As this was such a popular How To for Hardy Heron, I thought I’d document the same exercise for Ubuntu’s latest version Intrepid Ibex (8.10).
Read more »Help Spread Linux… Don’t Preach It!
What does using Linux mean to you? Do you simply use it because it works best for you? While at its heart Linux itself, is nothing more than a software kernel, to many people it is much more. It is a mission, a mission to show the big industry players just what the common user can do without their help.
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Using Ubuntu Linux at the American International School
For Barcamp Saigon 1, I decided to give an ad hoc presentation of using Ubuntu Linux with my students at a Vietnamese international school.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #117
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #117 for the week November 9th - November 15th, 2008.
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Play video inside .rar files in Ubuntu (without extracting the archives)
There are two methods one can use to play video inside .rar files in Ubuntu (without extracting the archives).
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Clone your Ubuntu installation onto a new hard disk
Just upgraded your system with a shiny new hard disk and want to make it your new book disk? Cloning Ubuntu to another hard disk is easy. In fact, Ubuntu provides tools to clone the entire hard disk -- including the Windows partition, if there's one on there. This is the kind of fundamental task that Linux excels at, in fact.
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The XMMS in GNU/Linux Manifesto v.0.1
"The problem concerning the X Multimedia System (XMMS) is really a test for the wider community.It seems to affect users of Debian, Ubuntu and openSuse directly, but essentially it concerns all GNU/Linux users and the rest of the Free Software community, because it is a test of our social organisation: when and why can tribes be excluded and left to their own devices on the prairies of cyberspace?
Read more »Sun Microsystems Type 6 USB keyboard, Ubuntu GNU/Linux, Emacs and flexibility
"It was time for a better keyboard because the one I plugged to my Lenovo 3000 N100 laptop was an IBM keyboard with a very strange layout, putting the PgDn, PgUp, Home, End and Ins keys in very strange places. The situation was no more bearable.
Read more »How to get Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x wireless cards working in Ubuntu 8.10
This tutorial will explain how to Atheros AR5007EG or AR242x wireless cards working in Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex).First you need to compile latest ath5k driver using the following procedure.Use one of the following method.
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Installing and Setting Up Avant Window Navigator
Today we are going to see how you can make Ubuntu much more user friendly and add eye candy.
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Ubuntu 9.04 “Jaunty Jackalope” Mock-up Designs
The next Ubuntu release codenamed "Jaunty Jackalope" won't arrive until April of next year, but some people are already creating mock-ups of its desktop theme.
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Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter #116
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue #116 for the week November 2nd - November 8th, 2008.
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Apt-P2P: peer-to-peer downloading of Debian packages
"Do you want to help out the Debian (or Ubuntu) project with some mirror bandwidth but don’t know how? Do you want to contribute somehow to Debian’s infrastructure, but you’re not a coder? Tired of getting slow download speeds when the mirrors are overloaded after a new release? Then Apt-P2P is for you..."
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How to Change The Bootsplash In Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex)
Bootsplash can be a simple visualisation of the scrolling boot messages in the console, but it can also present graphics or some combinations of both.For some reason there is a bug in the new version (8.10 Intrepid Ibex) that will not let you change this.
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How to fix OpenOffice.org requires JRE error on Ubuntu
I have the latest Java Runtime Environment installed but this error always comes up when I'm trying to export my writer document to html/xhtml.
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