Archive for the 'BrokenStuff' Category
Remote XDMCP broken
I’ve found something else that isn’t right about my Ubuntu installation. I can’t do a remote login to the other machine on the LAN.
At the login window on my Inspiron 9400 there’s the little “Options…” button in the bottom left corner. Click that, say that you want to log into a remote machine, and it [...]
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I give up — Eclipse is crap
I ran Eclipse up for the first time in a week or two this morning, and it complained that the editor couldn’t be opened. A class couldn’t be found, apparently. Ok, fine. Close that error window, double-click on a .java file and the editor opens up on that file just fine. Weird.
Perhaps something I’ve done [...]
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H500 problems
I’ve had one little problem with Ubuntu over the last day or two. I’ve installed twinkle to let me make VOIP calls via my Engin account (works perfectly, btw) but because the Dell 9400 doesn’t have a built-in microphone (what were you thinking, Dell??) I need an external microphone of some sort.
I figured the neatest [...]
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Eclipse really, really annoys me
I’m pretty much ready to give up on Eclipse for my Linux+Java development work. It’s too flakey. As much as I’d like to work in a modern Java IDE with all the refactoring goodness they bring to the party it’s just too unstable for me to use. It might work in other parallel universes, but [...]
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Ubuntu gtkpod hosed my iPod
The first really sucky experience I’ve had since moving toward Ubuntu as my primary workplace is that the iPod handling is pretty badly broken. I installed gtkpod in the hope that I could manage the podcasts on my iPod without having to boot into Windows. Everything looked ok, but when I got into the car [...]
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