I recently started using Back In Time to automate my local backups on a couple of Ubuntu machines but found an annoying problem. If you have any mounted network shares the backups seem to fail. On further investigation the backup job was not failing but rather trying to scan the entire network share, and then back it up too. To get round this issue simply add ~/.gvfs as an exclusion to the backup set.
As scary as it may seem, back in the late eighties I used to be a programmer. Luckily after a few years of coding for a living I realised that I was not a bad programmer. I was awful, and so moved into the world of hardware, and then later software, support. Recently, though, I have found that I want to accomplish certain tasks and there just aren't the tools available for what I need. A good example is a bit of software that Microsoft supplies (I think it is a snap in for MMC but cannot for the life of me find a link to it right now) that allows you to connect to multiple Terminal Services sessions inside on app/windows. Very hand if, like me, you have to manage multiple Windows servers. The problem is I don't run Windows on my desktop PC. I run Ubuntu Linux and although there are many ways of connecting to a Terminal Server (rdesktop, tsclient) there doesn't appear to be a way of connecting to multiple Terminal Server connections in one application, all in one switchable window.
I recently reinstalled my eeepc with Eeebuntu 3.0 and came across a very annoying problem. When you try and set up a show at ustream.tv, you would normally wait 'till the flash video software loads, right click, choose "settings" and allow the site in question to have access to your camera and microphone. Only when I tried this the "settings" option was greyed out. I have not quite worked out why it is greyed out yet but have a workaround that will allow you to get the video working. First of all you need to go to the following site in the browser on the computer you have Eeebuntu installed on:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/documentation/en/flashplayer/help/settings_manager06.html
Once there a settings manager box will appear at the top right hand corner of the page. This is not an image, it is the actual Flash settings for the browser you are using. Add the necessary sites for ustream to work (ustream.tv, www.ustream.tv and cdn1.ustream.tv). The image below does not contain cdn1.ustream.tv as this post was written on my mac which hasn't been used to broadcast using ustream.tv yet but it should show up in your window if you have tried to broadcast at all.
Now make sure that all three sites are set to "always allow". Close the browser, reopen it and you should now have full access to your webcam and microphone inside the ustream broadcast flash app.
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