Ubuntu – Page 3 – Tall Tech Tales

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Silverlight for Linux

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on December 3, 2008November 3, 2016

After a very, very long time, the Linux Silverlight implementation is available to the public for release. Although just version 1 at this point, it’s at least something to dig into. The project goes under the name Moonlight and the homepage is http://www.mono-project.com/Moonlight. That page has a link to the actual download page for the […]

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Scanning Fixed

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on October 29, 2008November 3, 2016

I mentioned in a post several months ago that I had managed to get my printer to finally print properly while using Ubuntu. Since my printer is a printer-scanner-fax combo, I hadn’t bothered with the fax part until it actually became necessary for me to scan something. It turned out to be easier than expected. […]

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Tethering PPC6800 on Ubuntu (& Windows)

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on October 19, 2008November 3, 2016

After a long time of searching, I have finally found a very simple way to use my PPC6800 as a modem for my Ubuntu installation. The below instructions are specific to Ubuntu and have been tested by me on 8.04 Hardy Heron. Note: I can’t take credit for any of these instructions. The below two […]

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Ubuntu 8.10 and Other Fun Things

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on October 11, 2008November 3, 2016

With the latest version of Ubuntu coming out at the end of this month, I just couldn’t resist getting the beta installed on my desktop. Since my primary Linux computer is my laptop now, I figured it wouldn’t hurt to try it on that one first to see what happens. I know there are probably […]

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Low Speaker Volume Fix

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 15, 2008November 3, 2016

With DVD playback finally fixed, I can finally watch movies on. However, one thing leads to another and as soon as I started doing this, I noticed that the volume was awfully low. I turned up the volume everywhere as much as I could and looked around a bit and I suddenly realized that I […]

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DVD Playback resolved on XPS 1530

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 15, 2008November 3, 2016

In my last post, I mentioned briefly that I had yet to get DVD playback to work despite trying every solution out there. It turns out it was something as simple as the region not being set on the DVD player. I bumped into this while doing a few things in Vista. Now, after a […]

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Ubuntu on Dell XPS 1530

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 10, 2008November 3, 2016

I’ve had my XPS 1530 for a little less than a week now and I had Ubuntu installed just days after I got it so I have had a few days to tweak a few things so that they work as I would like them to. First of all, as far as installation I simply […]

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New Laptop – New Linux Adventures

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on September 6, 2008November 3, 2016

Yesterday, my much anticipated Dell XPS 1530 arrived at my local FedEx office. I was fortunate enough to be able to pick it up just before they closed down for the day and being a Friday night, I now have a whole weekend to get things rolling on this thing. First of all, the XPS […]

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Re-Install Complete

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on May 29, 2008November 3, 2016

After a few hairy moments when neither Ubuntu nor Windows would actually boot, my re-install of Ubuntu has worked out ok. What did I do different? Well, first of all I created a partition specifically for my /home/ directory. This is supposed to make upgrades easier since I won’t have to redo all my settings […]

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Ubuntu Reinstall

Mattias Ahlvin Posted on May 27, 2008November 3, 2016

I have been using Ubuntu Linux for a little over a month now with a little bit of a mixed experience. I found that installing Ubunut was a piece of cake and using various pieces of software like Openoffice, Firefox, Evolution and so on was painfree and very easy. However, I found that getting various […]