Posts Tagged ‘Fix’

Prevent Wordpress from Hanging when You Log on

I’ve set up a Wordpress site for a client and have had no end of troubles trying to get the site to behave – however there seems to be a constant problem of Wordpress hanging.
Looking further into it – I discovered that the feeds in the Dashboard were making the browser and site hang. There [...]

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Task Switching in Compiz-Fusion

Being a sucker for all kinds of eye-candy, I’ve been running the latest builds of Compiz-Fusion. I’ve got to say that it is fantastic and makes the desktop experience a much more pleasurable one.
One of the things that has caused an issue is that the Application Switcher plugin (ALT+TAB) keeps on switching to every second [...]

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Ubuntu 7.04 fails to mount USB drive after kernal upgrade

After the recent Feisty kernel update, I found that I couldn’t access a USB drive without using root privileges in the command prompt.
When plugging a USB flash drive in, I’d get the following error:

Cannot mount volume.
You are not privileged to mount the volume ‘drivename’.
The problem is the new way that Ubuntu identifies disk drives on [...]

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