First Look at Ubuntu’s Unity Interface Reprinted from International Press Wow. This is NOT your usual interface. If your accustomed to accessing: Applications/Places/System. That’s all gone. Instead what you find are cryptic icons on the left side of the screen. Some of them you can make out, but others require you to hover over the […]
29
Nov
First look at Ubuntu’s Unity Interface
Posted by Wayno Published in gnome, netbook, Skill Level: Medium6 comments
25
Nov
How to convert or play midi files to wav files in Ubuntu/Debian
Posted by Wayno Published in Audio, loni, Music, Skill Level: EasyCourtesy Loni: Timidity will play midi files quite nicely, and also output to a variety of formats. To play and output to a wav file: timidity mymusic.mid -Ow -o mymusic.wav UPPERCASE O (OH!) = output mode, lowercase ‘w’ (for wav file), then lowercase o (oh) = output filename. There are other options available too, specifying […]
16
Nov
Getting x-windows to work over an ssh connection
Posted by Wayno Published in Joe, loni, Skill Level: Medium, ssh, X11This is something I do so frequently, I don’t even think twice about it. Yet it does require some tweaking. So here’s the magic behind getting x-windows to work over an ssh connection. 1. Let’s make sure you have what we need to get started. If not already installed, let’s install the openssh-server on both […]
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