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In Ubuntu Jaunty, shift, ctrl,alt, and caps lock buttons stop working
This appears to be related to vmware, to correct: open up the terminal, and type:
setxkbmap. Thats it.
Pidgin OSD pop ups in Ubuntu Jaunty
You can remove or configure the Pidgin pop up’s that you see from pidgin. Buddies logging on/off, and in my case, new messages. I didn’t want every new message i receive to be blasted up on the desktop OSD. To control what you see there, Pull up your Pidgin window (buddy window, not your conversation [...]
Installing Skype on eee 1000 running Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty
I have an eee 1000 netbook running Ubuntu Jaunty netbook remix. Installing and configuring Skype was pretty simple:
Add the Medibuntu repository:
sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get update
Install skype:
sudo aptitude install skype
Video worked out of the box. To configure sound, got to Options -> Sound Devices. Set:
Sound In: HDA Intel (hw:Intel,0)
Sound Out: [...]
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Ubuntu recovery console with no root password
So your Ext3 root partition is corrupted. No matter how you try to log into your system, your system asks you for root password. But you are a good, obedient ubuntu user. And you do not have a root password set. You can press CTRL+D, but that just reboots. Are you boned?
No. problem. [...]
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Vmware – Unable to change virtual machine power state: Internal error.