1. Upgrading my Eee PC to Ubuntu 12.10

    I did it again. Upgrade Ubuntu right after a release despite all the problems I had in the past. But this time, after almost four weeks of working with Ubuntu 12.10 on my Asus Eee PC 1000HE, I'm confident that things are looking up again.

    My biggest problem with …

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  2. Mutt: too many errors

    I'm probably one of the last people on earth who still use a text-mode mail client. Mutt has been my tool of choice for 15 years and apart from certain limitations (hey, it's text mode!), I've never had any problems. Over the last few weeks, however, I've been struggling with …

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  3. Scripts That Just Don't Work

    Sometimes people ask for my help when their shell scripts don't work. I've seen all kinds of problems, ranging from trivial to really, really weird. The one I'm describing in this article is definitely from the weird category, but I've seen it quite a few times.

    The story goes like …

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  4. Upgrading my Eee PC to Ubuntu 12.04

    Last weekend I did the most stupid thing you can do when a new version of Ubuntu is released: upgrade. At least until things have calmed down a bit. Anyway, I didn't have much to lose, as things have been on a steady decline since the last LTS release.

    My …

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  5. Changing the Number of Workspaces in Unity

    In Ubuntu's Unity, you get four workspaces per screen, arranged in two rows with two columns each. Fortunately, there's a way to get more desktop space, but in Ubuntu 11.10 it takes a bit of searching.

    After clicking around for 20 minutes, I finally found a menu in compiz' …

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  6. Cannot fork

    From time to time, the virtual server I rented acted up. When logging into the system, I would get error messages indicating the server wasn't able to create any more processes: "cannot fork". This was weird because ps(1) showed only 20 processes, while the hard limit of the virtual …

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  7. Gnome Terminal: Stop Cursor From Blinking

    I'm currently setting up my new Laptop with Ubuntu Natty. Apart from all the things I hate in Unity (the list is long), there's one recurring annoyance: the blinking cursor in Gnome Terminal. There's no menu setting to disable it, but fortunately, there's still a way to fix it.

    You …

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