I’ve written before about ripping audio CD’s from the command line (part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4). Certainly, if you’re just ripping a new CD, then just convert the audio to your chosen format at that time. But maybe you’ve been archiving your music in FLAC format or you purchased some high bit-rate …
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Canonical introduced a new default font for Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat. In my humble opinion, this new font gives Ubuntu a more polished look. The new font is now available in the repositories for Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx.
Continue reading Install The Ubuntu Font in Ubuntu LucidOne of the much touted features of Android 2.2 Froyo is the ability to connect the phone to your computer through USB and allow the computer to use your phone’s internet connection. This practice it commonly known as tethering. I’m not sure about other mobile carriers in the US, but Verizon modifies/disables this feature in …
Continue reading Tether Your Android Phone With UbuntuFor years the keyboard shortcuts in the GNOME Desktop Manager have been Print Screen to take a shot of the whole screen and Alt + Print Screen to take a shot of the active window. (See the documentation here.) Something happened in Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat that breaks the functionality to take screenshots of the …
Continue reading Fix The GNOME Screenshot Shortcut in Ubuntu 10.10There is a new version of the Koobface worm that can infect a Linux operating system. Jerome Segura over at Pareto Logic has a blog post showing how this worm can infect a user’s home directory in Ubuntu.
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