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Did you buy your desktop or laptop with Vista already installed? Do you want to switch to Ubuntu; but don’t want to lose the great looking Vista ClearType fonts (CTF)? If you’ve answered yes, then this “blurb” is for you.
Installing the fonts on your “Ubuntu Powered” system is not that difficult. Note: the following is […]

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I recently upgraded the audio card on my Ubuntu (7.10) system, which was an “issue” simply because I created it (instead of looking at the issue and jumping to conclusions instead of analyzing possible causes). Suffice it to say, a word to the wise… If your motherboard comes with a soundcard embedded and you want […]

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When I’m working, I like to listen to music (which I stream over the local network). I also often download ISO images of Ubuntu CD’s, Ultimate Boot CD, etc. The problem comes when I have to power down my main computer. If I have an ISO downloading from Ubuntu or somewhere else, I cannot power […]

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I received a couple questions this morning about “apt-get” and thought they were good in the sense that the answer helped to alleviate a couple of my personal annoyances. What are these annoyances? Well…
When I use “apt-get remove” the package is removed, but all the associated extra libraries (dependencies) are not. Additionally if I […]

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When I was still a Windows user. I found it easy to create PDF documents through the use of software such as Adobe Distiller, Cute PDF Writer and so on…
After switching to Ubuntu, I was a little unsure how to do this until I installed OpenOffice which made PDF creation simple by using the file […]

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I was asked earlier if there is a way to capture or save the audio on DVD’s to MP3 (I prefer ogg, which also works using this method). While I have no idea of the legality (with regards to saving audio tracks off a DVD), you should therefore check the laws in your area before […]

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For some time I thought streamed online video (flv) could be downloaded easiest using one of the many Firefox Extensions and others such as VideoDownloader 2.0 from JaviMoya.com. In other words, I always thought I had to install something - Not so!
I was surprised that there are two even simpler ways anyone can save […]

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I had an interesting conversation yesterday about keeping your computer safe on the Internet. One of the issues raised was that Ubuntu was not as safe as Windows, because there was no Firewall software like Zonealarm; and instead Linux Ubuntu users had to install a separate physical firewall. “That is just not true!”  Although I […]

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A couple of days ago I turned my PC on and the BIOS failed to auto-detect my hard drive. Assuming it was just a boot-up mistake, I rebooted the system - I got the same result. Suffice it to say, it did not take to long to realize that my hard drive had failed!
I even […]

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Readers have been asking me for a bit more background information about the issues in part one, this results in a far more technical article (follow up) than ever intended. And I hope the technical gurus among us can correct any errors here. As requested, here is more background to the settings…
To clarify the […]