How to enable DVD playback in Ubuntu 12.10

Install fresh Ubuntu 12.10, many users have
experienced one of the most popular issues-how to play the DVD in Ubuntu. It is this question that we now turn.

So, to play a DVD, we need only one package-libdvdread4. Include it in the distribution Canonical can not because of possible problems with the license.

You can install the package using the Software Center Ubuntu (he's named as the Library for reading DVDs), or the old fashioned way-with the help of the terminal:

sudo apt-get install libdvdread4

After installing the package libdvdread4 you need to run a custom script is integrated into it. For this to terminate the following command:

sudo/usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/
install-css.sh

The script runs its course in a matter of seconds.

Then you can easily view any multimedia DVD in your favorite player.

Setting the icons from Ubuntu 13.04

For a long time Canonical promises new icons in Ubuntu, the first revelation hints at it appeared a year ago. And finally is the result, you can use the most. A set of icons My-humanity, which contains some new icons Ubuntu.

By My-humanity pack with icons Ubuntu 13.04-Magog64. Pack can download it here: gnome-look.org.

No system requirements (of course), the icons can be installed on any version of Ubuntu.
If you decide to install the pack My-humanity and have already downloaded it, there are very few. Just unzip the resulting archive to ~ /. Icons (if this folder does not exist-create), and then with your favorite tweaker activate the pack icons My-humanity.

I note that there is not all the icons from Ubuntu 13.04, many of them the author invented himself.

The game engine Unity 4.0 was released with support for Linux

The release of the popular game engine Unity 4.0, which is built on the basis of many popular computer games. The most interesting improvements in the new version of the engine-Support for Linux (added after numerous requests and demands of users.)

At the moment, experimental support for Linux (developer preview), but the developers say the engine work in Unity Linux one of the most promising areas for development.
Unity engine output with support for Linux means very good news-games under Ubuntu will become even more! And you can expect not only the release of new games, but the adaptation of the old (the list of games on the Unity engine: unity3d.com ), because
developers will not be difficult to add support for Linux in their game.

It looks like in the near future, thanks to the
company Valve, engine Unity, and other factors, Linux will become one of the leading gaming platforms.

From already ported to Linux games on the engine Unity celebrated Rochard (pretty fun platformer).

Includes work NotifyOSD on the active monitor when working with multiple monitors

I recently purchased just two posh monitor, so there was a question about the optimization of Ubuntu with multiple monitors. The first problem I encountered-Display NotifyOSD.

All pop-up messages to appear on the primary monitor, which was not very convenient,
because focus on two monitors at once was difficult.

Problem Solving - NotifyOSD display on the active monitor (on the whereabouts of the active, at this time, the window).

So, first need to install dconf-tools:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

Then run dconf-editor, navigate to apps -> notifyosd and change "multihead-mode" to "dont-focus-follow" to "focus-follow".

That's it, now pop up a notification will be displayed on the monitor, which is active at the moment.

How to add / remove a user via a terminal in Ubuntu

Of this manual you will learn how to add / delete users in Ubuntu Linux. Also, I will explain how to add a user to "sudo", but be careful, because the users of this group can execute commands with root
privileges.

How to add a user

So, to add a new user in Ubuntu, use the following command:

sudo user add username

Instead of "username" enter the name of the new user.

Create a home directory for the new user:

sudo mkdir /home/username

Now create a password for the new user:

sudo passwd username

Set the correct permissions on the home folder ofthe new user:

sudo chow nusername /home/username sudo chgrp username /home/username

All, you can now use the system from under the new user.

Issuing the root-user rights

If you need to give root-rights to the new user, then use this command:

sudo adduser username sudo

How to delete a user

To delete a user, use the following two commands:

sudo userdel username sudo rm-r/home/username/

This will remove the user from the system, as well as his home folder.

This manual is suitable for any version of Ubuntu, Linux Mint, as well as almost any other distribution.

Steam for Linux: started Closed Beta

Today is the first lucky ones to mailboxes fell invitation to the closed beta of the Steam client for Linux, which was announced in the official community:

«"The first wave of invites sent!
If you have completed a survey*, but you have not received a letter, do not despair. We will expand the beta in the future a large number of respondents.

Thank you for your support to help release Steam for
Linux, Team Valve Linux. »



(Poll - a survey conducted recently at the site Valve,
in which anyone could fill in some information about
your Linux-e and iron).

Steam came in the form of deb-package for architecture i686, which you can download at
media.steampowered.com/client/ installer/steam.deb

Steam the shop appeared search for games available for Linux, which is not so much, mostly the fact that previously sold in Humble Bundle.

Here is the official group dedicated to the discussion of beta client for Linux.

What if I do not come to invite?

Wait. And if you do not want to wait, for there
ArchLinux PKGBUILD informal, in which, among other things, including bypassing the error message pop, if you did not come to invite. The efficiency of the author notes are not tested. Users of other distributions may try to create a file/usr/bin/steam-hack, comprising:

#!/Bin/bash
xdg-open steam://open/friends/

and run with it Steam. Work is not guaranteed.

Dolphin, GameCube Ubuntu 10.10

I take a break from my busy mind to show the emulator, perhaps, one of the consoles in history unnoticed, especially by the overwhelming dominance of its competitor, if so, see how to play Gamecube on GNU/Linux ( Ubuntu specifically).

Gamecube and I never got closer to it was at my friends playing Super Smash Bros. Melee , but I know his extensive catalog and many of the gems of games that went unnoticed, which is why I decided to embark on searching for an emulator to enjoy these games, all helped by a new more powerful notebook:).

To install Ubuntu you have to add the repository to your list, so this opens a terminal and type the following commands:

sudo add-apt-repository
ppa:glennric/dolphin-emu
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install
dolphin-emu

Once the installation head to Menu -> Games -> dolphin-emu

And the window that appears choose our favorite game and enjoy (like me) these games that we never had the opportunity to try.

The images speak louder than words:






For more information or know intalacion method in other OS or distro, enter the official website of the project.

That's it for this time, but mindful that once you fix some bug's video plugin follow PCSX2 emulating life.

CleanHaven, a useful utility for cleaning text

Many users have to deal with poorly marked-up or formatted documents that contain extra or missing spaces, page breaks, weird characters, and other notable flaws. Most often, users have to spend time searching for bugs and fix them manually. Now they come to the aid of free cross-platform utility called CleanHaven, which allows you to quickly and accurately bring the resulting correspondence and any other text documents in proper form.



Convenient and easy to use interface CleanHaven help organize the correct use of lowercase and uppercase letters provide an opportunity to find and remove repetitions and unreadable characters, correct errors in the markup document that guarantees compliance with the rules of punctuation, notify the presence of
misspelled words and allow you to perform other standard of a pair of mouse click.

The user can highlight a piece of text displayed in the main window, choose your actions (for example, to ensure that the names, company names and email addresses in capital letters) and click on the «Clean». The application then performs processing of the document and demonstrate an amended version. Special mention deserves no restrictions on the amount of text is to be cleansed and the possibility of simultaneous modification of multiple attributes.

Application can be used to edit the contents of tables Excel, for this you need to copy the selected column in CleanHaven, run it clean and insert the processed data back to the table. In its users would also be convenient mechanisms for finding and replacing text.

Newer versions of software CleanHaven 2.1 operating systems Windows, Mac and Linux is completely free for download from the manufacturer ->>.
CleanHaven home page ->>

Manage your fonts in GNU/Linux, Font Manager

You can administer your own fonts, install new and remove those that are other, is a task that users of GNU/Linux environment we like to do. Especially if we lean more about graphic design, or writing for papers, etc. Fortunately, this is very easily possible with Font Manager, a font manager for GNU/Linux, more specifically for the Gnome desktop environments, but can be installed on KDE or Xfce.



With Font Manager, now at version 0.5.6, you can administer and manage collections of fonts. In addition to the fonts of the system and the user. This application, on startup, automatically detects all the fonts installed on your system, and allows searching by name or preview them with custom text.

To get the Font Manager program, we can go to their official website and download the package.deb those resulting Debian/Ubuntu. Once downloaded, double click it to launch the "Package Installer." Failing that, you can download the source code to compile and install on other distributions that are not based on. Deb.

Anyway, Fedora users have available in their repositories. So simply open a console terminal and type the following:

$ Su-c "yum install font-manager

An indispensable tool and remarkable, with many
functions, among which we mention:

™ Preview the fonts installed
™ Comparison of the installed fonts
™ Install or remove fonts
™ Enable and disable installed fonts
™ Specify different directories to find sources
™ Font Collections

Download gnome theme future

To install, unzip the zip file, enter the folder you created and drag the tar.gz file in windows display. If you use Emerald as a window decorator theme same. In addition to the above link is a link to the wallpaper, package of icons and fonts used in capture.

Download Pidgin 2.7.5

Pidgin is a multi-protocol instant messaging. The software allows you to connect simultaneously to multiple networks (AIM, ICQ, MSN, Yahoo, IRC, Jabber, Gadu-Gadu, Zephyr ,...) making it possible to communicate with colleagues and friends that use different software message.



Pidgin is the son of multi-message protocol historic client "Gaim", renamed after legal proceedings against the developer tools open source software by the U.S. giant AOL. The main features are inherited from Pidgin is possible for users to contemoraneamente platform from "Instant messaging". However, a break with past with present interface entirely new. Overarching goals developers have seen the actual usefulness of the program.

The version of Pidgin for Linux can be downloaded from referring to this

Using your Android 3G to navigate Linux Ubuntu without root

Some time ago who was behind the 3G can use my mobile HTC Magic with Android to navigate with my laptop or my home team if a ADSL day I fail. Strangely I am one from those who have not opened the terminal, in my case is simply because it is not what I need and enough for me. So I do not have root access and I can do things according to (at least before I can not) ...
If you have a phone with the operating system Android and want to use the 3G connection You with Ubuntu Linux (such as version 10.04), You may be interested in the following tutorial.

Before you begin to just say that The next practice I made a HTC Magic with Android v1.6 and Linux Ubuntu 10.10 64bits and it works seamlessly connected to USB 2.0 (lower versions will not work).
Having said that we will begin installing applications from Market EasyTether Lite our mobile phones with Android.



Once installed we will download to your computer You with Ubuntu Linux Driver to work from authors site Mobile Stream. Click on the link for Ubuntu 10.04, i386 for 32 bit and amd64 for 64-Bit ...



Once you download our files. Deb only need to click and follow the installation process.
Now we have computers we are ready to Your phone connects via USB 2.0. We connect with one another and our back to our cell phones. Once in the open menu below where you will find all the applications and run EasyTether software ...



Select option (Ubuntu 4.10 + or Fedora 12 +) and continue with the (Next) ...



Check the box at the end of the text and continue with the (Next) ...



And we finish by pressing (Finish).


Now we go back to your computer, open the terminal and run the command ...

easytether connect

And you'll see something like this ...




Now open another terminal and run the command The following ...

sudo dhclient easytether0

And we'll see something like this ...


Now if we execute the command ...

ifconfig

We'll see how to create virtual devices and before we run DHCP allocate IP.

The following will run the Firefox browser from the File menu and uncheck Work Offline if You have it checked out, try to look and see how the invention working.
I have rented a flat rate data rely with a fixed price per month and perform tests speed to go to average 1.5 Mb to down and 1.3 Mb upstream is not bad for browsing, watch videos, receive mails network and use what we used to perform all.

Download Parted Magic 5.6

Parted Magic, a small distribution in the format LiveCD which provides a collection of tools for hardware testing, data recovery partition especially the hard disk has been updated to version 5.6.

You can check this link to view quality and quantity of programs that brings.

changelog is:

Updated: linux-2.6.35.7, gparted-0.6.4, GDisk-0.6.11, hdparm-9,33, stress-1.0.4, UNetbootin-490, ntfs-3g-2010.10.02, busybox-1.17.3, udev-163
Added: systest-1.1.0

You can download Parted Magic 5.6 than on the download page.

Realtek High Definition Audio 2.49 for XP, Vista, Windows 7 and Linux

Realtek once again updated motherboard audio us, which is that the Realtek sound driver has been updated to version 2.49. The new version Realtek drivers for the motherboard chip integrated chip for ALC880 Series. As usual Realtek High Definition Audio Driver 2.49 served as usual for all systems Windows: Vista/2000/XP/2003 and Windows 7.

Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.49

SERIES ALC882 7.1 +2 Channel High Definition Audio CODEC WITH UAA (Universal Audio Architecture), characterized by ADC FIVE DACS 24-BIT STEREO AND THREE OF 20-BIT STEREO DESIGNED FOR PERFORMANCE SYSTEM PC MULTIMEDIA HIGH.

SERIES CONVERTER INCLUDING ALC882 patented TECHNOLOGY TO ACHIEVE OVER THE PLAY-TO-NOISE RADIO SIGNAL 100dB IN A QUALITY, EASY ALSO PC2001 MEET REQUIREMENTS AND FRAMING SOUND QUALITY FOR CLOSE TO PC CONSUMER ELECTRONIC DEVICES.


Some Features Of Realtek High Definition Audio Drivers:
™ In accordance with direct sound 3d
™ In accordance with A3D
™ In accordance with I3DL2
™ Positional audio HRTF 3D
™ Emulation 26 sound environment to enhance enperiencf when that running games
™ Software equalizer 10 band
™ Cancellation of voice and key change the way karaoke
™ Realtek media player
™ Panel and detection tool set assistant for inprovent experience for improment user
™ Acoustic echo cancellation "echo
acoustic" (AEC) microphone, noise technology reducer "Eradication Noise" (NS) and beam formation
"formation of bao" (BF) voice for application
™ ALC882D funcones dolby digital live with out for consumer equipment
™ ALC882H funcones with software dobly home teater
™ ALC882M funcones with software dolby studio master

Drives Changes Realtek High Definition Audio Driver R2.49:

Realtek Realtek HD Audio driver support all HD AUDIO CODEC IN VISTA / WinXP / WIN2000 / Win2003.
1. Supporting Vista WHQL: ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887

2. Supports 2000/XP WHQL: ALC880, ALC882, ALC883, ALC885, ALC888, ALC889, ALC861VC, ALC861VD, ALC660, ALC662, ALC663, ALC665, ALC260, ALC262, ALC267, ALC268, ALC269, ALC272, ALC273, ALC887.

3. Supports HDMI WHQL: DEVICES
DEVICE ATI HDMI.

4. Supports OS: MICROSOFT WINDOWS XP, Windows 2000, VISTA, SERVER WINDOWS 2008, WINDOWS 7 - x86/x64

5. PACK MICROSOFT WITH HIGH DEFINITION AUDIO UAAV1.0a(5013).

6. ADD / REPAIR.
* DRIVERS: or Customization
* WINDOWS 7 WHQL DRIVER.


Models supported: RTL8100B (L) / RTL8100C (L) / RTL8101L/RTL8139C (L) RTL8139C (L) + / RTL8139D (L) / RTL8100 (L) RTL8130 / RTL8139B (L)

Download Realtek High Definition 2.49

How to use widgets to enhance your MAC on Windows desktop

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We continue with our roundup article intended for the resources to graphic Windows that enables us to achieve change and modification system simple operations, free of charge and without cause damage.

After seeing how the graphics change Windows 7 and Windows Vista on MAC to display a bar, a dock, folder, and in general all the look and feel styles Snow Leopard-Windows, now I'm talking about the same arguments graphics or widgets.

In practice, without too much change the sentence, we will see how use widgets to enhance your MAC on the Windows desktop with use them as if we using a computer with an apple in a written above.
This program will allow us to makes everything Kludget, open source and cross-platform (available for Windows and Linux).

This allows you to use Mac OS widgets directly on Windows, so You can decorate your desktop, such as which you think is best.

Using Kludget
- Download the official from http://kludgets.com/download/
- Install on Windows (XP - Vista - 7). You will see that it will create Kludget an icon in the system tray.

It already offers some of the default widgets like a clock, calendar (either open Kludget automatically complete the installation) and other accepted by clicking the right button on the icon to open Windows freeware items package.

As you all know, every widget on desktop can be configured with settings themselves, move out and dragged to the desktop and closed.
Special features and offers Kludget is better compatibility with widget download from Apple.

If you reach the official site where the "Apple" offer downloads of its widgets, once selected people who want to use Windows, simply download them (they are enter zip) and open it with Kludget.

Yes, but how?
For example, you download a widget Search Google and want to open in Windows.

Simply click the right button on the icon opens Kludget Windows package items. Then select widget download and note that it will be applied automatically and will be seen on your desktop.


Suggestion: I recommend you copy the widget downloaded from Apple in the way described in below for a more orderly and clean and do not end up scattered and widgets on Windows.

XP user >> C: \ Program Files \ Kludget Engine \ Widget
7 user (same for Vista) >> C: \ Program Files \ Kludget Engine \ Widget

From Apple there are thousands of widgets by category, with a preview and I tried details. It dozen and works all, but I can assure you that all the work either (I can not try them all!).

Kludget really graphic resources for used if you want to use the widget Windows MAC.

Download many distribution Linux, Live CD, and install directly from the USB

Installing the operating system from a USB pen drive and external hard drive, but for many current user is a real puzzle to solve.
User mode choice was 'average' is definitely the burn to CD / DVD of the OS and then installed by setting the optical drive boot first in the BIOS.

In this blog I often talk about
install operating systems from USB as we have seen for Windows 7 and the appears Meego netbook and dedicated to the world Small PC.

In short, the installation of the USB is an alternative best for CDs or DVDs and guidance described in this article is the way to do so. We will see miles, using freeware program, how to download variants Linux (distribution) and how to install system directly from the USB.

Suppose you want to download and install a Linux distro like Ubuntu, Fedora, Mandriva (there are many others) on each computer and do not know how
proceed. The "key" that will help us
in all this will UNetbootin.
This is a very simple program for
used that allows you to downloading various Linux distributions and burn them in a pen drive or HD ends to create a bootable ISO and then boot from USB, to allow installation of the OS on your computer.

If you do not have the ISO system is ready, you can download from program. Let convenient way to do it.

Before using UNetbootin: http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/ need for
insert pen drive (or external HD)
have a minimum size of 2 GB formatted.



How to download the distribution?

It would be very important to determine Our USB drive letter (see letter from Computer or My Computer) version. Furthermore, by download distro put the ball in the click>> menu distribution>> choose>> distro next menu on the set you want to download.

** There are many distributions and many versions, including the Live CD is nothing but a special
version beginning of the boot and the inside has series of integrated features, suitable for introduce a system to users. Are proved without installation.

Sort all click OK. The next step will be automatically when there will be:

- Extract and copy files to USB drives;
- Bootloader installation, copy the kernel and reboot the PC.

I already have a version or download the ISO image, how do I burn?
Very simple, just put the ball in
DiskImage>> ISO>> specify the location of the image file and letters below specify the USB drive.

After the procedure, will not long survive, your will see the following screen:



click Reboot Now, when the PC into the BIOS and set your USB drive as a device to do the first boot to boot USB drive as the computer first starts.

Curiosity as a USB data transfer rate
pen drive is much higher than the CD / DVD, OS to be installed quickly in less time.