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I have a DVD of which has been created for me, I want to rip the content so I can play bits of it on my website.

How do I go about ripping the DVD to mpeg format?

I have tried using...

The lack of iTunes for Ubuntu or any other Linux distro is worrying. It is a well documented fact that users who are used to using iTunes will dislike using anything else which makes the migration to...

Hi,

I have got some bugs with OpenOffice which people say are fixed by upgrading to OpenOffice 2.3.1 (I am running 2.3.0).

I would like to upgrade using apt if I can because it is an ubuntu...

Great how to. Works for me.

Thanks scragar.



That has done the trick!

Hello,

I used to have access to a server (gentoo) which had a tool called mkcrypt. We could run:


mkcrypt stringoftext

and it would output the encrypted version of the that string. We used...

Hello,

I am trying to get a digital camera to work with my LTSP thin clients. I have followed the tutorial here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EnableLTSP5LocalDevices

But it will not work. The...

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Recently, probably after an update I noticed a performance issue with Firefox. Sometimes Firefox will freeze for no apparent reason. The problem continued and became quite annoying so I...

OK. If flash player can't be installed can something so that we can view youtube videos embedded in a web page??

I have tried gnash - no joy!

Have you got the nfs-common tools installed on the nfs client machine?

Unfortunately this .deb relies on ubuntu 8.04 and has a lot of dependencies. The other method I have already tried.

This is quite annoying. The installation doesn't output any errors and...

First of all be careful formatting it, especially if you wish to keep the data!

Is the drive from a windows PC i.e ntsf?

1.Check that portmapper is running on the server.

2.Check /etc/exports to make sure the networking rules are correct.

3.Run exportfs -a if you edited the above.

4.Then finally run...

Does anybody know of a way of getting flash player to work with Firefox on Ubuntu 7.10? I can't watch embedded YouTube videos which is annoying.

I have a laptop running 8.04 and that works fine. I...

Hello,

Just a question. I don't suppose anybody knows if Apple are ever going to port iTunes to Ubuntu?

I realise there are other application available which do similar things as iTunes on the...

Great post, thanks.

Now why don't Canonical include these packages into a script which can be installed as an option easily by a non technical Ubuntu user?

Thanks For your reply. I am indeed aware of the points you have made.

I try to post with a newbies hat on somebody that doesn't know of these things, somebody who perhaps buys a Dell Ubuntu Laptop...

I have noticed that Totem plays video (avi and mpeg) extremely slowly when firefox is running. Why is this?

This is particularly annoying when viewing video clips from the internet.

For some reason the default movie player (Totem) won't play DVDs authored with chapters, it'll play the first chapter but not the rest.

I have installed Ogle which does, perfectly. I'm just...

I am also looking for this add on! Sorry it's not an answer!

I have a small network of 8.04 machines and don't wish to upgrade when the new releases come out. I will need to install some more of these machines at a later date perhaps when this version is no...

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Has anybody managed to create a playlist in amarok and then successfully transfer it to their iPod and play it?

Surely this is possible?

Here is where I am with it:

I am using...

Thanks.

But isn't there two options when downloading Kubuntu Hardy? One is kde3 the other kde4. It would be nice to give the same LTS as ubuntu but like you say they share the same repositories so...

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Can somebody tell me when Kubuntu 8.04 LTS packages will no longer be supported? I read somewhere that Kubuntu 8.04 is supported until 2009. If this is the case does this mean that apt will...