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Gutsy Upgrade Not Up to the Task

Posted on November 14th, 2007 by nathan

It seems that my Gutsy install (upgraded from Feisty) is becoming more and more unstable. X crashes on virtually every logout, and now Deskbar seems broken. This is just when my semester is busiest…not the best time to try to be productive with a system that’s unreliable. Once I make it through this week, I’ll [...]

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Optimize Firefox for Widescreen Monitors

Posted on November 13th, 2007 by nathan

This gem of a site details how to mod Firefox to take full advantage of the screenspace available today’s widescreen displays. You’ll need to install the TabMix Plus extension, and drop in the author’s userChrome.css in your /.mozilla/
/chrome/ file. This is by far one of coolest and most useful userChrome.css modifications I’ve seen.
How do you [...]

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Get Your Ubuntu Help at the UDSF (Ubuntu Document Storage Facility)

Posted on November 12th, 2007 by nathan

Find Ubuntu documentation clearly and simply organized.

I just found about the UDSF, a central repository of very well-organized Ubuntu knowledge. It’s organized into sections like Application Finder (where to find the equivalents of your favorite applications that run in Linux), Version Choices (a quick idea of the differences between Ubuntu versions), Desktop Interface, Multimedia, etc. [...]

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