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admin — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:02:48 +0000

Welcome to UbuntuHQ. Our goal is to collect all Ubuntu related articles in one place. Here you can find recent news issues, application reviews, howto's and other stories. Every article has a 'Full Story' link to the original website. There's also an easy browseable archive of howto's.

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aria2: Cross Platform Command Line Tool To Download Files From HTTP, FTP and Bittorrent

hotice — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 12:36:59 +0000

aria2 is a command line utility for Windows, Linux and Mac OSX you can use for downloading files, which supports HTTP(S), FTP, BitTorrent, and Metalink. The cli tool can download a file from multiple sources/protocols and tries to utilize your maximum download bandwidth. Really speeds up your download experience. Also, aria2 has all the features you want in a BitTorrent client: DHT, PEX, Encryption, Web-Seeding and Selective Downloads.

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Ubuntu Open Week in a Nutshell

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:40:27 +0000

Ever wonder what all the excitement about? Did you miss a day of Ubuntu Open Week or maybe a session you really wanted to participate in? Let’s review this week of EDUCATIONAL EXCITEMENT, COLLABORATIVE CURRCULA, and INCLUSIVE INSTRUCTION.

Ubuntu Open Week had 40 hours of session, with each session hovering at about 300 people per session. Imagine a week long 300+ ...

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How to Configure Ubuntu desktop to use your proxy server

admin — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 00:27:42 +0000

If you are having ubuntu desktop/laptop in your office or home behind proxy this tutorial is for you.This tutorial will explain How to Configure Ubuntu desktop/laptop to use your proxy server.

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What To Do When keyserver.ubuntu.com Is Down?

hotice — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:29:17 +0000

You probably know that to use a Launchpad PPA repository, you must also import the GPG key. This is how it worked until Ubuntu Karmic Koala:

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Gain Space By Removing The Maximized Windows Titlebar [Linux w/ Compiz or Maximus]

hotice — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 11:11:34 +0000

If you ever used Google Chrome - and you must have -, then you might have noticed how much vertical space you can gain by removing the window title bar. Yes Google Chrome has a titlebar, but as an extent of the tabs, so that's not conventional titlebar.

This can be very useful for a laptop, netbook and so on as you will gain a lot more usable space, but believe me, you will also notice the extra space on a normal desktop monitor.

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Ubuntu Tip:How to Play VCD using VLC Player

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 07:11:14 +0000

This is very simple tutorial how to open VCD using VLC Player

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Install Java Runtime Environment (JRE) in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

admin — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 00:17:29 +0000

Java is an object-oriented programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. Java applications are compiled to bytecode, which at runtime is either interpreted or compiled to ...

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Build Your Own Custom Ubuntu Live CD

MaryRiley — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:00:21 +0000

You turn on your trusty old Linux box, and things are going well as you pass through the boot loader, until the disk check reveals that your hard drive partition table is corrupt, and you are unable to access your machine. You need a good rescue disk — and the best way to get one is to create your own.

Build Your Own Custom Ubuntu Live CD

Memo to Ubuntu Devs: Make Separate Home Default

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:11:45 +0000

Twice a year, when it comes time to upgrade to the newest Ubuntu release, I'm reminded of how nice it is to have my /home directories on separate partitions from the system directories–except when ...

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Testing the Nouveau Driver on Ubuntu

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 13:10:24 +0000

A build of the nouveau video driver for nVidia cards was included in the Ubuntu repositories beginning with Jaunty. I've been ...

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Install Wallpaper Clocks In Ubuntu Linux

hotice — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:57:25 +0000

Wallpaper Clocks can be used to display various wallpapers with a real-time working clock blended into the wallpaper. Basically, the website to which I linked doesn't provide an application for it, but there are several apps which can make use of the Wallpaper Clocks provided by that website. However, the applications are not free - for Windows that is - for Linux, you can use a Screenlet which is obviously free and well, that's all you have to do. So here's how to do it.

Even though we will use Screenlets for this, the actual wallpaper won't be a screenlet, but a normal wallpaper which changes every minute or day (depending on the wallpaper you choose).

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Bazaar Explorer – Advanced Version Control Made Simple

admin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 00:02:27 +0000

Bazaar Explorer, a wonderful cross-platform Qt-based GUI front-end to the Bazaar VCS, is making it even easier. Whether you’re just getting started with DVCS or you just prefer a graphical environment, you ...

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Howto Convert AVI to DVD ISO in Ubuntu

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:25:42 +0000

This tutorial will explain Howto Convert AVI to DVD ISO in Ubuntu

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How to restore notifications Position in Ubuntu 9.10 as they did in Ubuntu 9.04

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:07:36 +0000

One of the changes Ubuntu 9.10 made from 9.04 was the placement of “asynchronous” farther down the right side of the screen.The problem a lot of users have with this is that it ...

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Use Gmail To Send Emails From A Terminal (Shell)

hotice — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 19:47:31 +0000

We've seen how to check Gmail using the terminal (shell) in Linux and Mac but how about sending emails from a shell?

This is actually pretty easy, here's what you have to do:

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Install Empathy in Ubuntu Jaunty/Intrepid/Hardy

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:01:22 +0000

Empathy is a messaging program which supports text, voice, and video chat and file transfers over many different protocols. You can tell it about your accounts on all those services and do all your chatting ...

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How to install sopcast player in Ubuntu 9.10(Karmic)

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:15:42 +0000

SopCast Player is designed to be an easy to use Linux GUI front-end for the p2p streaming technology developed by SopCast. SopCast Player features an integrated video player, a channel guide, and bookmarks. ...

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Ubun-student – Easy way to install commonly used professional softwares in Ubuntu

admin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:53:54 +0000

As we all known, a lot of professional softwares do not provide Debian packages in their official sites. These softwares include TexLive 2008, NetBeans 6.7, Intel Compiler, ...

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Shotwell: New Open Source Photo Organizer for Gnome

hotice — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:29:10 +0000

Shotwell is a relatively new open source photo organizer designed for the GNOME desktop environment. It's purpose is to allow you to easily organize your digital camera photos (basic editing included).

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Epidermis Theme Manager For Linux Automatically Downloads and Installs Themes

hotice — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:27:09 +0000

Epidermis theme manager is an open source GTK application for managing, automatically downloading and installing themes of various types, in order to transform the look of your Ubuntu desktop, from the moment you turn it on until the moment you turn it off.

Basically, Epidermis can be used to install new themes (Metacity, GTK), wallpapers, icons, cursors, spash, xsplash, GRUB and GDM.

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What To Do After Installing Ubuntu Karmic Koala? Just Run This Script!

hotice — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:25:10 +0000

Well, it seems I'm starting to learn lots of languages (actually using Google Translate). Yesterday, I translated a script to install Hamachi in Ubuntu, and today, here is yet another script (translated from Polish), which should help a lot of new Ubuntu users.

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How to install vmware server 2.0.x in Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic)

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:49:42 +0000

VMware Server is a free virtualization product for Windows and Linux servers with enterprise-class support and VirtualCenter management. VMware Server is a robust yet easy to use server virtualization ...

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Fix for VLC doesn’t play video after ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic) Upgrade

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 00:37:00 +0000

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After completing the upgrade to Karmic every time if youtry to play any sort of video in VLC none of them work

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Install Hamachi + GUI In Linux, Using A Script

hotice — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 14:45:25 +0000

Hamachi is a zero-configuration virtual private network (VPN) application capable of establishing direct links between computers that are behind NAT firewalls without requiring reconfiguration (in most cases); in other words, it establishes a connection over the Internet that very closely emulates the connection that would exist if the computers were connected over a local area network.

Installing Hamachi in Linux is not that easy. Well, it is but it's a lot easier using a script for it, which will also allow you to install a GUI (graphical user interface) for Hamachi. Actually, you can choose from 2 GUIs.

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