Wacom Bamboo in virtualised Windows 7 problems

Bummer.  Spent ages virtualising my Windows 7 laptop so that it runs in Ubuntu 10.10 (managing to avoid losing any data, remarkably!), only to find that the Wacom Bamboo driver kills Windows.  Anyone got any solutions?

Upgrading Ubuntu 10.4 to 10.10

Isn’t it nice when someone out on the internet just fixes your problem by having had the presence of mind to make a quick post on something? I was just idly wondering why I wasn’t getting an Ubuntu 10.10 upgrade button when in the Update Manager, and did a quick search to find this: http://blog.yohanliyanage.com/2010/10/upgrading-from-ubuntu-10-4-to-10-10/

Seems that by default, Ubuntu looks for LTS releases – LTS stands for ‘Long-Term Support’. LTS might be more appropriate for the average desktop user, but for those wanting to see the operating systems latest knobs and bells, changing the ‘prompt’ line in the ‘/etc/update-manager/release-upgrades’ file from ‘lts’ to ‘normal’ gives you the latest release.

Apple OS X terminal default settings

Just managed to screw up my terminal by going into the ‘Window settings’ dialogue box, and hitting ‘Use settings as default’ – while I was telnetted into something.

For some reason, the telnet session was taken as a default setting too. So every time I started terminal it tried to telnet immediately to the remote host (which wasn’t there).

The only way I could get a command-line session was either to do a CTRL-Z to put the telnet session into the background. The alternative was to switch on the remote host, open terminal, telnet to the remote host and then telnet back!

Fortunately, I found this very useful page and the instructions there fixed it:

http://kleeschulte.blogspot.com/2008/05/apple-regedit-changing-terminalapp.html

Resetting an EXOS switch to defaults (BlackDiamond 8800)

Here’s how to reset an EXOS switch to defaults – useful if you’ve forgotten the password.