I noticed that the kind developers of Hydrogen have posted an update for us at their website. This worked on Jaunty Jackalope for me. Also available are Windows binaries for Hydrogen that work in Vista.
You can install it by downloading from SourceForge using the commands below:
cd
mkdir source
cd source
wget http://softlayer.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/hydrogen/hydrogen_0.9.4rc1_i386.intrepid.deb
dpkg -i hydrogen_0.9.4rc1_i386.intrepid.deb
Of note, is more use [...]
Having a laptop and a desktop is very useful because it provides another display. With the same mouse and keyboard, you can manage both the laptop and the desktop using Synergy2. Synergy2 is a free and open source application that allows us to share the same mouse and keyboard across multiple workstations. According to the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Having struggled with many different programs and all other kinds of junk, I think I’ve found my favorite program to convert any video file to DVD in Ubuntu. It’s called ToDisc. It’s part of the Tovid suite.
Here’s why I like it:
Fast! It has no interface so there’s virtually no load time.
Accurate encoding – It very [...]
In my quest for the perfect program to use for burning DVD’s from AVI or MPG I found ManDVD. It’s very nice. It reliably creates quality output. Overall I am quite pleased with the application and I do find myself returning to use it, so I’ve spent some more time with it. Because of the [...]
I burn a few DVDs, and I’ve tried a few programs for turning a movie (.mpg, etc) into a DVD video structure. The latest disappointment so far has been DeVeDe.
It looks wonderful. It seems to support every feature I need. This includes permitting the user to define pan and scan versus letterboxing options, even skewing [...]