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Downloading Ubuntu

Friday, October 30, 2009

I have a good internet connection here

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Linux Audio

Friday, October 23, 2009

grepping https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_troubleshoot_sound_problems:

You can play sound with aplay -D hw:0 /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
When pulseaudio is running, use pasuspender /usr/bin/aplay — -D hw:0 /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
You can play sound with paplay /usr/share/sounds/startup3.wav
You can play sound with gst-launch audiotestsrc \! autoaudiosink

Can we please start providing better documentation on how building blocks interact?

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customize resolv.conf even when using network Manager

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Having my laptop configured with dhcp through network manager (Ubuntu jaunty at the time of writing) is what I need in most networks. Often though, I need to contact hosts living under another domain. Traditionally, that’s wat the search option is in /etc/resolv.conf. It still is, but this file now gets configured dynamically through resolvconf, [...]

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Drie nieuwe Ubuntu verslavingen en meer

Thursday, May 17, 2007

Serge,
Vorige week zijn Christ, Jan en ik na uw uiteenzetting enthousiast begonnen met de installatie van de 32-bit versie.
Wij hebben dit naast ons bestaande Windows XP systeem geïnstalleerd met een boot-manager en dat lukte perfect (internet, printers, enz… het enige wat niet lukt is mijn scanner Canoscan 4400F, hiervoor schijnen nog geen drivers voorhanden te [...]

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Boksmatch tussen Ubuntu Feisty en Windows Vista

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Boksmatch tussen Ubuntu Feisty en Windows Vista
Deftig artikel. Aanrader voor n00bs.

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Michael Dell runs Ubuntu

Wednesday, April 18, 2007

Michael Dell runs Ubuntu on one of his laptops.
Dell Precision M90
Hardware:
* Intel Core 2 Duo T7600 Processor
* 4GB DDR2 667Mhz DRAM
* 17″ WXGA+ Widescreen LCD
* 160GB 7200rpm SATA hard drive
* 8X DVD +/- RW [...]

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Pidgin

Sunday, April 8, 2007

Gaim becomes Pidgin. Now we know why it took them so long to release 2.0.

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Ubuntu Protestant Edition

Monday, April 2, 2007

You knew Ubuntu Christian Edition? Now a protestant edition got… ehm… forked.
It’s the same as the Christian Edition, but without icons.
(From rec.humor via Tom.)

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safe SSH root login

Monday, March 26, 2007

pro memorie, ‘k was deze vergeten
PermitRootLogin without-password
(uit sshd_conf)

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Another two happy Ubunteros

Friday, March 9, 2007

De avond uitgetrokken om twee mensen bij te staan bij setup van Ubuntu. Categorie pc-freak met prepensioen. Nieuwsgierig en genoeg tijd. Via de fantastische zorgen van het ubuntu-be team hadden deze op een beurs een Ubuntu 6.10 cd meegekregen.
Eigenlijk lang geleden dat ik nog eens een hele default setup moest uitvoeren. Ik had nog [...]

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