Posts tagged Ubuntu

Last night I thought it would be fun to try to suspend my laptop with the 3G USB modem still plugged in and connected. This morning when I woke it up I had no keyboard. Ctrl+Alt+F1 worked to switch to a text console (when I pressed it twice). The text console wasn't garbled, which was nice. killall gnome-settings-daemon or gnome-screensaver didn't fix anything. Suspending and resuming again didn't fix things either (not that there's any reason why it should).

Warning: this is going to be a long story with a semi-happy ending. Skip it unless you enjoy tales of woe and debugging. So, I open up my laptop, plug in a USB keyboard and mouse, start up Inkscape and start fooling around. Suddenly I notice strange behaviour: I cannot select two objects in Inkscape by holding down ctrl or shift and clicking -- only the last object I clicked on becomes selected.

I recently posted some data about applications taking up the most RAM on my laptop. That was after 9 days of uptime, while this is after 12 hours: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 16033 root 20 0 527m 109m 11m S 3 5.5 6:52.82 Xorg 17834 mg 20 0 244m 105m 24m S 6 5.3 3:26.49 firefox 26425 mg 20 0 96872 58m 12m S 0 2.

After reading Alexander Larsson's post on de-bloating nautilus I thought it would be interesting/useful to see what apps are eating my RAM, as a statistical data point if nothing else. OS: Ubuntu 8.10. Uptime: 9 days, 20:45 (desktop session also started 9 days ago; I suspend and never log out). Top ten apps, according to top: PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND 29594 mg 20 0 472m 269m 32m S 3 13.

Almost works out of the box on Ubuntu. Will work out of the box in the forthcoming 9.04 release. One curious little detail: according to the manual, a blinking green light means it's trying to find the GSM network (if it's blinking twice every 2.7 seconds) or that it's successfully found a GSM network (if it's blinking twice every 2.9 seconds). I'd like to have been on the meeting when this was decided.