por chema | Feb 26, 2011 | error, imprimir, kde, Ubuntu
Ubuntu 10.10, KDE 4.6. Las impresiones fallan sileciosamente, pero el registro de Cups (/var/log/cups/error_log) contiene un error:Returning IPP client-error-bad-request for Print-Job (ipp://localhost:631/printers/Canon_MX310_series) from localhosty más arriba:Syntax...
por chema | Ago 10, 2010 | Sin categoría
Windows 7 allows one to set a second sound card for voice applications, which is very nice if you have two cards or an USB headset, since you automatically get voice calls on your headphones from apps that support the feature. In others, like Ventrilo, you’ve to...
por chema | Jul 17, 2010 | laptop, mac, optical drive, 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 (perhaps by...
por chema | Jun 18, 2010 | database, error, Linux, music, player, Rhythmbox, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, XDG
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...
por chema | May 20, 2010 | Installation, ProfilesDir, Windows, Windows XP
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 de instalación no puede...
por chema | May 7, 2010 | error, Installation, Linux, troubleshooting, Ubuntu, update
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 after). The...
por chema | May 1, 2010 | data loss, dual boot, hibernation, Linux, recovery, Windows
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...
por chema | Nov 24, 2009 | Sin categoría
Never mind the draconian DRM and that you can’t use an iPod as something as basic as mobile storage; the hardware is still excelent, and it does the few things they allow with remarkable stability and ease –too easy for my taste though, I wish half...
por chema | Nov 19, 2009 | 793mb, monitor, samsung, screen, syncmaster, tech support
Brown lines appear from the right, «stabbing» at any onscreen text and the mouse cursor, like the ghost of Winamp has taken possesion of the screen. It happens randomly, after the monitor has been on for a while (heat?), and stops as suddenly as it...
por chema | Jun 30, 2008 | hotsynch, palm, pda, troubleshooting
Actually, the PDA says «Synchronizing Tasks» (or whatever conduit runs before Backup), but the PC shows «Making backup copies of the PDA’s databases» (or something like that). And indeed, Tasks are already synchronized and the Palm hangs while starting the...
