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Adventures with Ubuntu -installing Gimp 2.8

April 6, 2012

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This last month has been exciting for me because I have been running Ubuntu 12.04, which as you may know, is a Latest Stable Release that has a ton of new features included. I really love it, and using it has solidified my addiction to linux as my primary OS. In a post I made [...]

Adventures with Ubuntu -script for recording desktop

July 17, 2011

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After trying just about every screen-casting software in the Ubuntu Software Center with no success, I finally stumbled onto a nifty script someone wrote and posted on the web. I noticed the link to that same website is dead now, so I thought I would repost the script here: screencast script (right click and “save [...]

Adventures with Ubuntu -ALPs touchpad woes

July 14, 2011

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My Dell laptop (a Dell inspiron m5030 )  has been serving me well to date running ElementaryOS; however, there have been a few minor issues I had to overcome to really get the full user experience one should have while computering. First off, the track-pad mouse was not working properly, and on top of that, [...]

Adventures with Ubuntu -Multiple Users

May 15, 2011

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In the previous post I described how I set up my Ubuntu workstation with multiple hard drives by editing the fstab file. My next step is to use those hard drive partitions between multiple users on the desktop computer and also on the network. before I do, I want to reveal the fact that I [...]

Adventures with Ubuntu -Multiple Hard Drives

May 14, 2011

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Because of an upcoming road-trip this summer, I needed a nice laptop that I could use as a work-station. Unfortunately for me that meant I had to sell my power-house desktop so that I could afford the laptop.  As a result of this little exchange my household was left with a single-core desktop computer and [...]

Adventures with Ubuntu -Elementary OS

April 11, 2011

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Last night I was not feeling well, so I installed the new release of Elementary OS on to my little Ideapad Netbook while I laid in bed. Elementary OS strives for ease of use and simplicity, which is appealing to my personality. I also needed something a little faster on my netbook than Ubuntu Maverick, [...]

Adventures with Ubuntu -Wine and Photoshop

March 7, 2011

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I love Ubuntu and all of the free software that is available. So far I have been able to find really great software for everything I do, with a few exceptions: I have not been able to find great replacements for Filemaker, DreamWeaver and Photoshop, so I have had to stick with running Photoshop and [...]