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I have installed 12.04 on my home machine which is connected to external Sony TV as additional monitor. It delivers video as expected, but not audio over HDMI. I have fixed it by unmuting S/PDIF 1. ...

Though it is too late, may be useful for some one. IOMeter has two parts: engine and gui tool. A engine called dynamo which does actual benchmarking and gui tool is front end for this engine. It can...

I have done a Digital Photo Frame on Debian Linux. This is an added functionality to existing headless home NAS server :-)

Here is how I did it....

rsnapshot is a software written in Perl to make backup of local and remote file system. The well proven rsync is behind this utility. rsnapshot does not need root user intervention to restore the...

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Many times we are in need of knowing detailed Computer hardware configuration for various purposes such as to get right driver, debugging, to prepare system information report, etc. In linux many...

Here is how I got it working with my Lilliput DisplayLink based UM-70 USB monitor (17e9:02a9).

How to get Lilliput DisplayLink based USB Monitor UM-70 (17e9:02a9) working in Ubuntu Linux
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I got it working with minimal steps. Here is how I got it with configuration/log files attached.
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Recently I got a DisplayLink based 7″ USB Monitor manufactured by Lilliput. The model is UM-70, which supports 800×480 resolution. I got it from ThinkGeek. It works without any external power. It...

Are you bored with limited features of screenshot tool in your linux distro? Here is the Shutter, an advanced screenshot tool. It is a must tool for any technology blogger and technical writer. It...

GIMP is an open source Image editing tool. There is a feature to create a slide show in GIMP with the output as Animated GIF format. It can be done in a few mouse clicks. My system is Ubuntu 10.04...

GoogleCL is a project intended to access Google services from Linux command line. Uploading the pictures to Picasa Web Album is one such service. Though the intention of this project is to make the...

Desktop recorder software is highly useful in teaching, tutorial and knowledge sharing side. That too in Open Source communities, the video tutorials are famous through YouTube. You can also make...

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Though I am new to Gaming, I am **not** new to Ubuntu. I have a powerful machine to use as simple Gaming machine with Ubuntu running on it.

I am interested in buying gaming accessories like...

I have summarized here the multiple ways to get the Ubuntu version number both command line and GUI way. It may be useful.

Please find the complete post here:...

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Yesterday, My Ubuntu 10.04 was not able to boot, displaying “Continue to wait; Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery” due to file system error in / and /home partitions. I went ahead with...

Trash in GNOME is generally handled in Nautilus file browser. Trash icon’s context menu provides shortcut to empty trash. But while working in command line, you may not prefer to empty trash by going...

My Canon Handycam (Camcorder) makes high quality HD videos in .MTS file format. Though the quality of this file is of very high, still there is no good software to play this in Linux (so Ubuntu)...

Disk Management in Ubuntu has become easy with Palimpsest tool called Disk Utility. This application is capable of managing a remote machine disks also. It connects to remote machine through secure...

I have used VMware some times before. It did not support Creating/Editing virtual machine. I was only able to play the prebuilt images. After your comment I checked with VMWare and understood that...

VirtualBox is a cheaper virtualization solution than VMware. Apart from the cost it has a nice GUI to manage the virtual machines and also it supports wide range of operating systems. Virtualbox can...

Recently I messed up GRUB boot loader in my laptop installed with Ubuntu which resulted in grub rescue prompt. So I had to boot Ubuntu Live CD to get it fixed. Thought of blogging it, may be useful...

If you are monetizing your web site content, you may be familiar with Adsense, Kontera and Infolinks. This is one of the effective optimization technique for high earning from these ad agencies. You...