I got a Epson Stylus DX5050 inkjet multifunction printer/scanner to work in Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 by using this driver:

Neva commented on Tales of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 installs on a bunch of machines from a windows-veteran (written by Neva) 28.04.2012 (en) posted to #linux

Increased Thunderbird mail/news/rss reader integration in Lucid Gnome desktop indicator applet with these instructions:

Neva commented on Tales of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04 installs on a bunch of machines from a windows-veteran (written by Neva) 22.04.2012 (en) posted to #linux

Fixed the skype microphone. Reading a mono microphone as stereo apparently cancels out the signal. Pavucontrol helps unlock the individual channels in pulseaudio.

Neva commented on Acer Aspire One model ZG5: http://www.aspireoneuser.com/2008/07/... (written by Neva) 27.03.2012 (en) posted to #linux

Reset the program profile with mv .openoffice.org openoff.delme

Neva commented on Libreoffice has replaced openoffice a fair while already. Installed german language support like this: (written by Neva) 26.02.2012 (en) posted to #linux

Decided to replace Openoffice with Libreoffice, since the installed extensions didn't work. Did it with a PPA:

Neva commented on Libreoffice has replaced openoffice a fair while already. Installed german language support like this: (written by Neva) 26.02.2012 (en) posted to #linux