Easily configure Graphics and Display hardware in Ubuntu

Wednesday, May 28th, 2008 396 views

The geekier way is to do things with command line (Terminal). sudo dpkg-xserver-xorg --reconfigure, yeah thats one of the commands to do things manually. But an average Joe who is determined to try out Linux will find it rather cumbersome to do it the geeks way. So here is something to ...

[Solved] Convert flv to mp3 in Ubuntu

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008 1,598 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 ...

[Solved] No sound in flash - Ubuntu/Debian

Monday, May 19th, 2008 295 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 ...

[Solved] fdisk -l bash: command not found

Monday, May 19th, 2008 353 views

make sure to enter root mode by using "su -" enter above wihtour quotes and then when prompted for password enter the root password. remember hyphen "-" is necessary to include the bin directory containing this command, a lot other commands will work too now No related posts. Related posts brought to you by Yet ...

Internet Connection Sharing (ICS) in Ubuntu/Debian

Sunday, April 20th, 2008 2,232 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 ...

GNOME Color Chooser - A great tool

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 5,308 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. ...

[Pre-Baked] Intel 965 GMA X3000 xorg.conf

Wednesday, April 9th, 2008 209 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 ...