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Ubuntu and Windows Fight Over Special Characters
Ubuntu is awesome. You can rename files to include tons of special characters, like $!*? and so on. Unfortunately, Windows is not quite as awesome. If you have a linux-formatted file system that has files with these great characters, and you want to mount it in Windows, be aware: you will not be able to [...]
Gnome Do: Also a Dock
If you have not yet installed and tried Gnome-Do, a program similar to quicksilver for mac which can run applications and do other various tasks using only the keyboard, I highly recommend doing so. If you already have it, however, I have a suggestion. Go into the settings sudo apt-get install gnome-do For my exact [...]
Jaunty Beta
Some readers may have noticed I post much more infrequently than previously. This is because I’m simply having fewer problems. Ubuntu is becoming more and more user friendly, and can now do essentially everything I want (except a few music-related functions I use for my band, Power Pirate, and tools I use for creating HDR [...]
How to: FIX the flash crash in hardy!
After all this time, there is finally a fix for the flash crash that works. Do the following: first run the following just to refresh: sudo apt-get update add this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thielmann/ubuntu hardy main you can use the following command to do so easily sudo echo “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/thielmann/ubuntu hardy main” | [...]
How to: Set Up MySQL Database in Amarok
I found myself complaining about the slow speed of Amarok. Everything would lag, from playing a song to adding a song to the playlist. Then i remembered when I was setting up Amarok that it let me chose a database, and said the faster ones required extra set up. Of course, I chose the no [...]
