External Seagate hard-disk in Ubuntu

Lately I noticed some weird behaviour when I attached my Seagate Freeagent external hard disk to my SheevaPlug server. The sheeva plug runs Ubuntu 9.04, and after a certain amount of time (about once a day I'd assume) the Seagate would be re-mounted as a read only file system. Even though I had originally mounted … Continue reading External Seagate hard-disk in Ubuntu

Video and Volume woes in Ubuntu : GMplayer and VLC

I finally moved my home laptop (an Acer Aspire) to Ubuntu 9.10. Everything ran smoothly and I was impressed at the ease of setup. This distro definitely has come a long way since I first tried it. However I did have one major issue. After upgrading to all the latest updates and attempting to play … Continue reading Video and Volume woes in Ubuntu : GMplayer and VLC