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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 »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 »GNOME Panel Management with help from Docky (Tutorial)
November 24th, 2009 at 5:10 pm » Comments (0)
When GNOME 3 is officially released next year it will no longer have a bottom panel. The default bottom panel in GNOME 2 can be problematic at times. Some applications ...more »The Screen Resolution Bug Resurfaces in Fedora
November 17th, 2009 at 10:58 pm » Comments (0)
A few weeks ago I posted an article titled 'Konstipated Koala' in which I documented an Ubuntu 9.10 bug that limits screen resolution to 800X600 for some machines with Intel ...more »How To Install Bilbo on Ubuntu 9.10 (GNOME)
November 12th, 2009 at 1:08 pm » Comments (1)
Bilbo is an offline blogging client supporting several blogging platforms including Wordpress, Blogger and Movable Type. It is a "HotPick" in the Linux Format magazine, issue #125. There, you can ...more »LiveCD’s and MD5SUMS – A Tutorial
November 8th, 2009 at 12:52 pm » Comments (1)
Fedora 12 is scheduled for release on November 17. I will download the .iso file and the associated md5sum. I'll take it for a spin and most likely will write ...more »What If Windows Was FREE?
October 20th, 2009 at 2:49 pm » Comments (0)
The holiday season is approaching. For several weeks Kim Komando will air her annual radio contest. I have no doubt that due to Microsoft's generosity, she will have several copies ...more »Staying With Ubuntu
October 6th, 2009 at 3:18 pm » Comments (1)
I have read numerous posts in other blogs advising Linux 'newbies' to install install Ubuntu as their first Linux distribution. The reasons are many, including that it installs (and uninstalls) ...more »Blogroll
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