Run update-manager -c (not -d anymore, that’s for development releases) in a shell/terminal. This is handy if you don’t get the upgrade button.
December 18, 2008 – 22:57
mplayer, vlc and even the horrible Totem would play my music, but my favourite media player — Audacious — wouldn’t. I like Audacious because of its plugins and subtle interface. Some searching around the web didn’t find many solutions except suggesting that the output plugin was incorrect. I managed to fix this by changing from [...]
I’m a long time user, advocate and all-round fan of Linux. In particular, I’ve used Debian or variant distributions and have never had any major issues (well none that weren’t PEBKAC). I’ve been running Debian Sid on my Thinkpad X31 for around three years now, and out of curiosity I thought I’d try out Ubuntu [...]
I wanted to upgrade my work machine to Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10) from Hardy Heron (Ubuntu 8.04), but the update manager was not showing the distribution/release upgrade button. This is due to 8.04/Hardy being an Long Term Support (LTS) release, and 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) not. Therefore, you’ll first need to enable distribution upgrades in the [...]
So you’re sitting at work, and your much-loved VPS with hosting company X has gone down. You need to bring it back up, but you’re an hour away from getting to a PC. Fear not, fellow hacker – SSH over an HTTP proxy is here! Well actually, it’s been here a while. Ahem. Before you [...]
