Kernel Panic! Major Pain. Easy Fix

After 3 months of steady use, customization and tweaking I (some would say finally) managed to break my Ubuntu Linux install last night. I was rather sad since I didn’t actually do anything this time.

I logged on last night and noticed there were some updates to download and apply. Grabbed said updates and was invited

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Wubi in 32 bit Mode

I like to install Wubi on my Windows machines. I don’t use Linux full time, but definitely like to have it around and Wubi is a very easy way to make that happen. You have to be careful though: If you’re on a 64 bit machine then Wubi will install a 64 bit Ubuntu (or

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Ubuntu: Install Inside Windows

I downloaded and burned[1] the latest (as of this writing) Ubuntu ISO yesterday.  This is version 8.0.4 and has something new for installation options as compared to previous versions.

What’s new? Check it out:

See that second option? Install inside Windows. Ubuntu can be installed just like any “regular” Windows application. When you next reboot you see

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Linux Can Still Frustrate

I swear, my Toshiba laptop just doesn’t want to run Ubuntu Linux. It should — it used to with older versions. Tonight I went through almost the exact same experience as what happened back in April. (failure)

See, I want to do some network bandwidth monitoring this week at work. After a look around, it seems

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