Kubuntu 10.04 LTS Released Today

As I’m writing this my laptop is upgrading from 9.10 to the new 10.o4 LTS version of Kubuntu. Kubuntu released the new version today.(this also goes for Ubuntu and Edubuntu as well as Xubuntu).

Go here to download the new version or use the update manager to upgrade. Make sure you do all the updates on your current version of Kubuntu or Ubuntu first. This goed for 8.04 & 9.04 LTS releases and any other release in between.

Jaunty Jackalope 9.04 Upgrade Woes

Introduction

If you are following me on Twitter then you already know.  My wife decide when the upgrade from 8.04 to 9.04 when the pop-up showed up on her laptop to upgrade right away.  This was on Thursday the day that 9.04 was released.  This should not have been a problem.  However this blog post wouldn’t be here, if it would have worked.

What Went Wrong

I can only speculate, but I believe that the Canocial server were overloaded with everyone doing updates.  As a result of this, one of the update servers became unreachable.  Resulting in an incomplete upgrade.  The following error came up after the laptop restarted:

Part Two Of The “Laptop How To” Series Published

Introduction

A while a go part one of the “Laptop How To” was released.  Because of some internal site changes on Bright Hub part two didn’t get released until recently.

What Is In This How To

The title of this how to is: Laptop How To: Upgrading Or Replacing Your Hardrive. This how to not only tells you how to replace the harddrive but, through the pictures in the article, it also shows you.  It will show you how to change the harddrive for a newer and an older Laptop.

Please visit the link above to read the article on Bright Hub.

How To Upgrade Laptop Memory / How To Replace Laptop Memory

Are you taking your laptop to the Geeksquad for a memory upgrade?
There is no need to go to them do it yourself.

Is your laptop freezing up or all of a sudden really slow?
Replacing memory can help.

There is no need to go to anybody to have your memory replaced or upgraded.  I wrote an article for Bright Hub that explains how to do this.  I’ve even added pictures so it’s even easier to follow.  Please go to this url to read the article:

http://www.brighthub.com/computing/hardware/articles/16315.aspx

Missing adept_notifier(the update notifier)?

For some reason my adept_notifier disappeared I really don’t know why must have clicked on something and quite the wrong icon or something.

Adept_notifier is the program that makes the update icon appear in your taskbar. Getting the icon back is not as hard as you would think.

All you have to run(yes in Terminal start->system->Terminal) is:

adept_notifier

The when asked if you want to start adept_notifier automatically answer yes.
that’s it.