Archive for May, 2007
In 7.04 when trying to run multiple bittorrent downloads I was getting the error Couldn’t listen - (98, ‘Address already in use’).
This can easily be fixed by starting the Gnome configuration editor, then drilling down to the gnome-btdownload settings folder in “Apps”, then set the value of max_port to 6889. See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-btdownload/+bug/57039 for more [...]
Vide my previous post, there is also a Gnome ALSA Mixer package called gnome-alsamixer, which is a bit nicer to use.
The sound on my HP dv2000 was pretty quiet since I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04, even if the volume control was maxed out; this was annoying especially when playing music. The way to fix this is to run alsamixer in the terminal as sudo. It looks like the screen snap below. Just use the left [...]
We all want to have local directories in Apache so we can write and test code safely. Here’s how to do it
1. Create a directory in your home called public_html
2. Install the userdir Apache module using the a2enmod command like so
sudo a2enmod userdir
3. Edit the Apache 2 user preferences configuration file at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf
sudo vi [...]
