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I have an Ubuntu PC that I have been using as sort of a media center. I'm not so much recording shows or watching files that I own (like on MythTV) as I am watching online shows...

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I'm running a minimal installation of XFCE4. The installation is running well and everything is working, except for one minor annoyance that I was hoping you could help me with.
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I just read all of this howto http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=766683 and it is a lot of help. There's not a command line command that I see, but WinFF is good enough at doing batch jobs, so...

I have a bunch of video files stored in .m4v and .ogv file formats that I need converted to .avi. I've never really understood video transcoding, so I was wondering if anyone here could help me out....

I'm glad to hear that. I was just about to post that I never did get it to work in Lucid but that it worked in Maverick right out of the box. I did a clean install though. I don't know what...

Yeah, all of this is basically what I was afraid of. I think I will probably be sticking to my VHF/UHF antenna for right now. Thanks for the input though, everyone!

Has anyone from the North America region tried Free-to-Air satellite TV? It sounds sort of intriguing. I'm curious to know whether or not it would be better than my current VHF/UHF setup, but I'm a...

I just installed that same wireless card and I'm having the same problems. My local network is so slow that when I attempt to access an NFS share that is on the computer containing the wireless...

I'm having problems with it too. For me, it just seems like sometimes the card works but sometimes it's so slow that it seems like it's not working at all(although I think it is usually just barely...

I've done all this once, but it was a pain. But then again, I had to deal with switching between different wireless networks, which I guess a server would not have to do. Either way, the easier way...

I know I had the flash player installed, but I don't remember which codecs I had. I ended up reinstalling Karmic, and I pretty much have Boxee running now. Other places that I've looked said that...

I just figured I'd let everyone know that I found a way to sort of work around this. Everywhere I've looked online says that the latest Boxee build is having trouble running on Lucid, and other...

How did you get Boxee working? I've been trying to do the same, and I have the application "working" (as in it comes up and I can navigate the menus and stuff) but none of the online videos, like...

I've been trying to get Boxee to work, but for some reason online video won't play at all. I think it has something to do with the fact that I installed a 64 bit minimal install of Ubuntu, and it is...

I had your exact same problem the day before yesterday. Are you running 64 bit Ubuntu? I'm not sure, but that might have something to do with it. Either way, here are the instructions that fixed...

Yeah, that's correct. That's probably the better way of doing this for this exact reason.

- Derrick

If the text file contains the entire path of the files you want to delete or the files are in your current directory, then you can do it with a simple Bash script. It would be something like this:
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I use this driver too, and the Restricted Drivers Manager handles it just fine for me. I don't remember what it says when you first open it and the drivers aren't yet activated, but it might be the...

Hello everyone,

I'm thinking about giving Boxee a try, but I really want a remote control to plug into my laptop which will be hooked to my TV. I've been looking around and I found this one:
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I have the same problem, too. I'm still looking for a solution.

- Derrick

What does the Ubuntu Software Center .desktop file look like? Can you find that in /usr/share/applications and basically just copy it?

I had a similar setup for one of my Python programs I had written. I put all of my files into /etc/myapp/ and then put a simple executable Bash script into /usr/local/bin that I used to cd into the...

I agree. That game is ridiculously hard, if not impossible. I quit playing it a long time ago because it was actually making me angry.

I bought a Dell Mini 9 when they first came out. I don't think Moblin was popular back then, but it came with Dell's own version of Ubuntu. I just reformatted and installed Ubuntu Netbook Remix,...

So, there was a problem with the packages the first time around. I went ahead and rebuilt the packages, so they should work fine now. You can just remove the old ones with


sudo apt-get remove...