http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/computing?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "computing" on Netvouz http://www.abandonia.com/ Site is dedicated to abandoned DOS games, including many popular and classic games, neatly sorted. Computing > Computer Games narky Tue, 15 Aug 2006 03:29:36 GMT http://dee-ann.blog-city.com/amarok_driving_you_nuts.htm I'm an avid music listener with genres pretty much spanning the whole gamut of music types. As such, it's been very frustrating to me that Amarok (a feature-rich music player) for about a month now has crashed every time I try to scan my collection. The "helpful" error message suggests that maybe "taglib " (a library for reading metadata from MP3, Ogg, FLAC, and MPC multimedia files) was responsible. Okay. After spending a few hours searching I discovered that this issue comes up often in relationship to problems with the SQLite (a simplified version of an SQL database engine) database Amarok uses by default. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 04 Nov 2006 10:09:01 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=249442 If you feel up to it, I strongly recommend installing amarok from source. There are lots of things that don't work in the kubuntu version, one thing being automatic tagging. It's really not so hard to install from source, especially if you've already installed it via the package as most of the dependencies will already be met. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 06:05:45 GMT http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/ Having problems installing something on your new Ubuntu operating system? "Where's the EXE?", "Where do I need to extract this to?", "How do I run it?", "Where did it go?" - have you been thinking questions like these? Don't worry, installing software, themes and other things on Ubuntu is actually very easy! This guide will help you understand with screenshots, instructional videos and to-the-point language. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 21 Oct 2006 07:20:31 GMT http://www.psychocats.net/essays/kdevsgnome One of the most common questions people new to Linux ask is "Should I use KDE or Gnome?" Unfortunately, the answers are usually useless--anything from "Just try each one to see what works for you" to "Gnome is much better." That said, selecting a desktop environment should probably be one of the last things you worry about as a Linux "newbie." Hardware detection, email set-up, etc. are far more important to day-to-day functioning than your desktop environment. It's sort of like just learning how to ski and worrying about the color of your skis--learn how to ski first! Also, most versions (or distributions) of Linux have a default desktop environment (for example, Blag and Ubuntu default to Gnome, and Mepis and PCLinuxOS default to KDE) Computing > Linux narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:41:15 GMT http://www.linux.org/lessons/beginner/index.html Welcome to Linux Online's Getting Started with Linux beginner level course. If you're new to Linux and want to find out how to use the fastest growing operating system today, all you have to do is follow these lessons and you'll be using Linux efficiently in no time. Getting Started with Linux is designed as a self-study course. We're afraid that due to the numbers of people who follow this course, we cannot answer any specific questions or clear up any doubts you may have about the material. In short, there is no extra help available. You are on your own. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sat, 16 Sep 2006 10:39:24 GMT http://msy.com.au/ The cheapest shop in the southern hemisphere! Computing > Computer shops narky Mon, 22 May 2006 11:52:23 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=212320 Well, first of all, try Code: kdesu kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list instead of Code: sudo kwrite /etc/apt/sources.list See if that makes a difference. If not, try Code: sudo nano /etc/apt/sources.list Computing > Linux > Howto narky Mon, 20 Nov 2006 03:37:57 GMT http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic Here you can generate an ubuntu sources.list for your preferred set of repositories. Just tick all repositories you want. The default set is selected automatically. If you know another repository that should be included here, feel free to send your suggestion to dennis@ubuntu.com When a repository in this list has a GPG key, you may need to add that to the APT trusted keys. You can do this with the following commands (replace KEY with the key ID) Computing > Linux > Howto narky Fri, 03 Nov 2006 07:14:59 GMT http://www.psychocats.net/essays/linuxdesktopmyth Great discussion article on why linux isn't on more desktops. It's entirely possible that you may not have heard of Linux. Maybe you own a Mac or Windows computer and don't read the technology news. You may have a TiVo, but it doesn't have a huge sticker on the box that reads "Powered by Linux" (even though it is). You may use Google, but it doesn't have any announcement on its homepage that it's run on Linux servers (even though it is). Whether you've heard of Linux or not--it probably plays a role in your life somehow. Computing > Linux narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 03:43:09 GMT