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)

Wednesday, January 19, 2022

Installing and Updating ClamAV & ClamTK

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Virus are becoming more common on Linux Systems.  Why take a chance when there is a nice free antivirus option with little overhead availabl...
Wednesday, July 28, 2021

My-Weather-Indicator (Panel and Desktop Widget Options)

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My Weather Indicator is my go to weather app.  It shows current weather conditions for your area on the Panel or on a nice Desktop Widget ( ...
Tuesday, June 01, 2021

Mount your Virtualbox OS Guest file system as a Hard Drive in Ubuntu

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In case something is broken within your  VirtualBox Guest OS  or if you just want to access the files, the following  will allow you to moun...
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

Useful TERMINAL Commands

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I will try to keep updating this post with useful Terminal shortcuts and commands I find helpful.  So bookmark this one and leave any comman...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

HDMI Audio not showing as an option

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Ran a update today (4-15-2021) on my Ubuntu 20.04.1.  The update asked for a reset and I think I saw something about kernel 5.4 before the u...
Saturday, March 20, 2021

Fix Graphic Glitches in Windows 10 running in VirtualBox 6.1

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 I was having weird graphical glitches on my guest Windows 10 running in VirtualBox 6.1.18 on an  Ubuntu 20.04 host .  Some of the glitches...
Saturday, January 16, 2021

Wine 6.0 installing on Ubuntu 20.04

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Wine 6.0 has been released as the newest stable build.  You can read about it at winehq.org .  I use Wine to run a couple of MS Windows pro...
Saturday, September 05, 2020

Expand Your Virtualbox Virtual Hard Drives

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This How To will walk you through expanding the virtual hard drive size of a guest Windows 10 virtual which is being hosted on an Ubuntu 20....
Friday, January 10, 2020

Create Desktop Shortcut Ubuntu 19.10

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I'm running Ubuntu 19.10 in a Virtualbox and wanted to create desktop shortcuts to programs so that I can quickly launching them (my mac...
Sunday, January 05, 2020

USB Logitech Unified Mouse/Keyboard Quit Working

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I had a Logitech Unified USB wireless mouse/keyboard combo that worked plug & play on Ubuntu 16.04.  While cleaning the PC I broke the ...
Saturday, January 04, 2020

Adjust Mouse Sensitivity

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The Mouse Sensitivity option is not showing up in Ubuntu 16.04 and using the Terminal Command "xset mouse num num " command has to...
Thursday, December 05, 2019

Brothers DLL2300D Slow Printing

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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...
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