Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

Adobe Air – Open URLs in default browser

For the last few days I’ve been fighting TweetDeck on my laptop trying to get it to open web pages in Opera. A small, but fast browser, from the Norwegian company with the same name.
At first I thought that Opera wasn’t my default browser in Gnome. I’m currently using Linux Mint, a distribution based on [...]

Upgrading Ubuntu 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS

Today I upgraded from Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04. The process was fairly painless thanks to a guide I found floating around on the Internet by Ronald Bruintjes. Thanks!
I thought about posting it here, but that wouldn’t be fair to the author. So, please visit his site for more information.
However, be prepared to answer some questions [...]

Threepwood Goes to VMware ESXi

My home server, Threepwood, named after the main character in the popular game series “Monkey Island”, has finally taken the step out of this world and into the virtual space.
For a few years it resided within a Compaq Proliant 400 with whooping 384MB of RAM and 450MHz CPU. Running Ubuntu Linux, this has actually been [...]

Different Fan Behaviour on ThinkPad X61 than X31

Since I got my new Lenovo ThinkPad X61, I have discovered that the CPU fan is behaving rather differently than the one I have in my IBM ThinkPad X31. That is the fan makes a lot more noise when idle on the X61.
For the record. I’m running Ubunty Hardy (8.04) on the X61 and Ubuntu [...]

Ubuntu Hardy and Hibernate Issues

As I mentioned in my last post I had some minor problems with Ubuntu Hardy (8.04) and hibernation. It didn’t always work.
However it now seems like I might have overcome this problem. At first I thought it might had something to do with my docking station. Hibernating while docked, booting up while not and vice [...]

ThinkPad X61

A few days a go I ordered a Lenovo ThinkPad X61 with 2GB memory option, X6 UltraBase docking station and an optical drive. It arrived the very next day, on a friday, so you can imagine the impact this had on my weekend.
To be fair, the laptop isn’t exactly mine. It belongs to my employer, [...]