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My first linux contribution is a disaster

January 24, 2010

My first attempt to contribute to Linux turns out to be a disaster, with the problem already having been addressed. But why does the source code in Trunk not reflect any changes? I have much to learn about Linux packages and source organisation.

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Default open action for Ubuntu

October 9, 2009

Something happened on my Ubuntu install sometime which meant that double clicking on an HTML file resulted in the file being opened by gedit. Not really what I wanted. I started looking through the GNOME system menu (Preferences and Administration) to find how to change the default action - but that turned out to be [...]

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Extra Ubuntu Repositories

March 16, 2009

A friend put me on to this blog post about extra repositories for Ubuntu. This is a great resource which highlights some great (and possibly essential) software that you should know about if you are running Ubuntu (and possibly any linux flavour).
Have a look, you may find some software listed there of interest to you. [...]

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SoundJuicer and MP3

December 24, 2008

I wanted to convert some CDs to MP3 - normally I’d use OGG, but you can’t always rely on devices being able to play that format (i.e. DVD players). I was relieved to see it is easy in Ubuntu 8.10:

enable multiverse and universe repos
sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly-multiverse  sound-juicer
start sound-juicer and go to Edit/Preferences and switch [...]

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Firefox 2 on Ubuntu 8.04

May 12, 2008

I’ve been a little frustrated with the lack of my usual Firefox plugins due to most of them not being available for Firefox 3, so I’ve decided to install Firefox 2.
It seems apparently easy:
sudo apt-get install firefox-2
Now, I can run Firefox 2 from the command line with
firefox-2
Firefox 3 still works, by running ‘firefox’ - so [...]

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