I ran into an issue where I replaced a network card in a computer and the Ubuntu installation would not  display the new network card when running the command ‘ifconfig’.  Running ifconfig would only display the loopback interface ‘lo’.  I found that the network card had been recognized by Ubuntu but that my interface configuration
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Wubi is an officially supported Ubuntu installer for Windows users that can bring you to the Linux world with a single click. Wubi allows you to install and uninstall Ubuntu as any other Windows application, in a simple and safe way. Do you want to try Ubuntu without removing Windows or partitioning a dual boot
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I recently ran into a problem mounting a remote share to my newly installed Ubuntu 10.04 installation.  I had never had a problem before so I knew my mount script was correct.  I found an easy fix to allow a regular user to mount a remote share. I had already prepared a folder to mount
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I wrote my first Linux application.  It is a application which will count down from a preset number of seconds.  I have tested it on Ubuntu 9.10 and 10.04 Beta 2.  Other than that, I have no guaranty.  It is a pretty basic application. You enter the amount of seconds to countdown, select Set, then
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Today on the Ubuntu One blog it was posted that they have opened the mobile contact sync to a public alpha release.  Their posts states that it “supports many phones”, when I tried to check it out I was locked out of my account.  I have not heard any word of an outage but I
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OpenShot is one of the newest non-linear video editors for Linux.  When it comes to video editing in Linux, there are not many choices.  OpenShot came out of the gate with a bang and their latest release, 1.1, this project shows no signs of slowing down. Linux has always fallen short in the video editor
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