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HOWTO: how to fix problem with lyx 1.5.3 crashing with Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 LTS

Friday, June 6th, 2008

I have been having regular crashes with lyx under my Hardy Heron install.
The problems range from lyx crashing when I try to edit a table, through to crashing when trying to read a file it had just saved. The error messages are usually:
lyx: SIGSEGV signal caught
Sorry, you have found a […]

mh-e article referenced on GTD times

Sunday, April 27th, 2008

Oliver Starr over at GTD Times has posted about my mh-e article. ‘Cool beans’ as my brother would say!

using mh-e under GTD

Sunday, April 20th, 2008

mh-e-gtd

Table of Contents

1 Introduction

1.1 Principles
1.2 Setting up your folders
1.3 The crontabs
1.4 The shell scripts

1.4.1 monthly-pending
1.4.2 weekly-pending
1.4.3 day-of-week-pending
1.4.4 day-pending
1.4.5 tonight-pending
1.4.6 today-refile-to-inbox
1.4.7 tomorrow-pending

1.5 How does it all work ?
1.6 Other folders

1.6.1 +Contacts
1.6.2 ‘+OUT_MAIL’

1.7 Mailing Lists

1 Introduction

One thing you need to get to grips with when using GTD is the

Collect,

Process,

Organise,

Review,

Do

cyle.

This article focuses on how mh fits […]

Fixed problem with dead USB ports under Ubuntu Gutsy on Lenovo X61s

Wednesday, January 30th, 2008

THE PROBLEM:
Original Post to thinkpad mailing list
Hi
I am running Ubuntu 7.10 on a Lenovo X61s. very nice I have to say.
When I run suspend (to RAM), when the machine comes back up, everything
else works (usually) except USB. I have tried restarting the dbus
daemon, unloading and reloading uhci_hcd and ehci_hcd.
Note that *all* my […]

Canon ip4500 under Ubuntu 7.10

Friday, December 28th, 2007

My old epson 760 stylus kept crashing so I bit the bullet and went for a Canon ip4500 printer.
One of the reasons for this was that the reviews were good, I had read that you can print to 3×5 index cards on this series of printers, and you can also buy cheap ink cartridges at […]