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I've been running Linux Mint now for 10 years after earlier forays into Gentoo, Slackware & Arch. Back when I was a teenager and I didn't have the cash to purchase new hardware and needed to squeeze every inch of performance out of my machines, distr...
Tired of trying to use compiz to have wallpaper span both screens, only to find your desktop icons disappear? A few months ago I embarked on a relentless search through mountains of RGBA patches, custom versions of nautilus, and failed attempts at al...
When booting a VM recently, I received the error message below regarding I/O writecaching & virtual hard disk corruption: After Googling for a bit, I found that the first thing to check with this error is whether I/O write caching is enabled on the V...
Just had an issue where I could not mount my USB drive at boot time I was getting an error along the lines of UUID=blah not found...I previously had performed the standard sudo blkid and received the following output: > [corte@ashbox ]$ sudo blkid > ...
Had some trouble with something I'd had earlier trouble with in the past. When using the locate command (even after running updatedb), I was unable to search my removable USB drives. The solution was to modify the /etc/updatedb.conf file, and remove ...
I was recently working on a project for my boss when I found I needed to install some new fonts for GIMP. I had downloaded some free TTF's from http://www.1001freefonts.com/ & needed to install them. Restarting X was a pain, so I found the following ...
This is a bit of an irritating error, with a simple solution: > /proc/misc: No entry for device-mapper found > Is device-mapper driver missing from kernel? > Failure to communicate with kernel device-mapper driver. > Added Linux \ First of all, we ne...
This one should be relatively easy for people, but I'd just like to document the steps taken anyway--I had a bit of a time getting Compiz to start properly in Xfce. Please note these are not best practices & are simply the steps to get compiz working...
