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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 of […]

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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. You should only have […]

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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. It’s essentially […]

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So, a few things about using Citrix under Ubuntu:

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 your FontPath […]

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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)

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