Milinda Pathirage’s Blog

When you try to start Songbird(in my case version 1.1.2) on Ubuntu 8.10 and if you have libvsual-0.4-plugins installed in you system it will pop-up you a crash reporting component saying that Songbird start-up failed. And if you start Songbird from the terminal you will see following lines has printed on the console.
*** glibc detected [...]

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I think most of us who use Firefox on Linux (in this case Ubuntu) had bad performance experiences when we run it with other applications. Ubuntu 8.10 desktop freeze randomly when running Firefox. Some times, I can’t even switch to another application if Firefox freezes and only thing that respond is mouse pointer. Today I [...]

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The Python Way

Open the Terminal
Go to directory you that you want share
Then run the command ‘python -m SimpleHTTPServer’
Now you can access your directory from any remote computer using any web browser by navigating to http://<your ID>:8000/

The thttpd [...]

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Using the command line, you can use "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata" to re-configure the time zone settings.

Open a terminal window by going to Applications>Accessories>Terminal
Type command "sudo dpkg-reconfigure tzdata"
Follow the directions in the terminal.

You can more information from "Ubuntu Time" documentation.
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If you are new to Linux, chances are you will meet a stupid person perhaps in a forum or chat room that can trick you into using commands that will harm your files or even your entire operating system.

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If you want to backup any of your directories in Linux file system, you can use following command. Replace LABEL and directory to suit your needs.
mkisofs -V LABEL -r directory | gzip > cdrom.iso.gz

In Ubuntu 8.04 mkisofs command is just a symbolic link to genisoimage, the fork of mkisofs. It provides a mkisofs symlink to [...]

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If you enable Multicast/RTP Sender and set the option ’send audio from local speakers’ in above PulseAudio configuration window, it will flood the network with multicast packets when you play music in your computer. This problem has mentioned in this thread in ubuntuforums.org. Yesterday this has happened to me and it took 3 hours to [...]

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inotify is a Linux kernel subsystem which monitors Linux file system operations, such as read, write, create and delete. It was included in the mainline kernel from release 2.6.13 (June 18, 2005). It is more efficient than busy polling from a corn job and it’s an extensions to Linux file system to capture the file [...]

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Sometimes when you plug your external hard drives formatted using NTFS into Ubuntu, system gives following error:

Most of the times cause for this error is, unplugging the drive directly from Windows without going through ‘Safely Remove Hardware’ option. When you directly remove the hard drive from the Windows, it will not mark NTFS log as [...]

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When I start to reading Ubuntu packaging guide, I found this interesting things which can do using apt and dpkg.
apt-cache dump: lists every package in the cache. This command is especially helpful in combination with a grep pipe such as apt-cache dump | grep foo to search for packages whose names or dependencies include foo.
apt-cache [...]

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