My Wife has taken a plethora of photos and video on her Motorola Razr phone, but never was able to download them to a computer. I finally decided to take a stab at downloading them to my Ubuntu GNU/Linux box. This is how I did it.
Installed moto4lin using synaptic (This utility lets me [...]
I have been using Linux as my desktop operating system off and on since 1998, and exclusively for the past year. It is far from perfect, but I love it and think everyone should at least check it out. In preparation for my Linux only lifestyle, I tried to only use software [...]
If you happen to live or are traveling to São Tomé and Príncipe and would like to watch DVD movies on you Ubuntu computer, this link could be helpful.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu
Not sure why, but by default Ubuntu Feisty doesn’t resolve dot local (.local) domains names from my dns server. So to work around this “feature” I manually add my .local domains aliases to my network configuration settings.
Here is how I do it…
1. Click on my little network icon
2. Select “Manual Configuration”
3. Select the [...]
I recently reinstalled Ubuntu on my laptop. It only took a couple hours to get everything setup and ported over from my old system. I only had one issue, I had some very important sticky notes that I needed to have setup on my new system, and I could not find where they were stored [...]
In order to get the proper screen resolution of 1440×900 on your Intel graphics chipset, you need to install the 915resolution package.
915resolution is a tool to modify the video BIOS of the 800 and 900 series Intel graphics chipsets. This includes the 845G, 855G, and 865G chipsets, as well as 915G, 915GM, and 945G chipsets. [...]
Mounting a Windows Share on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn
You must have the smbfs libraries. They are not installed by default on Ubuntu 7.04 Feisty Fawn.
open a terminal window
sudo apt-get install smbfs
if you haven’t already done so, you must create a mount point for your windows share
I like to have mine under my home folder.
For [...]