Today, considering it is a holiday here in the US, I figured I’d take a day off from the tutorials and ask a question of you. All of my servers run logwatch (which will make for a great tutorial coming up soon), and I pretty regularly see something like this in the daily output: ———————… Read More »
In a release long, long ago and in a galaxy far, far away I blogged about how to configure Ubuntu to print directly to a .pdf file. Looking back to this article it appears to be outdated an in need of some corrections. This tutorial will outline how to use and, if needed, configure your… Read More »
I’ve blogged about this in the past but it seemed to be overlooked. I blame the poor choice of title. In any event, I figure it would be worth revisiting as I’ve had a few suggestions on it being a good topic. note: Your mileage may vary. I’ve seen these steps suggest a much faster… Read More »
I realize it has been ages since I first wrote on this topic so I figured I’d revisit it again. If you’ve ever found yourself unable to playback a DVD on your Ubuntu system, this post will outline the reason and the fix. The Reason At first you might wonder why this bug hasn’t been… Read More »
Its been ages since I played with SecondLife but I was reminded about it this evening and thought I would put something together regarding how to install it. There are not any packages for it in the Ubuntu repositories, but it is pretty simple to get running. For those that currently use SecondLife maybe you… Read More »
I want to thank everyone for the great feedback that I got on the poll regarding what you’d like to see on this site. I think the results are pretty clear, although some of them did surprise me. For those that haven’t taken a look at the results they are as follows: Gnome Desktop Tips… Read More »
Last week Aaron asked me if I knew the reason behind the latest kernel update, or if I knew where to find the changelog. I poked around a bit and found that Aptitude, the command-line package management tool, has a changelog option. If you’d like to see the changelog for a package before you update,… Read More »
If you’re new to Ubuntu you may or may not be aware of the fact that we like our choices here. One of the big choices is the desktop environment that you work in. The big two are Gnome and KDE, but there are quite a few more. Xubuntu, or Ubuntu using the XFCE desktop… Read More »
Some of you might remember, long ag, that I asked for some feedback regarding a presentation at Ubuntu Live 2008. Well, as it turns out the Ubuntu Live conference was cancelled by my presentation was migrated to OSCON instead. I’m pretty excited to be going to OSCON this year, especially as a speaker. I went… Read More »
Some time ago I blogged about keyboard shortcuts for the Gnome Desktop. I figure its time to revisit some of these. If I’ve missed any that you find helpful as usual drop a comment. I am unaware of any definitive list of Gnome shortcuts. Could this be a start? Gnome Desktop Keyboard Shortcuts Alt-F2 :… Read More »