Ethan W. Brown : //etano.net

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My name is Ethan Brown.

I do physics. I am the product of free public education. I believe that all information wants to be free. This website was made for me, but you can use it as well.

Recently, I found that the newest version of Mathematica runs especially slow in linux kernals 2.6.28+. This is due to some roundabout linkage for which, for some odd reason, Wolfram does not care to provide a public fix. Nevertheless the fix is straight-forward:

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Feb 18 | Touchpad not working HP Mini 311 (SOLVED)

So, this is probably the stupidest fix I’ve ever had to perform. Recently I bought an HP Mini 311 and two days ago, the touchpad stopped working. At first I thought I had just turned it off accidentally, but then I realized there is no touchpad on/off toggle button. (Note: The touchpad stopped working after I was trying to open and close both gnome-do and guake as fast as possible.) Anyways, I called HP Support today, and here is how it was fixed:

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Jan 25 | Chromium: “Your profile could not be opened correctly.”

If you are using the Google Chromium ppa, occasionally things are broken (specifically user settings). For example, I have twice gotten the error:

“Your profile could not be opened correctly.
Some features may be unavailable. Please check that the profile exists and you have permission to read and write its contents.”

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