For 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 …
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The most popular post on this site is the one showing how to install a LAMP server on Ubuntu. Once you’re done developing your websites on your computer, you may want to remove the LAMP server from your Ubuntu installation. Actually, you probably want to leave the Linux part and only remove the AMP part, …
Continue reading Remove LAMP in UbuntuA while back I wrote a post on how to remove old kernels from your Ubuntu system. While that process works just fine, it is a four step process. One person who read that post left a comment with a nice command line one-liner that removes all but the currently running kernel. And while that …
Continue reading Remove Old Kernels In Ubuntu With One CommandIn the previous installments of Command Line Basics: Ripping Audio CD’s, I’ve gone through ripping CD’s and saving the files as WAV files, transcoding those files to Ogg Vorbis audio, and finally, querying an online CD database tagging those Ogg files. I the last installment, I promised to show a more automated way to do …
Continue reading Command Line Basics: Ripping Audio CD’s, Part 4In part 1 of CLB: Ripping Audio CD’s, I showed how to rip the songs from your CD and save them as WAV files. In part 2 I showed how to convert those files to Ogg Vorbis audio. Today in Part 3 I’m going to show a few ways to tag those Ogg Vorbis audio …
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