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Upgraded Firefox to version 9 manually. by digital explorations on Dec 23, 2011I dont know why my 64 bit Ubuntu 11.10 does not update automatically my Firefox web browser. So I had to do it manually. Here are the set of instructions I copied one by one from a website http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Install-Firefox-9-in-Ub...
Just installed Ubuntu 11.10 oneiric ocelot. by digital explorations on Oct 22, 2011I promise to wait about week after oneiric was made available on October 13, and I installed it today October 22. The install removed the following programs or packages: The following packages will be REMOVED: fp-ide fp-units-db fp-units-fv fp-units-...
Epson printer ME 320 just works with Linux by digital explorations on Sep 8, 2011You will not encounter much problem with using Epson printers with Linux! The printing service software already is aware with this new multifunction printer [scanner, copier printer]. Plus 10 for Epson for their printers which just works!
Webcam not working in Natty? Might downgrade next month. by digital explorations on Jul 10, 2011I fired up Cheese which was working in the Ubuntu 10.04 Linux OS. I upgraded to Natty Narwhal, now my webcam does not work with Cheese. Here is a shot: The thing with LInuxes, find an OS which works. The freedom in selecting a Linux OS gives you plen...
Installing Adobe Flash Player on the Amd64 bit Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal by digital explorations on May 18, 2011I spent a week without the ability to view Flash based media on my new Natty Narwhal Ubuntu OS powered Acer 4520 laptop. The Google entries were so many and they all lead to wasted frustrating time. I tried the system Synaptic Package Manager but sti...
Final Ubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat release now out! Get yours! by digital explorations on Oct 10, 2010[Oct. 11, 4:00 AM PT] I am currently downloading the 64 bit version of the newest, greatest, free Gnu/LInux operating system and will later burn it to a CD. It will take about two hours and so far our online upgraded OS is working fine and our former...
Linux tips and guides. by digital explorations on Aug 19, 20101. How do you change your login shell? My remote Ubuntu shell was sh, not helpful compared with bash. First see what are the available shells: cat /etc/shells. Then change your login shell using the command chsh -s {/your_favored_shell} {user_name} T...
New kernel updates for Ubuntu. by digital explorations on Aug 5, 2010It is good that one always have the latest stable version of Ubuntu. The kernel is always updated to the latest version as in this morning. After the update, I now have the following: lsb_release -a LSB Version: core-2.0-amd64:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.
Upgrading End of Life Ubuntu Releases: Gutsy to Hardy by digital explorations on Aug 1, 2010I was perplexed when I could not do apt-get install [packagename] anymore in the server. The Ubuntu server was at version 7.10 and I read that the EOL was in April 2009. So time for an upgrade! I can jump from Gutsy to the newest Lucid Lynx but that...
Crontab file problem:why is the last command not executed? by digital explorations on Jul 27, 2010I got weather pages displayed in my blogs which are updated at the adorio-research.org site. The data is obtained automatically by a cronjob and the command to get the Japan Meteorological Agency (JMA) analysis chart has the line entry in the cron li...
