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Install VLMC in ubuntu 10.04 using PPA

Posted Tue, 2010-09-14 08:46 by gg234

VideoLAN Movie Creator is a non-linear editing software for video creation based on libVLC and running on Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!.It is a free software distributed under the terms of the GPL v2.

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Block Bcc emails

Posted Mon, 2010-09-13 15:40 by manjulinux

How to block bcc emails, so that avoid user's sending mails through bcc.

Installing fonts in Ubuntu

Posted Mon, 2010-09-13 12:21 by phyxx

Ubuntu comes with a few fonts, but the list is not really all that exhaustive. Certainly anyone doing any sort of creative work will eventually need to install additional fonts. There are thousands of free fonts available, although you might be mistaken that they are for Windows and MacOS only. This is not the case - installing fonts in Ubuntu is actually quite easy.

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Howto install gimp 2.6.10 in ubuntu 10.04(Lucid)

Posted Mon, 2010-09-13 10:57 by gg234

GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software suitable for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It can be used as a simple paint program, an expert quality photo retouching program, an online batch processing system, a mass production image renderer, a image format converter, etc.

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New to Ubuntu

Posted Fri, 2010-09-10 03:51 by xisageix83

Anyone know a good site or anyone on here that can explain what the commands are and what they do in ubuntu?

Thanks for the help.

Need to restore computer to factory condition

Posted Thu, 2010-09-09 22:50 by samiam081250

I was trying to run an update on my computer & got caught in a loop. I couldn't even log off. I had to turn it off with the buttons. Now I can't even get to the log in screen. I had this problem once before & someone told me how to get to a screen where I had the option to restore it to factory condition. Can anyone tell me how to do this? I don't know alot about computers ... obviously.

MirrorBrain - Download Redirector and generates Metalinks, Torrents and crypto-hashes

Posted Thu, 2010-09-09 16:30 by gg234

MirrorBrain is an open source framework to run a content delivery network using mirror servers. It solves a challenge that many popular open source projects face - a flood of download requests, often magnitudes more than a single site could practically handle.

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Ubuntu Software Center and GetDeb don't work in 10.04

Posted Wed, 2010-09-08 16:50 by dayton32

I can't download apps from the Software Center and GetDeb in Lucid Lynx. I can download them through Synaptic and Terminal. I would appreciate any suggestions.

How to fix fglrx error after upgrading to 2.6.35 kernel in Ubuntu lucid

Posted Wed, 2010-09-08 11:36 by gg234

This tutorial will explain How to fix fglrx error after upgrading to 2.6.35 kernel in Ubuntu lucid

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Some information needed for advanced security system

Posted Tue, 2010-09-07 13:14 by WhiteH4tted

Hello, Im new to this forum,
I have a few questions about the Ubunto Log files, i need to know where is the function that creates the log files, is it editable? and father more on which language the most of the server is typed and as well which language was used to create the logging function. Thanks :)

Ubuntu running in text mode

Posted Tue, 2010-09-07 13:02 by n729

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Unhappy Ubuntu reduced to Text Mode HELP!
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hi,

-i am having dell inspiron 1540 laptop installed with ubuntu 10.04 (updated).
-i wanted to install LAMP(Linux,Apache,MySQL,PHP) for software development purpose.

but after restarting the system, following things occured:-
-Message box appears saying "Ubuntu is running in low-graphics mode"
Your screen, graphics card and input device setting could not be detected... OK

-Then i get prompt saying what would you like to do ?
-Run ubuntu in low-graphics mode for just one session.
i get a message starting display in one minute.....nothing happens ... i switch to text mode by pressing
escape. There is a brown color star before: Speech dispacher configured for user sessions.
on battery state there is a infinte loop i.e. no response and system just hangs there...
-startx at text mode makes the screen blank...

need help asap!!!!

Posted Tue, 2010-09-07 04:33 by thiia

I just got this dell laptop from my friend which has this software on it and Im not familiar with it @ all...I have a ton of questions on how to operate this laptop and this software. Im so used to windows..can someone answer my questions for me please!!! Please email me at patrena95(at sign)yahoo.com with ubuntu in the subject..

Linux Server Monitoring with Bijk

Posted Mon, 2010-09-06 13:17 by gg234

How you can monitor your server and performs usage? With Bijk you get online 30 graphs about Load, CPU, memory,traffic, Apache, PostreSQL and others with Alerts. Bijk can be used on Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, RedHat and with Cloud providers.

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Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) Beta Screenshots Gallery

Posted Mon, 2010-09-06 13:16 by gg234

The Ubuntu developers are moving quickly to bring you the absolute latest and greatest software the Open Source community has to offer. The Maverick Meerkat Beta is the beta release of Ubuntu 10.10, bringing with it new features for the next version of Ubuntu.This Screenshots Gallery includes installation process,Desktop,applications

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sound problems with sony vaio VPCEB1EOE

Posted Fri, 2010-09-03 23:33 by fkbu271

after installing Ubuntu 10.04 on my vaio, AFTER installing all updates. i could not still get sound off it.
can someone please help me out.
thanks