http://netvouz.com/narky/tag/linux?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "linux" on Netvouz http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/amarok_driving_you_nuts.htm I'm an avid music listener with genres pretty much spanning the whole gamut of music types. As such, it's been very frustrating to me that Amarok (a feature-rich music player) for about a month now has crashed every time I try to scan my collection. The "helpful" error message suggests that maybe "taglib " (a library for reading metadata from MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and MPC multimedia files) was responsible. Okay. After spending a few hours searching I discovered that this issue comes up often in relationship to problems with the SQLite (a simplified version of an SQL database engine) database Amarok uses by default. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:09:01 GMT http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php?content=38835 Just like I promised, the first (public) preview release of the new Dropline NEU! icon set. What’s new about this one?, well… everything!!. I’ll start by saying that the icons have been resized to 48×48 and in this resize process every icon got modified :) . This release is compliant with FreeDesktop.org’s Icon Naming Specification (just like Giøn). It also includes 22×22, 24×24, 48×48 and 128×128 PNGs (for those of you who prefer use PNGs instead of SVG for performance) 16×16 is coming in the final release. Computing > Linux > Window Managers narky Tue, 26 Sep 2006 23:05:45 GMT http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/ Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? "Where's the EXE?", "Where do I need to extract this to?", "How do I run it?", "Where did it go?" - have you been thinking questions like these? Don't worry, installing software, themes and other things on Ubuntu is actually very easy! This guide will help you understand with screenshots, instructional videos and to-the-point language. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:20:31 GMT http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195557 Note: I have another guide for adjusting screensaver settings in Dapper without replacing gnome-screensaver. I prefer the method described in that guide to this one, but your mileage may vary. Both have their pros and cons so make sure you check out both before applying the instructions. Problem: Dapper ships with gnome-screensaver instead of xscreensaver, which gives the user no option to set individual screensaver settings. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:10:07 GMT http://www.psychocats.net/essays/kdevsgnome One of the most common questions people new to Linux ask is "Should I use KDE or Gnome?" Unfortunately, the answers are usually useless--anything from "Just try each one to see what works for you" to "Gnome is much better." That said, selecting a desktop environment should probably be one of the last things you worry about as a Linux "newbie." Hardware detection, email set-up, etc. are far more important to day-to-day functioning than your desktop environment. It's sort of like just learning how to ski and worrying about the color of your skis--learn how to ski first! Also, most versions (or distributions) of Linux have a default desktop environment (for example, Blag and Ubuntu default to Gnome, and Mepis and PCLinuxOS default to KDE) Computing > Linux narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:41:15 GMT http://uranus.it.swin.edu.au/~jn/linux/smbfs/ Defintely worth a read. Despite the advanced networking capabilities of Linux, the only network filesystem which is available seems to be NFS. There are others but they are either still in development, not free or not featured enough to act as a replacement for NFS... unitl now. Enter SMBFS. SMBFS allows Linux to mount a remote SMB share but until now it did not act like a UNIX file system, even if the remote host was Samba running on a UNIX or Linux machine. This page is the home of the CIFS for UNIX implementation for SMBFS. Along with the server side Samba implementation, directories can now be mounted across the network using SMB. Computing > Linux narky Sun, 05 Nov 2006 00:02:25 GMT http://linux.oneandoneis2.org/LNW.htm If you've been pointed at this page, then the chances are you're a relatively new Linux user who's having some problems making the switch from Windows to Linux. This causes many problems for many people, hence this article was written. Many individual issues arise from this single problem, so the page is broken down into multiple problem areas. If you really want the security and performance of a Unix-based OS but with a customer-focussed attitude and an world-renowned interface: Buy an Apple Mac. OS X is great. But don't get Linux: It will not do what you want it to do. Computing > Linux narky Mon, 04 Sep 2006 05:48:21 GMT http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html Welcome to Linux Online's Getting Started with Linux beginner level course. If you're new to Linux and want to find out how to use the fastest growing operating system today, all you have to do is follow these lessons and you'll be using Linux efficiently in no time. Getting Started with Linux is designed as a self-study course. We're afraid that due to the numbers of people who follow this course, we cannot answer any specific questions or clear up any doubts you may have about the material. In short, there is no extra help available. You are on your own. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:39:24 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=212320 Well, first of all, try Code: kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list instead of Code: sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list See if that makes a difference. If not, try Code: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list Computing > Linux > Howto narky Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:37:57 GMT http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic Here you can generate an ubuntu sources.list for your preferred set of repositories. Just tick all repositories you want. The default set is selected automatically. If you know another repository that should be included here, feel free to send your suggestion to dennis@ubuntu.com When a repository in this list has a GPG key, you may need to add that to the APT trusted keys. You can do this with the following commands (replace KEY with the key ID) Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:14:59 GMT