I have Virtualbox 3.1.4 r57640 installed on Windows XP as the host, Ubuntu 9.10 as the guest. And since the ubuntu is not being used as an active development currently, I decided to upgrade it to Ubuntu 10.04 Beta 1. Having read a lot of positive reviews for Lucid Lynx, I wanted to try it out as soon as possible.
The upgrade took more than a couple of hours. It downloaded a GB of package data from ...
Continue Reading ?The latest edition of Amarok is too good. I was using 2.2.0 prior to this one. The new amarok has a couple of features which makes the experience even more enriching.
The 2.3.0 sees a new toolbar. The left edge has pause or play button, the right end has a sound control and the remaining width is made up of the progress bar. Above the progress bar in the middle is shown the details of the song ...
Continue Reading ?I have my Ubuntu installed in Virtual Box. The very first thing that I needed to do was to setup my Ubuntu to recognize Windows drives. I setup two bash scripts to run at startup and shutdown. The following is what I have done.
anu@sw:/etc/init.d$ sudo vi vboxStartup
#!/bin/bash # Mount the Win virtual drives - MyDocument, CShared, PidginWin sudo mount -t vboxsf MyDocuments /mnt/MyDocuments sudo mount -t vboxsf CShared /mnt/CShared sudo mount -t vboxsf PidginWin /mnt/PidginWin # Sync ...Continue Reading ?
Ever since I joined FICO and received my laptop, I had been wondering if I could install Ubuntu on it. Now officially I might not be allowed to, but what if I take a chance and do it myself. However, there was a small glitch.
The laptop that we use comes with Data Protector installed. The Data Armor software keeps the hard disk encrypted at all times. Even while windows is running, the Data Armor is operational silently ...
Continue Reading ?The company that I work for has provided me a Dell D630 Latitude. And since this is the only laptop I have, I use it for my personal purpose too. The laptop came with windows XP installed. Since I have never been a fan of Windows, I wanted to get back to ubuntu on my laptop.
This is where the problems started. Now the company is paranoid when it comes to security. They have installed an application ...
Continue Reading ?Don’t like Amarok 2? Despair not, because there is a way to get back your Amarok 1.4 in Ubuntu Jaunty. Basically, you need to find a mirror of Amarok 1.4 and just install from there. One of those is mentioned below. This is all you have to do :
Add the repositories for Amarok 1.4 to your sources.list file:
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/bogdanb/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main
Add the key:
sudo apt-key adv –recv-keys –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com \
0x1d7e9dd033e89ba781e32a24b9f1c432ae74ae63
And then finally, ...
Continue Reading ?I have a huge collection of songs stored in my 500 GB USB drive. Now this partition is accessible from /media/Songs/audio [I mounted the partition with label Songs]. The problem I was facing was that Amarok 2.1 failed to remember the location of audio folder. As a result, whenever I would close and restart Amarok, I would lose all the collection information. And if I build the collection again, the information such as number of times played and etc., ...
Continue Reading ?Amarok 2.0.2 lacked many a features of the earlier 1.4 edition, and was largely a disappointment.
For one the playlist was displayed differently, and it was not easy getting used to it. I used to have my playlist sorted in the order of rating or last played or play count, but that was missing here. Also the playlist was cramped to a side, hardly revealing anything.
More than a half of the sreen was covered up with applets or ...
Continue Reading ?I just couldn’t wait for the 24th of April and decided to upgrade Intrepid to the present Alpha version of Jaunty yesterday. After downloading some 1300 mb’s and then taking up another hour to complete all the modifications, my computer restarted.
Apparently Jaunty is supposed to boot up faster. I did not notice any difference though. A possible reason could be that I had installed Intrepid using WUBI, so the disk access are going to be slow. Also I ...
Continue Reading ?Well, when it comes to twidling around with Linux installation, I am a newbie. Usually my experiments end up with me not knowing how to reverse the side effects. I have no choice other than to live with the problems created. But periodically I have to do a complete reinstall of my system to keep it running well (also because after a certain point I cannot bear to see all the broken application, dead links and innumerable errors). Earlier ...
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