It wasn't immediately obvious to me

What I needed to do to get blutooth audio working was to install the blueman package

After that configuration via GUI was pretty straightforward

Now I have fantastic sound via my bluetooth enabled HIFI :-)

Installing Ubuntu on a new netbook proved remarkably easy once I got past a couple of hurdles

There is a bug in Ubunty Jaunty which cause Trac to have errors.

 Attachments do not work, the admin interface for milestones doesn't work properly - and there may be other issues.

The bug report is at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/trac/+bug/369792

And the solution is 

"go to http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/trac
and scroll all the way down. There you'll find a download link for the
karmic package which you can download and install via

I just started on a project that was using trac and subversion but they weren't integrated. I love the cross referncing trac provides. It can really help explain changesets and show how an issue was resolved.

The steps to add subversion to trac are

Debian has a very strict policy on free and legal software. This helps keep everyone honest, but sometimes a pragmatic approach is called for. MP3 is a file format that is patent encumbered - but also in universal use.

I could use the supplied Ogg Vorbis tools but then my music wouldn't work everywhere I want it to.

So I want to install Lame which is only available in source.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/lame/files/

Download and extract

Version conflicts to be aware of

Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) now ships with Subversion 1.5 

You can't use a svn 1.4 client and a svn 1.5 client on the same working copy.

While the subversion integration in Eclipse is great I still prefer to do some things on the command line and some with kdesvn.

Then you need to upgrade your subclipse plugin to subclipse 1.4

If you can - then upgrade to Eclipse 3.4 

One of the trial of web development is ensuring that your site works across a range of browsers.

Standards compliance is an important part of this - but testing cannot be avoided.

I work on Ubuntu, and use VirtualBox together with a licensed copy of Windows XP to test in a Windows environment, which also allows me to at least test the Windows version of Safari.

Unfortunately Microsoft's decision to tie Internet Explorer closely with the operating system means that it isn't possible to install IE6 alongside IE7.

Having just upgraded to Ubuntu 8.10 my key observation is that it's important to read the release notes first.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/releasenotes/810

There are a few bugs which have affected me

One of the great things about Debian/Ubuntu is the consistency with which system documentation is placed in /usr/share/doc/

Assuming you have a web server installed this documentation is then available at http://localhost/doc/

But to keep filesize down - many files are compressed and have to be decompressed before you can read them.

The browser can actually do that compression on the fly - if it receives the right headers - what it needs to be told is that the content is compressed plain text.

It seems there is a bug in MySQL which is causing restores to run very slowly (hours instead of minutes)

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=33057

The bug is fixed in release 5.0.67

But Ubuntu hasn't updated yet....

Fortunately this bug is specific to the command line client. 

Workaround: use the MySQL Administrator GUI instead.