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UF Tutorial of the Week – July 6, 2009.

bapoumba — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 19:08:57 +0000

July 6, 2009.

This week we would like to highlight FakeOutdoorsman’s well written and nicely presented “HOWTO: Easily enable MP3, MPEG4, AAC, and other restricted encoding in FFmpeg“. As pointed out in the thread, this tutorial clears up some confusion linked to legal reasons restricting the abilities of the ubuntu provided FFmpeg package. Several options are provided, along with the steps to follow to revert changes and remove the restricted packages. Well done!

Reference

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7557241&postcount=56

Last Epiphany release with a gecko back-end..

bapoumba — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:42:19 +0000

.. Is Epiphany 2.26.3. Yay for webkit :)

Reference

http://blogs.gnome.org/epiphany/2009/07/01/gecko-end-of-life/

UF Tutorial of the Week – June 8, 2009.

bapoumba — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 20:09:06 +0000

This week we are highlighting a thread that has been active and supported by frodon since October 20, 2005! This comprehensive “HOWTO : Create a FTP server with user access (proftpd)” is for you if you are willing to share files with friends over FTP protocol with proftpd, with username/password features (so only people you gave access will be able to get the files). Encryption is also detailed. Please do not hesitate to ask questions in the thread, frodon is always around to help people out.

Many thanks, frodon :)

UF Tutorial of the Week – June 1, 2009.

bapoumba — Fri, 29 May 2009 08:43:27 +0000

This week, we step again out of the Tutorial & Tips section of the forums, to highlight psyke83’s gigantic HOWTO: Jaunty Intel Graphics Performance Guide. Intel graphic hardware is quite popular and Intel drivers code has been extensively developed. Jaunty has some problems with the latest intel drivers or acceleration method. You can choose one of the three proposed methods, from safe, to optimal and the always risky bleeding edge.

We hope this will help ou with Intel video chips, please feel free to post your questions in the thread, psyke83 is actively supporting his tutorial.

See you next week !

Reference

http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=7365345&postcount=54

UF Tutorial of the Week – May 18, 2009

bapoumba — Fri, 22 May 2009 09:48:48 +0000

This week’s featured tutorial is “Comprehensive ndiswrapper troubleshooting guide” by pytheas22. This tutorial is well written, regularly updated and supported, and has been very popular. If you have troubles configuring ndiswrapper even thought it properly installed, this is the place to look at. Wireless is just a few steps away!

Ubuntuforums Tutorial of the Week revived.

bapoumba — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:18:07 +0000

A year and a half ago, K.Mandla started a nifty Tutorial of the Week project. The project goal is described here. Basically, we try to push forward tutorials that are clearly written and well supported by the author. If you wish to have an idea of what we expect for tutorials, please see here.

K.Mandla has moved to other fun projects, you can still follow them on Motho ke motho ka botho :)
That was quite unfortunate for us as UF team, and in particular for the Tutorial of the Week. I dearly miss you, K.Mandla.

After much discussions about refining the tutorials review process (this takes time, skills and dedication), I decided to dive into reviving the project that was missed by many members. I’ll do my best, although I know I’ll never get near to K.Mandla’s art..

Please feel free to nominate tutorials here or in the UF discussion thread, that will help us, thanks!

I’ll write later about the tutorial review process. We have quite a few ideas, but we do not have a consensus yet.

So, Tada! please have a look at this week’s featured thread:

HowTo: Install the very latest MPlayer under Jaunty Jackalope by andrew.46

This is a nifty tutorial that will show you how to successfully compile the subversion MPlayer under Jaunty Jackalope. For memory, ubuntu-freak’s “Comprehensive Multimedia & Video Howto” was the Tutorial of the Week for October 06, 2008 and should be used if you do not wish to compile applications.

This tutorial is very well presented, and, most of all, supported. You can even browse a recent tutorial from the same author, “Top 10 Tricks and Tips for the svn MPlayer” that focuses on MPlayer usage. Long hours of fun ahead!

Fivebean hosting

bapoumba — Wed, 06 May 2009 14:00:47 +0000

This is a first to me, I’ll advertise a hosting company that one of my friends is maintaining. The “UBUNTU” code will give you 50% off the hosting prize (see here).

Fivebean Shared Web Hosting & VPS Hosting.

Known Ubuntu Jaunty Jackalope bugs with workarounds

bapoumba — Mon, 04 May 2009 20:30:44 +0000

With every new release, frodon starts a thread to gather known bugs and their workarounds. Please feel free to add to the UF thread if you know of a bug that meets the thread requirements, thanks :)

Performance regressions on Intel graphics cards:
- Bug Report
- Workaround
Nvidia non-root permissions bug
- Bug Report
- Workaround
Camera doesn’t mount when connected and switched on
- Bug Report
- Workaround
Remote Desktop (vnc) screen freezes when remote host is 9.04
- Bug Report
- Workaround
Jaunty 9.04 Blind to XP’s Shared Network Printer
- Bug Report
- Workaround

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1145967

To download Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, please use torrents

bapoumba — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:02:50 +0000

You will find the torrent links for all Ubuntu flavors here. If you are located in an area not offering or not allowing torrents, you will find direct links in the same page.

Info on how to request CDs, release notes and much more on The Fridge Ubuntu 9.04 release announcement.

Medibuntu: non-free-codecs for Jaunty

bapoumba — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 20:26:29 +0000

The non-free-codecs from the Medibuntu repositories package provides codecs that are not distributed by Ubuntu.

Please first install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package from the multiverse ubuntu repository.

Add the Medibuntu repositories to your sources.list:

## Medibuntu.
deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ jaunty free non-free

Add the key to your keyring, reload the sources.list file and install the package:
wget -q http://packages.medibuntu.org/medibuntu-key.gpg -O- | sudo apt-key add - && sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install non-free-codecs

Enjoy!

Edit : If you get an error with gpg that cannot get the key, please run :
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com 2EBC26B60C5A2783
Should work..