Category Archives: Ubuntu

Spotify finally comes to Linux

Spotify the free music application for Windows and Mac has finally been officially ported to Linux, while this is only a preview build and currently unsupported it’s at least a step in the right direction and no more running the … Continue reading

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GIMP (2.6.8) Crashing On Some Toolbox Icons – Lucid

:~$ gimp gimp: fatal error: Failed to register GObject with DBusConnection (script-fu:3100): LibGimpBase-WARNING **: script-fu: gimp_wire_read(): error I fixed this error by removing opening Synaptic Package Manager and searching for appmenu-gtk, right click and mark for removal, once this has … Continue reading

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HowTo: Fix Can’t Click on Flash in Ubuntu (64bit)

There is a pretty quick fix for not being able to click flash on websites such as YouTube, just simply add the line below into the following file and restart your web browser and all should be fine: sudo gedit … Continue reading

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HowTo: Install BURG in Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking … Continue reading

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HowTo: Install BURG (The Beautiful GRUB Replacement)

BURG if you didn’t notice is GRUB backwards and actually stands for “Brand-new Universal loadeR from GRUB” which was probably decided a while after picking the letters.. Basically though it’s a much nicer looking alternative to the very dated looking … Continue reading

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HowTo: Run .jar files in Ubuntu

To run a JAR file from the command line in ubuntu using the following command: java -jar filename.jar Otherwise it is also possible to enable double clicking to run jar files too by the following simple steps: Find the .jar … Continue reading

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Spotify (wine+proxy)- Connection lost. Reconnecting

At University I am running Spotify through a proxy (and wine) which seems to result in lost of connections with 4 different error codes (shown below). What’s strange is I can usually get around 15/20 tracks at the start of … Continue reading

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HowTo Fix: “There is a problem with your sound card. Spotify can’t play music.” (Wine)

Quite a few times I have encountered this problem, which I think is caused when the soundcard was recently used by another program and might still be busy but it means Spotify can’t play music, so a quick fix for … Continue reading

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HowTo: Stop Ubuntu Checking For Automatic Updates

At work I can’t afford to have my Ubuntu system update and possibly wipe out some important libraries I need, and I get pretty tired of closing the Update Manager every time it decides I need to update so here’s … Continue reading

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Where is this “Me Menu”? – Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

After updating my Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) to Lucid (10.04) I was browsing the new features, one of which I couldn’t seem to find. The “Me Menu” which has been talked about quite a lot recently and referred to on the … Continue reading

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