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Karmic To Lucid – A Few Bumps
May 25th, 2010 at 9:12 pm » Comments (2)
After my horrible experience upgrading from Jaunty to Karmic (I skipped Intrepid) I swore I would never again be an early adopter of an Ubuntu release. I had intended to ...more »Lucid Lynx – A Wild Cat
March 25th, 2010 at 10:14 am » Comments (0)
There seems to be some controversy over Canonical's decision to move the windows contol buttons from the right side to the left side of the screen in the next release ...more »How To Have A Personal Server In The Cloud
March 16th, 2010 at 3:11 pm » Comments (0)
Last September I posted an article about Money Manager Ex. At the time of the post the devolper, Codelathe, promised a "cloud based" version of this great application. They have ...more »A Windows Dilemma And How You Might Avoid It
February 25th, 2010 at 4:16 pm » Comments (1)
A few days ago a customer dropped off a desktop computer that would not boot. It was a Compaq model about three years old and, according to the stickers, it ...more »Sync Files Between Your iPhone/Touch And Linux PC
February 10th, 2010 at 4:06 pm » Comments (0)
Sadly, Apple has chosen to keep the iPhone/Touch devices 'closed' which hinders file transfer to and from the device. In fact, they have ordered the removal of USB file transfer ...more »To Tweak or Not to Tweak?
January 11th, 2010 at 2:41 pm » Comments (0)
Ubuntu-tweak has been upgraded to version .5x. A deb installer can be found here. Similarily, a deb installer for ailurus can be found here. These two applications are similar in ...more »How To Boost Volume in an AVI File (Karmic)
December 31st, 2009 at 3:07 pm » Comments (0)
In the good old days of Jaunty, Ubuntu had an asound.conf file that could be patched to increase the range of audio volume. This is no longer supported in Karmic. ...more »A Few Internet Radio Tips (Karmic)
December 20th, 2009 at 3:42 pm » Comments (0)
Your first effort will be to locate a radio station that streams its broadcasts to the Internet. Radio stations are small to meduium sized businesses. Your local stations may or ...more »Recovering A Lost Desktop (GNOME)
December 10th, 2009 at 4:40 pm » Comments (0)
Recently an app crashed on me. Worse, it left me staring at an empty desktop without icons. Only my wallpaper was visible. Restarting X had no effect. I tried dragging ...more »HowTo Determine Possible Screen Resolutions (Ubuntu)
December 4th, 2009 at 11:22 am » Comments (0)
In an earlier post, Konstipated Koala, I documented a screen resolution bug and provided links that would enable affected users to find a work-around. Armed with that knowledge I attempted ...more »Blogroll
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