Is there any way to move an extended Linux partition? GParted promises to, but insists on claiming that the thing is mounted although it isn’t (because it has the same UUID as another on a different disk). parted doesn’t mind that, but returns an error message “Error: can’t move an extended partition”. It also doesn’t…
Read More can’t move an extended partitionI got around to rebuilding the Linux dualboot setup that was destroyed in this post. Today’s beautiful thought, then, is as follows. Apparently, as a matter of policy, suspend-to-disk or hibernation is not wanted in Ubuntu any more. As a result, Canonical removed the menu items and other stuff from 13.10 and beyond. You can…
Read More Fix Ubuntu 13.10 hibernation, don’t install hibernateNote: This is going to be both technical and long. If you find this difficult, skip, unless you also have an Ubuntu Linux system, other than the current developer version (13.10/Saucy Salamander), with an ext4 filesystem. In that case, upgrade your copy of e2fsprogs immediately to version 1.42.8 or above. You can obtain it here…
Read More When your filesystem attacks, to say nothing of USB sticksOK, first week really working with the X200s ThinkPad and Ubuntu (12.04, but really the development branch as the installer was broken in 12.04LTS). Two days of event note taking – this is great! 6 hours battery life, eye-kind matt screen, wonderful IBM keyboard. Really snappy. Import some of my data, slurp down and index…
Read More Ubuntu optimisationOK, so I eventually finished listening to the 793 songs in the 2011 SXSW torrent and rating them all. This was a while ago, but it was only yesterday that I reorganised some stuff in the collection and remembered that the couple of gigabytes of mediocrity was sitting there. It was clearly time to implement…
Read More Konsidered a waste of timeSo OpenSUSE11.4 was out this week. As the Jedi said here: gah! suse is never totally easy Indeed. I thought I’d do an online upgrade, so I scheduled this to happen when I was in the office and therefore had a fast Internet link available. I applied all the remaining 11.3 updates, configured the three…
Read More Specified technical incidentImage number four here has a certain additional spice, doesn’t it? What a week. As well as WikiLeaks being the website they couldn’t hang, 4chan became a geopolitical actor, thus fulfilling my prediction that in the future, trolls would be considered a strategic resource like oil. The BBC interviewed a builder from Leeds thinking he…
Read More keeping your leaks leaky40 years of UNIX! If you want a monument, J. P. Rangaswami of BT recently said in my presence that “I can’t think of any BT product that doesn’t include Linux in some way.”
Read More 40 years of UNIXKDE4 user? Been having problems with the DCOP and DBUS servers? Do your K-applications no longer launch from the graphical user interface? Do they sometimes not even launch from the command line? Have you got references to “file retriever failed: 149” in your .xsession-errors log? Well, you’re in luck. I’ve been having this problem recently…
Read More I won’t fix your computer. Or perhaps I will…Met up with regular reader and Linux hacker Duane Griffin to discuss the ORGANISE project . As a result, here’s a new and much amended specification that supersedes the first one.
Read More In which we review the Organise project