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A Jaunty Jackalope turns into a Karmic Koala…
For those who may not be aware “Jaunty Jackalope” is the name given by Ubuntu for their 9.04 version release and “Karmic Koala” is the name for the 9.10 release. I have been running with “Jaunty” for a while now, but big promises have been made that “Karmic” would fix a lot of what ailed […]
Transcode – an amazing little avi tool
A friend of mine recently had a problem with a couple of avi files he had of a movie of his. The movie was actually in two parts and he wanted it combined. Plus, he also had two subtitle files to the movie and was wondering if I could embed them into the finished avi […]
What is ipmasq and Why Should I Care?
So I mentioned yesterday that when I fwent to write my article about “fglrx” that I ran into another/new problem. That problem was that I could no longer log into the Internet, nor could I even access other computers on my home network. It was as if the network card became unplugged – only it […]
What the “fglrx” happened?!
So once again I have discovered that Linux is no where near ready for the average user… Don’t get me wrong, it is much more powerful/flexible/fun/easy to use that any version of Windows that I’ve kicked the tires on. It’s just that free software means that not everyone works on what everyone else needs! A […]
Again with Network Printing Problems!!
I really, really thought that I understood everything I needed to do and know about setting up my little HP1000 printer on Ubuntu…. that was until I got a new machine and upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04… boy was I wrong! First things first… why a new machine? Well my goal was to move everything eventually […]
