Archive for the 'Ubuntu' Category



Streaming Videos or music from Ubuntu to PS3

Published on November 17, 2009

It’s easy as pie!
No it’s easier than making pie!
It’s like just eating pie!
Okay, back to topic already =x
To stream music or videos from Ubuntu to PS3, just install mediatomb. There is no configurations required and just works.
The only thing you have to do after installation is to use the web admin to add the files [...]


I guess that’s why they have flavours of *nix

Published on November 12, 2009

I am a supporter, enthusiast and propagator of Ubuntu if you can call it that.
Since Dapper, I have been requesting CDs from the Ubuntu site and they ship it for free at every major release. And so I have been spreading the word about Ubuntu to my friends and colleagues and show them how viable, [...]


Android development on Ubuntu (No AVD)

Published on November 9, 2009

I had finally started getting myself used to Android development concepts, the UI, and such. ‘android-sdk_r3-linux.tgz’ was what I downloaded from the Android site.
At the time of writing, somehow, there seems to be a bug after running ‘tools/android.sh’. I wasn’t able to get the package list using the default URL which was using SSL. So [...]


Puppy saved my day! Maybe…

Published on October 31, 2009

Recently upgraded to Ubuntu Karmic and I suspect it reverted my wireless drivers back to the one that freezes my system. The difference is, upon freezing, after a reboot, Karmic was unable to mount my root partition for Karmic! It just gave me an option to wait or hit ‘esc’ to boot to recovery terminal.
I [...]


Eclipse on Ubuntu Karmic repository

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It’s Galileo now ^^
Though I do know that just running the shell would work. I just prefer to be able to do an alt-f2 ‘eclipse’. And I’m too lazy to link it to the bin.


Ubuntu Jaunty and a new laptop

Published on September 19, 2009

As the title suggests, I gotten myself a new laptop. An ASUS F81Se to be precise (I like to call it the female 1981 second edition ^^).
As what I usually do, unpack from the box, boot up whatever wind0ze system it comes with, check the system specifications, format and install l33t Ubuntu (Jaunty).
I had problems [...]


Ubuntu + compiz + conky

Published on June 7, 2009

I had some problems with making conky fixed onto the desktop while using compiz’s “show desktop” shortcut binded to a shortcut key combination.
I like throwing temporary files onto the desktop for easy acesss by just showing the desktop. But after successfully integrating conky to the desktop, I realise using compiz’s “show desktop” function, conky also [...]


Ubuntu command line streaming radio (Warning: Geek content)

Published on December 23, 2008

Use MPlayer!
I have to reiterate that I am now using Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10).
Ok, less crap and on with it.
Install Mplayer:
sudo apt-get install mplayer
Next install the much needed codecs (I’m using a shortcut command which installs the codecs and the usually used fonts and such):
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras
You are done!
Now just use the mplayer [...]


Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex Shutdown Button (Warning: Geek content)

Published on December 15, 2008

Recently clean installed Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on my machine from 8.06 (Hardy). I realised the usual shutdown button located on the top right hand corner of the screen is now a logout button. I figured it could be easily ‘reverted’ by right-clicking on the panel.
Select Add to panel… -> Shutdown…
Then just move it [...]


Compiz eye candy on Ubuntu Hardy on a HP2133 laptop? No problem (Warning: Geek content)

Published on November 13, 2008

I had been trying ways to get compiz working on a HP 2133 laptop.
For a while I thought “damn, it just couldn’t work!”.
Only just I came across a post in a forum that I am finally able to get it to work.
In short, here it is:
1. Open a terminal.
2. Backup /usr/lib/libGL.so.1
sudo mv /usr/lib/libGL.so.1 /usr/lib/libGL.so.1.bak
3. Make [...]