I have admittedly put it off for way too long. The recent OpenSSL Vulnerability with weak keys prompted me to change that on one of my systems. I was forced to use dist-upgrade when OpenSSL would not update, leaving me to continuously recreating weak keys. While I normally update packages using the command line, I [...]
Monday, November 26, 2007
It’s been awhile since I’ve written, mostly because I’ve moved to a new apartment. It’s a huge relief to get off the third floor, but it sure has slowed down my postings.
I’ve kind of gotten settled into the new apartment now, and have been spending some time getting Gutsy back the way I had Feisty. [...]
What a disappointment. I’ve previously written about experiencing the Blank Screen Bug in Gutsy with the Release Candidate CD. Today, I was forced to experience that the problem is still there on the official release. I used Adept Manager to update 16 packages it noticed that were behind. After the update, it finally figured out [...]
Wednesday, October 24, 2007
I found a great program for converting my audio files from any format (flac, ape, spx, bonk, mp3, mp4, ogg, wav, wma, etc) to any other format. It’s called transKode and so far, it has actually supported all the formats I required, which was my biggest demand. I’ve got a Rio Carbon and my wife [...]
Saturday, October 6, 2007
I’d heard mention of KSquirrel in other neighborhoods before (Gentoo and Debian systems mostly) and thought anything would be better than gwenview. I was right. It’s much faster and a major improvement. It was a little tricky to install, but I was able to do it. Here’s how:
Installing KSquirrel
From the above link, click on Downloads [...]
Filed in Desktop, Feisty Fawn, Graphics, GwenView, Image Viewer, KDE, Konqueror, Kubuntu, Multimedia, konsole, ksquirrel
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Was a real pain. The nvidia-settings program has always crashed on me, with two different video cards. I finally got it the way I wanted. One big large desktop/screen across my LCD and my TV. My LCD is on the right of my TV, and the orientation was the most troublesome for me. It seems [...]
Monday, September 10, 2007
Browsing some other blogs, I encountered the Ubuntu StartUp Manager. It allows you to customize some of the GRUB settings, which are rather helpful. It allows
you to change the resolution, the colors, and the default selection… even allowing you to automatically use what was last selected. This is especially helpful for dual boot computers, [...]
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Today’s post discusses one of my new favorite apps for Ubuntu. It’s designed with KDE in mind. It’s called katapult and allows a user to quickly access their bookmarks, applications, kmenu entries, documents, etc.. by typing a couple letters that represent the intended item. I highly suggest it. You can install it by using
sudo apt-get [...]
A great application to watch Internet TV, Miro, has provided the Ubuntu community with instructions on how to install Miro in Feisty Fawn. I’ve used the software for a while now, since it was previously called DemocracyTV Player. It requires a lot of resources to use, but the output is excellent. The best part is [...]
I tried and tried getting soundKonvertor to compile in my Ubuntu Feisty Fawn installation, but got stuck with an error I was unfamiliar with:
cd . && make -f admin/Makefile.common configure
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/vmadmin/Downloads/soundkonverter-0.3.4′
Can’t open configure: No such file or directory.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/vmadmin/Downloads/soundkonverter-0.3.4′
/bin/bash ./config.status –recheck
running CONFIG_SHELL=/bin/bash /bin/bash ./configure –no-create –no-recursion
/bin/bash: ./configure: No such [...]