Recently I’ve noticed quite a few asking for methods changing the looks of the Ubuntu Desktop to make it a bit more appealing. Personally I don’t like the brown theme Ubuntu has going on at the moment But its really not hard to change anyway . Well I’m going to show you how you can customize your desktop to get it to look a bit better ot at least give you shove in the right direction.Heres two of my desktops that I customized.
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There a quite a few ways to view system stats in Linux like CPU or Hard Disk temperature. The usual ways include using gdesklets and screenlets to get the same. Although the benefit of the above is that you get rather neat looking little applets which you can place all over your desktop, they come with the disadvantage of using quite a bit more memory. With the decreasing prices of Memory this shouldn’t be an issue for most. However for those resource conscious folks who would like to view all those system stats at a low memory usage overhead then Conky is definitely the way to go.
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There are sometimes that you need to get help from a live person or those Google searches aren’t doing you any good at all. In such a case your best bet is to try the Ubuntu IRC community for help. If you remember my first post about Ubuntu I mentioned about the community being a huge plus. Well if you enter the Ubuntu channel you can see that theres quite a few folks always there. To be frank, I’ve never seen the channel have any lesser than 1000 people in the channel . Now lets see on how we can use IRC to get some help.
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Although I use Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon on this system I have access to another computer which dual boots into Windows XP and Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon . I noticed that the ntfs partition was not mounted by default and I wanted to be able to mount it in case I ever wanted to access the information in it. Read the rest of this entry »
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When I was using Windows XP I bought an Internal TV Tuner card for my system so I could watch a show or two just in case someone was watching a program on TV at the same time. I found that configuring Ubuntu to use this TV Tuner wasn’t exactly a piece of cake. However I managed to get the picture and sound. Although the sound isn’t exactly very clear.
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Using Ubuntu or most distros on a low bandwidth Internet connection (dial-up) becomes a pain. For example you need to have an Internet connection to get those restricted extras which allow you to play that huge library of MP3 files you have going. Although the following isn’t going to help you make your dial-up download stuff at the speed of a T3. It will definitely help you in backing up all the stuff you already have on your computer or help you in getting the files installed on your friend’s computer.
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If you are one of those unlucky few who has a data cap like I do on my BSNL connection then you will definitely need something reliable to monitor the amount of data transferred. BSNL’s site seem to work for people who have one of the earlier 59.x.x.x IP addresses but for new users they seem to be giving out bsnl.in accounts and the site you use to log the usage for these accounts is horrific. It doesn’t take into account the amount of data you are allowed to download. That is right now at my first month it says I already owe them Rs. 270 for downloading 304,000 + KB . In other words for 296 MB I’ve been charged Rs. 270. However the plan guarantees that you are allowed 1GB of data transfer.
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I’ve frequently heard the question over and over again that someone couldn’t get MP3’s to play in Amarok or whichever program the person is using. I’m going to try to give you the most easiest way you could possibly accomplish this.
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