Historical errata for Ubuntu Kung Fu

In the last paragraph of the page, “In child-proofing Ubutu” should be “In child-proofing Ubuntu”.

In the third paragraph, second sentence, it says “It is beyond the remit of this book…” I’m not sure what word is meant to be there, but I believe “remit” means to grow less intense or to give up something such as a payment, and is probably not the word meant to be here.

The last paragraph for tip 138 refers to step 6, but the instructions seem to refer to step 7 instead.

The first line of tip 230 reads “Once upon a time Linux has the poor relation when it came to multimedia playback.” Should this be “was the poor relation” or is something else meant entirely?

Evince (my PDF reader) chokes on the Project Gutenberg link — all other links have been working fine, but this one pops the error “Unable to open external link”. Adobe Reader is able to open the link with no problem, so it’s possible that the PDF is fine and it’s just something on my end, but thought you might want to know just in case.

The first line of the second paragraph reads “…search for and instal klipper.” Should be “…and install klipper.”

point 3. - it is not necessary to reboot to activate the wicd tray, just restart the session (logout & login).

“Ubuntu software packages all have the file extension .deb.
This stands for Debian, and is a legacy of Ubuntu’s history.”

I’d suggest rephrasing - it just sounds bad for Debian. E.g. “This stands for Debian, which Ubuntu is built on.” is more correct and respectful IMO.

“This leaves the software installation system in something of a ? state, because…” - I guess there’s a missing adjective in the place I put the question mark

Second paragraph of section 2.1, sentence 1 is Gramatically incorrect:
“You first thing you might notice is that it’s virtually icon-free.”
Should probably be:
“The first thing you might notice is that it’s virtually icon-free.”

section 2.2, paragraph 1, sentence 2.
“You were allocated a tranche of space to save your personal data…”

tranche, a French word, is an ambiguous word in English having different meanings in different parts of the English speaking world. In the US it is probably most familiar in cooking as referring to a slice or portion of meat cut at an angle to show more surface. This is often referred to as ‘French cut’ in the vernacular.

It also relates to wine futures and has a financial meaning.

Many people will not get the meaning of a part or portion.

I’d suggest a less ambiguous phrase and just say:
“You were allocated space to save your personal data…”

In the second paragraph of Tip 68, replace all instances of ‘apt-get’ with ‘aptitude’.

The second code snippet should be ‘passwd’, not ‘password’.

Last paragraph of tip 90 should read “If you’d like to…”, not “If you’re like to…”.

Tip 266: Install Skype should mention that Skype is not available natively for AMD64 versions of Linux. It’s possible, but horrible, to install the 32-bit version and the last time I did it, it just didn’t work properly so I uninstalled it.

The discussion of Wubi on page 45/46 is slightly ambiguous when it says users won’t be able to access their Windows partition. It’s true that the partition can’t be mounted in the traditional way, as with a standard installation, but the Windows files can be accessed by browsing to the /host directory. For more information, see the Wubi FAQ at the official Wubi site.

When describing the technique to use gconf-editor to change the print font on gedit, the book reads “For example, to print using a sans-serif font at 9 points, you could type Bitsream [sic] Vera Sans 9.”
The font foundry is Bitstream.

164 view technical info : you can aslo use lshw , wich lists all your hardware , when you dont want the run as root error , run it as root sudo lshw , its an default program and you dont need to install it.

you say :

Start Gedit and create a new file called .quod in your /home folder.

wich i think should be : create a new file called .qotd ,

since you then say : chmod +x .qotd

Tip 6, typo: “The log out and back in”. Should be, “Then log out and back in”.

The line of script that reads:
clamtk $@

Should read:
clamtk “$@”

That way you can selectively scan files with embedded spaces.

In Software Support box, 5 lines from the bottom:

“It’s a good idea to should shy away…”—> remove “should”

In Software Support box, 5 lines from the bottom:

“It’s a good idea to should shy away…”—> remove “should”

“Actually, there’s so much space between then that you could drive a bus through.”

‘then’ needs to be ‘them’

About trying Tracker:
… and there’s little reason to give it ….
Should be:
… ant there’s little reason not to give it ….

About Thunar:
… an example taken from my text PC, see Figure 3.22.
Should be:
… an example taken from my test PC, see Figure 3.22.

About Cloning Your Ubuntu Installation:
… make it your new book disk?
Should be:
… make it your new boot disk?

Tip 124, second paragraph:
If you want to install REFIt, remove ….
Should be:
If you want to install rEFIt, remove ….
Correctly cAPITALIZEd in first paragraph.

Hint 185, Paragraph 2:
… to something more exiting, ….
Should be:
… to something more exciting, ….

Hint 223 Repair Ubuntu File System Errors (second example):
$ sudo fsck.ext3 -fck /dev/sda5
should be:
$ sudo fsck.ext3 -fc /dev/sda5
No -k option found in man page for fsck.

The Contents page is blank, i.e., there is no table and no contents, only a page header. Same behavior in multiple readers and on multiple platforms. PragProg Support rolled up a new one but it has the same problem. PragProg Support suggested entering errata. Here it is. Here I am.

“$ calc 203+99/16
This will add 203 and 99 and then divide by 16, returning a result of 209.1875.”

… the description is wrong, it actually divides 99 by 16 first and then adds that to 203, giving 209.1875