BruceAdams

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Bruce Adams

Email: <bruce.adams@acm.org>

I live and work in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. I am fairly new to Ubuntu and I am very impressed. My Linux background is mostly Red Hat and Fedora. I've worked with many other Unix systems (AIX, AT&T, BSD*, HP-UX, Solaris, Xenix and more) over the years. I hope to be able to contribute in Ubuntu.

- Bruce

Interesting Stuff

Interesting stuff that I haven't figured out where to put in this Wiki.

  1. There was a serious problem with Ubuntu on my IBM Net Vista (Pentium 4) desktop. The system clock effectively stopped. I called the problem "Time Slows Down". The ultimate resolution turned out to be adding the kernel parameter "noapic" (see GrubHowto for setting kernel parameters). Here is a Ubuntu Forum thread about the problem.

  2. There is a quirk in Gaim where pasting text into a conversation often does not behave correctly. I notice it most often trying to copy/paste a URL from Firefox into Gaim. Pasting to Emacs (which I tend to have open all the time) and then to Gaim often works. Sometimes, restarting Gaim helps.

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