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 [...]

I’ve been using Office 2007 quite happily for some time now. But the niggles are starting to hit me.
One of the main issues is the new .docx format not being supported across the board yet. And with me being a sucker for all things new, I have to make a point of saving an alternate [...]

I wanted to extract Marillion’s cover of Toxic today, which lives on the DVD release of Thankyou Whoever You Are / Most Toys.
I found a useful page over at Ubuntu Geek which covered the topic nicely using a tool called transcode, which I’ve used a little of in the past.
I was having some difficulties with [...]

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 [...]

John ponders why he’s always going to bed an hour late when he dual boots between Windows and Linux, and tries to switch Windows to use UTC time.

I had some trouble getting the ICA client to connect to a site in Ubuntu today. Actually, it’s been for a few days. I’m not entirely sure if I’ve used Ubuntu for Citrix stuff.
Anyway, whenever clicking on a connection on the Citrix web interface, the webica application would fail with this error: “Proxy connection failed: [...]