30 Days of Linux (and Beyond)

A devoted MS Windows user gives up all his Windows machines to explore Ubuntu 6.1 Linux for 30 days. If I can't figure out how to do it with Linux I just won't do it. (This was from Nov 1 to Dec 1, 2006, I have continued to use Ubuntu beyond those 30 days and now will try to post how-to's, help, and other Linux (Ubuntu) thoughts here)

Thursday, December 05, 2019

Brothers DLL2300D Slow Printing

My Brothers HLL2300D printer started printing very slowly (taking a long time to start printing). Sometimes it would take up to 10 to 15 m...

Thursday, October 03, 2019

apt-get update - stops at "0 [ Connecting to us.archive.ubuntu.com ]"

I've been trying to update my UBUNTU 16.04 and it kept hanging up and not completing the updates. So I opened a TERMINAL window and ty...

Thursday, September 26, 2019

Linking AppImages to a File Type

I installed CURA 4.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 and it only comes as an AppImage file. I don't mind the concept of AppImage's "single ...

Monday, April 08, 2019

Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs.

I was getting an error while running Ubuntu 18.04 in Virtualbox 6.0. The error " Kernel Panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root...

Tuesday, January 08, 2019

PUBLIC KEY NOT FOUND - WINE

I was getting the error PUBLIC KEY NOT FOUND for WINE when I tried to update Ubuntu. To fix it I ran the following four commands in the...

Wednesday, June 06, 2018

Ubuntu 16.04 - Brothers HL-L2300D Laser Printer Setup

I wanted a Laser Printer that would worked with Ubuntu and Windows 10. After a little research I settled on the Brothers HL-L2300D Laser Pr...

Saturday, May 12, 2018

Virtualbox 5.2.12 - Host Ubuntu 16.04 with a Guest Ubuntu 18.04 - Getting Guest Additions working after update.

I wanted to experiment with Ubuntu 18.04 before I committed to it on my production machine so I installed it on a virtual machine using Virt...

Wednesday, February 14, 2018

DarkTable Tethering - Nikon D7200 - Error 53

I was trying to connect my Nikon D7200 DSLR camera to my Ubuntu 16.04 box and tether it to DarkTable so that I could control the camera ...

Thursday, December 28, 2017

Geeqie - View Raw Images (NEF)

I've been using my Nikon d7200 camera to shoot pictures in the Raw Mode instead of jpg. The Raw Mode pictures have a file extension of ...

The Destination is Read-Only (SD Card Stuck)

On my Ubuntu 16.04 box, one of my camera's SD CARDS was stuck in READ ONLY mode. I could copy files from the card but not to it and I c...

Friday, September 08, 2017

Sync MS OneDirve with your Ubuntu 16.04.

Okay confession time, I have a Microsoft OneDrive account. Yeah it's just the freebie basic 15gb type but I do use it from time to t...

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

How to install Google Chrome Browser on Ubuntu 17.04

How to install Google Chrome Browser on Ubuntu 17.04 Open a terminal window and type the following four commands. Hit ENTER after eac...

VirtualBox: Getting 16x9 resolution in Guest OS

My Host system is Ubuntu 16.04.3. In VirtualBox I could not get the 16x9 ratio on my Windows 7 guest display. To fix that; I. Instal...

Saturday, August 12, 2017

How to install OpenVPN

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

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."

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...

Monday, August 07, 2017

Update to 16.04.3 Broke Nvidia Drivers

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

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)

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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