If you miss the notification that used to be in the 8.10 notification area telling you new updates are available you can get it back by quite easily by issuing the following command. gconftool -s --type bool /apps/update-notifier/auto_launch false Then you just kill and restart update-notifier and you will have your icon for update-notifier...
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Getting Your Ubuntu 8.10 Notification Back In 9.04
Changing Your Tag’s Case In WordPress
Yet another pet hate of mine is things capitalised incorrectly. For me things like tags need to be either first letter uppercased of lowercases, and definitely not a mix of both. The problem with WordPress is that you unfortunately cannot change the case of a tag once it’s been used. This is because all...
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Changing WordPress Default Theme Front Page To Show Post Excerpts Only
This is one of those things that tends to get under my skin. Web sites with long pages showing far too much information on the front page. Realistically I think the best approach is to give users access to plenty of information, but not necessarily having them bombarded with it. For the WordPress Default...
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Cleaning Up Ubuntu
This is just a quick look at cleaning up an Ubuntu system. This is all documented elsewhere by an abundance of people, some of whom I no doubt took this off in the past and have forgotten where now (If you’re that person, then thanks very much, this stff has been coming in handy...
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