From the monthly archives:

April 2007

Moving to Ubuntu

April 28, 2007

I recently installed Ubuntu 6.10 on my laptop (dual boot with Windows XP). I already had my hard disk partitioned in two, C: for Windows, and D: for data. So, I copied D: onto a USB drive and then installed Ubuntu onto what was the D: partition.
Everything went well, and Ubuntu was up and running [...]

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Getting to know Groovy

April 22, 2007

I’ve recently become interested in Groovy because of its very cool language enhancements, and ease of use. One of the stated goals is to make ‘writing concise meaningful maintainable code easier‘. I first used it just to write some simple utility scripts, but it in the future I hope to write some full applications (swing [...]

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USB Hard Drive enclosure

April 14, 2007

I’ve got a couple of PATA harddrives from old computers lying around and recently I needed some extra disk space to shift some things around and for backup. So I bought a USB Hard Drive enclosure (NexStar 3).
Since I have a windows laptop and a Linux desktop, I really wanted to be able to use [...]

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Copying files between linux machines

April 8, 2007

Being a Windows user and new to Linux I automatically started looking around for a Linux equivalent of WinSCP. I’ve just recently installed Linux on my laptop, and when I wanted to browse the file system of my desktop, it suddenly occurred to me that I might be able to just browse it through Nautilus.
It [...]

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SoundJuicer and MP3

April 8, 2007

By default, SoundJuicer doesn’t give you an option to extract to MP3. You need to set up an MP3 profile to do this, as described here. Note though, when I tried it I had to restart SoundJuicer before Mp3 turned up in the Output Format list (under preferences).
Details : Ubuntu 6.10 (Linux laptop1 2.6.17-11-generic #2 [...]

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