If I had to pick one horror story that I get messaged about the most, it would be the dreaded bootloader. "It's missing" or "I have a black screen of death.." and some people edit their grub.cfg without realizing it can disable you from booting at all, essentially turning your computer into a brick. Yay!
Most of you already know that when you power on your computer, the first software that runs is a bootloader that invokes the OS from the computer. GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, is an important part of many Linux systems. Above are a few tips to help address the issues with Grub 2.
What are your horror stories?
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GUADEC 2010 videos available
Get the goods here since the videos currently aren't broken down into individual talks yet it is useful to have the GUADEC 2010 Program handy.
Thank you to Vincent van Adrighem for blogging this
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OMG Video: Desktop Recording in Ubuntu - No Sammich For You!
While on vacation this last month, I gathered up all the requests for Ubuntu help and advice that I have received over a year or so and decided I would attack them here by popularity.
The most popular "request" was.. sudo make me a sandwich (alternately, sammich)
Sorry guys, you need my private key to ssh in as root ;-)
The second most popular request is: How do you capture your desktop in Ubuntu?
Here's two ways of capturing your computer screen - Easy and Challenge Mode:
To answer that I have put together a video tutorial which helps people learn the easy way to do desktop recording (gtk-recordmydesktop), and the more difficult way I do it, using ffmpeg from the terminal.
You will probably notice that I did not record sound in this tutorial - I used Audacity to narrate the desktop captures during the editing process.
I hope you enjoy and find this useful, and I owe many thanks to FakeOutdoorsman and andrew.46 from the Ubuntu forums for making this possible.
Which method did you know? The easy, the difficult, or both ways?
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Furious iPod video converter makes transcoding videos in Ubuntu easy
Furious iConverter is, as the name might suggest, a video conversion tool for use with iPod, iPod Touch & iPhone.
The simple GTK interface provides users with a convenient front-end for converting any FFMpeg-supported video format into iPod/iPhone friendly MP4.
No set-up or configuration is required to use it, simple drag and drop your videos and hit the 'Start' button to convert. Video aspect ratio and quality is automatically automatically detected and converted accordingly.
No set-up or configuration is required to use it, simple drag and drop your videos and hit the 'Start' button to convert. Video aspect ratio and quality is automatically automatically detected and converted accordingly.
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Furious iConverter is a free download available @ marcus-furius.com/?page_id=200.
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How fast does your PC boot? (Awesome Ubuntu promo video)
Goce Mitevski submitted the following promotional Ubuntu video to the Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase group on Vimeo - and boy does it rock!
“Free Culture what?”
The Ubuntu Free Culture Showcase provides users with an opportunity to get their creative talents seen by millions of Ubuntu users the world over. Simply create and submit wallpapers, music or video contributions for inclusion.
For more info on the Free Culture Showcase hit up the Ubuntu Wiki @ wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
What would we do without Cullen?
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The new Gnome-Shell mock-up in motion
The “new” style GNOME Shell mock-up presented at last weeks Guadec conference now comes with added motion! The following video demos the intended motion-design of the layout so whilst what you see below is not a screencast of current functionality it is a pretty slick design nonetheless.
Thanks to Alex
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The best advert for Ubuntu you probably never saw
OMG! reader Sebastian stopped by the OMG! Mailbox to drop off a link to this immensely impressive Dell/Ubuntu promotional video that, curiously, I - nor anyone I showed this to prior to posting - had ever come across previously.
Which irked me somewhat because it is fantastic!
The video shows off the capabilities of Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook Edition/Remix on some pretty Dell netbooks and is a stunning few minutes of Ubuntu-filled win - whether you’ve seen it before now or not.
The music in the trail was contributed by composer Keith Kenniff, who’s scored adverts for companies such as O2, Honda, MTV and Canon. His music has also been featured in various films and programmes - including on the BBC.
Cheers Sebastian!
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Canonical Talks Ubuntu on ARM
Our lovely friends over at ArmDevices.net nabbed themselves a great interview with Canonical’s ‘Partner Engineer’ Jerone Young who discusses the challenges and opportunities optimizing Ubuntu for ARM is bringing.
It’s a great interview well worth a watch so grab a coffee and get clued up on one of the most exciting areas for Ubuntu in computing right now…
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Online Mencoder Command Generator makes command line DVD conversion a cinch
SimpleRip is an online JavaScript-based command generator for Mencoder. It allows you to generate the necessary commands to encode a movie directly from a DVD title to an Xvid file with a minimum of fuss.
By using this web-based approach anyone can easily generate the commands needed to encode video in the desired way. Toggle some boxes, enter your preferences and the genertor spits out a command that you can then copy-and-paste into a terminal window.
Try it out @ http://quadpoint.org/projects/simplerip
Thanks to scifijerry
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We're NOT Mac OS X!
Those who installed Lucid Lynx got a surprise - from pre-releases through to the full release of 10.04, Ubuntu's windows buttons have swapped sides! Interesting how this default setup of these buttons now mirror those of the OS X.
The following short tutorial will explain how to switch your minimize/maximize/close window buttons from the left side back to the right side, without using the command line! Farewell counter-intuitiveness, hello happy computing.
Update: No, I don't think Ubuntu is turning into a Mac. I also could give two flying fracks what side my buttons are on, personally.. but this was a popular request upon the advent of Lynx. So... I just thought I'd poke fun at the random similarity to Mac OS X, assuming nobody would take it seriously. Strangely enough, a lot of you did. Meh, I really hate explaining a joke, it takes the fun out of it. 8-)
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Screenkey desktop recording tool displays key presses on screen
Screenkey is a screencasting tool for displaying key presses on screen, making it a perfect foil when used in conjunction with screen recording applications such as a GTK Record My Desktop and perfect for use in tutorial videos.
No more typing your instructions out at 50px in Gedit!
The application was created by Pablo Seminario who was inspired by a similar, though more comprehensive, screencasting tool available on OS X called 'Screenflick', with Screenkey aptly emulating the following feature specifically: -
"Screenflick can tap into user interface events like key presses and mouse clicks and highlight them in the movies you create. This is extremely useful for training videos and video podcasts, or wherever you use keyboard shortcuts." ~ Screenflick website
No more typing your instructions out at 50px in Gedit!
The application was created by Pablo Seminario who was inspired by a similar, though more comprehensive, screencasting tool available on OS X called 'Screenflick', with Screenkey aptly emulating the following feature specifically: -
"Screenflick can tap into user interface events like key presses and mouse clicks and highlight them in the movies you create. This is extremely useful for training videos and video podcasts, or wherever you use keyboard shortcuts." ~ Screenflick website
Screenkey is based upon the key-mon project code.
Sscreenkey in action
The following short video demonstrates the feature Screenkey provides: -
Remember to switch Screenkey off when you're done or you'll continue to get a running commentary on every keystroke!
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OMG Exclusive: Ubuntu Lucid Lynx Video Review
Introducing: The best Ubuntu yet?Since its release a month ago I have been testing Ubuntu 10.04, Lucid Lynx, and I have been pleasantly surprised by the improvements in this version of my favorite distribution of Linux. It really is faster, better looking, and more feature-rich than ever. Not everything is perfect, though. In this video review I give my thoughts about the operating system, and how it compares to Windows.
I have to admit that I still dual-boot with Windows, primarily to play the games I love, but for most things use Ubuntu, and I hope this helps people understand why it is a viable desktop operating system for all but specific high-end applications (and games).
In the future I will be creating more reviews and comparisons, and some more tutorials designed to help ease the transition of new Ubuntu/Linux users and perhaps enabling them to get more out of their new operating system. I hope you enjoy it, and please let me know what you would like to see from me in the future!
What features do you like best in 10.04? What do you hope for in future releases?
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Songbird 1.5 gets Video Playback Feature
Songbrid has gained video playback capabilities in the beta for forthcoming 1.5.0 release "Led Zepplin".
Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that "support is still basic and will be improved for the 1.6.0 release."
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Video integration will become fully rounded in the next-but-one release of songbird, codenamed 'Madonna' which aims to include transcoding of videos for device syncing/transfer.
Video formats/codecs supported so far are WMV, MPEG-4, Theora and H.264, though the songbird team themselves note that "support is still basic and will be improved for the 1.6.0 release."
The video playback window with controls
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Video's can also be controlled via the main application window
Video integration will become fully rounded in the next-but-one release of songbird, codenamed 'Madonna' which aims to include transcoding of videos for device syncing/transfer.
Thanks to maXer
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How To Download YouTube Video's In Ubuntu Without Addons, apps, terminal etc
If you use Firefox or Chrome and want to "download" a YouTube video in Ubuntu you don't need to bother installing extensions, addons or 3rd party applications.
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- Go to the YouTube page of the video you want to download in Firefox
- Let it load completely (be sure to select HQ/HD if you want best quality)
- Do NOT close the browser OR the page
- Open Nautilus and navigate to /tmp
- Drag the file named "Flash" (followed by letters and numbers) to your desktop and rename it.
- That's it!
If you use Google Chrome you will find the .flv's inside your ~./cache/google-chrome/Media Cache folder.
You can play .flv's in VLC or you can now convert the file to a different format using your preferred method. Handbrake is pretty good!
Thanks to FRUMMAGE @ Ubuntuforums
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New Video Editor For Ubuntu
OpenShot is an new non-linear video editor similar in feature set to ‘Windows Movie Maker’ or Apple’s ‘iMovie’.
Although currently in development, the latest release is surprisingly stable and comes with a raft of features and options sorely missing from most other Linux video editors, all tucked up in an easy-to-use interface!
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