Gentoo: Installing Flash for Firefox
A new installation of Gentoo will typically not include a Flash plugin for your browser. I'm using Firefox. If you go to a site that has Flash content, Firefox asks you if you want to install the...
View ArticleOpen Office, Java, BlogBridge, Ubuntu Studio with Real-Time Kernel
On a new Ubuntu Studio 9.04 installation on a quad-core machine, I ran into problems where the system would hang. After doing some research and experimentation, I came to think the problems had...
View ArticleInstalling Java for BlogBridge 6.7 on Ubuntu Studio 9.10
In my earlier post, BlogBridge on Debian or Ubuntu Needs Sun Java, I showed how I got a version of Java installed on Debian that enabled me to run BlogBridge. On my new Ubuntu Studio 9.04 system, I...
View ArticleUbuntu, BusyBox, Gave up waiting, Puppy Linux
I'd been wondering about my somewhat flaky Systemax Quad system, running Ubuntu Studio on one disk, Windows XP on another. The computer seemed subject to overheating. Tonight I got home from work and...
View ArticleSun JDK 1.6 on Debian Squeeze for BlogBridge 6.7 and PyCharm
I switched back to Debian Stable (Version 6.0.5, "Squeeze") after my CentOS disk failed. Immediately ran into Java-related problems. The solution that had worked some years before on my Ubuntu system...
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