Jun
16
Installing ATI R128 – Reader Questions
June 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 3 Comments
Posted in Q & A
“Danny”, one of our readers asks: “I have a ati r128 graphics driver. I dont see the driver in hardware drivers at all. The driver is a inf file. I dont know how to install it. Please help me!” I don’t have much information provided in the question (more information is always helpful and allows [...]
Jun
2
Faster Internet With an Old Laptop – Ubuntu and Squid
June 2, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 12 Comments
Posted in Hands On
I’ve posted more than once about tips we can complete to improve our web surfing. This morning I was cleaning out some old hardware (to take to the recycling centre) when I happened upon one of the last old laptops I had. It’s an older IBM Thinkpad T22, Type 2647 with 256MB of RAM and [...]
May
20
Easily Manage Duplicate Files and Save Storage Space
May 20, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 1 Comment
Posted in How To
Have you ever had several copies of the same file on your PC? I tend to make duplicates of files before I edit them, this is especially true with graphic or video files – even config files for that matter. That way, when I make serious mistakes, I can always go back to square one. [...]
Mar
24
Building a Web Developer / Designer PC Using Ubuntu Linux – Revisited
March 24, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 5 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To
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
16
Build a Web Developer PC and Enable Most Media Playback Using Ubuntu Linux
March 16, 2009 | By: UbuntuLinuxHelp | 13 Comments
Posted in Applications, Hands On, How To
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 [...]
