November 24, 2008 – 11:47 pm
Intrepid comes with Totem as the default player but so far I have not had much luck getting it working (playing DVD movies) on Intrepid, but I think it worked on Hardy. Totem comes with gstreamer by default and works with xine as well, but neither seemed to play the main movie, just the copyright [...]
By boliston
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Posted in ubuntu
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Also tagged ubuntu, intrepid, dvd, libdvdcss, libdvdread3, vlc, mplayer, totem, gstreamer, xine, movie
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November 11, 2008 – 9:55 pm
This is the default browser that comes with Ubuntu Intrepid and since I have been using it in WinXP for a while I have been quite familiar with it and know that it’s an excellent browser with good customisation and plugins.
I wanted to check what my blog looks like in another browser and as IE [...]
By boliston
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Posted in ubuntu
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Also tagged alexa, alexa rank, browser, browser wars, closed source, firefox, firefox 3, firefox vs opera, open source, opera, opera 9, opera vs firefox, ubuntu, url bar
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November 9, 2008 – 11:45 pm
I have been trying out a bit of scanning using a combination of GIMP, XSane and my Canon Lide60 Scanner.
I have got quite a few pictures from my recent trip to Berlin. As they were taken with a Holga it means that they need scanning which is where XSane comes in handy.
I prefer the flexibility [...]
By boliston
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Posted in Photography, ubuntu
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Also tagged berlin, black & white, film, gimp, holga, medium format, photo, Photography, scanning, ubuntu, xsane
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November 8, 2008 – 10:20 pm
Up until now I have had an old hard drive that I put into a caddy for storing music and photo files, but I have now upgraded to the Western Digital Elements 640GB external hard drive.
I’ve now had it a week and it’s working pretty well. It comes formatted as FAT32 but I reformatted as [...]
October 12, 2008 – 11:30 am
I’ve now been running ubuntu for about 3 weeks, but this morning when I tried to log in I got an error message:
User’s home/.dmrc file is being ignored
Luckily I found this thread http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=2427423&postcount=2
by a user called aidanr which told me to input the following commands which seemed to solve the problem .phew!
sudo chown -R [username] [...]
