Archive for November, 2008

No! Please don’t do it!

There are some highly entertaining examples on the net of command line program output, but it’s great when you’re doing some system maintenance in Linux on your own machine and a gem unexpectedly crops up: :~$ sudo /etc/init.d/dovecot restart [sudo] password: * Restarting IMAP/POP3 mail server dovecot Warning: Last died with error (see error log [...]

Posted on November 13, 2008 at 6:48 pm by mcmlxxii · Permalink · Leave a comment
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Synaptics touchpad, SHMConfig, xorg.conf and Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10

EDIT – Please note that this post only refers to the 64 bit version of Ubuntu. Some significant changes have been happening to the X server over the past couple of releases of Ubuntu. One of the most noticeable alterations has been the removal of the xorg.conf file from the default Ubuntu install (edit – [...]

Posted on November 7, 2008 at 8:55 am by mcmlxxii · Permalink · 8 Comments
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