Linux: Yet Another Google Chrome “Aw, snap” solved.

“Aw, snap” in Google Chrome happens when a process (or thread?) involved with Chrome dies unexpectedly. I got quite a few of those, and learned to live with them for about a year, as I couldn’t figure out what caused them. It was clear that it had to do with Adobe Flash somehow, and that [...]

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This post was written by eli on August 7, 2015 Comments (2)

Issue with making a bootable Ubuntu 15.04 USB stick

I wanted to create a boot USB stick from an Ubuntu 15.04 desktop that was running in a Virtual machine. So I plugged in a clean USB stick, and picked “Startup Disk Creator” from the Launcher. Then picked the USB stick as the target, and waited for 15 minutes. When the utility was done, it [...]

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This post was written by eli on August 5, 2015 Comments (1)