You might still be able to see them in the Disks tool but not the installer.

A quick fix that worked for me was to remove dmraid:

sudo apt-get remove dmraid

Then run the installer again and presto! your disks are appearing again.

I did this using the live cd but from the text installer you can perform the apt-get command in a shell by hitting Shift-F1 to get to a shell then “sudo apt-get remove dmraid” before you get to the disk part of the install. Or go back in the install process and retry that step after the removal of dmraid.

Let me know if this helped you out any, it was handy to find this out myself.

-Pete

I am having trouble finding my perfect DAB+ portable radio player.

Mandatory requirements:

• DAB+
• USB or SDCard input for audio files (mp3, flac?) or some form of local storage on the device.
• Built in speakers – stereo preferred, mono acceptable.
• Portable – Table top size is fine.
• Able to be battery powered (common battery types preferred (D cell, AA/AAA cells), proprietary/custom rechargeable battery ok but not preferred as it means less serviceable/less longevity if custom batteries are hard to source.
• No units that require a secondary powered device to control use (eg, smart phone control of the unit is not what I’m after). Included remote controls are fine though.

Additional / Bonus features:

• Wifi / DLNA / Internet Radio would be a bonus.
• Dials preferred over buttons.
• Classic look wood or wood effect preferred.

I’m open to suggestions of a reference models such as the items listed under “Platforms/Evaluation Systems”:

http://www.frontier-silicon.com/audio/index.htm

I’ve also read that 90% of DAB+ devices are powered by Frontier Silicon hardware.

I’m open to a build-your-own kit as well.

Another option might be to find an ugly unit that does all that I require technically and replace the plastic case with a custom made wood one.

Closes Contenders:

• Pinell Explorer – http://www.pinell.no/en/products/pinell-explorer-walnut but has no local file storage option (usb/sdcard/other).
• Cord Panorama – http://www.jbhifionline.com.au/home%20theatre/digital-radio/cord-panorama-network-desktop-digital-radio/672955 but has no battery or local storage.
• Tivoli range – http://www.hifitrader.com.au/prod443.htm but no battery or local storage.

Over to you.

I’ll keep everyone posted on progress…

I use Piwigo, an opensource gallery system that has apps on smart phones to auto upload photos in the same way.

I find it very slick and it does what I need and most importantly, I still own all my data and can host it however I wish.

http://piwigo.org/

I also use the awesome Linux photo organiser Shotwell as part of my photo workflow and it has native upload capability to Piwigo and puts all the tags and info into photo for me.

What is everyone else using and what has been other people’s experience with Piwigo generally?

-P

“Vigilante Vigilante: The Battle for Expression” Official Trailer from max good on Vimeo.

Find screenings in your city!
http://www.vigilantefilm.com/

Unecessary DNS Lookups

a) DNS Lookups are enabled if remote server has the following in /etc/ssh/sshd_config:

UseDNS yes

this should be disabled by default, either comment out the UseDNS line or set it to No

UseDNS no

GSSAPI Authentication

b) GSSAPI authentication lookups are attempting a dns query which eventually times out and allows you to log in anyway. Caused by the following sshd_config lines:

# GSSAPI options
GSSAPIAuthentication yes
GSSAPICleanupCredentials yes

To disable, set these to No:

# GSSAPI options
GSSAPIAuthentication no
GSSAPICleanupCredentials no

AD issues with Winbind and nsswitch.conf

Sometimes AD issues can cause Winbind to be slow/faulty. Another symptom of this could be slow sudo commands, each of which is firing off an AD authentication attempt via winbind.

Restarting winbind my solve the issue temporarily.

/etc/init.d/winbind restart

If not using Samba against the AD, then winbind can be avoided for authentication by editing /etc/nsswitch.conf

Change this

passwd:     files winbind
group:      files winbind

to this:

passwd:     files
group:      files

http://www.gimp.org/release-notes/gimp-2.8.html

To install gimp 2.8 on ubuntu run:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp

or if that fails (due to proxy) then try adding the deb source into Update Manager sources list manually:

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/otto-kesselgulasch/gimp/ubuntu precise main

Then:

 sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install gimp

Then to enable single window mode, open an existing image or create a new one.

Then go to Windows menu -> Single Window Mode