Code Trips & Tips

Once again, after an update, the NM applet refused to co-operate and started showing all connections as ‘unmanaged’.This relates to Bug #280417, and the fix was rather simple: Whatever updates occurred in the last day set all the devices to managed=false in /etc/NetworkManager/nm-system-settings.conf Change that and run sudo killall nm-system-settings and it’ll start working again.…

I realise only today, with a certain degree of sadness, that it’s been a full year since my last post… so people may have wondered, whatever happened? (or rather, they would if there had been any reader, that is….) Google happened! Yes, almost exactly a year ago, on 17 December 2007 I started working at…

I’ve now been using Ubuntu on my laptop (a Sony VAIO – btw, the quality of the display is absolutely astounding: two years on, I’m still delighted by its brightness AND battery life) for quite a few months, and I must confess my perception of it has entirely changed. As you can see from previous…

Just had a taste of the “user error” disease… Was reading a post on the Eclipse Magazine (no hyperlink here by design, you go and waste your time there, if you really want to – but use Google, I won’t be complicit in this endeavour). Early on, they managed to prove themselves less than proficient…

Ok, so I decided that (a) a laptop without the “Suspend” / “Hibernate” was only marginally more useful than a door-stopper and (b) that I could do it, if I really wanted. I’d also discovered that, out of the box, Ubuntu would not support an external monitor – which was a bit unsettling, as I…

I have recently read that Sun and the folks behind the Ubuntu Linux distro are getting some sort of strategic partnership and closer cooperation. Well, not one day too soon, say I. For the poor souls like myself that have been struggling to get Ubuntu to be a bit more co-operative and let the Sun…