How to install skype on Ubuntu 9.10
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How to install Picasa in Ubuntu 9.10
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How to setup Chrome as your default browser on Ubuntu
How to change your default applications in Ubuntu Linux.
Install RSSOwl 2.0.1 in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic
RSSOwl is a feature-rich RSS feed reader written in Java. To install the latest release in Ubuntu 9.10, follow the instructions below: RSSOwl 2.0.1 running in Ubuntu Edit your /etc/apt/sources.list: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list And add the following line: deb http://packages.rssowl.org/ubuntu [...]
How To disable root access via SSH
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Compiling Ada with GCC in Ubuntu
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Listen Review – Alternative Music Player for GNOME
There is a huge number of audio players for GNOME which strive to offer as many features as possible, with Banshee, Exaile or Rhythmbox currently being the most popular for this matter. Since features like easy access to lyrics, Wikipedia information or collection management are a must-have for a complex audio player, it looks like Listen makes no exception regarding those either.
Listen 0.6.3 in Ubuntu Karmic
The version I’m going to talk about in this review is the latest, 0.6.3, which was released on July 30, 2009.Listen is written in Python using the GTK toolkit, and it features a simple and organised interface, providing fast access to information related to the currently playing song, like lyrics, Wikipedia artist’s page, concerts and Last.fm info.
The library is divided into five sections:
- Music, which will show available artists and albums
- Podcast, for managing and listening to podcasts
- Last.fm Station, allowing you to listen to Last.fm radio
- Filesystem, a file browser
- Webradio, a collection of Internet radio stationsListen offers drag-and-drop support, and besides the usual sorting, the playlist font can also be changed. One of the minuses is that the playlist cannot be sorted by full path or filename.
Playlist – allows for font to be changed
Among the notable features of Listen are: Last.fm song submission, support for podcasts, Internet radio, OSD (on-screen display), Wikipedia info and lyrics fetching, upcoming concerts, cover fetching (either from the local directory or from Amazon.com), tags lookup, tag editing, support for plugins, song queue, system tray integration, visualizations. Most of these come with the bundled plugins.
Context view
An interesting option is the ability to set custom web service filters, which will be skipped when performing web queries. For example, you can add here information which you don’t want to be searched for, like cd 1, cd 2 etc.Listen 0.6.3 preferences
Listen also provides no fewer than four view modes: small, normal, full display and party mode, and the latter is practically a fullscreen mode.Regarding plugins, Listen comes by default with several useful ones, like:
- a 10-band equalizer
- PidginStatus, which will show the song you’re listening to as your Pidgin status message
- a visualization plugin
- Last.fm events, to retrieve upcoming concerts for a band from Last.fm
- Jamendo and Magnatune integrationInstallation in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
There is a PPA available for the latest Listen release, and to use it add the following two lines inside your /etc/apt/sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/listen-devel/ppa/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/listen-devel/ppa/ubuntu karmic mainNext, add the trusted key for this PPA:
sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys AA832887
Update the packages list:
sudo apt-get update
And install Listen:
sudo apt-get install listen
Official website
Listen on LaunchpadChange GRUB Splash Image (For GRUB Legacy)
Although GRUB 2 replaced the older GRUB 0.9x (currently known as ‘GRUB Legacy’), the latter still is the default boot loader on some distributions, like Debian 5.0 for example.
The splash screen for GRUB Legacy is an XPM image which appears as a background when you select which OS to boot. For those who are tired of the default splash screen, here is a short tutorial on how to change it.
First, download some splash screens from here (or Google some). Each splash screen comes as an XPM image archived as a Gzip file. Once you downloaded the desired splash images, copy them inside the /boot/ directory, or create symbolic links in this directory which will point to the actual location of the files. For example, if you downloaded the file tenerife.xpm.gz inside your home directory, you can type as root (and replace USER with the actual username):
cp /home/USER/tenerife.xpm.gz /boot/
Or, to create a symbolic link to it:
ln -s /home/USER/tenerife.xpm.gz /boot/grub/tenerife.xpm.gz
In Ubuntu (pre-Karmic releases, since Karmic uses GRUB 2 by default), use one of those, with the user password:
sudo cp ~/tenerife.xpm.gz /boot/grub/
Or:
sudo ln -s ~/tenerife.xpm.gz /boot/grub/tenerife.xpm.gz
The next step is to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file, and tell it to use the newly downloaded splash image. For this, add a line which looks like this inside the file mentioned earlier (don’t forget to edit it with root privileges):
splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/tenerife.xpm.gz
This will tell GRUB to search for the file tenerife.xpm.gz on the first partition of the first hard drive. Save the file and restart the computer.
How to Install OpenOffice 3.2
OpenOffice is one of the most popular alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite of programs for word processing, spread sheets, presentation etc. But the beauty of OpenOffice is that it’s FREE! Something for nothing is almost always better than something [...]
Linux Live USB Creator to the rescue.
Linux Live USB Creator is a simple Windows application that creates a live, bootable Linux OS on a USB stick. Simply download and extract the file into your folder of choice. Double click on the Linux Live USB creator icon [...]
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