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This morning my Ubuntu developed an odd issue. Not sure if it was file corruption or what. Nautilus developed an issue where it would open an initial folder, such as my home folder, then hang forever (with no error messages and no logging) trying to move to any other folder. Reboots, reinstallation of nautilus, removal [...]

So, FWIW, apparently the latest Wine update to 0.9.41 breaks IEs4Linux. Symptoms: IE runs but a) displays only blank pages b) doesn’t have toolbars c) does not let you enter URLs in the address bar, only displaying the letter ‘h’ Per this forum thread, I downgraded back to 0.9.38 and everything is hunky dory again. [...]

If you’re on a unix system as your desktop, you should install Preload. It readahead caches programs and program files in memory for faster execution. Sourceforge link or ‘apt-get install preload’ on Debian-based systems, such as Ubuntu. Not sure if it’ll compile on a Mac. Also… There is a package called “tilda” that’s pretty sweet. [...]

So, a few things about using Citrix under Ubuntu (7.04): Don’t use the client linked from your Citrix login page, it’s probably version 7 but the latest is version 10. Go here, instead You will need Open Motif. Use synaptic to search for ‘motif’. Install limbotif3, libmotif-dev, and motifnls You may need to set up [...]

It appears to cause a CPU load of > 2.0, even if the actual CPU use is around 0.5% . I don’t know what that’s all about. (This is under Ubuntu 6.10, kernel 2.6.17-11-generic)

Just in case any users out there have a laptop like mine or similar, I decided to post info about my Linux laptop so they can be assured that blowing away Windows isn’t a bad move.

I finally got the builtin wifi card working on my laptop. Apparently all it took was a kernel update for things to work properly. I used the fwcutter method found here. Good stuff. Odd that it didn’t work under Feisty (when I tried it), but it works fine now. It’s nice to not have to [...]