Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category

Fix Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade mountall errors

Thursday, November 12th, 2009

Apparently I wasn't the only user affected by the recent  Ubuntu 9.10 upgrade 'mishap'.  Some of us have experienced unbootable machines after upgrading through the system's Update Manager, receiving errors like: 'init: mountall main process (random number) terminated with status 1'.  First off, make sure your menu.lst (/boot/grub/menu.lst) is edited ...

Ubuntu Live Chat Technical Support

Saturday, April 26th, 2008

If you need a problem with Ubuntu fixed right away, you should go to the official IRC chat room on the Freenode servers.  There is tons of people that are more than willing to help if you have a legitimate question to ask.  Here is a list of their servers taken ...

Fix Undefined video mode number in Ubuntu

Tuesday, April 1st, 2008

 If you're getting the error message; "Undefined video mode number - Press Enter to see more or space to continue" when you boot up, I just found a quick fix for it while trying to patch the same problem on my machine.  Apparently this will also work with the lilo ...

lastCollage: Make wallpaper from your Last.fm album covers…

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

  With this handy little bash script, you can make a wallpaper collage of your favorite albums using the Last.fm (formally Audioscrobbler) service.  If you have a Last.fm account, then you already know you need some sort of plugin for your music player to list recently played tracks.  With the lastCollage ...

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Beta released

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

 Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Beta has been released. Release info: http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/hardy/beta Upgrade: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HardyUpgrades New features: Quote: Xorg 7.3 ...

Web Based Online Torrent Client

Tuesday, January 15th, 2008

If you've got a dedicated or even semi-dedicated server with lots of space and bandwidth, why not install a web based torrent client capable of everything a software version is capable of?  TorrentFlux is a free web torrent client that runs on a HTTP web server. It is implemented on the ...