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hciconfig shows nothing and
hciconfig version shows "Can't get device info: No such device" on my Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop.

proxychains ping www.google.com shows

ERROR: ld.so: object 'libproxychains.so.3' from LD_PRELOAD cannot be preloaded: ignored.

The library is in /usr/lib/. Any advice?

(2.6.38-11-generic...

This bothers me a lot. Triggered many extraneous actions accidentally with a bluetooth mouse when single clicks counted as double. When 2 clicks with very short interval are detected, the OS should...

xsetroot -solid DarkSlateBlue has no effect on my 2.6.38-9-generic #43-Ubuntu x86_64.
xsetroot -bg bluelogs me out immediately.

I fixed my computer powered by Intel graphics card by removing nvidia-settings and nvidia-current packages. Thanks for the hint.

I've never seen a better overall desktop design than SGI IRIX, although certain details are out of date (e.g., font reandering). I use the theme from the dead project http://www.maxxdesktop.com/site/...

After upgrading to 11.04, Ubuntu says my hardware are not good enough for Unity, so I have to use Classic desktop. However, I lost OpenGL.

glxinfo shows

Xlib: extension "GLX" missing on...

I upgraded from 10.10 to 11.04 on Amazon EC2, and installed the new /etc/sudoers when given a choice of update. Now I can still log in the ubuntu account remotely with public key. However, when I try...

/var/run/reboot-requried is unavailable in Ubuntu 10.10 on Amazon EC2.

openssl list-message-digest-commands returns

md2
md4
md5
rmd160
sha
sha1

Is SHA-2 available?

I tried to install r-cran-rjava package on Ubuntu 10.10 and the dependencies include openjdk-6-jre and other openjdk packages. I already have sun-java6-jdk installed. Why is openjdk required?
...

I used to have Ubuntu 10.10 and Windows 7 RC on separate partitions and I could choose to boot into either. Today I installed Windows 7 Enterprise trial version over the Windows 7 RC partition, and...

After updating to 2.6.35.27, I see no /var/run/reboot-required and no alert of reboot required upon the next log in.

How does one know if reboot is needed after upgrading packages with aptitude?

The top quarter of my screenshots are always black. This has happened for at least several months. Ubuntu 10.10 on x86_64.

The size of AMI for Amazon EC2 is 15GB. Every snapshot on EC2 has the same size. I wonder if 2GB is enough for storing server software. Most of the 15GB may be a waste of storage cost, and extra time...

I have Intel graphics card. After removing ATI and nVidia drivers, my problem is mysteriously solved. Thanks.

After upgrading to 10.10 from 64 bit 10.04, everything runs well till today. When running glxinfo, I get segmentation fault. When running skype, I get

Gtk-WARNING **:...

Any chance updating NetworkManager to 0.8.1 soon? Is it included in 10.10 beta? It might solve some problems here.

My wireless connection is interrupted frequently. I wonder if it's due to my...

The status bar seems unnecessarily tall, too. Is there a solution?

Adding memory successful. I did not insert the memory card fully into position at first. Wish I could delete this post.

Just curious who maintains the sun-java6-jdk package? Expecting update 21 released recently by Sun.

I changed my Gnome theme (to SGI style), and chose GTK+ theme in Google Chrome options, but the scrollbar of Chrome did not change. Is there a way to change the Chrome scrollbar for more consistency...

Select "Auto hide" in the Properties dialog of the panel.

I found Glx-dock fancier.

Hi,

Just deleted my ~/.xsession-errors bigger than 8G bytes. The new file keeps growing by appending the "fDischargeMeanRate" message. What's happening?

(Linux 2.6.32-22-generic #36-Ubuntu SMP...