Ubuntu comes with a movie player and a music player. A problem arises when I want to watch a movie or listen to some music. The problem is that I can’t do either of these two fairly basic things. The software reports that required plugins are missing. I went to the Synaptic Package Manager (under [...]
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My experiment with dual booting to either Ubuntu or Windows XP on an old PC is working well. The computer in question has an AMD Athlon XP 1800+ processor with 256Mb of RAM, so it’s far from state of the art. I had two logical drives on a 40Gb physical drive. Windows was on the [...]
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I came across an interesting application at http://www.ajaxwindows.com that allows you to create a web-based desktop that can be accessed from any computing device with access to the Internet. Your virtual desktop replicates the computer-based equivalent with My Computer, My Documents, My Music, My Pictures as well as links to a range of web-based applications [...]
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