Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 1,490 views
You got a pile of flv in your hard disk and you are on Ubuntu, now only if you could convert them all to mp3. There is a short solution to this problem. And now am slowly drifting away from Windows completely (duh did I say...I played S.T.A.L.K.E.R on windows)
Problem:
How ...
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Monday, May 19th, 2008 277 views
I installed ubuntu Hardy Herom a few days back and was baffled by not hearing any sound in flash video when another audio/video device was running in background.
The problem seem to be with pulseaudio.
Problem:
There is no sound heard in flash videos when I was playing mp3 files in exaile audio ...
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Sunday, April 20th, 2008 2,125 views
Updated on: 03 Feb, 2009 at 5:41 AM IST
Long time back when I installed Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn, I wondered how do I get to enable intenet connection sharing to other computer connected in LAN with mine (on which ubuntu/debian is installed).
Here is one easy solution to do this, thought it ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 4,910 views
Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:24 PM IST
I found this tool to be a great GUI enhancer without any hassles of digging from the developer perspective. After all we need easy life and why waste time in doing something which is less of a priority, at least for me. ...
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Saturday, April 12th, 2008 210 views
Use this command to open sources.list file(You must be in super user mode su):
[sourcecode language='bash']gedit /etc/apt/sources.list[/sourcecode]
Now copy paste the below line to the opened file:
[sourcecode language='bash']deb http://debian-multimedia.org/ testing main[/sourcecode]
Now update the local database using the command
[sourcecode language='bash']aptitude update[/sourcecode]
Now install aac package
[sourcecode language='bash']aptitude install gstreamer0.10-plugins-really-bad[/sourcecode]
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Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 194 views
Updated on: 03 August, 2008 12:55 AM IST
Here is mine manually configured and tested xorg.conf file, Compiz fusion works like charm.
Replace it with your xorg.conf file if u are not satisfied with the performance.
Here is how to copy using command line
Caution: You may have to set Monitor parameters as mine ...
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Friday, March 21st, 2008 183 views
Here is what you see when you try to install xine extra plugins from Add/Remove in Ubuntu
Solution is to install these plugins from Synaptic Package Manager (System > Administration > Synaptic Package Manger).
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Saturday, March 15th, 2008 230 views
Glipper is a GUI version of clipboard in Ubuntu, with some options and easy to access UI, it really helps a lot
Here is how to install it and automatically start on logon.
Step 1 (Install the Glipper)
Install the Glipper from Add/Remove in Ubunt
Step 2 (To make it start on logon)
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Tuesday, March 11th, 2008 1,719 views
Updated on: 02 Feb, 2009 at 3:08 AM IST
Here is a tutorial to mount your drive partitions using UUID (even if u change the label and swap ur hard drives this thing will not change). The UUID of a particular partition changes only after format/deletion of that drive.
Step by step ...
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Saturday, March 8th, 2008 239 views
Updated on: 31 July, 2008 at 5:32 PM IST
Here is the step by step procedure for the geekier approach.
Method 1 (The manual method) :
Open a terminal window
Type this command in the terminal
gedit .gconf/apps/nautilus/preferences/%gconf.xml
The file "%gconf.xml" will get opened in "GEdit" text editior
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