Issues after Upgrade to Ubuntu 12.04 - Network Manager not starting and "Waiting for network configuration..." at boot

Both issues are related to your /etc/network/interfaces file. Comment out any automatic interface setup parameters you put in there and it s...Read more »

About lost messages in Google mail

This morning, at 8 AM I received a message In my Gmail inbox. About 5 PM I started writing a reply to the message on my smartphone. I wrote ...Read more »

Sabayon Fscked My Home - The XFCE Spin Revisited

This should originally have been entitled 'The Sabayon Xfce Spin Revisited', but something disturbing happened. It's been a whil...Read more »

Fix for Google Reader/Mail Login Page Always Refreshing Instead of Logging

Do you also know the problem that you want to sign in to Google services like Google Reader or Mail but the page just keeps refreshing? Have...Read more »

Debian Bug: Iceweasel w/ Gtk-qt-engine Installed Consumes 100% CPU Power

After my recent trial run of the latest Kanotix I bumped into a bug with Iceweasel and gtk-qt-engine under KDE 4, as described in this 57216...Read more »

Correcting a Misaligned VGA Image on your Monitor or TV in Xorg, e.g. when you see a black border or frame, the image badly aligned to one side of the screen

When I wanted to connect my TV via VGA out to my netbook, the image displayed started with a black frame on the left side and was missing a ...Read more »

Segfaults in Google Chrome

I've notice several times that despite the elaborate architecture, Google Chrome does reproducibly crash completely sometimes. But this ...Read more »

What to do if asm/errno.h asm/ioctls.h and others are not found anymore in Ubuntu or Debian

It turns out you need to now install gcc-multilib. It's not clear why yet. A bug is already filed, but he maintainers seem to see no pro...Read more »

Samsung Galaxy Kies Connection and Upgrade Fails with MTP Device Driver Popup

If you can't connect your phone to Kies because there is a constant Windows popup saying that the mtp device is installed again and agai...Read more »

Fixing OpenSUSE's 'No Devices Matches MBR Identifier'

Check the file in the subfolder boot/grub/mbrid. Do sudo fdisk -l and check that the ID of your usb stick is the same as the one in the file...Read more »

Clearing the Cache and Data of the Android Facebook App

The Facebook App likes to grow and grow in Android. The reason is that it never cleans cache and data. And you often can't even do it ma...Read more »

Saving 2 W power by Making Sure Laptop_Mode oesn't destroy your HD

Laptop_mode is actually a great thing, as it activates a few powerful power saving modes in Linux, most importantly disk power saving and de...Read more »

What to do if sshfs / fuse freezes your system?

Two things you can do. If it's generic fuse: fusermount -u -z (mountpoint, don't tab to get the directory, you have to enter it exac...Read more »

Fixing - at least some - Skypephone S2 Battery Issues

My 3 Skypephone S2 at some point started to run out of battery after being on for about 20 hours or less. And this is not because a Java pro...Read more »

Immediate Fix for Slow Open and Save Dialogs in Ubuntu OpenOffice

I'm using KDE and I think it's somehow related to that. Anyway, you need to execute the following command to fix it: echo -e 127.0.0...Read more »

Fixing Suspend for the MSI Wind U110 in 2.6.34 and 2.6.35

The MSI Wind U110 suddenly stopped going into suspend more in newer kernels starting at 2.6.34. A kernel developed found where the issue is...Read more »

Quick Fix for Your Multimedia Keys

If your multimedia keys give this warning in dmesg: atkbd.c: Unknown key pressed (translated set 2, code 0xf7 on isa0060/serio0). atkbd.c: U...Read more »

Using SMPlayer with hardware video acceleration such as VAAPI - Fixing various crashes etc. with VAAPI

If you've also tried to use VAAPI with SMplayer, you may also have experienced the crash every single time you try to watch anything. Th...Read more »

X Video finally works - Poulsbo and Linux on the MSI Wind U110 - Fix for BUG: kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000

If you tried to get poulsbo to run on your system and you get a message like this, you should try the fix posted below. "kernel BUG: un...Read more »

Intel Graphics Users: Don't Upgrade Your Ubuntu

As phoronix points out , the intel driver woes in the newest Ubuntu version 9.04 are so bad, you should probably skip this distribution upgr...Read more »