http://www.netvouz.com/narky/tag/howto?feed=rss narky's bookmarks tagged "howto" on Netvouz 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.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=195557 Note: I have another guide for adjusting screensaver settings in Dapper without replacing gnome-screensaver. I prefer the method described in that guide to this one, but your mileage may vary. Both have their pros and cons so make sure you check out both before applying the instructions. Problem: Dapper ships with gnome-screensaver instead of xscreensaver, which gives the user no option to set individual screensaver settings. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 15:10:07 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.pcmech.com/show/os/917/1/ Alright, so you have successfully installed Ubuntu Linux, but now what do you do with it? You are in the right place. I am going to get you started with a guide on how to use your new Ubuntu system. This transition guide is targeted at existing Windows users and will show you how to do program installations, a little system configuration, but primarily highlight some Windows "replacement" programs for common applications you can't live without. This guide's intent is to introduce you to equivalent programs to what you are accustomed to and, hopefully, to cover a good amount of what you might want in a new install. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Tue, 05 Sep 2006 10:16:42 GMT http://doc.gwos.org/index.php/BreezyCust Breezy Customization Guide.This guide is a continued WIP, and contains information/tips for streamlining your Breezy system. Computing > Linux > Howto narky Tue, 22 Aug 2006 07:41:03 GMT http://www.fstop-blues.com/2005/05/building-home-theater-pc-part-2.html Good set of links towards installing MythTV. So the first home theater software package I am going to try out is going to by MythTV for Linux. There are several different ways you can go to install MythTV depending on which Linux distribution you want to use. Computing > HTPC > Howto narky Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:03:50 GMT http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=212482 A simple lookup on where to find the terminal history... I'm not sure if there's a command to clear the history, but I know they're stored in ~/.bash_history so I guess what I'd do is open the file up and manually delete the entries. Code: sudo gedit ~/.bash_history Computing > Linux > Howto narky Sun, 05 Nov 2006 02:18:12 GMT http://www.creativemac.com/2003/03_mar/reviews/maskpro3030331.htm Masking is one of those chores that only the most ascetic of us can appreciate, and then only when we have something really awful to atone for. It's laborious. It's time-consuming. And it's sometimes futile, a fact many of us discover only after hours of attempting to mask out individual strands of hair at 800x magnification. If only a piece of software would come along that could help alleviate the pain.... Well, in fact, if you haven't already guessed, there is such a piece of software. Actually there are several. But today we're going to take a look at one that I consider not only to be an outstanding masking product, but a stellar example of how productivity tools for designers ought to be made: Extensis Mask Pro 3. Advertisement Design > Digital Design > Photoshop narky Sun, 08 Oct 2006 09:53:35 GMT