Ubuntu 11.04 Countdown
Upgrade/Install Firefox 4 in Ubuntu 10.10 (or whatever)
If you’re looking for an easy solution to upgrade to Firefox 4 on Ubuntu, you’ve come to the right place! I give the answer here along with a little info about PPA’s (for those of you not familiar with them). Don’t worry, I try to keep things in as simple of terms possible.
How to: Initiate a Timed Shutdown
On Friday I was downloading some files on my Netbook (running Ubuntu Remix 10.04) and was not planning to stick around for the downloads to finish (it was already close to 7pm, I needed to get home for the weekend). I didn’t want to leave it running all weekend and I still had another hour to go before my downloads finished… What to do?
Well I decided to initiate a delayed shutdown of my system. Since the downloads had about 1hr and 15 minutes left, I decided to be extra safe and set the shutdown for an extra 30 minutes after that… Here’s how I did it:
In your terminal, run the following command:
sudo shutdown -h 20:45 "See you
Lexmark x1240 meet Ubuntu – play nice
I have an old Lexmark 3-in-one scanner/copier/printer and it’s been sitting on my desk collecting dust. I finally had a use for it today as I needed to scan something. I know that Lexmark printers are notorious for being unfriendly to Linux, so I did some searching before plugging the printer in.
Everywhere I looked showed that there is no scanning support for the Lexmark as they refuse to release any source code for their print drivers, and the only binaries they offer are for print functionality only.
Well I remembered that I had previously installed XSane (though for some reason I cannot remember why), so I figured I’d just mess around and see what happens.
I plugged in the
Ubuntu User Day – January 23rd
The first Ubuntu user day is scheduled for January 23rd!
It is geared toward new/beginner users, but anyone is welcome to participate.
Ubuntu wired connection problems
So my mom told me today that her Internet hasn’t been working since my sister was in town and disconnected her Ethernet cable and setup a wireless router and then put it all back to “normal”.
I’m not quite sure what caused the problem, but I went through the usual troubleshooting steps, including disconnecting the power from the cable modem, waiting 30-60 seconds, then powering it up to re-cycle it.
Once I booted up into Ubuntu 9.10 (yeah my mom is cool enough to run Linux) and tested out the connection. It appeared that network manager (nm) was somehow set to not manage networks by default anymore. So I did the following:
gksudo gedit /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf
Then I changed the settings