Unable to uninstall Norton Security Scan

Seriously, this is pretty annoying. All the sudden I found Norton Security Scan on my Notebook (Vista Business 32Bit) and am able to deinstall it. It does come back after each reboot. That is no Antivirus Software anymore and deletes Norton of my list of trusted Software vendors. This is truly annoying as well as [...]

DELL XPS M1330 upgrade to dual boot Ubuntu 8.10

Ok, we’ve done it before with a Thinkpad and it worked out pretty well. So, why not do it again, especially on this really neat little laptop with plenty of disk space and the previous issues with Vista booting up into a loop of blue screens due to driver issues for the hard disk.
Installation of [...]

DELL XPS M1330 crashes at Boot after Vista Update

UPDATE: I ended up replacing the original harddisk with a Samsung model of the same size. The original disk though just works perfectly now as a backup medium in an external case.
Just got my new Laptop (the Thinkpad got stolen), a really nice DELL XPS M1330. It looks awesome, has really good performance and is [...]

How to secure laptops when stolen

That kinda sucks. Someone broke into our flat and stole my two laptops (working and private one) and my camera. Bastards! And of course no backups from the last 7 month and no insurance either. Well, lesson learned and as soon as I got the money I will go and think hard over my new [...]

Upgrading Eclipse 3.2 to 3.4

I was installing Eclipse via Synaptic Package Manager and loaded the PHPEclipse extension afterwards. Unfortunately there was a bug that prevented the PHP Editor from working. And as I saw there was an Eclipse 3.4 (codename: ganymede) release, I thought it is about time to upgrade. But how to do without the help of our [...]

gnome-panel disappears after Ubuntu update

Finally fixed that issue today. A major pain as after an update (as usual the update manager gives a hint for new updates which I as usual followed) all my panels disappeared and I therefore could not acess any programs nor knew what to do.

Pidgin crashes with ‘Segmentation fault’ (Solved!)

Pidgin is a multi-protocol chat client that I use basically for my MSN contacts only. It did its job pretty well so far. Until some weeks ago after an update it stopped working. I never really figured out what the problem is as I merely use Skype, but now needed to contact some people using [...]

Since upgrading to Ubuntu 8.04 I am running Firefox in its latest version 3. At the beginning it was the beta 5, in between RC2 and now the final version. At the beginning I found some issues with some websites, for example the typo3 backend and simply ignored it and used Opera instead. But it [...]

Mythbuntu 8.04 ‘Watch TV’ fails

In our living room we have an older Dell Desktop using it with MythTV as Multimedia and TV Center outputting to a Dell 24 ” Screen (awesome quality that thing is!). Anyway, I started with 7.10 and after a little while got everything working. Not without headaches though, especially for the lirc configuration (Basically, the [...]

Ubuntu 8.04 and OpenOffice2: can’t edit Word documents with TOC

Hm, I was so happy about the easy Ubuntu installation, but slowly I’m getting fairly annoyed with bugs. Yesterday I fixed the Eclipse installation with a separate start script and today it is OpenOffice that let’s me down. I send myself a word document from work that has been edited in OpenOffice but saved in [...]