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There are several guides around for installing these network printers on Ubuntu 64 bit but each time I install there seems to be a different issue.

These are the steps performed for a resent install on a new Ubuntu 10.04LTS 64 bit install.

Hmm just returned to my Bigpond Cable Ultimate connection after being away for over a week and noticed there has been a firmware upgrade. I noticed a few days ago that a VPN connection to the location went off and back on line at one stage.

The software version from setup a few months ago was 3.9.21.7.mp2.V0018 and speed tests were great but browsing often felt as if there were lags especially compared to using dual WAN ADSL at another location.

If you happen to be using a mixed network of Windows and Linux PC'c you may have Samba and Winbind installed.

If so Rhythmbox music player may be crashing everytime it is started.

This was happening in Ubuntu 10.04.

One fix is to go to synaptic and remove the Winbind package or use sudo apt-get remove winbind in a terminal.

A fix that seems to work while leaving Winbind installed is to edit nsswitch.conf.

In a terminal type sudo gedit /etc/nsswitch.conf and find the line

Last week I upgraded a desktop PC from Ubuntu 9.04 to 9.10.

The process was reasonably smooth and required user input only a few times through the upgrade.

There was an issue with networking that required attention after the upgrade. This desktop had been using WICD for network settings and the upgrade removed WICD and re installed Gnome network manager which added dhcp settings to the static ip settings in /etc/network/interfaces. As soon as this additional entry was commented out everything worked.

When I switched over to Ubuntu as my primary operating system there were several issues with integrating some existing hardware. Possibly the issue that consumed so much time trying to sort out was syncing my HTC Touch Diamond mobile phone with a linux email client. Syncing directly from Ubuntu to the phone just did not seem to work reliably at all. Synchronisations didnt seem to be automated and there were many times where the entire calendar and contacts were filled with multiple duplicates.

I use a Pioneer notebook fitted with a Nvidia Geforce 8600M GS graphics card. This Geforce card has a DVI output and in the office, and at home, I use twin screen settings in the Nvidia X Server Settings to output to both the notebook screen as the primary screen and to a 19" widescreen monitor as the secondary screen. This set up is handy for referring to one window while working on another for instance with both windows maximised.

Synce Evolution WM6

I have been stuffing around with this trying to sync a HTC Touch Diamond with WM6 loaded to Evolution running on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

I have arrived at the realisation that it does not work at his time.

Setting the basics and browsing the device from Ubuntu is easy and works well if this is what you want.

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