Upgrading Ubuntu to 11.10

October 16, 2011

It seems the normally so reliable Ubuntu linux based operating system is becoming more and more unstable, looks nice but I have had a few problems recently. One such problem being the recently released upgrade to 11.10 which brings in quite a few changes, both with the Unity GUI and[...]

How to attach USB devices on Ubuntu to VMs

March 6, 2011

If you are running a VMware product on Ubuntu (or another Linux host I suspect) then you may encounter a problem when trying to mount/attach a USB device plugged into your host, to one of your virtual machines. The error message I was getting was “Remote USB device error: Remote[...]

How to recover data on Lacie storage device

February 6, 2011

A few years ago a relative bought the then equivalent of this Lacie network attached storage device and configured RAID1 on the internal drives and we all thought the data was nice and safe; not strictly true (even ignoring the physical factors fire, theft, etc). Recently the whole device failed[...]

Ubuntu

October 29, 2007

I have recently got quite frustrated with the new (and older) Ubuntu and trying to get things working with it. I have aquired a new PC and not wanting to pay Microsoft Tax I thought I would give Ubuntu 7.10 a go as I have used it before and thought[...]