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Installing Amazon’s MP3 downloader on Ubuntu 10.04

Posted on October 21, 2010 by billy

Thanks to google and a few websites I managed to get Amazon’s MP3 downloader to work on my linux workstation at home. It looks like Amazon’s Amazon MP3 application requires libboost 1.34, which is older than the version now included … Continue reading →

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Backing up your DVD’s using Linux DVD::Rip

Posted on September 8, 2010 by billy

Just a reminder to myself really, these setting work fine for me and I use them to rip/backup DVD, also, it allows me to stream them via my PS3 to my telly and/or other PC’s in the house. Feel free … Continue reading →

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Installing FreeNX on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx 10.04

Posted on June 3, 2010 by billy

I foundit pretty easy to do, the hard part was finding consistent instructions, so I blogged it to make sure I didn’t forget. sudo add-apt-repository ppa:freenx-team sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install freenx-server You can download and install the nxclient … Continue reading →

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Realtek RTL8101E NIC dropped frames on Hardy Heron

Posted on May 15, 2009 by billy

I’m having a real problem with the built in network card on my home linux machine (currently running Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server or affectionately named Hardy Heron). There’s a couple of proviso’s attached to this howto, the first one being … Continue reading →

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