by chema | Jul 17, 2010 | Tech Support
A PowerBook refused to eject a DVD by any means (on boot, from OpenFirmware…), seemingly a common occurrence. After disassembling it, I found one of the levers on the optical drive’s mechanism had somehow “jumped” out of it’s place...
by chema | Jun 18, 2010 | Tech Support
Updated Rhythmbox from Lucid to Maverick’s version, to see if it would improve cold startup times. It didn’t, but it did break sync with my iTouch, besides rescanning all my collection. So I downgraded back to Lucid, only to find Rhythmbox had...
by chema | May 20, 2010 | Tech Support
On the GUI installation, the following error appears on starting the “Windows Install” stage:”Setup failed to install the product catalogs. This is a fatal error. The setup log files should contain more information.”(Español: “El programa...
by chema | May 7, 2010 | Tech Support
While overall smooth, a couple of details had to be fixed after upgrading Ubuntu Karmic to Lucid:Grub didn’t automatically select the previous OS I started, as before:Had to add “GRUB_SAVEDEFAULT=true” to /etc/default/grub (and run update-grub...
by chema | May 1, 2010 | Tech Support
Booting Windows over an hibernated Linux is not a good idea. I just lost 20 GiB of data in a shared NTFS partition…I hibernated Ubuntu Lucid one day, and the next I fired up my computer. Some update messed up the saved option in Grub, so instead of booting...
