Archive for the ‘Linux’ Category
Monday, April 7th, 2008
I was looking for something to help me manage my movies collection. Ubuntu comes with many collection manager applications. In this post I will talk about three of them.
GCstar
Predecessor of Gcfilms which is not developed any more. GCstar is not just a movie manager. Basically it is a collection manager ...
Posted in Free Software, Linux, Ubuntu, applications | 1 Comment »
Sunday, March 30th, 2008
Today I downloaded and installed Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Beta version. There are several new things in this upcoming Ubuntu version. First of all it is a long term support version, which means that if you install it you will receive support and updates for up to three years and ...
Posted in Firefox, Hardy, Linux, Ubuntu | 6 Comments »
Monday, March 24th, 2008
This post is about how to install Debian GNU Linux from your hard disk, with the help of your Ubuntu GNU Linux operating system and without using CDrom, floppy, or any other removeable media.
I have tried a few Linux distros and of course Microsoft Windows and I can say confidently ...
Posted in Debian, GNU, Grub, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Sunday, March 2nd, 2008
Translating movie subtitles is my new hobby. I had no previous knowledge of what subtitles are, how they are embedded in a DVD movie, how to rip them off, how to create new subtitles, and then finally how to prepare a DVD with translated subtitles that could be played on ...
Posted in Linux, Ubuntu, applications | 8 Comments »
Thursday, January 17th, 2008
Just a few days ago the KDE 4.0 was announced. It seems that everyone was already excited about KDE 4.0. People using Kubuntu 7.10 Gutsy can try KDE 4.0. Ubuntu Geek has an explained version of the same intstructions here. Tombuntu has ten tips for KDE 4.0 Beginners and patchshorts ...
Posted in KDE, Kubuntu, Linux | 4 Comments »
Friday, September 7th, 2007
XFCE does not come with a system monitor utility like the one I had in Gnome. I used the utility to kill unresponsive processes. So how do we kill unresponsive programs using the terminal? To understand how Linux handles processes and how you can control them read this great article ...
Posted in Linux, Tips, XFCE | 5 Comments »
Monday, May 7th, 2007
I had a problem with gnome-volume-control. It didn't save my volume control settings and displayed a mute sign on every startup.
While trying to solve this issue, I did something (I don't remember what it was) that totally messed my sound configuration and now gnome-volume-control stopped working at all. Today ...
Posted in Debian, Gnome, Linux, Tips | No Comments »