu in Irish
http://www.ubuntu-ie.org/node/36 #ubuntu #irish #translations
Clickable link: Ubuntu as Gaeilge

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Desktop Icons Missing, No Right-Click, etc

Booted up this morning to find that the desktop icons were missing and I couldn’t right-click on the desktop.
Everything else worked and I could access the icons via Places/Desktop, but still the Desktop was bare and unclickable.
Thanks to this Ubuntu Forums thread I got it back. In my case it was enough to CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE, [...]

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Xampp Control Panel won’t start on its own

I’ve been doing a lot of testing a Wordpress template for a friend, so Xampp has come in very useful.
There’s one problem, though. The Xampp Control panel won’t start on its own.
The solution, with thanks, is at Human Language Weblog:
If Apache2 or MySQL is already running, then XAMPP will not start. You must stop [...]

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Downloading Ubuntu 9.04 via Bit Torrent

Having just got my Samsung Multifunction running under Ubuntu 8.10, I thought I’d leave 9.04 for a
while, but then I made the mistake of reading Tombuntu’s Ubuntu 9.04 Released. When I started using Ubuntu a few years ago, I had a hard time getting started and I suppose blamed the downloaded .iso. As a [...]

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My Samsung SCX-4200 MFP now working

I managed to get my Samsung SCX-4200 MFP running…. (see previous post)
The key was to gksudo nautilus to change permissions (press Alt-F2 and type gksudo nautilus), so I could uninstall the Samsung driver.
Then I re-installed it over splix2 (see here)
The scanner was now producing root-free scans, but the printer didn’t work. At least the [...]

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