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Hawkscope - Cross-platform pluggable menu based launcher

Posted Mon, 2010-02-08 16:16 by gg234

Hawkscope is a productivity tool that allows you to access your hard drive contents quickly via system tray / menubar icon with dynamic pop-up menu.

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GTalX - Google Voice Chat has arrived in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

Posted Mon, 2010-02-08 16:15 by gg234

Ever since I moved to Ubuntu, my only problem was that I couldn’t use GTalk in Ubuntu.Here comes the solution - GTalx. It works flawlessly on my Ubuntu 9.10 karmic running on Dell Inspiron 1525.

gtalX is a Linux client for gtalk, the voip application of Google. It supports voice and text-based chat. Before you download it, please read the ‘How to install’ paragraph below.

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Record your Desktop with Linux Tools

Posted Sun, 2010-02-07 06:59 by kurtedelbrock

You can capture video of all of the amazing things happening on your desktop with one of Linux’s many screencasting applications. These programs are perfect for creating demonstrations for blogs and tutorials, and for illustrating projects with more than just still images.

Many different programs are available, and they all provide a different set of features, options, and output formats. When choosing, consider the degree of control you want to have over your video resolution and whether the video is intended to work on non-Linux operating systems. Common open source output formats, such as FLAC and Ogg Theora, work natively on Linux but require software and plugins on proprietary operating systems. User interfaces also vary greatly; some applications are nothing more than an icon in the system tray while others depend on large interfaces with many options.

How do you connect linux computers to each other on a network?

Posted Sun, 2010-02-07 01:51 by jometone

I have six computers running both Windows XP and Ubuntu 9.10. When I am running a linux machine I can see all of the computers using Windows but none of the computers running linux. All of the Windows machines are in the same workgroup (obviously). Is there a way to allow the Windows machines to see the linux ones and each other?

Set my TV screen to 1024x768 on an ATI 9250

Posted Sun, 2010-02-07 01:44 by Tenkunowind

Hi, i have problems with 3 now, plus any new, computer that is configured for TV as second screen, and has an ATI card, the problem is simple, is permanently set to 800x600

And i wish to change it to 1024x768, the second screen is ALWAYS active, so it does not matter if i have my tv conected or not at the moment of login, if i forgot to conect it i just need to plug it on and that it, here is my xorg.conf please i had searched a lot, and i can't find anything that works, someone told me there is no way, but it has to be, the same TV works perfectly on any Nvidia and on any ATI 9250 on windows, it has to be a way..

from section "Devide" and on:

Section "Device"
Identifier "Configured Video Device"
Option "TVStandard" "ntsc"
Option "ForceTVOut" "True"
Option "TVDACLoadDetect" "True"
Option "Monitor-S-video" "TV"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "VGA-0"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "TV"
Option "RightOf" "VGA-0"
EndSection

Ubuntu 8.04 wont load completley

Posted Sat, 2010-02-06 23:29 by BIGBURN0926

I have been running UBUNTU 8.04 for a while yesterday I tried booting the computer I get the “loading grub...”,then "starting up",the HD light blinks several times the screen is blank but not off. and then the HD light comes on and stays on. I have Ubuntu on another backup drive tried that no problems any suggestions?

Corrupted vlc files and now I can't download vlc

Posted Thu, 2010-02-04 20:30 by dayton32

I had vlc 1.3. installed and mistakenly added a download from another source for vlc 1.5 also to get extensions. Now I can't click in vlc at all. I have removed and re-installed several times, but the terminal says: "error while loading shared libraries: libvlc. so.2 cannot open shared object file No such file or directory." I know I have to undo the mess I made in the repository, but I don't know how. Any suggestions will be appreciated by this newbie.

Problem starting Ubuntu 9.10

Posted Tue, 2010-02-02 05:28 by Guillermo André...

After the screen of the Ubuntu 9.10 logo, the screen goes black and after waiting for a few moments my splash screen doesn't appears, and if a I hit any key an errors comes out telling that the boot device couldn't be found.

The thing is that I perfectly booted Windows Vista, so help please.

Computer pops out of hibernate immediately

Posted Mon, 2010-02-01 15:01 by Kimpire

When selecting hibernate on my computer, it goes through all the motions, writing to disk, shutting down wireless, etc. - except, when the screen goes blank, it doesn't shut down. At this point, one of two things will happen:

1) If I activated hibernate through the console, the screen will pop back up exactly as I had left it, and the console prompt will return.

2) If I activated it through a menu or the power button, the screen will remain black and nothing will happen - and touching the mouse or any key brings up the login screen.

My pm-suspend.log file confirms that the computer is successfully going all the way into hibernate but then coming back out again instantaneously.

What's going on?

canon scanner toolbox

Posted Mon, 2010-02-01 10:42 by andreamammes

new sony 64bit laptop with windows 7- eventually could install canon mf3220 printer drivers and get printer to work.but cannot get the scanner to work... downloaded the drivers and installed.
however when I want to scan, the message reads: A supported scanner is not installed. pleas install a supported scanner and then restart toolbox.
Please help
AndreaMammes

linux rules

Posted Sat, 2010-01-30 23:19 by jeff

HELP PLEASE - cant get Ubuntu on my computer!

Posted Fri, 2010-01-29 18:35 by j2the242

Hello everyone,

So about a year back I had ubuntu and xp running as a dual boot on my Asus eeepc 1000hd. I had nothing but problems, so I deleted ubuntu. But I cant remember how I got ubuntu on here in the first place.

I dont have a optical drive, or a floppy drive, and Ive tried every method with a usb flashdrive but I cannot get ubuntu to work, I cant even get my computer to boot from the usb.

When I installed ubuntu last year I didnt have a usb flashdrive and I got it on here, but I cant find any resources on how to do that again.

How do I install ubuntu on my eee pc 1000hd without a cd drive, floppy drive, or usb?

I appreciate your help in advance, and I look forward to being done with any microsoft software.....and being free from it for the rest of my life.

HELP PLEASE - cant get Ubuntu on my computer!

Posted Fri, 2010-01-29 17:54 by j2the242

Hello everyone,

So about a year back I had ubuntu and xp running as a dual boot on my Asus eeepc 1000hd. I had nothing but problems, so I deleted ubuntu. But I cant remember how I got ubuntu on here in the first place.

I dont have a optical drive, or a floppy drive, and Ive tried every method with a usb flashdrive but I cannot get ubuntu to work, I cant even get my computer to boot from the usb.

When I installed ubuntu last year I didnt have a usb flashdrive and I got it on here, but I cant find any resources on how to do that again.

How do I install ubuntu on my eee pc 1000hd without a cd drive, floppy drive, or usb?

I appreciate your help in advance, and I look forward to being done with any microsoft software.....and being free from it for the rest of my life.

wireless network problem

Posted Wed, 2010-01-27 13:11 by bentenmen

running command line lsusb
my usb device recognised as marvel semiconductor (dynamode dongle)
but not seen in wireles connections
used windows driver via ndiswrapper but after installation my l/top freezes
even after reboot no connection is made and i then remove the window drivers.
(connection with Ethernet cable is not a problem)
have spent hours reading forums and tried following all sorts of recommendations
but must admit, defeat any help would be appreciated
laptop is Samsung running 9.10 ubuntu

really need some help here

Posted Mon, 2010-01-25 09:07 by tomrob77

OK so ive wasted all my cd-r trying to install and boot ubuntu 9.10 on my hp laptop. the i386.iso. well anyway, I put ubuntu on a flash drive just so i could have an os because i already deleted windows and such. Is there any way for my to use the ubuntu thats the removable os right now to get an actual OS of ubuntu onto this computer.