Mount your ntfs drive on boot in Ubuntu
So you’ve got an NTFS drive you want mounted when your Ubuntu machine boots? Time to pull up your favorite editor and modify /etc/fstab. This is what I ended up with: /dev/mapper/sil_aiaiahddacai1 /media/Storage ntfs-3g defaults,gid=1000,uid=1000,locale=en_US.UTF-8 0 0 Replace the gid and uid values with the ids of your group and user. Run id to get these values. I also had to make sure I...
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After a brief and torrid affair with Fedora, I gave up and threw Ubuntu 10.04 on my home desktop. One thing that I missed from Fedora was the fpaste utility. This handy little command-line tool lets you paste the results of your shell commands to fpaste.org, a semi-official Fedora pastebin. After realizing that pastebin.com had an open API, I took it upon myself to write a little Python script...
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So I recently started using Vim as my text-editor of choice. I used to hate Vi with a passion, but lately I’ve grown frustrated with the bloated, laggy IDE’s of today, so I turned to Vim. Vim is a super lightweight text-editor that you run from the terminal. The command syntax made no sense to me at first, but slowly I started to learn the basics and soon I was working along as fast...
Read MoreBanshee music player won’t play or seek on Linux
If you install Banshee on your Linux box expecting it to play music, you’re in for a surprise. Banshee depends on the GStreamer codec packages for audio and video decoding (and encoding). Unfortunately, most of the codecs you want are not packaged with most Linux distros by default. Does Banshee support audio/video format X (mp3, aac, mpeg, etc)? Banshee uses GStreamer for audio and video...
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About a week ago I decided to throw the Moblin v2.0 beta [Wikipedia] on my netbook (an Acer Aspire One). I’ve previously been running the Ubuntu Netbook Remix and have been pretty happy with it. I haven’t been using my netbook much lately and Moblin’s was rocking new interface really intrigued me. So I decided to try it out. Moblin’s core release is built on top of Fedora...
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