How to setup time synchronisation on Ubuntu 10.04LTS.
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/10.04/serverguide/C/NTP.html
NTP is a TCP/IP protocol for synchronising time over a network. Basically a client requests the current time from a server, and uses it to set its own clock.
Standard Ubuntu comes with ntpdate, which is a ntp client that runs on boot time to synchronise the machines clock with the Ubuntu NTP server. Normally this will do fine for most of...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 16th of December 2011 @ 16:42u. |
Ubuntu MythTV iPhone and iPad remote
Source: http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/Frontend_control_socket
If you the owner of an iPhone, another type of smart-phone or even an iPad, it could come in handy to have them to act as a remote control for your MythTV installation based on Ubuntu (this works on MythBuntu too!).
I was planning to write some sort of remote control until I stumbled on the code of [url=http://www.legatissimo.info/node/355]Kyle Stoneman[/url]. He...
YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOzyhNuTU4k
» Read more | Article was posted on Wednesday 14th of December 2011 @ 09:21u. |
How to install an APC Back-UPS RS 800 UPS on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/apcupsd
This week I had to install an APC Back-UPS RS 800 UPS on a web server at my work.
I never done this before so I had to take the APC and Ubuntu manual to do this. Since this type of UPS could be used on your home network or even a small office network I thought it would be interesting to...
» Read more | Article was posted on Friday 7th of October 2011 @ 17:08u. |
How to install extra themes in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS desktop
Source: http://ubuntu-art.org/
It is already widely known among Ubuntu users, but for those who are starting with Ubuntu, and then especially with the LTS (Long Term Support) release, here is how you can change the look and feel of your desktop by installing new themes. There is a wide distribution of many different themes available, for instance the Bisigi themes (see further in...
» Read more | Article was posted on Sunday 18th of September 2011 @ 19:25u. |
How to quickly scale and rotate images in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS
XP had it's power-toys, that made it possible for the user to quickly scale and rotate images. It's a handy tool for webmasters to reduce images before putting them online. Ubuntu has a tool which does exactly the same for you, it is called nautilus-image-converter.
Just right click one image or a whole bunch you have selected and convert them. But first,...
» Read more | Article was posted on Monday 5th of September 2011 @ 10:44u. |
