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How to Scale the CPU Frequency of Your Ubuntu Laptop – The Easy Way.

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
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Does a loud, constant CPU fan on your laptop drive you nuts? Try this simple tweak before more drastic measures… Try scaling down your CPU frequency: Clock scaling allows you to change the clock speed of CPUs on the fly. This is a nice method to save battery power on notebooks, because the lower the [...]

Feb

21

How to install Ubuntu Studio in Windows using VirtualBox – A Complete Walkthrough

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in How to..., Installation, Linux Projects - Hands On

This tutorial will take you every single step of the way through installing Ubuntu Studio using VirtualBox for Windows. In other words, even new users should be able to follow along. Who this tutorial is for This tutorial is for anyone with a PC running Windows (Windows 2000 SP3, XP or Server 2003) who is [...]

Feb

21

How to Regularly Backup Ubuntu Using rsync

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
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Right after I wrote How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync for my T42 ThinkPad, I ended up installing Ubuntu on it. In the end I was mostly interested in backing it up for the purpose of safely wiping Windows. So much for regularly. Then something unexpected happened: I started to use [...]

Feb

21

How to regularly backup Windows XP to Ubuntu, using rsync

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in How to..., Installation

Back in September I revived my Mini-ITX box to serve as a backup server. I set up BackupPC, ran it once, it seemed to work, and then ignored it for weeks. When I checked back, it hadn’t run successfully since. Ugh, I want backups to just work! A few nights ago I decided to try [...]

Feb

21

How to Play Most Restricted Media Formats in Ubuntu

February 21, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation

Ubuntu strives to make all software that meets the licensing terms in the Ubuntu License Policy available. However patent and copyright restrictions complicate free operating systems distributing software to support proprietary formats. Ubuntu’s commitment to only include completely free software by default means that proprietary media formats are not configured ‘out of the box’. Ubuntu [...]

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