My most recent perception of the Ubuntu Linux community.
Friday's are normally easier days, right? Not my last friday. It was loaded with stress, anger and other emotions. Why? Read here: We've let someone go...
The difficult part for me was was finding out you've misplaced your trust in someone and in turn it makes you feel like an idiot.
After friday's "goodbye" session ended, I was left with a mess to clean up and did not really know the best way to approach the matter. Do I email people, don't I? Do I blog an ...
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This is an open post to all visitors. Recently we were contacted by an individual who had some of their content posted on our blog. (Actually, we found out by accident when we saw a message from the poster while he was away from his desktop and left his Yahoo webmail page open; and he finally spilled the beans this morning). The message indicated that it was not licensed to be used. After checking the original site, we were fortunate to be able to easily confirm, as such, we were grateful that this individual brought...
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This is an open post to all visitors. Recently we were contacted by an individual who had some of their content posted on our blog. (Actually, we found out by accident when we saw a message from the poster while he was away from his desktop and left his Yahoo webmail page open; and he finally spilled the beans this morning). The message indicated that it was not licensed to be used. After checking the original site, we were fortunate to be able to easily confirm, as such, we were grateful that this individual brought...
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The following is a list of about 100 of the best OpenSource Applications, that actually help make Linux more usable for people. It is my hope that this list shows potential Linux users that there really is a large, effective, productive and usable range of free, OpenSource applications. For existing Linux users (like myself), I think this will provide a great resource in finding applications that may better suit your needs, or just for fun! Needless to say, this is just some of the thousands of applications available...
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I just inherited a Logitech Quickcam Fusion, but where the heck are the drivers? I took a look at the Logitech site... and asked the same question. (Sidenote: Logitech, you need to get your act together. Where are your Linux drivers?).
Needless to say Ekiga could not use the cam. After much hair pulling, nashing of teeth and grumbling, I was able to Google enough information to put a solution together. If someone is looking for a solution on Feisty, read on...
First, I needed to install the linux headers for my ke...
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I was sent a great URL yesterday, that (in essence) was a hands-on guide to cracking WEP. Personally I question the ethics of such activities, however I'd also like to learn how this is done, so that I might further enhance the wifi security here. I'd like to adapt this to Feisty or Gutsy, so will be interesting to see new versions and how they stack up against those in the guide. Below is the actual guide from the original author (listed below). Make a backup, first, BEFORE you do any of this:
This post should ena...
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Looking for a simpler way to make a backup copy of your valuable DVD's? Try "K9":
sudo apt-get install k9copy
K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps.
Site: http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/
If you are using KDE, it will appear in the “Multimedia” section of your menu once it’s installed; if you’re using Gnome, it will probably do similar. Run it. It should be plain sailing after that.
Also, there's a great bash script at this s...
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Looking for a simpler way to make a backup copy of your valuable DVD's? Try "K9":
sudo apt-get install k9copy
K9Copy is a small utility which allows the copy of DVD on Linux. The DVD video stream is compressed by the program Vamps.
Site: http://k9copy.sourceforge.net/
If you are using KDE, it will appear in the “Multimedia” section of your menu once it’s installed; if you’re using Gnome, it will probably do similar. Run it. It should be plain sailing after that.
Also, there's a great bash script at this s...
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While looking for a solution to another issue, I bumped into a site that enables us to create a hands-free install disk! Coolest feature? We can choose which distribution we'd like.
From their site:
"Why would I want to do that?
Let's look at a few scenarios:
you are a sysadmin and you need to build twenty web servers, all almost exactly the same
you are working with other people who aren't very familiar with Linux and you want them to be able to easily rebuild a special purpose m...
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While looking for a solution to another issue, I bumped into a site that enables us to create a hands-free install disk! Coolest feature? We can choose which distribution we'd like.
From their site:
"Why would I want to do that?
Let's look at a few scenarios:
you are a sysadmin and you need to build twenty web servers, all almost exactly the same
you are working with other people who aren't very familiar with Linux and you want them to be able to easily rebuild a special purpose m...
read more
