Feb
28
Here’s the scenario. You have a dual boot machine, Ubuntu on one side, Windows on the other. You’re tooling around, doing your thing and then one day you boot into Windows and get this:
Read more at ArsGeek
Feb
28
Managing Services in Ubuntu, Part I: An Introduction to Runlevels
Posted by suvi under Ubuntu
As many of you are probably already aware, I’m a Linux trainer for Guru Labs. We do all Linux training, including Red Hat, Fedora, SUSE, and others. If your company is looking for good, solid Linux training, Gurus at Guru Labs are the cream of the crop, and I’d highly recommend it. I’ve been [...]
Feb
28
How to make OpenOffice run faster in Ubuntu
Posted by suvi under OpenOffice.org, Ubuntu
Here we will discuss the procedure to be followed for making OpenOffice run faster in Ubuntu.
Some simple steps make OpenOffice snappier.
Go to Applications > Office > OpenOffice.org Word Processor
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Feb
27
Google earth according to wikipedia is: “… virtual globe program that was originally called Earth Viewer and was created by Keyhole, Inc. It maps the earth by the superimposition of images obtained from satellite imagery, aerial photography and GIS 3D globe. It is available under three different licenses: Google Earth, a free version with limited [...]
Feb
27
I followed the instructions mentioned in this NetBeans Wiki to install NB 6.0 on my ubuntu.
But I feel some more information can be added to this wiki.
For example, when i ran the command “sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk“, ubuntu complained to me that this package is not found in its repositories.
The problem here is that the [...]
Feb
27
I ran across another slick theme, its called SlickNess, It is actually pretty slick, reminds me of the Ubuntu Studio theme with a few nice improvements, let me know what you think.
This baby is easy to install, here are the directions:
Read more at Ubuntu Unleashed
Feb
27
Creating DVD Movies with Ubuntu
Posted by suvi under Multimedia
I have recently been looking into creating a DVD movie in Ubuntu from an .avi file. After a lot of research and testing a few methods I have found one that I am extremely happy with. This method involves using Tovid which is a collection of GPL video disc authoring tools according to the Tovid [...]
Feb
27
Working with Songbird and wma files
Posted by suvi under Multimedia
If you want to work with songbird and wma files here is the simple tip how to work together
First, open up a terminal and go to the Songbird chrome directory
cd /opt/Songbird/chrome
Next, we need to edit a file from the songbird.jar file, so we will need to open that up
sudo file-roller songbird.jar
Now, open the content folder, [...]
Feb
27
Sound filtering… with the Gimp!
Posted by suvi under Multimedia
Gimp is universally used for image manipulation. However, with a bit of creativity and a couple of tricks, it can also be used as an audio filter! Here is how…
Sound filters
If you are familiar with sound filters, you can skip this introduction. For those of you who don’t know about filters, here is a brief [...]
Feb
27
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 she [...]
Feb
27
Spend a lot of time building a non-brown theme whenever you install Ubuntu? There’s a little-known theme called Blubuntu easily installable from the Ubuntu repositories that can switch every aspect of your desktop to blue.
The goal of Blubuntu is to offer a polished and cohesive alternative to Ubuntu’s default theme.
Read more at Tombuntu
Feb
27
Taking a bunch of free clip art and giving it to every user in OpenOffice.org
Posted by suvi under OpenOffice.org
I’ve talked a lot about how IT administrators should take all the free clip art they can download, assemble it and categorize it, and give it to every user to make OpenOffice.org more fun and more usable.
I have pointed to the clip art (see the new list at the left side of this blog page [...]
Feb
27
Use Kaffeine to receive free-to-air TV on your Linux box
Posted by suvi under Multimedia
Free-to-air (FTA) ethnic television in a variety of languages beamed from satellite straight to your Linux PC? No problem — here’s how.
FTA provides programming that is quite different from the channels beamed by the regular commercial providers. Looking for the latest news from Germany or Spain or Greece? How about a program describing the Canary [...]
Feb
27
Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) is a popular open standard for implementing Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) telephone calls. Siproxd is a SIP proxy server that can help you with network connectivity issues for SIP clients behind firewalls.
One major reason that you might use siproxd is to get around network address translation issues with SIP. Siproxd [...]
Feb
26
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 [...]