Having run Vista 64 Ultimate for 4 months without a problem I recently restarted the machine after installing and running Diskeeper 2008. Upon restart I was, as usual, prompted to enter my password only to receive the following message:

The user profile service service failed the login. User profile cannot be loaded.

Disaster!

I restarted the system several times attempting to boot in any of the other ‘modes’ such as ’safe mode’, to no avail. The system would seem to crash out whenever hitting the ‘crcdisk.sys’ file causing the system to subsequently restart and round the wheel spun.I would like to add that I have never had any problems relating to the startup of Windows Vista since my initial setup and having been a heavy windows user for 9 years, thought I had just about finally clocked how to avoid these kind of heart-sinking problems. No such luck. Continue Reading »

xmodmap -e “keycode 234 = Super_L”
xmodmap -e “keycode 233 = Super_R”

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Having changed the CPU frequency to ‘Performance’ I decided to go back to ‘On Demand’ so that the processor would not get so hot. My laptop’s Intel Centrino 1.7Ghz processor was heating up to 81 degrees celcius! Intel say that the maximun operating temperature for this processor is 100 degrees, but I think I would rather keep it cool for longer to increase not only the battery life whilst unplugged, but also to increase the lifetime of the processor itself. Continue Reading »

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For Compiz Users

An embedded screensaver is light on memory usage, but won’t play nice with Compiz Fusion.

gconftool‐2 ‐‐type bool ‐‐set /apps/nautilus/preferences/show_desktop false /usr/lib/xscreensaver/glmatrix ‐root

If you don’t like the Matrix look, you can substitute any listed screensaver instead of “glmatrix.”

For Compiz Fusion Users:

XWinWrap is not available in the Ubuntu repositories. I installed it with this DEB package from Treviño’s Ubuntu Repository.

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Ever been typing on your computer with an Ubuntu installation and find the screen go black or that you have been logged out, shutting down all your open applications because you forget and hit the backspace key whilst holding down the Shift key? Major pain.

Here’s a solution I have come accross: Continue Reading »

These sub-programs are usually accessible by running ‘wine <wineprogram>’ . With some exceptions, the programs can be also be accessed with just ‘<wineprogram>’ (if Wine was installed in the user’s $PATH), although it is usually safer to use the former invocation.

A complete list of these programs can be found in the source at wine-<version>/programs/

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Over and over, President Bush confidently promised to “solve problems, not pass them on to future presidents and future generations.” As the clock runs out on his eight-year presidency, a tall stack of troubles remain and Bush’s words ring hollow.

Iraq, budget deficits, the looming insolvency of Social Security and Medicare, high health and energy costs, a national immigration mess — the next president will inherit these problems in January 2009…. Continue Reading »

In GNOME GUI
Here is a method for doing this via Gnome. In gnome, choose Places | Home Folder from the menu panel (ie open nautilus). When file browser opens, enter “fonts:///” as the Location. Then simply drag the new font into the fonts directory.

Alternately, you can get to the fonts directory by going to System | Preferences | Font. This will bring up a Font Preferences dialog with a Details button. Click “Details…” then click the button “Go to font folder”. Now drag fonts into fonts directory.

Either of these methods will install the font(s) for your local user. You can see them in Continue Reading »