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Since I’ve had so much bad luck with wireless cards and laptops lately (my last attempt endedup in kernel panic,) I decided to figure out how to back up and restore my hard drive image. This way I won’t have to keep popping the install CD in and putting my installation back to square 0, thereby losing all my configurations.
Apparently, in Linux, it’s really easy to capture a tar ball of your entire partition and then just unpack the tar ball onto the partition if you break something and need to restore.
Check out this guide on the Ubuntu forums: Howto: Backup and restore your system!
Since I discovered the joys of torrents, I have accumulated a few AVI files that I wish I could put on DVD to play back in a regular player. I found this handy little guide over at linuxquestions.org that helped me accomplish exactly what I wanted to.
Since the wicd update that borked my wireless management yesterday, I have successfully restored the program to an earlier version (link). However, the update notifier keeps nagging me about the fact that wicd has a new release. Not one for nagging, I poked around until I figured out how to make it stop.
If you find the package in Synaptic Package Manager, select it and the open up the Package menu (in the top menu bar) you will see an option to “lock” the package. Selecting this box will tell Synaptic/Apt that you don’t want to update the package. The icon next to the package name in the main window of Synaptic will change from one with a star (indicating an out-of-date package) to one with a lock (indicating — obviously — a locked package).
Just for good measure, I closed Synaptic and opened the Update Manager and did a check for updates in order to refresh the list (and get the wicd update out of the list). And now my update notifier no longer nags me from the panel.
I wrote back in July about a wonderful wired and wireless network manager that made my life easy called wicd (pronouced “wicked”). The best thing about it was that it just worked. Well all that changed yesteday when my update manager pointed out that there was an update for wicd. Naturally, I thought that the update would make the awesome software more awesome-er, so I installed it without hesitation. Then I spent the rest of the night rueing my mistake.
I’ll tell you how I fixed the problem, but first, let me tell you what doesn’t work for me about the new 1.5.3 version of wicd:
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