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What to do when the GUI won’t boot up after a kernel update

August 11th, 2010 Andrew Uncategorized

After running an update the other day at the prompting of KPackageKit (the software that Kubuntu uses to manage and install system upgrades), I rebooted to find that my GUI (graphical user interface) had disappeared. Puzzled, I logged in at the command line and tried to start X, but Kubuntu threw back an error. I […]

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Online Video-Sharing Sites Score Copyright Victory

January 6th, 2009 Andrew Uncategorized

Wired is reporting that Universal Music Group has lost another lawsuit.

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