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I got this nebulous challenge about my webcam. It seems in Ubuntu 13.10, the webcam decides on its own when it wants to work. I use it on my skype calls with Mother. I also use it once or twice in Google hangouts with friends. I downloaded cheese just to test if it works fine. It works off and on in a span of one session. How do you figure this one out? The unity panels crashes often or it's missing icons now and then. The Thunderbird email application has rendering issues. Some texts goes white and turns back on after I move over my mouse. The lightning add-on stopped working the other day. I assumed it's Google Calendar refusing to give it permission or it's down. I happen to find the solution to this problem from the ubuntu forums. It seems the latest version of the add-on doesn't work in linux. The solution is to revert to an older version of the add-on. I had to disable the automatic update for the add-ons unfortunately. Equalizer plugin for Rhy...

Four days after a terrible Magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck Bohol and Cebu in the Central Visayas, I'm looking forward with hope to a new version of Ubuntu linux. This version is a little thin in new features but the dash will come with more speed and stability and a lot more scopes. I'm liking the feature which enables me to sample/play my music right there when i'm searching it. I assume it's using rhythmbox without the gui, running in the background I suppose. I'm still in awe of nouveu, the open source nvidia driver. I thought I'd never see the day when open source can really say "fuck you" to proprietary graphics driver. But it can now!

I've decided to download Ubuntu 13.10 via torrent as soon as the release is available. That happened around 20:00 17-October. This is heavy internet traffic here. I checked my current system status with Updater and it has a few last minute updates for Ubuntu 13.04. So I updated 13.04. But the servers aren't ready yet for a upgrade to 13.10. Around 1:00 18-October I checked Updater again and it has some security updates for X-org. I let it update and Canonical's servers offered to upgrade my system to Ubuntu 13.10.

       I got an email from the Yahoo support regarding updates to my email contacts. They're cleaning inactive contacts. Nice to hear from them. I created this email back in 2003 and around 2006 decided to mothball it because they don't extend features to free accounts like spam filters. I've had problems with too spams and email security for the free accounts are virtually non-existent. That policy is changing I guess. I am looking at the new email user interface now and there are a lot of changes. The spam filter is working good. They're giving me 1 TB of storage for the emails. Flickr did this too a few months back. Well done Yahoo! I'm happy to add that exclamation point in there too.

Keeping a copy of Ubuntu 13.04 on my USB stick saved me some major headache. I was playing with a lot of PPA's for the latest GNOME packages and some third party themes. I kind of went over the line and can't find my way back. I decided to just re-install Ubuntu. I remember that I downloaded 13.04 last April 2013 and saved it in a USB stick I kept for situations like this one. My first thought was I'm going to spend my whole weekend now and more. Then I went and start GNOME terminal to survey my partitions. # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # / was on /dev/sda1 during installation /               ext4    errors=remoun$ # /home was on /dev/sda2 during installation /home           ext4    defaults     $ # /home/donato/Downloads was on /dev/sdb1 during installation /home/donato/Downloa...

Hi Reese After downloading 831 MB of Saucy Salamander, I booted to the familiar lightgdm log in screen. I was tempted to check the Gnome side of my installation. I gave it my password. I got this. This is Ubuntu "saucy salamander" Unity. It's a black colored background which isn't my default colored background. I attempted to use Appearance to activate some wallpapers but it doesn't work. The wallpapers are installed but they don't show up.

Hi Reese Now that the beta release is upon us, it's time to reconsider downloading and installing the developmental version of Ubuntu which is now "saucy salamander". This will become Ubuntu 13.10 on October 17th 2013. I decided to use the terminal. I googled the how to and I don't think the gui method works now. My terminal started properly. With my internet connection speed, It would take more than an hour to download 831 MB of image. So see you on the other side.