Luke's Ubuntu and Linux Hacks

(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) What happened I will probably never know what actually happened. I can tell you only what I was doing when my computer threw up the " Oh, no. Something has gone wrong. Contact Your System Administrator " screen and scared the bejeebers out of me. So, I was working in two separate windows at one time on a single display for my Linux machine. I do this fairly often, but I've never run into the "Oh, no" issue before. What I did differently this time was that, while in the second Window, I decided to restart my computer for reasons I won't go into. The next thing I know, the computer n...

(We recommend you bookmark this blog. Trying to find helpful information in forums usually just ends in making you frustrated and angry. This blog does not speculate or guess. If we post it, we've tried it and it works. As with all our posts, if you don't care about the background info, you can head straight to the yellow highlighted sections for the problem and the fix.) Let me say first that this might be unique, or almost unique, depending on your flavor of Linux and your hardware. The Issue I don't know exactly how or when this problem began, but I do know that I used Ubuntu exclusively as my OS for a good seven years (and same machine for five years) before the problem reared its ugly head. "The Problem" was that all of a sudden my mouse would "freeze," meaning the cursor of my wireless mouse froze and could not be moved—nor could I click on anything on the screen--without removing the mouse dongle from the USB port, then reinserting it. Unfortunat...