Category: Linux
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Ubuntu 10.10 Video Playing Too Fast
Is your video playing too fast in Ubuntu 10.10? Video playing 1.5x or 2.0x or greater? I was having the same problem, as was a friend of mine, on a number of my Ubuntu machines: video playing too fast. I did notice that on login the audio was crackling, skipping, and didn’t finish smoothly as…
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Solved Synergy Problem With Dependent Libs
I was having trouble with Synergy on one of my mixed Windows7 and Ubuntu 10.10 setups, the graphical interface never started. I checked for log errors, nothing there. Checked for zombie or orphaned processes, nothing running amok there. I felt it was graphical in nature but nothing but my trick knee to back that up.…
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Jolicloud: Web Based OS
In the shop on my bench today I am working on Jolicloud The main purpose of Jolicloud is to present a web enabled GUI. Under the hood, it’s based on the Ubuntu long term service release (10.04), and the front end is handled by a combination of the Chromium web browser and a full screen…
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One Cool Screenlet To Get You Started
If you are like me you haven’t used Screenlets on Ubuntu yet, what you need is one great one to get you sucked into the warp drive and get started. Screenlets are an excellent application to experiment with. And there are lots of useful third party user contributed screenlets available for free. Here is the…
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Sites Offering Free Linux Courses Online
Novell – OpenCourseWare Project (novell.com) Linux Enterpise server 10 Course Novell Linux Desktop Starter Course Certified Linux Professional 10 Course Novell Training Services offers a huge collection of free online Linux courses for through their OpenCourseWare project. These courses are great for anyone interested in becoming a Linux certified professional. Courses can be accessed directly…