To add libdvdcss2 and win32codecs your Ubuntu installation is only necessary to add the Medibuntu package repository to the repository. To which we execute the following command line: ~ $ sudo wget - output-document = / etc / apt / sources.list.d / medibuntu.list http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d / $ (lsb_release-cs). list & & sudo apt-get - quiet update & & sudo apt-get - yes - quiet - allow-unauthenticated install medibuntu-keyring & & sudo apt-get - quiet update Now our Maverick meerkat and has the added repositories, we can only update their content. : ~ $ Sudo apt-get - yes install app-install-data-medibuntu-medibuntu apport-hooks: ~ $ sudo apt-get update Now install the files necessary codecs to play DVDs and other video formats on our Ubuntu: : ~ $ sudo apt-get install libdvdcss2 w32codecs This new repository offers the following new software: w32codecs libdvdcss2 RealPlayer Free-Go XdTV autopano-sift and hugin Freeplayer Divx4Linux kplayer Varsha K9Copy dir2ogg XDVDShrink dvdstyler kmplayer. Sharpmusique ... Read the full article »

Not regularly published videos, much less music, but truth be told I had to post this! I leave you with the System Administrator's Day song Please, pay attention to the portion of gifts to buy your system administrator! ... Read the full article »

I was struggling to see MKV files on my Ubuntu 10. These videos are not compressed in a regular format is a container format open source. But after a little research to achieve that with the VLC Media Player is very easy to play mkv files on Linux, you only need to install VLC. To install VLC on Debian or Ubuntu, type the following command: ~ $ sudo apt-get update: ~ $ sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd mozilla-plugin-vlc VLC also can install via Synaptic package manager, but I like the console. ... Read the full article »

First reading Linux Format magazine, I learned a new online radio transmitting the Linux kernel. How so? is asked. It turns out that each page is loaded the radio, it begins to transmit a kernel source file. In other words, the radio station begins to recite every line of source code file using the speech synthesizer to convert eSpeak text files into spoken words. Curious? The page is dedicated to Dr. Sheldon Cooper .. Below we share the link. Via | Radio Linux ... Read the full article »

In my laptop with Ubuntu 10 I have a nVidia avid Accelerator, the problem I have is that every time you reboot, the settings are reset monitor resolution and change. Therefore, every time I enter my user I have to go to Administration> NVIDIA X Server Settings and manually change to 1480 x 1024. The solution to permanently save the changes to the settings in the Nvidia X Server is to run the command: ~ # gksudo nvidia-settings with the configuration that runs as root and so we can save changes to the xorg file. ... Read the full article »

To all the friends you want to run Windows applications on Linux, like MS Office (2003, XP, 2010) Autocad or other as well as playing the latest video games Windows in Ubuntu, this day I bring this easy tutorial to get install lot of the newer games for Windows on your Linux with Wine. What is Wine Wine is a project that allows Windows programs designed to run under Linux, like Debian, Fedora, Redhat or Ubuntu. Although still not 100% compatible with the Windows API (Win16 and Win32) is in constant development, so long anymore and new programs and games for Windows. Even you can run Microsoft programs such as Internet Explorer via Wine. Other emulators like cedega or crossover ... Read full article »

I'm trying to run the script Wiki-Lyrics for Amarok 1.4 on my laptop running Ubuntu 10.04 work and each time I receive the following message: Need QtRuby, or TkRuby RubyGTK to run this program. To run the script we just install the package libgtk2-ruby, running on the terminal:: ~ $ sudo aptitude install libgtk2-ruby packages will be installed following NEW: libatk1-ruby1.8 {a} libcairo-ruby1.8 { a}-ruby1.8 libgdk-pixbuf2 libglib2 {a} {a}-ruby1.8-ruby libgtk2 libgtk2-ruby1.8 {a} libpango1-ruby1.8 {a} ... Read the full article »