As I’m using network manager to control wireless access on my laptop and a desktop computer in my home, I’ve decided that the keyring manager is a nuisance.
I couldn’t bear for it to constantly ask for a password every time that I needed to log on to a wireless network to retrieve the stored password. [...]

Today, I’ve been working on a server that doesn’t want to mount one of the partitions that has been formatted with reiserfs.
Using the fsck command doesn’t work because there are bad blocks on the drive, resulting in fsck vehemently refusing to cooperate.:
Cannot read the block (41713664): (Input/output error).
To get fsck to play with such a [...]

Sometimes I get a little carried away with messing around with the settings in Beryl. I think that through various upgrading to 0.2, downgrading and then upgrading through the SVC repository and playing with options, I’ve probably wasted 5-6 hours of my life.
Anyway, one thing I have noticed is that the desktop switcher sometimes doesn’t [...]

As I get more and more stuck into getting Ubuntu to work nicely for me – I find myself more and more determined to resolve the little issues that nag me.
Today, I decided to finally get the extended mouse support for my Logitech MX5000 desktop working, and thankfully the process wasn’t too fraught with Bad [...]

John offers a straight-forward guide to get fetchmail to work in Ubuntu using fetchmailconf, and running it as a daemon.

Although reconnecting the bluetooth USB dongle is a good workaround for Ubuntu, it is starting to get a tad annoying.
On the Ubuntu forums, it is apparently just since the Edgy release that this occurs. There is a workaround by removing the bluez packages – although the side effect is that you cannot add other bluetooth [...]