I started getting an error message every time I booted into Ubuntu. “‘The volume “boot” has only ….. bytes disk space remaining.”. This is caused by old Linux kernels filling up the boot partition on the hard drive. For most users, you don’t need to keep old kernels and therefore you can remove them … Read more
Everytime I ran the sudo command, it took about 3-10 seconds to ask for the password. I found that the reason for this is that sudo does a DNS lookup. There was a problem with my /etc/hosts file. I had changed the hostname of the computer without updating the /etc/hosts file. The fix was to … Read more
We have a Synology Rackstation NAS and it comes with a VPN server. I decided to try and work out how to connect my Ubuntu laptop to the Synology VPN server and route my network through that. It took me sometime to get the settings right, so I have put together a guide in the … Read more
I’ve recently been visiting China and have been caught out by their Firewall. This hasn’t be too bad but Google Mail and Google Drive is really slow or intermittent. Also you can’t access YouTube or the BBC IPlayer. The final straw for me was for some reason they have blocked the Ubuntu Dropbox repository – … Read more
Just has another little problem while upgrading from Ubuntu 12.04 to Ubuntu 12.10. It seems that smbfs no longers works in Ubuntu 12.10. Once again, why don’t the developers make a webpage or a popup application which tells you these changes? It would save hours of time for lots of users. Anyhow, here is how … Read more
I just upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu 12.04 to 12.10. Everything looked good until I tried to launch an application – then Unity frooze. I thought it might be nvidia driver issues and tried: However, this didn’t fixed the problem. After some searching around it appears that reseting Unity to default fixed the issue. I … Read more