A Little bit of sanity from Windows can be found with the comfort of Linux. But learning the Linux language can be awkward for some; so herein you’ll find a bit of translation :)
Never again worry about searching for extra Ubuntu repositories. From this point on, this will be your one-stop-shop for getting any of the repositories mentioned in JournalXtra posts. Through this page you will have access to repositories for Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Lubuntu, Xubuntu and other distros whether running on i386, AMD64 or (to some extent) PPC … Read more
So you’ve been messing around with your hard drive partitions and your partition numbers are listed in the wrong order and now you want to know how to fix them so they run sequentially from lowest to highest. I bet you’ve already tried “update-grub”. If you haven’t, don’t. It will make about as much difference … Read more
I had the pleasure of installing Ubuntu onto two old computers this weekend. One laptop and one desktop. Both resistant to Doctor Lee’s orders. The Ubuntu graphical installer is poor at detecting and setting up old graphics cards and monitors. It is a strange and frustrating problem because once Ubuntu is installed it detects and … Read more
Every six months a new version of the beloved Ubuntu Linux is released into the wild to bring both joy and frustration to its early adopters. This time we have the Long Term Support (LTS) version 10.04, Lucid Lynx, and she is gorgeous. Lucid’s most joyful aspect is her new look gnome desktop and easy … Read more
If you need a few handy Bash scripts to do a few, what should be,simple tasks then you’re in the right place. Welcome to Scriptilitious, the Linux scriptbox. Scriptilitious is a plugin based Linux Bash script manager. The bash scripts included with Scriptilitious are: Auto Form Fill Auto Single Form Fill File Editor File … Read more
A couple of years of experience have taught me there are many ways to install software into Linux. Most of those methods are as easy as fishing for piranhas with a horse for bait – it’s quick and painless (for the fisherman, absolute nightmare for the horse) and a few of them are as enjoyable … Read more