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I'm afraid I'm still using Gutsy (where it still works fine, using the original instructions), but any Hardy users are welcome to step in here.

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I'm not even suggesting that regression is caused by eye candy.

I am saying that headline-catching features (e.g., Compiz et al) working out of the box is all very nice. Regressions of...

On the original topic, it has been disappointing to find regressions in some of the everyday stuff. I'm thinking of SD card readers and photo import, for example, both of which worked on Dapper, but...

Shouldn't you Aussies be in bed by now? ;)

Don't imagine that I understand the docs for pdnsd! A search in the page for 'empty' just brought up the right line.

The cache is persistent across...

It would appear that your network interface is not eth0, but the changes that the OpenDNS instructions give will become active at a reboot anyway.

Hi.

Apologies for not responding to queries earlier (except things like 'It won't work'). Thanks for contributions from others, which have mostly answered the questions, I think.

I have since...

A common complaint on the Ubuntu forums (and many other Linux sites, it seems) is the slow DNS look-up performance, especially compared with the same hardware running Windows.

One way of improving...

Well, very old versions are in the repositories, with little chance of them being brought up to date for existing Ubuntu releases.

I came across Sylpheed-Claws as a refugee from Evolution (troubles with multiple POP/SMTP accounts and Palm sync). It's refreshing to get back to a mail client instead of an integrated suite, for...