http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/howto?feed=rss&pg=2 narky's bookmarks tagged "howto" on Netvouz http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280391 An SMB network browser for Linux and X11. This package allows users to browse SMB (e.g. Windows Network Neighborhood) networks under X, and mount/unmount SMB shared filesystems via a graphical interface. It is somewhat more network-efficient that other similar tools because it uses the proper protocol for identifying network shares rather than simply scanning IP address ranges. In order for LinNeighborhood to work properly, you must have the smbfs filesystem compiled into your kernel and have a working Samba setup. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 08:53:40 GMT http://www.designgraphics.com.au/ All about digital publishing - regular features include Photoshop tips and techniques. Design > Digital Design narky Fri, 14 Jul 2006 03:27:47 GMT 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://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://penguintv.sourceforge.net/ PenguinTV is not just another RSS feed reader. It is designed from the ground up to work seamlessly with podcasts and video blogs, allowing you to easily enjoy the audio, music, and video published around the web in RSS format. One user calls it "hands down the app of choice" for downloading video blogs. User Interface Until now, the only solutions for listening to podcasts on Linux have been clunky apps and unreliable bash scripts. Computing > Linux > Software narky Wed, 06 Sep 2006 00:46:29 GMT http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photography Photography is the process of making pictures by means of the action of light. Media > Photography narky Mon, 22 May 2006 22:21:44 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://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Dapper Unofficial Ubuntu 6.06 (Dapper Drake) Starter Guide This guide was started by Chua Wen Kiat (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia). It is now being maintained by the Linux Center of University of Latvia, and everyone else who is willing to contribute. Computing > Linux narky Mon, 21 Aug 2006 05:45:34 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