A while back I purchased a nice LG Smart TV for my living room. Besides having the standard Smart TV applications like internet browsing and NetFlix, my TV can stream media from my PC either through a DLNA server or through LG’s Media Link. In order to use the Media Link, you must install the Plex Media Server on your computer. Continue reading
If you’re developing websites, it’s nice to be able to test your code in the privacy of your own computer rather that out in the public internet. In order to do that, you’ll need to install a web server on your development computer. LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, php) is one of the most common web hosting platforms, so it’s a perfect environment for you to build and test your website code. If you carefully follow these step by step instructions, you’ll have your own Ubuntu LAMP web server on installed, configured, and running in no time. Continue reading
Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) uses the latest version of the Nautilus file manager (version 2.30.0). If you’ve been using Ubuntu for a while then you might be accustomed to using location entry in Nautilus. By default, Nautilus came up with the Button Bar to represent the current location in the file system. Continue reading
I’ve recently been doing a lot of testing on the next version of Ubuntu: Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx. After installing Ubuntu I also decided to add the Kubuntu packages to my system. This is easy to do with a simple
[term]sudo aptitude install kubuntu-desktop[/term]
One of the annoyances I have with this is that adding the Kubuntu packages through this method also hijacks the startup splash to that of Kubuntu instead of Ubuntu. It’s not a deal breaker, but I want to change it back. Continue reading