Bug Report Here I haven’t tried the solution mentioned in this other bug. 1. First, navigate to System/Preferences/Main Menu 2. Under System (in Main Menu) find Preferences. 3. Check “Multimedia System Selector” 4. Close. 5. Back to System/Prefrences 6. Now you will find “Multimedia System Selector” 7. Change the output from from “autodetect” to ALSA [...]
11
Apr
How to change the output device from pulseaudio back to ALSA (gstreamer ONLY)
Posted by admin Published in Audio, soundno comment
24
Feb
Easy File Sharing in Gnome
Posted by admin Published in filesharing, gnome, Joe, samba, Skill Level: EasyEasy File Sharing in Gnome! Thanks Joe! Wayno
16
Feb
Compiling and installing guaydeque music player (for the faint hearted)
Posted by admin Published in Compiling Source Code, DVD, Music, Skill Level: MediumOriginal Post THESE ARE INSTALL DIRECTIONS FOR UBUNTU/DEBIAN BASED SYSTEMS The original post works, but it could use a little enhancement so I’ll try to break it down for those that have never compiled source code on Linux before. Please note that if you see a # in the code below, that’s a comment. You [...]
15
Sep
How to get an ident server (identd) to work under Linux
Posted by admin Published in Skill Level: Medium, UncategorizedI had tried the alphabet soup versions of identd: gidentd, midentd, oidentd, pidentd and nothing works — I kept getting: Sep 15 22:09:36 Homer identd[20714]: reply to 0.0.0.0: 60775 , 6667 : ERROR: NO-USER And as you know, there is ZERO documentation anywhere on these programmes. This will work — a lot of schlepping first [...]
7
Jul
Printing an envelope in Open Office in 10 easy steps!
Posted by admin Published in Skill Level: Easy, word processorsOpen Office and Envelopes Admittedly, this is NOT the most straightforward way to do envelopes. However, it is consistent, and therefore the method I use. 1. Open Openoffice. 2. Go to Insert/Envelope and click on the “envelope tab” — Hit “modify” or “new doc” 3. Fill in the information you need — Note: I have [...]
22
Jun
Installing APC (American Power Conversion) UPS (Un-interruptible Power Source) Support for Ubuntu Linux (debunking the half truths) Information garnered from: apcupsd.org first step sudo apt-get install apcupsd 1. HALF-TRUTH: Problem 2.6 kernels use udev and some distributions to not configure it to automatically create /dev/usb/hiddev?? as they should, causing apcupsd to fail to locate the [...]
13
Jun
this has the recipe…. Back Porting Amarok MP3 Player to version 1.x
5
May
I couldn’t remember how to do this: From Joe Sloan: go to a terminal window and type: (note # is a comment you need not type that or anything that follows:) cd /Desktop # change to the Desktop directory ln -s ~ [username] # create a symlink to your directory…
3
May
ubuntu2go Putting Ubuntu on a flash drive, can seem a daunting task. But if you follow these steps, you’ will have a portable secure operating system. Here’s what you”ll need: A computer with: USB Ports 256 meg of ram cdrom USB flash drive (at least 4 G) 32 bit Ubuntu 9.04 Install CD (desktop) (download [...]
22
Apr
Joe Sloan wrote: OK now I’m learning something. I assumed the ubuntu CD would contain the packages, like redhat or suse. But it all seems to be in one big file called filesystem.squashfs. OK, how do I read that – a google tells me there is a package called squashfs tools, so installed that. Ill [...]
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