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Excited about KDE 4.0
2008-01-25 18:00:00 Just a few days ago the KDE 4.0 was announced. It seems that everyone was already excited about KDE 4.0. People using Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy can try KDE 4.0. Ubuntu Geek has an explained version of the same intstructions here. Tombuntu has ten tips for KDE 4.0 Beginners and patchshorts writes about 5 Things to ... More About: Excite
Troubleshooting Volume and Sound Card Configuration in Debian
2008-01-25 18:00:00 I had a problem with gnome-volume-control. It didn’t save my volume control settings and displayed a mute sign on every startup. While trying to solve this issue, I did something (I don’t remember what it was) that totally messed my sound configuration and now gnome-volume-control stopped working at all. Today I solved this problem and ... More About: Card , Sound , Debian , Configuration , Troubleshooting
Using Terminal to Shutdown Processes
2008-01-25 18:00:00 XFCE does not come with a system monitor utility like the one I had in Gnome. I used the utility to kill unresponsive processes. So how do we kill unresponsive programs using the terminal? To understand how Linux handles processes and how you can control them read this great article by Gary Sim (in plain ... More About: Terminal , Processes , Shutdown
Five Reasons to Love Ubuntu
2008-01-25 18:00:00 If you never used any operating system but Windows, then looking at all the Ubuntu related news on the web, you might be asking yourself, “What is so special about this Operating System?”. For you I have shortlisted my reasons that describe why I love Ubuntu so much. Remember that I am not someone you ... More About: Love , Reasons
Enabling Urdu Support in Ubuntu
2008-01-25 18:00:00 Writing and Reading in Urdu on Ubuntu is not configured properly in a default installation. So most Urdu users face trouble once they have installed Ubuntu. Sometimes they give up too quickly and get back to windows and sometimes they spend hours figuring out a solution. First of all I would like to assure that ... More About: Support
Gmail and Google Reader in Startup Programs
2008-01-25 18:00:00 I have tried several Email Clients and Feedreaders on Ubuntu and my primary Debian Operating System. But now I was feeling that why bother with any more software when you have Google and Firefox (Iceweasel on Debian). So, I decided to make myself a script that automatically opens my Gmail and Google Reader account in ... More About: Programs , Google Reader
My Cute Little XFCE Desktop Environment
2008-01-25 18:00:00 I have previously used XFCE with Xubuntu. But then I replaced it with Debian Etch and Gnome. But Gnome was becoming a little too heavy for me. I was bored and needed some change. So I decided to install a complete Gnome free system. First I downloaded latest Debian net-install cd. Installing Debian this way ... More About: Cute , Environment , Desktop , Xfce
Debian Ubuntu - Webcam in Yahoo! Chatrooms
2008-01-25 18:00:00 Recently my internet service provider gifted me a webcam. It is a Creative Vista Webcam and came with an installation disk for Windows. I wanted to see how it works on my Ubuntu Linux. When I plugged it in Ubuntu didn’t recognize it. I had to download drivers for it. Ubuntu’s community documentation’s Webcam page ... More About: Yahoo , Debian , Yahoo!
KDE Improving a lot
2008-01-25 18:00:00 I just read about the new version of KDE. I prefer Gnome, but there are so many KDE features that appeal me. Now it feels like KDE is getting improved. Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu has announced that there next long term support version will be Gnome only, and Kubuntu will not be supported for ...
Howto Mount NTFS VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) read/write
2008-01-25 17:19:00 If you want to Mount NTFS VMware Virtual Disk Image (vmdk) read/write follow this procedure.Vmware server comes with a little utility to mount the VMware virtual file systems called vmware-mount.pl. This utility works pretty well but mounts all NTFS partitions as Read Only! Outlined below is a process to mount .vmdk files Read/Write . Requirements vmware-loop nbd module ntfs-3g Vmware-loop is provided ... More About: Howto
Verify DNS records with Dlint
2008-01-25 17:19:00 If you manage Domain Name System (DNS) records, you probably already know how seemingly minor errors can cause big problems. Leaving a semicolon off the end of a statement, forgetting the trailing period, or failing to add that right bracket can cause a DNS server to fail to load or to respond incorrectly to requests. ... More About: Records , Cord
WiFi Radar - Simple tool to Manage Wireless Profiles
2008-01-25 17:19:00 WiFi Radar is a Python/PyGTK2 utility for managing WiFi profiles.It enables you to scan for available networks and create profiles for your preferred networks. At boot time, running WiFi Radar will automatically scan for an available preferred network and connect to it. You can drag and drop your preferred networks to arrange the profile priority. Install ... More About: Wireless , Tool , Wifi , Profiles , Simple
Download Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) Desktop Training Guides For Students an
2008-01-25 17:19:00 In the latest Ubuntu weekly newsletter the Ubuntu folks announced the release of the Ubuntu 7.10 Desktop Course. The modular course should take two days to complete all 10 of the lessons offered, but it is possible to cover topics and lessons independently of each other, learning whatever is of interest. The ten sections of ... More About: Students , Download , Training
Howto Setup Osmo personal organizer in Ubuntu
2008-01-25 17:19:00 Osmo is a handy personal organizer which includes calendar, tasks manager and address book modules. It was designed to be a small, easy to use and good looking PIM tool to help to manage personal information. In current state the organizer is quite convenient in use - for example, user can perform nearly all operations ... More About: Personal , Organizer , Ubuntu , Setup , Howto
AMOR - a creature for your desktop
2008-01-25 17:19:00 AMOR stands for Automatic Machine Object Recognition. It is a toolbox built upon Orange which allows end-users as well as computer vision scientist to do object recognition. It features most of the standard object recognition algorithms (SIFT, SVM?).It provides several different characters who prance around your X screen doing tricks and giving you tips. Note that ... More About: Desktop , Amor , Creature
Atheros 5007EG with madwifi on i386 platform
2008-01-25 17:19:00 For those, who have an Atheros 5007EG chipset and can?t get it working with ndiswrapper, I have this guide from polish ubuntuforum. This is the only solution that worked on my computer (Toshiba SAT-A210-128), and my brothers computer.This guide only works on i386 platforms, so if you?re running an x64 linux, then you?ve to try ... More About: Platform
Howto Get your System information with Sysinfo
2008-01-25 17:19:00 Sysinfo is a GTK2 based program which can display the following computer/system information: - General information: Kernel version, Distribution release,Hostname/domainname, some important software versions. - CPU information: Name/vendor, Frequency, L2 Cache, model/family/stepping. - Memory information: Total, Free, Cached, Active/inactive, Swap. - IDE information: Disks CD/DVD-roms, Model, Capacity, Cache. - Filesystem information: Filesystem disk space usage(mounted partitions). - ... More About: Information , System , Howto
Create Disk Usage Reports with durep
2008-01-25 17:19:00 durep is a perl script used for disk usage reports. It can generate text output with bar graphs to allow easy comparisons of disk usage between directories. It can also generate web pages which can be navigated through the directory structure. This allows easy visual monitoring of disk usage. durep was designed for monitoring disk ... More About: Disk , Usage , Create
Howto Install KDE 4.0 (Stable) in Ubuntu Gutsy
2008-01-25 17:19:00 KDE 4.0 is the innovative Free Software desktop containing lots of applications for every day use as well as for specific purposes. Plasma is a new desktop shell developed for KDE 4, providing an intuitive interface to interact with the desktop and applications. The Konqueror web browser integrates the web with the desktop. The Dolphin ... More About: Ubuntu , Howto , Gutsy
Use Apt-mirror to Create Your Own Ubuntu Mirror
2008-01-25 17:02:00 Setting up your own Ubuntu mirror is quite easy thanks to a nifty little tool called apt-mirror. And it’s very rewarding too… super fast installations and the convenience of not needing an internet connection when you want to install most applications. We’ll need a few things to get the job done though - apt-mirror, a ... More About: Mirror , Create
Background information on ODF, OOXML and why It matters
2008-01-25 17:01:00 Kwasi, wrote a fine article on the subject. Read the full article on his blog. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fubuntulinuxhelp.com%2Fbackg round-information-on-odf-ooxml-and-why-it -matters%2F'; addthis_title = 'Background +information+on+ODF%2C+OOXML+a nd+why+It+matters'; addthis_pub = 'ubuntulinuxhelp'; More About: Information , Matters
Skip Forced Disk Check At Boot on Ubuntu
2008-01-25 17:01:00 Last week, I expressed my distaste for the way Ubuntu (and most linux distros) forces disk checks on users. I got even more irritated by this ridiculous behaviour this week when I reinstalled Ubuntu 7.04 on my sister’s laptop… it was actually a downgrade from 7.10 and I might go into the reasons behind that ... More About: Disk , Forced , Check , Boot
Add possibility to skip forced disk check
2008-01-25 17:01:00 I had some friends over last week and I just couldn’t resist the temptation to show off my attractive GNOME desktop. So I fired up the box, everything was going nicely with me giving a running commentary on the boot process when suddenly I got the “/dev/sda1 has been mounted 30 times without being checked… ... More About: Disk , Forced , Check , Possibility
Ubuntu 7.10 Unleashed!
2008-01-25 17:01:00 The Gibbon is out in the wild guys. I’m trying to grab an ISO off the flaky wi-fi hotspot here on campus and hope to get it installed by midnight. In the meantime, dash over to the download page and grab some. addthis_url ... More About: Ubuntu
Amarok is great but?
2008-01-25 17:01:00 I finally found some time off from school Sunday to do some blogging… it’s been a while since I did some of that. My music playing habits have undergone a major but very peaceful revolution. On decent hardware, my player of choice is Amar ok … seriously, it rocks. Herein lies the problem, I don’t have ... More About: Great
Univ. of Ghana at it again?
2008-01-25 17:01:00 It seems the whoever is in charge of open source evangelism here in the university of Ghana has built some serious momentum. I talked about ubuntu being used in the balme library some weeks last semester. Well now, it’s the ICT direcrorate. That’s where students do most of their research and browsing. The tech guys ... More About: Univ
Locking down GRUB?
2008-01-25 17:01:00 Before we start, let’s get this clear… there’s very little you can do to stop an experienced hacker who has physical access to your computer. There are so many ways of gaining root access to a computer if you have physical access to it - and the right know how - that the only way ... More About: Locking
Top 25 Ubuntu Blogs
2008-01-25 17:01:00 At Free Geekery, we absolutely love open source. It?s why we use WordPress to power this blog, and it?s why we use the Ubuntu operating system on the computers here in the Free Geekery ?office? (read: mother?s basement). Recently, our infatuation with Ubuntu begged the question: which Ubuntu blogs have the biggest reach? With nowhere ... More About: Blogs
Is that fast or what?
2008-01-25 17:01:00 Oh I wish I could get that kind of bandwith. Cheers, Odzangba addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Fubuntulinuxhelp.com%2Fis-th at-fast-or-what%2F'; addthis_title = 'Is+that+fast+or+what%3F'; addthis_pub = 'ubuntulinuxhelp'; More About: Fast
Preview KDE 4 on Ubuntu
More articles from this author:2008-01-25 16:51:00 Tectonic has a tutorial on how to preview KDE 4.0 in Ubuntu before it’s released on January 11th. If you?re eagerly awaiting the release of KDE 4.0 on January 11 and you?re running Ubuntu then get a taste of the next big thing by installing KDE 4.0 release candidate 2 in three easy steps. KDE 4 preview ... More About: Preview 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 |
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