The trouble for me was printing my digital photos on glossy photo paper easily.
I generally use Gimp if I need powerful editing (similar to what's available in Photoshop) but for routine usage I...
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The trouble for me was printing my digital photos on glossy photo paper easily.
I generally use Gimp if I need powerful editing (similar to what's available in Photoshop) but for routine usage I...
I just watched the season finale of a certain show where quotes are prominent. In that vein, I decided to post some of my own favourite zen quotes (from (K)Ubuntuguide --...
Some of these have been around a while and may not be up to what you need, but I use them a good deal:
...at UbuntuGuide:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Saucy_Office#PDF_Files
Most of the instructions on UbuntuGuide (Unity/Gnome) / KubuntuGuide (KDE) are oriented towards the command-line (which for some power users is often faster). Look at it as a potential reference:
...
It's a mistake to name an operating system something that is a homonym with Tar.
That is bad luck, IMO, as tar is what most animals get stuck in, never to emerge, and die.
One of the biggest...
https://www.videolan.org/developers/libdvdcss.html
is the VideoLAN tutorial
I use Pulse Audio, and for HDMI I do this:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Raring_Hardware#HDMI_with_PulseAudio
In brief, I made sure that PAVU Control was installed (PulseAudioVolume):
...
Try one of these methods for installing libdvdcss instead:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Precise_Audio_Video_Conversion#DVD_Playback_Capability
The script you referenced (from libdvdread4)...
Sorry. Fixed. See above.
Thoughtful Tapir or Trusty Tiger
"I gave my girl a coconut...
she said: 'It's ok... but...
there's only one thing that worries me:
what good is the nut... without the tree?' "
Saw a guy on the bus (!) yesterday wearing this T-shirt. I want one!
Introducing the Floppy Diskette:
*Nearly Limitless 80 kilobytes of Storage
*State-of-The-Art Cardboard Enclosure
*Iron Oxide...
Libre Office is a fork of Open Office, and I had few problems going back and forth to/from MS Office documents. Having said that, there are sometimes subtle formatting differences that I had to...
Ubuntuguide uses cut-and-paste suggestions, though it may not suit you and is a bit outdated.. Still, it has lots of links to other sites.
Kubuntu is much closer to what you're used to in Windows...
From Ubuntuguide:
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Raring_Packages#Repair_broken_packages
Try rebuilding the headers:
sudo rm /var/lib/apt/lists/* -vf
sudo apt-get update
Fastmail and Zoho are good alternatives.
Most users don't realize that Kubuntu is smaller, faster, and lighter on system resources than is Ubuntu with Unity.
IMO it is much nicer to use as well. I have it on all my laptops, servers, and...
There is a new Netflix-desktop app that runs under Wine in Ubuntu. It is available from a Launchpad repository here:
https://launchpad.net/~ehoover/+archive/compholio
mail-notification is a bloated, Gnome-only utility. It is not suitable for KDE (nor anything but a full Gnome environment).
I have been having the same problem for some time (including in Oneiric), but the problem for me occurs at the 3.8 GB mark on regular DVDs (DVD-R type) as well, not just on D/L DVDs.
I never had...
I have been having the same problem for some time (including in Oneiric), but the problem for me occurs at the 3.8 GB mark on regular DVDs (DVD-R type) as well, not just on DL DVDs.
I never had...
If you don't require shrinking, you can just copy the VIDEO_TS and AUDIO_TS folders from the DVD to the hard drive and then burn them (using Brasero or K3b or Gnomebaker) to a new DVD.
Well, you...
I'm not sure why no one mentions mencoder.
I love mencoder. It uses many ffmpeg libraries, but is far faster and more efficient, IMO. I tend to get some strange artifacts with ffmpeg from time to...
If the Virtual Machine is name "Myvirtualmachine1" then you can start VirtualBox in fullscreen mode using the command (as a menu item, for example):
VirtualBox -fullscreen -startvm...
French Parliament went to Kubuntu in 2007.
To run some 32-bit packages on a 64-bit computer you will need 32-bit libraries, which can be installed:
sudo apt-get install ia32-libs
I don't have any apps any longer that come only in...