HowTo: Get spell-check working in Evolution again after upgrading to Intrepid
I finally got around to installing the final release version of Ubuntu Intrepid on my main desktop with only minimal issues that were not show-stoppers. One in particular was that Evolution was now marking every single word I wrote as being a spelling error when there were no errors at all.
Luckily, this one is easily fixed.
- Go to Edit->Preferences, and the Preferences window appears.
- Now click on the Composer Preferences icon on the left and then click on the Spell Checking tab at the top. You will now see the available languages to do spell checking with. At least one of them will already be checked.
- The issue is that despite the option being checked, it’s not actually checked internally within Evolution. All you have to do is un-check your language and re-check it, then click Close which will re-write the preferences.
You might need to restart Evolution again (I needed to after re-installing SpamAssassin), but you will now find that Evolution is now correctly doing its spell checking again.
HowTo: Install the Virtualbox Guest Additions drivers in Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 Beta.
| Having a play with the Beta of Ubuntu Intrepid 8.10 Beta under Virtualbox (2.0.2 at the time of writing), I noticed that the installation of the Virtualbox Guest Additions don’t appear to work in the usual manner. You’d reboot after installing them and, well, nothing new happens – no VBox video and mouse driver in operation. |  |
Recovering an NTFS volume using Ubuntu
I have a friend who has an external USB portable hard-drive that inexplicably seemed to develop CRC errors when reading files off the NTFS-formatted volume. This rapidly developed into full-blown drive drive shutdowns on major errors and it was evident that something was seriously wrong with it.
