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Finding bookmarked and visited pages quickly in Firefox.

repos for the latest Kdenlive, non-linear video editor, for Ubuntu (or variants like Kubunut, Xubuntu, etc.) then you can use their official ppa

VirtualBox USB permission problem On attempting to change USB settings for a virtual machine I got the following error in a popup dialog: Result Code: NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0×00004005)

VirtualBox issues [solved], along with minor halevt error [solved], whilst updating from Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick to 11.04 Natty. Note that I write these things as I work through the problem and so you may be best jumping to the end if you’re just after the solution. Updating Ubuntu from Maverick to Natty Something always breaks [...]

Mark Shuttleworth announces the new Ubuntu name for version 11.10 as Oneiric Ocelot, no really. Weird Ubuntu names Oneiric Ocelot: is this the strangest? My opinion is that the oddball names for Ubuntu releases aid greatly as search markers. “10.10″ is not a great differentiating search term in computing whilst “maverick” (or indeed “meerkat”) doesn’t [...]

Just discovered deborphan and have used it to clean up some cruft from my Kubuntu system, this should work for any .deb based system that uses apt. Removing unwanted packages List packages with no dependencies deborphan -a -n -z | sort -nr Will give you a list sorted by install size (-n) with largest first [...]