Ubuntu Studio is a tailor made multimedia creation flavor of Ubuntu aimed at audio/video, graphic editors, both enthusiasts and professionals. One could setup a decent studio, and connect midi devices, synthesizers, audio/video recording devices, additional sound cards and installing ubuntu studio on the system. Look and feel of ubuntu studio is very attractive. Folks who [...]
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August 15, 2008
Setting up Reliance USB Modem ( Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd. E620 USB Modem ) on Ubuntu 8.4 LTS “Hardy Heron”
In this article I am going to provide you a simple and quick way to setup reliance data card on ubuntu hardy heron. Most of the tasks could be done with the script that I am attaching here.
1. Plugin Data Card
2. Download setup script from here. Open a terminal and run it as [...]
July 29, 2008
Miro : Watching YouTube Videos Made Offline and Simple
Are you tired of waiting till your favorite yououtube video stream is being buffered to avoid jitters? Are you looking for an application to save youtube videos offline and watch them at your convenience
later? Do you want to save multiple parts of a video and watch it as a whole in one go? …. Try [...]
April 24, 2008
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS ‘Hardy Heron’ – You’ll never go back
The much awaited version of ubuntu, named ‘Hardy Heron’ (ubuntu 8.04) is officially been launched today. “You’ll never go back” is what canonical says on their official website http://www.ubuntu.com . Ubuntu releases LTS (Long Term Support) every two years and provides 3 years and 5 years of support respectively for desktop and server editions. [...]
April 6, 2008
Convertig text, html, images to PDF format on Ubuntu Linux
Here is a procedure to create PDF files, convert from any format (html, text, doc ….) to PDF format.
This simple procedure involves adding PDF printer. I have tried it on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon)
From the menu, go to System —> Administration —> Printing
Click on New Printner, let it search and come [...]
February 17, 2008
Partition Editors in Ubuntu GNU / Linux
Playing around with the filesystem partitions is a very risky job and needs great care, or else one could loose important data on the system. There are a variety of partition editors that come with your linux distribution. I will enumerate a few of them here. You could use one of them depending [...]
January 27, 2008
LPI (Linux Professional Institute) Certification Study Guides
LPIC ( Linux Professional Institute Certification )
LPIC is a vendor neutral linux certification which has three levels.
Here are some resources for the LPIC-1 aspirants.
LPIC-1 is divided into two exams, LPIC 101 and LPIC 102
Detailed Objectives for exam 101
Detailed Objectives for exam 102
Study guides available online
LPIC WikiBook
Linux Certification Documentation Project
Penguin Tutorials [...]
December 21, 2007
How to Install Fonts on Ubuntu Linux
1. Download the fonts and extract the zip/tar.gz
e.g. tar -xzvf FooFonts.tar.gz
2. Copy them to the fonts directory (/usr/share/fonts)
cp -r FooFonts /usr/share/fonts
3. cd /usr/share/fonts/FooFonts
4. Create fonts.scale and fonts.dir files
mkfontscale
mkfontdir
fc-cache
5. restart gdm (xserver)
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
August 18, 2007
Reliance USB Data Card (Huawei) on Ubuntu HowTo
This is a quick and dirty howto to setup huawei usb data card with reliance connection on ubuntu 7.7 (Fiesty Fawn)
For Ubuntu LTS 8.4 “hardy heron” users, please refer to my latest post here.
1. Connect the reliance usb modem and check if its been recognized by the kernel.
$ cat /proc/bus/usb/devices
you’ll see something [...]
