I upgraded to Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron over the weekend. The process was relatively painless, and some of the upgrades made little, but nice, improvements.
Finally, the UPNP media rendering functionality in Rhythmbox is working!
To set this up, you need to access the command line, and install the pyhton-coherence package:
sudo apt-get install python-coherence
Once installed, fire up [...]

So, Vista’s been out for a while now - some people think it’s great (usually they are selling it), some think that it’s pants.
Now, I’m not far from the front of the queue when it comes to raving about Linux. Ubuntu was the second Linux distro that I have tried, and I’ve stuck with it quite [...]

I was playing around with Wine the other day. It’s pretty cool that I can run Dreamweaver and Fireworks on Ubuntu with very few issues now.
One of the problems I did encounter was that the setup program for Dreamweaver wouldn’t run under wine, and the program files had to be copied across to my Linux [...]

I needed to set up some remote access today, and although it was straightforward, it was difficult finding the information I needed.
Set up the server (that’s your computer)

Click System > Preferences > Remote Desktop
Tick the boxes as shown, and set up a password. If you don’t want to force a popup window when a connection [...]

One thing that I find remarkable in Linux is the vast array of clever tools that allow you to do ‘clever stuff’.
The problem exists where these obscure tools are difficult to work out how to use effectively, and moreover, use right.
One task I aim to do occasionally is search a disk for files containing particular [...]

I’ve found that using the ALSA sound system in Ubuntu is pretty slick, but becomes a pain when the sound tool in Ubuntu doesn’t correctly switch devices using the graphical user interface.
In a nutshell, here are a few useful commands to list and select the sound devices that are on your computer:
asoundconf list
list available sound [...]