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Installing Ubuntu 8.10 from scratch

25-Jan-09

Managed to completely screw something up that caused flash to stop working, my drives no longer want to mount, and probably one or two others things that I didn’t bother to find out first. On top of that ever since I switched USB ports on my mouse fiddling around a week or [...]

Google Gears in Firefox x64 for Wordpress 2.7

19-Jan-09

To resolve this error:
“Google Gears” could not be installed because it is not compatible with your Firefox build type (Linux_x86_64-gcc3). Please contact the author of this item about the problem
Stan Joel posted the lastest (5.18.0) on Issue 335

Download: http://jms.id.au/~shenki/gears/gears-linux-x86_64-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
In Firefox,  click File -> Open File, find gears-linux-opt-0.5.18.0.xpi
Click “Install Now” when prompted
Restart Firefox

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