For some time now, since I upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu, I’ve had no sound while watching YouTube videos. I could download them and then watch and hear them without any problem but watching directly meant no sound. I’ve been too busy lately to worry about it but now, with a little more [...]
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Having just claimed that my Skype problems were fixed, I found the very next day that things no longer worked. Why? Well it turns out that in last night’s Ubuntu update, there was an attempt to fix the audio problems because the sudo alsamixer this time brought up only a single bar whereas there had [...]
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Well it took a bit of tinkering and I’m still not sure what I’ve done but I finally got Skype to work. As I searched the Ubuntu forums and the Linux forum on Skype, it was apparent that many other recent updaters to Ubuntu 8.10 were having similar problems. Nobody seemed to have a solution. [...]
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The changeover from Ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 has not been without its problems. The first problem has been with sound. With flash videos on YouTube and elsewhere I’ve noticed that no sound can be heard when playing them in Firefox. However, if the flash video is downloaded, there is sound when it’s replayed. Worse still, [...]
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Last night, I updated my existing Ubuntu 8.04 installation to the latest version 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex). It required a download of over 900Mb so I left it to run overnight and next morning, after a couple of confirmations, the installation concluded, the system rebooted and here I am. I’m certainly very comfortable with the operating [...]
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I stumbled upon a rather useful plugin for Firefox called Gspace, that allows you to use the unused space on your GMail accounts. On my main GMail account, I’m currently using 87Mb or approximately 1% of the 7219Mb of storage space allocated to me by Google. I have another two unused accounts and could have [...]
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I was alerted via an RSS feed from Mashable that StumbleUpon had a toolbar that could be downloaded for Firefox running in Windows, Mac OS or Linux. As I started to play around with the toolbar, I became increasing absorbed by the random websites, photographs, videos and blogs that it keeps throwing up (once you’ve [...]
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I’m creating this post in ScribeFire which is a Firefox plug-in that allows you to post to your blog directly from a little pop-up window that appears when you click the ScribeFire icon in the browser. Let’s see how it turns out. Technologically, I created a video for YouTube yesterday, using my Sony camcorder. I [...]
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At last I finally have a dedicated and reliable computer on which to experiment with Ubuntu. My previous desktop computer, using an Athlon XP 1800+ processor, simply couldn’t handle flash videos. Anytime I wanted to view such videos, the browser would shut down. Analysis showed that the strain on the processor was too great. Even [...]
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I’ve known about this software for years now but never used it and didn’t think of it when I started experimenting with Ubuntu. Instead I’d accepted that certain programs weren’t available for Ubuntu and that I’d just have to live with that. Google’s SketchUp was one such program. I’d been using it at school on [...]
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