Some other ubuntu questions/comments

[David Curtis]

On Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:10:37 +0000 (UTC)
mdovell at comcast.net wrote:

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> 1)       This is rather minor but in the month or so that I’ve used
> it there’s been a few minor kernel updates. Within Gimp when my pc
> loads up it still lists all of them and their recovery modes as
> selectable functions. I’m not saying this is a bad thing but if this
> keeps going on I’m going to have a few dozen different things on my
> screen within a year

I think you mean Grub (GRand Unified Bootloader) not Gimp (Gnu Image
Manipulation Program), old kernels are removable. There are many ways
to do it, I've always done it through Synaptic but a google search
reveals a number of tutorials.

> 2)         I’m still a bit perplexed with web browsers. I’m not sure
> what I did but Opera seems to do nearly 99% of what I want to do.
> Firefox however hasn’t (although I know version 3.5 is due in another
> week) I don’t hate opera but I still hate this inconsistency that
> websites have with browsers. I can’t access my isp’s web based email
> on opera but I can with Firefox. I have a feeling maybe it has
> something to do with the sites metatags but o well. 

FF 3.5 is available for Jaunty, the package name is firefox-3.5. You
would more than likely want firefox-3.5-branding also. 

Not sure what you mean by metatags, if it is a browser identification
issue I believe that Opera can falsely identify itself as FF or IE.
 
> 3)       Open Office is kinda iffy. I can be typing something and it
> isn’t showing up or it is a bit slow. It is NOT crashing but it just
> seems like it’s not matching up with everything I’m typing. If I use
> the scroll on the mouse it instantly corrects it. For small things
> this isn’t that bad but if I’m going on to type pages worth of
> information it will drive me insane.

Sorry, don't use O.O. 
 
> 4)       Are there any other clients for the wireless internet to
> use? I mentioned this before that there’s a cisco system I use. It
> can work OK but seems to drop out for no real reason. 

Can you be a little more specific with what you mean by client and
cisco system? Maybe indicate what hardware you're using.

> 5)       This is sort of a biggie but just shooting at the hip here.
> Does anyone have any experience in making a mythpvr (some use
> ubuntu). I ask because my cable co is ending some of the analog cable
> and if I can make a cheap box so to speak it could save me money in
> the long run. I know obviously I’d need a hard drive, ATSC/QAM tuner,
> IR blaster etc.        

www.mythbuntu.org has hardware recommendations under View Requirements,
including a list of working tuner cards.

> 6) In the latest upgrade to the kernal I also
> noticed after rebooting that there was a significant drop in the
> amount of disk space used. Is this normal? 

If you mean losing disk space, kernel images are quite large compared
to other packages ~90Mb.

In the future please ask questions separately.

Dave