Installing A Brother MFC 7420 Laser Printer / Scanner in Ubuntu

Friday, May 9th, 2008

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A Couple Linux Tips

Monday, May 5th, 2008

This week I went ahead and installed Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and am generally pretty happy with it. As usual the install was painless quick from the upgrade button on the Update manager. I have been holding off on installing on my desktop because I want to make sure everything is running [...]

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Installing a Dell 720 Printer In Ubuntu Linux – Updated!

Monday, March 24th, 2008

A while ago, I wrote up a piece on how to install a Dell 720 Printer in Ubuntu. Last weekend, after a reinstall of Linux, I found my printer didn’t work. “No problem”, I thought, “I’ll just follow my own tutorial”. To my absolute horror, when I tried to do it, it [...]

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Tips for ReInstalling Ubuntu Linux

Tuesday, March 18th, 2008

Last weekend, I reinstalled my Ubuntu desktop. It had been running well for almost a year, but I had made so many changes that i though it was time to clear out some of the cruft. i used to religiously reinstall Windows every 6 months for the same reason.
Now I know that most of [...]

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Custom Kernels and Restricted Driver Manager in Ubuntu

Monday, March 3rd, 2008

This is an older post I had written, but as far as I can tell it is still the case in Ubuntu 7.10.

A couple weeks while ago i decided to upgrade my kernel to the most current stable version (2.6.21.5). Previously I had been using the kernel that comes with Feisty by default (2.6.20 I [...]

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Fix Gnome Session Saving Problems

Thursday, February 21st, 2008

While I was setting up Timevault, I noticed something really weird. When I added a application to start on login (System->Preferences->Sessions), it showed up as added, but was gone after I logged out and logged back in.

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Run IrfanView Under Linux

Friday, February 8th, 2008

One of the few windows programs that I really miss since I switched over to Ubuntu is IrfanView. I’ve yet to find anything that works as well as a general purpose image viewer and lightweight editor. Usually wine would take care of that, but it didn’t seem to install.
Once I sat down and looked at [...]

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Change Default Ipod Player in Ubuntu

Thursday, February 7th, 2008

I’ve never been a big fan of RhythmBox, the default Ipod management software in Ubuntu. I was getting tired of it popping up every time I plugged in my Ipod. Changing it is pretty simple. I wanted Exaile to start whenever I plugged in the ipod.

The way to do this is go to System->Preferences->Removable Drives [...]

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