Ubuntu

DHCP? Why would systemd pay attention to DHCP?

Not sure if it’s X or 24.04, but you need to do a magic tweak for Wine.

I had to install X to use xcreensaver. That meant I needed a new version of VNC as well.

I built Emacs to diagnose a problem. Emacs wasn’t the problem. Here’s how to build Emacs anyway.

Something weird is going on between Emacs and Ubuntu. ‘Unlocking file: Invalid argument’ is the symptom. This is… not the cure, but a workaround.

Changing the MTA’s maximum message size (postfix)

Setting up and using Uniden Sentinel BCDx36HP on Ubuntu 22.04 under Wine

Stop “[Application]” Is Not Responding on Ubuntu 22.04/Gnome

Ubuntu 22.04 logs not rotating

Merging multiple PDFs

Building TQSL 2.6.4 for Ubuntu 20.04 (or TQSL 2.6.5 for Ubuntu 22.04)

Setting up NFS on Ubuntu 20.04

Mounting a partition from a raw disk image

Persistent serial ports on Ubuntu

Fixing a busy CP210x serial device on Ubuntu

Programing with a PICkit 2 on Linux

Mapping a USB volume knob into a keyboard on Linux for SDR

Finding out which disk is which on Ubuntu

Fixing Brother printing on Ubuntu

Let me know (mail me) when there’s an error

What’s up with mod_security and User-Agent? (406 Not Acceptable)

Setting a user and group for Samba drives

What the hell, Gnome? Canonical?

Upgrading Mythbuntu from Trusty to Xenial

Ubuntu 16.04.1 - cron mail not working

Formatting an SD card as exfat

Rescuing a hard drive with ddrescue

Changing user and group ID on Unix

Samba - let Windows execute even if execute bit not set

Setting up a WD Red drive for use in a NAS

Signal out of range on Soyo Topaz S

Upgrading Mythbuntu from Lucid to Precise

Connecting to HSMM-Mesh and the Internet from a laptop

Ubuntu number key weirdness

Setting up soundmodem on Ubuntu 10.04

Intel can’t do video

Brother printer disappeared

Failed while running mythtranscode to cut commercials

Configuring a website on Apache2 with server-side includes

Creating thumbnail images with convert

Installing the Brother MFC 9840cdw driver on Ubuntu

Speed up those boring meeting replays with mplayer

Converting audio files under Linux

Disabling the Ubuntu auto update dialog

Installing ntpd on Ubuntu

Hiding a user in GDM

Reading fonts from a Mac CDROM and converting them to TrueType

Batch-converting images

Setting disk labels in Linux

Straightening pictures with Gimp

Exposing the Firefox Location Bar behaviour

Monitoring hard disk health with smartmontools

Adding fldigi from the Berlios repository

Setting disk UUIDs

Changing Unix/Linux filenames to handle DOS conventions

Using rsync to back up a Windows box to Ubuntu Server 8.04

Automatically mounting drives with UUIDs

Simple backup using rsync

Setting up Samba on Ubuntu Server 8.04

Creating credential files for automatic Samba mounts in /etc/fstab

Compiling soundmodem-0.14 on Ubuntu 9.10

Tuning X video with modeline

Modeline for Samsung LN32A450C

Ubuntu 9.04 setup - fixing the scroll wheel

Setting up the Sharp LL-172C-B Monitor on Ubuntu 9.04

Stopping the squeaks with soundmodem as ax.25