http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/computing?feed=rss&pg=3 narky's bookmarks tagged "computing" on Netvouz http://ubuntu.wordpress.com/2006/09/20/disable-touchpad-temporarily-when-typing/ Recently, I faced a different problem. When typing on the new laptop that I got, my thumb often accidentally brushes the touchpad, and this leads to me continuing to type things in entirely a different place. This is because the thumb moves the mouse pointer to a different spot that where the typing cursor is, and then there is an accidental click. Argh! very annoying. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Mon, 06 Nov 2006 01:00:42 GMT http://diveintomark.org/archives/2006/06/26/essentials-2006 Now that I’ve completed my move to Linux (sorry Mac fanboys, the install was flawless and everything worked out of the box), someone emailed me to suggest that I update my essential software list. So here you go. Computing > Linux > Software narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 22:50:45 GMT http://googled.wordpress.com/ I love Google for the bleeding-edge technology leader that they are, my dream is to work for them on day! This Blog is dedicated to what Google is now and to what it might become in the future and how it will affect us. This blog is about all things Google and others. This is where I discuss what matters to me in technology and life in general. Computing > Blogs narky Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:59:21 GMT http://www.lifehacker.com/software/ubuntu/hack-attack-top-10-ubuntu-apps-and-tweaks-195437.php I've been more than impressed with the number of great, full-featured applications available for Linux, many of which outshine their Windows counterparts. And what's best - they're all totally free. Here are my top 10 favorite applications and tweaks that made replacing Windows with Ubuntu a breeze. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:13:23 GMT http://www.censusonline.net/games/pigs/PassThePigs.html Pass the pigs online! Computing > Computer Games narky Sat, 07 Oct 2006 00:28:57 GMT http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=273206&highlight=open+samba+files I'm trying to connect to my file-server (Samba share) and play some media-files on it through Totem and Rythmbox. I can open and browse the share just fine in Nautilus (through gnome-vfs), but when I try to play a file directly off the server, Totem/Rythmbox just complains that it "Could not read resource". If I copy the file locally and play it, everything's fine and dandy. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 00:17:45 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=226341 I have Ubuntu 6.06 installed on my Acer 1682WLMI laptop. My LAN includes a server machine running FC4, with several shares mounted with Samba. Yesterday, I upgraded the packages on the FC4 machine, and these included Samba, which is now at 3.0.23a. Unfortunately, this seems to have broken my mounted shares, which is annoying as I'd only just got them working a couple of days ago. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:12:18 GMT http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Samba Using Samba shares with Amarok. You have your music files on a remote computer, and you share these files via samba/windows file sharing. The shared files may be read only or writeable by you, and you have them mounted on your local filesystem. You can access the files just fine there and play them, but they cannot be added to the collection. Adding silently fails, is very slow, or music gets added but cannot be played. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:51:57 GMT http://www.vectoredhost.com/index.html Free Package * 1000 MB Webspace * 5000 MB Bandwidth * cPanelX * 1 Parked Domain * 10 FTP Servers * 10 Mail Accounts * 10 Sub Domains * 10 SQL Databases * Free Tech Support All Our Packages Include * Virus Scanner * Free Tech Support * Linux run server * 99.9% Uptime * Frontpage Extensions * 24/7 Access to cPanel * FTP + E-mailer accounts * Web Statistics * Fantastico * Unlimited E-mail Lists * + Lots More Fantastico + cPanelX Features! Computing > World Wide Web narky Sun, 05 Nov 2006 09:22:36 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=160784 I can't seem to play any type of embedded video in Firefox anymore. Example: if I try to play a video through BBC News Player, MPlayer plug-in begins buffering the video and then stops without playing anything. Same behaviour appears when attempting to playback any type of embedded video in Firefox. The behaviour doesn't appear to be type or site specific. This didn't always happen. I first noticed the behaviour after I removed totem-xine and replaced it with totem-gstreamer. (I did this because totem-xine wouldn't playback video smoothly from a shared networked drive, but totem-gstreamer would.) Computing > Linux > Howto narky Wed, 01 Nov 2006 21:33:17 GMT