Kill Ubuntu’s new notification popups

I’m sure that many people love Ubuntu’s new-ish notification system.  You know, the Growl-like popups that tell you that your network is offline every time your laptop wakes from sleep?  Me, I’m not one of them.
Here’s a quick tip on how to disable it:
Open a terminal,
sudo chmod -x /usr/lib/notify-osd/notify-osd
pkill notify-osd
Done.
Note that I’d expect new versions [...]

Posted at 5:09 pm on 2009-11-11 | leave a comment | Filed Under: Ubuntu | read on

Great resource for Linux on the Toshiba M400

I upgraded from the Toshiba M200 to the M400 a while back.  I’ve tried many different Linux distributions since then, briefly flirting with Fedora 11, and have now settled on Ubuntu 9.10 Alpha.
Anyway, that is all beside the point.  Anyone setting one of these up needs to take a look at this site.  It discusses [...]

Posted at 1:49 pm on 2009-09-30 | Comments Off | Filed Under: Linux laptops, Ubuntu | read on