Linux - Part 12

Posts Tagged ‘Linux’

Full Circle , The Ubuntu Magazine

posted on November 30, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Ubuntu with 2 Comments

Full Circle is a free, independent, magazine dedicated to the Ubuntu family of Linux operating systems. Each month, it contains helpful how-to articles and reader submitted stories. The latest issue cover games in Ubuntu and features Open Arena. All issue are available in PDF and can be downloaded from the Full Circle Magazine site. Source: [...]

Enable Medibuntu in Ubuntu 8.10

posted on November 25, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Ubuntu with 3 Comments

Medibuntu if you don’t already know is the Ubuntu repository for non-free packages which can’t be bundled with Ubuntu for regal reasons. Acrobat reader, quick time player, windows specific video/audio codecs, DVD support and the list goes on. Adding the Medibuntu repository into your Ubuntu 8.10 is easy. 1. Fire up your terminal and run, [...]

GParted LiveCD for all your partitioning needs

posted on November 18, 2008 in Linux, Open Source, Software with 2 Comments

A friend needed to re-size his Windows NT OS partition from the default 4GB to 8GB. The easiest way to do this is with Linux, specifically with the GParted LiveCD. GParted is a Gnome based partition editor which uses the libparted library from the popular GNU Parted package to do all it’s fancy partitioning stuff. [...]

Installing Adobe AIR and twhirl on Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

posted on November 13, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Open Source, Software, Ubuntu with 2 Comments

Dropped my TwitterFox for twhirl today. Runs flawlessly on Ubuntu 8.10. Installation was a breeze, here’s the walkthrough. 1. Download Adobe AIR Beta from http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/air_linux.html 2. Install Adobe AIR danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ls adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ chmod +x adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ ./adobeair_linux_b1_091508.bin danesh@pandora:~/Desktop$ 3. Download twhirl from http://www.twhirl.org/project/twhirl 4. Double click the twhirl file to start the installation. The [...]

How to turn off the beep in Ubuntu 8.10 Interpid

posted on November 13, 2008 in HowTo, Linux, Ubuntu with 0 Comments

Hate the damn beep? Let’s get rid of it!! Run “lsmod” and look for pcspkr. If you find it then run “rmmod pcspkr“. Also, make sure to add this line to your “/etc/modprobe.d/blacklist” file to make the change is persistent accross reboots. #Remove beeping speaker blacklist pcspkr Output; [root@dingo ~]# lsmod | grep pcspkr [root@dingo [...]

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