I created a short video introducing some of the features of Ubuntu that I have been raving about the past few days. I hope that you enjoy watching it and I hope that it is informative. Note to social bookmarkers: While I would appreciate any attention I get from a social bookmarking site, my site [...]
Well, the Feisty Fawn update was a success. I managed not to lose any data (so far) and the functionality of my computer is almost back to normal. I’m still tying up some loose ends as far as getting all my software reinstalled. Here is a screenshot from within Feisty: I got the background and [...]
Don’t try to mess with me tomorrow, because I’ll be installing Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn on my computers. Hopefully there will be some torrents going and it won’t take me days just to download it. Feisty is the latest release of Ubuntu, a computer operating system. If you don’t know what that is, you can [...]
Here’s a small bash script that will allow you to unzip a directory full of zip files. Each file will be unzipped into a directory named for itself (e.g. the contents of foo.zip will be extracted to a directory called foo). To run the script, enter the directory where the zip files are stored and [...]
Here is an Ubuntu 6.10 Samba setup guide blatantly ripped from this blog. If you have more than one computer and a mixture of Linux and Windows, Samba is essential for sharing files and printers. Enjoy! Install samba sudo apt-get install samba smbfs Add a system user for samba System > Administration > Users and [...]
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 6.10, Edgy Eft. Overall, the differences were minor, but there were a few things that have caused me some major grief. There were also a couple of nice additions. Here’s my view. Things that were broke Splash screens – The splash screens at boot and shutdown have disappeared. Now there [...]
It seems that several people have had trouble creating cron jobs in Ubuntu. Here is a method I found that works for me. It requires sudo access. Tools: The only thing you’ll need is cron and a good text editor (like nano), both of which are in the default Ubuntu install. Method: Create a file [...]
Hello truth seekers! Here is my definitive guide to converting DVD audio to ogg encoded audio files in Ubuntu Linux. This method was used in Dapper and Breezy. Tools I used a combination of acidrip, ffmpeg, and oggenc to do the ripping. All are available through apt. sudo aptitude install acidrip sudo aptitude install ffmpeg [...]