If you’re upgrading acpid, and you get this message: dpkg: error processing acpid (–configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1 Simply run this command in Terminal: sudo /etc/init.d/acpid stop && sudo dpkg –configure -a Simple, eh? Essentially the package was misconfigured, so you need to stop the acpid service and get dpkg to [...Read more...]
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May 282010
May 272010
Did you know that there are currently free OpenDNS stickers available?! All you need to do is email anna@opendns.com with your mailing address and they should be sent! Stickers have been sent to 18 different countries already, so hopefully you will be lucky too. Hurry before it’s too late; their sticker giveaways don’t last too [...Read more...]
After you’re done editing your bash terminal settings on Linux, you fire up your terminal and discover that the settings have not been applied. Oh noes! What will happen to that beautiful coloured hostname that you spent an hour designing! Do not fear. As long as you’ve saved the .bashrc / .bashrc_profile file, you should [...Read more...]
May 252010
Apparently there’s a regression in the kernel that causes sound to skip on Intel hardware on Linux 2.6.30 because someone added something which caused a check to happen too often or whatever. Some relevant links: sound skipping regression introduced in 2.6.30-rc8 – Patchwork sound skipping regression introduced in 2.6.30-rc8 – linux.kernel | Google Groups If [...Read more...]
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