My Experience with Ubuntu

Sunday, March 29, 2009

VLC 0.9

0.9 seems to utilize the system much better and can get from

http://ppa.launchpad.net/c-korn/ubuntu hardy main

Monday, March 23, 2009

Mac and NTFS

Found this two utilities which allow writing to NTFS on a Mac.

http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/

Tuesday, March 17, 2009

One of my grieves on Linux is video encoding. I sure Linux does have lot of tools for encoding, manipulating videos, however, most of them are command line utilities. I can get by with command line, but would much prefer if I don't need to use one. Anyway, finally, Handbrake has arrived to Ubuntu. To install it, you simply add the necessary repository to your sources.list, and off you go:

https://edge.launchpad.net/~handbrake-ubuntu/+archive/ppa

Happy encoding!

Sunday, March 15, 2009

CUE+FLAC playback with Audacious

I finally found the solution for playing back CUE+FLAC files! Here is the solution. First you install audacious, and then install its extra plugin package called audacious-plugins-extra. After, run audacious and open its preference. Under the audio option, deselect all options under the Format Detection. That is it. You can now play CUE+FLAC files!

Monday, March 9, 2009

necflash

I have tried to flash my new NEC with RPC-1 firmware. However, every time I tried it, it skipped the actual writing part after I answered Y to the agreement. After numerous retry, I finally found the right switch (well at least it worked for me). Here you go:

sudo ./necflash -flash -s <firmware file> <device>

The -s switch implicitly agrees the license agreement, and left with the prompt to confirm the writing process. This allowed to me to proceed the writing!

DVD playback

To enable DVD playback, try these:

sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3

sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

OpenOffice 3

I have been looking for instruction to update the OpenOffice in Ubuntu to version 3. Finally, yesterday, I found this sit which with few easy steps will get OpenOffice updated to version 3 in no time.

http://www.rebelzero.com/ubuntu/ppa-for-openofficeorg-301-for-hardyintrepid/94