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Based upon an image by Annie Mole

Based upon an image by Annie Mole

I’d like to apologise to anyone who had trouble accessing the site earlier: this was, as far as I can tell, due to a problem at the host’s end, and not down to yesterday’s minor traffic spike or due to the presence of this cretin in the comments section causing the server to fail because of the stupidity in the air.

On the other hand, I’m incredibly impressed with NearlyFreeSpeech.net, who dealt with my support request in no more than twenty minutes. For almost a year now, they’ve hosted this site practically for free in comparison to the amount of money I spent with 1&1, and this customer service is the icing on the cake.

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Ubuntu One

800px-Cumulus4_-_NOAAMaking a debut in the Karmic Koala release of Ubuntu (which I’ll post a more in-depth exploration of soon, I promise) is tight integration with the Ubuntu One cloud storage service, that is in no way similar to Apple’s MobileMe or Windows Live SkyDrive/Mesh. The most immediate difference between the former and the latter two services is that Ubuntu One has a nasty habit of not working at all.

The most common issue is that Ubuntu One won’t authorise your computer properly, and will therefore continue trying to add your computer to the list of authorised machines in an infinite loop. Mercifully, the problem is easy enough to fix, by removing the client software completely and then reinstalling it.

Quit the Ubuntu One client, then remove the authentication token from Passwords and Encryption Keys. (It’s also a good idea to move the Ubuntu One folder in your home folder out of the way.) The run the following commands:

$ sudo rm -rf ~/.share/local/ubuntuone
$ rm -rf ~/.cache/ubuntuone
$ rm -rf ~/.config/ubuntuone
$ sudo apt-get purge ubuntuone-client* python-ubuntuone-storage*
$ sudo apt-get install ubuntuone-client* python-ubuntuone-storage*

Everything should be working now: once you restart the Ubuntu One client, it should authorise the computer successfully.

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If you’re on Virgin Media, try going to a nonsense URL. And see what happens.

Virgin Media calls this their “advanced web search”, and while at the moment it seems somewhat benign, I can’t help but worry this could be being used to gain revenue from 404 errors. Mercifully, it’s easy enough to opt out. At the moment.

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