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There are two significant issues I seem to be seeing a lot of in Xubuntu lately. Network disconnecting: I will go to load a new web page and it fails to load.  Fail to resume after hibernation: previously resume has been very reliable. The network problem is fairly new but it is difficult to pin…

Not so long ago Trademe added a nifty courier pricing wizard into their listings screen. When you list an item you can use this feature to work out what it will cost to ship items by courier (it works out what options are available from different couriers and gives you a list of them). There…

My 22″ UA22ES5000 Samsung TV bit the bullet recently and so I managed to raise some funds to replace it with a 32″ Veon from the Warehouse at the princely cost of $269 (compared to $399 full price – $199 actually paid in a sale, for the smaller but sharper original). Whereas the Samsung had…

Well how do you have a household without broadband? You skive off free wifi and use your huge 6 GB cellular data on your $50 phone plan is how you do it. Since Vodafone has just upped the data on my plan to 6 GB for no extra cost. Simply put, I have decided to…

When it comes to video conversion then Handbrake has to be up there as a FOSS package that is produced for a variety of platforms. Although it doesn’t have a wide range of output formats (just MP4 and MKV) it is a high quality product that I have had no hesitation about installing on Windows…

If you had seen my series of earlier posts on browser choices, you’d have seen that at one stage I was recommending Chrome over Firefox. Then later, I changed to recommending Firefox. Stability in Firefox for me has been in two areas: 1. Crashes of individual tabs 2. Websites failing to load completely or being…

I am currently the owner of a Samsung UA22ES5000 TV which is a small (22″) TV, probably the smallest Samsung TV made. Since I purchased this TV originally, it has almost exclusively been used as a PC monitor, without connecting the internal speakers for sound. The TV has the following inputs: HDMI, VGA, component and…

As one would be aware, about six months ago I took my first tentative steps towards the Linux platform. Since then I have been using Linux extensively on as many of my computers as I can. I did so in the full knowledge there is something of a religious zeolotry associated with this platform, almost…

When I started using Xubuntu it came with Firefox, but I preferred Chrome and Opera. Since then, Opera’s sync servers have been hacked, causing me to make less use of it and stop syncing data altogether. Chrome has been very good on Windows for me in the past, but seems to have a lot of…

Last time I wrote about remote access it was to talk about RDP clients for Linux. Now it is time to have a look at using VNC, which is better supported as a server for Linux than RDP. Ubuntu comes with what is called “Desktop Sharing” which can also be installed as the vino package.…