I’ve been running the development branch of Ubuntu Hardy for about three weeks now, and everything has been great, but recently, Amarok stopped downloading the CD cover image for my music. This problem has been happening for about four or five days, and since it’s not a killer error, I figured it would just be [...]
It’s no secret that I’m not a huge fan of Ubuntu. However, I do install each new release in a virtual machine; just to see if there’s anything I like.
Believe it or not, there’s a feature in 7.10 that I absolutely love. After installing vmware-tools, I wanted to run htop to check system resources of [...]
There are hundreds, if not thousands, of guides on the Internet for setting up SSH so that you don’t have to use a password to authenticate. What’s different about this one? A GUI. Most of the other guides involve using the command line to create the key and send it to the proper place on [...]
Did you know that Email is sent in clear text over the Internet? Yeah, it is, and unless you take steps to secure it, anyone who intercepts a message can easily read it. It’s also really easy for someone to send an email that looks like it came from you. The open source solution for [...]
Don’t you hate it when your bittorrent download of an album finishes, and you realize that it’s one flac file and one cue file? Unless your goal is to recreate the CD, this format probably won’t be much good to you. You probably want a separate flac file for each song. Splitting the file is [...]
For all of you who were hoping for Hungry Hippo, sorry!
The official announcement is here:
http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1017
A common question on many Linux forums is something like “I’ve just installed [SomeOtherOS] and now I can’t boot into my OS. How can I get my choice back?” Without getting into all the sticky details, the short answer is that the GRUB boot record has been overwritten and you need to restore it.
GRUB (the [...]
Thou shalt not log in as root.
Use “sudo” or “su -” for administrative tasks.
Thou shalt use the package manager when possible.
Sometimes installing from source code can’t be avoided, but when you use your distro’s package manager to install software, you can also use it to update and remove it. This is one of the main [...]
I wrote this document for new Ubuntu Linux users who are trying it for the first time solo, that is, without a friend or colleague who is experienced with setting up and supporting Ubuntu Linux. If you’re a seasoned Linux pro, you probably won’t find much usefulness in this document, except maybe in giving it [...]
The Ubuntu Geek site has a great article on getting flash going in Opera.
Check it out here.