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Reinstall

Saturday, May 5th, 2007

My Ubuntu installation had been getting rather touchy and unstable so I eventually bit the bullet and went for a total system nuke and reinstall. After a royal screw up I got my system reinstalled. The CD image I downloaded got corrupted on the wire but still worked, one of the core Gnome packages got modified and the MD5SUM checking failed and it refused to install. So, I got left with a broken installer and a text mode system, eventually I managed to get Gnome up and redownload the ISO and reburn (verifying the MD5SUM of the ISO before this time) and reinstalled again and it worked first time, even though I did fall asleep.

Now my next problem is finding a media player I like, looks like I might be going back to mpd, which is the root of all my problems I think.

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Ubuntu Sound: mpd, flash, etc.

Wednesday, March 14th, 2007

Further to my previous post about Flash player, I have it using ESD but I need to configure ALSA to use the dmix plug-in. I found out how to do this here. Very happy now :)

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Firefox Address Bar Search

Friday, February 9th, 2007

I used to have Firefox to use Google’s Browse by Name feature, but since I reinstalled my box I never got around to reconfiguring it. To do so yourself follow these instructions:

  1. Navigate to about:config in Firefox.
  2. Use the filter feature to find keyword.url.
  3. Modify the preference and replace the default value with http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

Thanks to the Ubuntu Blog for this!

Anyway after configuring it I found a bug #84242, how cool is that bug number?

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