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GNOME Do Ubuntu 10.04 crashes on login

If you’re like me and use GNOME Do in dock mode and have it start on login in Ubuntu 10.04 you’ve probably noticed that it seems to crash when you login. After a long while putting it off I eventually went in search of a solution. Continue reading ‘GNOME Do Ubuntu 10.04 crashes on login’

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o2 Broadband E1752 Dongle Working on Ubuntu 10.04

I originally posted this article on my old personal blog around this time last year for Ubuntu 9.1 as I was having problems getting my O2 mobile Broadband E1752 Dongle to work. I certainly upgraded to Ubuntu 10.04, which I had heard solved the problem but I still couldn’t get it to work, so looked up my own old tutorial and it worked. Continue reading ‘o2 Broadband E1752 Dongle Working on Ubuntu 10.04′

Ubuntu 10.04 – gtk recordMyDesktop screen casting,

Ubuntu 10.04 – gtk recordMyDesktop screen casting

For a while now I have wanted to do some simple screen casts of my GNU/Linux Ubuntu desktop. A simple Google will provide you with the following tutorials recommending a few different programs such as XVidCap,  Istanbul Desktop Session Recorder  and gtk-recordMyDesktop. Though every program I tied seemed to make my system crawl along and crash if the recording area was larger then a small window. After much frustrating messing around with frame rates, quality , encoding and posting on forums I have found the answer to the problem, quite a simple one actually. Continue reading ‘Ubuntu 10.04 – gtk recordMyDesktop screen casting’