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Arctic Linux: September 2008
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Saturday, September 20, 2008. I've tested Ubuntu 8.10 in Virtualbox 2.0.2 on my Ubuntu 8.04-system. I have always had issues with the screen resolution for my guest OS when using Virtualbox. I also had to edit my xorg.conf. Gksu gedit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. And ad a line:. Identifier "Configured Video Device". Restart and everything worked great. This is a good link for more info.
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Arctic Linux: October 2008
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Monday, October 6, 2008. Finding duplicates and cleaning out. I have many, many copies of some files in a unstructured and messy hierarchy. Today, I found my solution to the challenge of cleaning out duplicates; FSlint! Sudo aptitude install fslint. Gives you the package. It has a nice GUI;. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). But Canada never left me. Living at 78degrees North.
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Arctic Linux: February 2008
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Wednesday, February 6, 2008. Truecrypt 5.0 released - Linux GUI. Truecrypt 5.0 has just been released with a GUI-tool. But it seems like the CLI is gone - not nice. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). But Canada never left me. Living at 78degrees North. My Linux learning curve. Lotta Linux Links Linux User Podcast. The Linux Link Tech Show. The Linux Install Podcast.
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Arctic Linux: October 2007
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Monday, October 22, 2007. Updated Aptitude in Gutsy Gibbon (Ubuntu 7.10). I use aptitude from the command line to update my system and to install packages. I have been running Ubuntu 7.10 throughout the beta-testing. I have noticed an error message every time I used "sudo aptitude update":. W: The "upgrade" command is deprecated; use "safe-upgrade" instead. Cron-job is a tool...
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Arctic Linux: Remove ATI's proprietary drivers
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Tuesday, June 2, 2009. Remove ATI's proprietary drivers. I've installed Ubuntu 9.04 on my beefed-up Compaq Deskpro EN. I have a Hauppauge TV card in it, and also a ATI card to connect a monitor. My LCD-TV has a monitor connection, so I can use a standard cable to connect it to the TV. After installing Ubuntu 9.04, everything worked fine (of course, it's Linux after all! But C...
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Arctic Linux: April 2010
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Wednesday, April 7, 2010. Download videos from various sites. I have found two tools that I use to capture/download content from video sites, i.e. Google Video. The first is clive. Sudo aptitude install clive. Super easy to use. Find your movie, copy the URL that you see in your browser, and just run. In the terminal. Easier than breathing. The other tool is good old mplayer.
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Arctic Linux: April 2008
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Friday, April 4, 2008. Ext3 in Truecrypt 5.1a. So, Truecrypt only gives you the FAT-filesystem when creating a new volume. That's no good! Here's how I created a Ext3-filesystem in a external Truecrypt device. Gives you information about your mounted Truecrypt drive. Typical output:. You need to unmount the volume using. Sudo mke2fs -j -m0 /dev/loop0. But Canada never left me.
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Arctic Linux: August 2007
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Wednesday, August 29, 2007. I have a large drive containing both MP3s and my photographs. I have previously mounted the whole disk into the arbitrarily named /HDD-directory in /home. You need root privileges to mount:. Sudo mount /dev/sda1 /home/adder1972/HDD. I decided I wanted to replace my HDD-directory with a /MP3 and a /Pictures directory. None bind 0 0. None bind 0 0.
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Arctic Linux: September 2007
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My Linux "learning curve". Posting as I learn more about the great GNU/Linux OS. You may mail me comments: adder1972 at yahoo.com. Sunday, September 2, 2007. I recently tried Zenwalk on my main Linux-box. I have earlier listened to Ed Labonte's The Lip ( Linux Install Podcast. I had a few problems installing it. First, I got a kernel panic during install. I don't know why, so I rebooted, tried to install again, and then it worked OK. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). But Canada never left me.
