Feb

26

Duplicate Your DVD’s Using Ubuntu

February 26, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | Leave a Comment
Posted in Applications, How To

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 [...]

Feb

25

Using Ubuntu as an Electronic Document Management System

February 25, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 2 Comments
Posted in Hands On, How To

Over the weekend a client phoned me as she was interested in the Knowledge Tree Document Management System. She runs a small business that provides document creation services for clients in the US and Canada, and needed an effective solution to manage her (electronic) documents. She also emailed this URL: http://www.knowledgetree.com/ About a year ago [...]

Feb

24

How to: Easy Remote Access Connection to Ubuntu

February 24, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in How To

A friend of mine (who’s a recent Linux convert), needed help with some tweaking of his Ubuntu based PC. He phoned me this morning, but it became evident that I actually had to “see” the system. It’s sometimes very hard to advise someone when you cannot actually see what they are doing. And it’s hard [...]

Feb

23

How to Enable Font Smoothing in Ubuntu – The fast way

February 23, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 4 Comments
Posted in How To

I received a message this morning from someone who installed Ubuntu as a new user. I sent him the download link a long time ago and he’s finally installed Dapper (on an older PC). He emailed me because his fonts looked fuzzy. He seemed a bit frazzled, but this fix worked for him so it [...]

Feb

22

How to Setup a Wireless Ubuntu Router

February 22, 2008 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 16 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To

This morning I was moving some stuff around and my router fell, smashing to pieces. Oh no! I need a wireless connection today. The router was a noisy (the fan drives you crazy), older (but faithful) boat anchor. I was in a pinch, with no time to buy a new one (it’s a long drive). [...]

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