Saturday, August 12, 2017

How to install OpenVPN

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How to install OpenVPN and how to make it accessible through the built-in Network GUI on Ubuntu 16.04.3. Here's how; 1.  Open a Ter...
Tuesday, August 08, 2017

Changing the Alt+Left Mouse Click action to work with Photoshop CS2

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After doing a fresh install of Ubuntu 16.04.3 and reinstalling WINE 2.01 I couldn't use any of the Photoshop CS2 tools that need the an ...

WINE, Photoshop CS2, "Unable to continue because of a hardware or system error. Sorry, but this error is unrecoverable."

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I did a clean install of Ubuntu 16.04.3 including the 4.10 Linux kernel after a system crash.  When I did, I had to do a fresh clean install...
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Monday, August 07, 2017

Update to 16.04.3 Broke Nvidia Drivers

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I tried to force an update to 16.04.3 with the 4.10 kernel and it crashed my Nvidia graphic drivers. This was not unusual as I've had to...
Thursday, July 27, 2017

Ubuntu 16.04 (host) running Virtualbox 5.1.24 upgrading the guest to Windows 10 Creator Edition 1703

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I'm running Ubuntu 16.04 with Virtualbox 5.1.24 .  In Virtualbox I was Running Windows 10 Home 64bit (version 1607).  I wanted to upgrad...
Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Make Iphone 7 ios 10.3.3 work on Ubuntu 16.04 (UPDATED now with bash scripts and desktop shortcuts)

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My Iphone 7 ios version 10.3.3 would not show me my photos or videos when I plugged it into my Ubuntu 16.04 box.  And I couldn't transf...
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Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Upgrade Virtualbox 5.0x to 5.1x

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On my Ubuntu 16.04 machine, my Virtualbox 5.0x told me there was an update.  I clicked the link and downloaded the update (Virtualbox versio...
Monday, June 12, 2017

Vertical Selecting text in GEANY

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I use the GEANY text editor for program code editing because it has both Linux and MS Windows  versions.  It's a good general text e...
Tuesday, January 24, 2017

“Failure to download extra data files” with ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 16.04

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I kept getting the Error Message  “Failure to download extra data files with ttf-mscorefonts-installer on Ubuntu 16.04".  This message ...
Saturday, January 21, 2017

KDE Connect Indicator SMS from your Destop

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I hear my Cell Phone beep telling me I have a text message, but it all the way across the room, what am I to do? It's KDE Connect Ind...
Friday, January 20, 2017

Insync Causing a "requires installation of untrusted packages" Error

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When I went to update my software packages on Ubuntu 16.04 I was getting an Error saying " requires installation of untrusted packages ...
Sunday, June 26, 2016

Upgraded to 16.04

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1.  On upgrading all your PPAs are disabled.  Most just need to be rechecked and they work again but VirtualBox needed it's PPA removed ...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Make GIMP 2.8 Look Like Photoshop

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This links to an article on WEB UPD8 which has easy to follow instructions to make GIMP 2.8 look more like Photoshop. "The twe...
Saturday, May 21, 2016

Installing Google Earth Ubuntu 14.04 - 16.04

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So you want to install Google Earth , it's not hard. Open a Terminal Windows and type; wget -O google-earth.sh http://drive.noo...
Thursday, March 17, 2016

Fixing failed Update when using a Launchpad PPA (Geany)

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I use the Geany Text Editor as my programing/txt file editor.  I installed it from a Launchpad PPA . When updating I kept getting the error...
Tuesday, March 15, 2016

Kill All Wine Processes (Command Line)

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Sometimes  Wine programs crash and leave some processes running making it hard to restart them. Here's a nice command line program that...
Sunday, February 21, 2016

Canon i9900 Printer Working Ubuntu 14.04

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I've owned a Canon i9900 printer for a long time.  I've had it since Windows XP was new. It's a great photo printer and can hand...
Monday, December 28, 2015

Speech Recognition for Ubuntu?

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You ever wish you could have speech recognition for Ubuntu? Now you can with the Chrome Browser and Google Docs.  This one is really easy t...
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