Insanity Rediscovered

If you are a heavy user of OpenOffice and found it to be slow loading, do turn on the ‘enable systray quickstarter’ option in the preferences to make it faster. This way you can close down the application but still run them at blazing speeds. Inefficient but works.

So, I had to reinstall Ubuntu all over again. Was a pretty painful procedure but knowing I had made it work the first time I did not waste much time thinking over it.
One of the biggest hassle was to get spell checker working in OpenOffice Writer. The way I got it working was to run [...]

I have been facing issues with properly shutting down the machine from Ubuntu. Looks like it has shown its effects. My Gnome seems to be messed up and it would show the titlebars of the various applications.
Apparently, I am not running any window manager which is causing these issues. Luckily, the Gnome failsafe option has [...]

I do not think Joost works on Linux at the moment. I checked out Democracy TV and it is pretty cool and usable. Nice alternative for the time being if you are on Ubuntu Linux.

Because the updates would worry about you. From what I have seen in the last couple of days, staying up to date on Linux has been pretty darn easy. You have a list of applications installed on your system… I believe all of these are checked with an online database on a daily basis to [...]