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I am currently using Shotwell 0.9.3 as my main photo organizer and I noticed that there is some sort of error when I import photos (usually from an SD card).

What I do is I choose File » Import From Folder... and then I select my SD card and click Copy Photos on the dialog box. The photos are imported to the correct event, say the pictures were taken on Jan 01, 2012 and so the photos are shown under Jan 01, 2012.

What puzzles me is that when I check under ~/Pictures, I couldn't find the imported pictures in folder ~/Pictures/2012/01/01 but instead I find them under ~/Pictures/2011/12/31 which is a day earlier than when the picture was taken.

Is this a bug?

Thanks.

I currently installed Ubuntu 11.10 and when I am prompted to install Additional Drivers, I get confused on which to use between the 2 FGLRX graphics drivers:

• ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver (post-release updates)
• ATI/AMD proprietary FGLRX graphics driver

These 2 appear but I am not sure what to choose. Previously, on 11.04, only the latter appears (the one without the post-releae updates).

What's the difference between these 2 drivers?

I want to know the difference because I want to install a base system only (without all the bloat that comes with the standard Desktop edition). Using the alternative install CD gives me an option to do a command-line install and I read that using the server edition will install the base system + some server related packages (e.g. web or mail servers).

The computer is a personal laptop which I will use for personal purposes. I feel that using the server edition is a bit of an overkill (given by the name -- server edition) but I fear that if I do use the alternative command-line install, some drivers may be missing.

So, which should I use? Server edition? Or Alternative Desktop edition with command-line install?

I want to update the kernel version of my current 10.04 LTS to at least 2.6.37 (because the drivers for my eth0 and wlan0 interfaces are included in the said kernel).

If it is possible, how do I do this? Is there a repo I add to my sources list?

I currently did a clean install of Ubuntu LTS 10.04 on my new laptop. After the installation, I attempted to do an update of the system only to find out that the 2 most important interfaces (eth0 and wlan0) I can use to connect to the internet is non-existent.

I then recalled that when I installed Arch on this same laptop a few months back, I got the same obstacle. Basically, it was because the kernel version doesn't support the 2 interfaces yet. The Atheros card AR8152 (eth0) needs at least kernel version 2.6.37 and the Broadcom Device 4727 (wlan0) also needs a higher kernel version. If I am not mistaken, the install CD I have for 10.04 has kernel version 2.6.32-xx.

So I cannot connect to the internet on my laptop. I need to know what the best approach is to update the linux kernel to the current version if I have no internet connection on the laptop.

I can connect to the internet using a Win7 machine. Also note that I want to use the 10.04 release so upgrading to a newer Ubuntu release isn't an option.

I have read this thread but please hear me out.

I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (32-bit) and I didn't bother to install the Flash plugin for Firefox as I am using a netbook and sometimes Flash caused firefox to crash. What I would like to ask is if I had the link to the video, is there some way I can download it and watch it offline (via VLC) so that I don't need to install Flash plugin? Command line or GUI techniques is welcome.

Based on what I have read, using the /tmp technique requires Flash plugin to be installed and the video to be loaded before I can go scavenge it in the said directory. Note that I also want to dload videos from site aside from youtube.