ubuntu

Toshiba Laptop Microphone Not Working on Ubuntu

March 17, 2009

This problem has been plaguing me for a while. Running Ubuntu 8.04 on my Toshiba satellite laptop (p200-EE), when my girlfriend wants to call her family back in New Zealand on skype the microphone never seems to just work – the skype test call always returns nothing. After hours of testing I have compiled a [...]

How to switch off compiz and keep your settings

December 19, 2008

I was noticing some flickering watching dvds on Ubuntu 8.04 whilst running compiz. The flickering was even worse on those rare occassions I play a game. All this flickering went away when I disabled compiz, however, when enabling compiz again all the settings had been reset to defaults which was really annoying! Here is the [...]

Register with NickServ and join an IRC channel with Pidgin

November 12, 2008

I’m an identity theif. I’ve been using the IRC channel for cakephp, jquery and others for a while now without a registered password, at first I thought I would just try it out, but as these IRC channels have become more and more handy it became time for me to register properly and stop impersonating [...]