I encountered a funny problem last weekend installing Charles Broskoski’s MySpace Biennale. Two of the machines were running ubuntu dapper but I’d removed the desktop managers in order to automate the login process. Because of default power management settings in X, the displays kept going to sleep. This is intensely annoying […]
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Display Power Management System (DPMS) Config
March 24th, 2007 art, biennale, broskoski, charles, computer, dapper, display, dpms, gallery, myspace, netart, pc, personal, personalcomputer, second, secondgallery, supercentral, todomundo, ubuntu, x, xorg | No Comments »Seg Faults with Firefox and Adobe Flash Player 9
February 25th, 2007 adobe, breezy, browser, bug, crash, fault, firefox, flash, linux, macromedia, plugin, segmentation, todomundo, ubuntu | 3 Comments »I updated Adobe Flash Player to version 9 last week on my lovely little Thinkpad X21 running Ubuntu Breezy but was disappointed to find Firefox crashing regularly with seg faults. It took a little messing around to figure out that the Flash upgrade was to blame. Here are two relevant forum threads:
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