Tag: ubuntu

  • Network Manager disabling Virt-manager’s bridge

    This doesn’t work, and it’s filed as bug 1099949 in Ubuntu. So we’ll see how that goes. As of about six hours ago, I’ve had this regularly popping up in my syslog: Jan 13 20:13:54 amazing NetworkManager[1347]: (virbr0): device state change: unavailable -> disconnected (reason ‘none’) [20 30 0] virbr0 is the bridge created by…

  • Tagging images by path in Shotwell

    I’ve finally decided to use an image manager, and since it comes with Ubuntu this week I’ve gone with Shotwell. I’ve got a directory hierarchy containing most of my images which is sort-of sorted already, and I’m probably going to keep adding to it, if for no other reason than force of habit. I know…

  • Joining the Canonical =~ Microsoft fray

    I’ve had this knocking about for a while in various forms. Following TheOpenSourcerer‘s post, I figured I’d get it in while he’s getting the flack. About a year ago, I remember there being some rejoicing at the prospect of Canonical open-sourcing Launchpad, their bug/issue/ticket tracking web application. I also remember being a mite confused by…

  • *buntu 9.10

    It’s out! Torrents here and here.

  • Removing user list on Ubuntu Karmic log-on screen

    This doesn’t work any more Install XDM instead. ;) Karmic ships with a new version of GDM (2.28) which is rewritten, and by default presents a list of usernames, in much the same way as XP does by default. Lots of people dislike this. It’s also currently lacking a graphical config tool (it is in…