Mar

24

Building a Web Developer / Designer PC Using Ubuntu Linux – Revisited

March 24, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

Recently I posted “Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux” and received a few messages asking what other tools I use. To save me time with answering email messages that essentially contain the same information, and to help the maximum number of readers, I thought it would be a [...]

Mar

17

Quick Fix for the ‘Size Mismatch’ When Updating Ubuntu Linux

March 17, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Linux Fixes

This is just a short “quick fix” post. For those who need it, here’s a quick fix when you get an error message like this: “W: Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/f/ffmpeg/libpostproc1d_0.cvs20070307-5ubuntu7.2_amd64.deb Size mismatch” It’s an error I received when the auto update feature was working in Ubuntu Linux. I double checked my sources.list file, but it [...]

Mar

16

Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux

March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 11 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Linux Projects - Hands On

For those of you who follow my other blog, you’ll know that my last Windows PC had a major failure again. You can read some of the specifics in the “When Disaster Strikes – Again” post. At that point I decided to install Ubuntu (effectively removing Windows based PC’s from the network). In some ways [...]

Mar

13

Quick Fix: Black Desktop Background and Lost Icons

March 13, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 24 Comments
Posted in How to..., Linux Fixes

Just a short post for any of you that encounter the same issue I just did. I booted up this morning (Ubuntu Linux 8.04 – Hardy) and logged in, no problem. But my desktop background image (the wallpaper) had disappeared, along with my desktop icons. Also, the desktop background was all black. Rebooting did not [...]

Mar

11

Linux in 30 Days

March 11, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in News

Some time ago, one of our readers (Jon Donovan) suggested a blog in which visitors could take a 30 challenge and post their thoughts, comments, observations and so on, about various Linux distributions. As a result, a “child site” was born! LinuxIn30Days.com We’ve since started fielding requests from other readers, that in many respects mirror [...]

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