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BluRay and HDDVD in Ubuntu Linux

March 24, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to..., Installation, News

Hello everyone! I’m back from the Easter break and found this little gem in my email. It outlines how to play BlueRay and HD DVD in Ubuntu Linux.
In a nutshell it covers the need for mplayer and ffmpeg as well as DumpHD and the required hardware. I’ve not tried this yet (I don’t have an [...]

Mar

22

Do You Get the Firefox is Running Error?

March 22, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in Applications, How to...

One more quick post for the Easter holiday (here in Canada). I’ve started getting that annoying
“Firefox is already running, but is not responding. To open a new window, you must first close the existing Firefox process, or restart your system.”
error message again, and was looking for a quick fix (as I’d been logging into terminal [...]

Mar

17

4 Free Ways to Thank Bloggers

March 17, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in Experiences, How to...

I’ve been struggling with how to keep the Ubuntu Linux Help blog successful (and alive). One issue I’ve had to deal with is server costs. Finding money to keep this blog going is difficult and it would be easy to shut-down the blog. But… I truly believe that it provides value to the Linux (and [...]

Mar

14

Creating a Linux Terminal Media Server for Your Home PC’s

March 14, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in How to..., Installation, Linux Projects - Hands On

It seems we always need to update our PC hardware at one point or another, to keep abreast of the increasing demands that current software makes of our computers. If like me, you hate to lose the use of older PC’s, you may store them away for “later” projects.
When I was a heavier Windows user, [...]

Mar

13

Answers to Linux Questions

March 13, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in How to...

Over the last few days I’ve received questions about Linux. So… This is a quick post that hopefully will answer most of the ones I thought were helpful.
How do you get the numlock to stay on when booting Linux?
Using Ubuntu (Gutsy), you can do this:
sudo apt-get install numlockx
And read more about that here: Num [...]

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