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Ubuntu 20 & Video codecs
Tag: ubuntu
Back to Ubuntu
I have left Elementary and returned to Ubuntu, which is on v20 now. I am tired of having Linux stuff just not work. Elementary’s distro upgrade path is a menace, there’s no RDP, cloud disks are a pain in the butt, and now I found problems with bluetooth. Here are my notes on starting up on Ubuntu again. … Continue reading “Back to Ubuntu”
Ubuntu on AWS
While writing my piece on DAAS, two years ago, where I came to the conclusion that Azure was a better host, I also looked at Ubuntu on Amazon. Here are my notes which consist mainly of videos. Continue reading “Ubuntu on AWS”
Installing pump.io
I have had to do an install of pumpi.io a couple of times now and decided to write a script which I have put on GitHub since I only ever return after I have forgotten everything I learnt last time. Continue reading “Installing pump.io”
Ubuntu 14, add user visible
I screwed up the installation of a U14 Gnome installation and the user was not prompted on the desktop login panel. This was fixed by using the settings -> user accounts control.
Linux Power Management
Been trying to get my latest Linux Laptop to behave nicely while on battery. It’s an Elementary Luna build. I came to the conclusion that there’s not much that can be done; it’s one of those things we leave to the OS authors, in this case Canonical. Continue reading “Linux Power Management”
notify-send
While installing docker, I decided I needed to write some notifications to ensure the configuration works. See Docker. I started with a TCL/TK script, which these days looks a bit old school, and writing the packer was (& remains) difficult. Virtualbox reports its status on Ubuntu via a very pretty interface, prettier than Apple script anyway, so I thought I’d have a lock. Continue reading “notify-send”
Erlang
I had a quick look to check out erlang and installed it on one of my VMs. I also checked out what “Hello World” looked like. Stackoverflow has a getting started article here…. This article is currently just a couple of links. Continue reading “Erlang”
Bags of Words
We have been looking at Text Mining, which takes me to the concept of Bag of Words & Carrot2. Continue reading “Bags of Words”
Installing Elementary OS using a USB
I am planning to install a linux on my last laptop, It is an HP Probook and has no CD/DVD. I need to choose a Linux, this, elementry os looks good and is derived from Ubuntu.
I’ll need to create a bootable USB stick, this page might help. Unetbootin is also poined to on the Elementary downlod page, both at sourceforge
Ubuntu 13.10
I am installing this on the Mac under Virtual Box. This snip is about Ubuntu.
The first problem is that it comes with quite a bit of crap installed and the Unity search is over zealous and too network noisy.
This might be helpful, an article about the first 10 things to do. I seem to have a problem with finding the dash plugins to stop the internet searches. This needs to be tuned.
I want to configure the software package manager to check daily.
I have installed Unity Tweaks.
I have turned the virtual desktop manager on.
I have uninstalled Ubuntu One.
System V init scripts
I really like Ubuntu’s system V initialisation scripts and features. This is now based on the LSB standard. The Debian Wiki documents how to make an LSB init script here…. Continue reading “System V init scripts”
Planet Planet
I started using Planet in about 2008 2006, it would seem? I rapidly came too “Planet Venus” and this article was originally written during that time, and was copied from the snipsnap wiki, itself copied from my sun blog. This article focuses on installation and administration. It includes links to my scripts. It was heavily amended in June 2020 in thanks to the location of my tools and Sam’s code being on github. Continue reading “Planet Planet”
Snipsnap & Ubuntu
I decided to make an install of Snipsnap on my favourite Linux. I am using Ubuntu 9.0. This snip talks about how to, and configuring the rc.d files. It must be pretty useless now, and I have marked it deprecated and is another page that points at my mirror and thus needs to acknowledge that the source is now on github, https://github.com/thinkberg/snipsnap Continue reading “Snipsnap & Ubuntu”
LAMP & Ubuntu
This should be easier, but I think made harder because I corrupted my Firefox applications helper list, and then chose the wrong way out
My problem, the browser tries to download index.phtml, in retrospect because, I believe that the module wasn’t properly installed into apache. Using Ubuntu 9.04
The Right Way
This page, Apache MySQL PHP at https://help.ubuntu.com/ is the bible.
apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql libapache2-mod-php5 php5-mysql mysql-server
I am running in a virtual box so I needed to create a /etc/apache2/conf.d/fqdn. There wasn’t one on my system, it needs the line
ServerName localhost
I suspect that fixed it, and that my errors were caused by not initially correctly installing libapache2-mod-php5. I have proved that my install works by using Opera. Now to remove the .phtml line from the firefox browser and make the vm a server.