Category Archives: Linux

Smart Home’s connected technology will help drive house sales

Constructech.com reports that a smart home is more attractive to buyers, who are looking for value add services being integrated into their prospective purchase. “Industry data suggests three areas of connected home technology will fuel consumer demand moving forward, including home … Continue reading

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I might buy an Iphone so I can install android on it

Bernie Goldbach reports on the fact that Android is running on the iPhone. This is great news as far as I am concerned and I am awaiting further updates. http://linuxoniphone.blogspot.com/

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Testdisk – a tool for data recovery for an external usb hard drive

My 120GB Western Digital external USB hard drive is dying a slow death. I have suspected for the past few weeks that there was an issue as it would be detected on a haphazard basis my Windows and Linux.Scandisk and … Continue reading

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O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2009

I have just watched a history of failure which was presented at the O’Reilly Open source conference. It is a great history of software and hardware bugs with some valuable lessons. The open source conference contains a variety of talks, … Continue reading

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Open Source Conference Dublin Sept 19th 2009

The OSSBarcamp will take place in DIT kevin street on Saturday the 19th of September. The schedule looks impressive http://www.ossbarcamp.com/schedule/ Some of the talks 09:30 – ROOM 1 – INTRODUCTION Speaker: Laura Czajkowski Notes: A brief introduction to the event 09:30 – … Continue reading

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Managing your Ipod using Ubuntu 9.04 and Amarok.

With previous versions of Ubuntu I had no problem managing my Ipod using Amarok 1.4. Amarok is great for retrieving the cover art for your Ipod and transferring your mp3 to your Ipod.  When I upgraded to 9.04 I noticed … Continue reading

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Enabling the rotating desktop cube in Ubuntu intrepid 8.10

When I upgraded from 8.04 to 8.10 I lost my rotating desktop cube effect. This effect is managed by Compiz. The problem with compiz is that there are several flavours and versions of it. The native versioron is kde orientated. … Continue reading

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PEAP wi-fi ubuntu 8.10 Intrrepid, a work around

There is a documented bug with ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid regarding the use of PEAP, which is a encryption protocol for wireless. The following will allow you to get around the problem 1 – use version 0 of PEAP2- deactivate and … Continue reading

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Fix for flash audio not working in ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid

I recently upgraded to ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid), the audio for youtube would no longer work. It was necessary to install the alsa-oss and turn up the oss mixer via volume controlapt-get install alsa-oss

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Always keep a system rescue cd close by

My ubuntu laptop wouldn’t boot probably this evening as the /etc/mtab was corrupt. On boot up it wouldn’t fsck and repair the root file system and ubuntu doesn’t allow you to easily enter single user mode prior to mounting disks. … Continue reading

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