30/10/2013
I messed up trying to get my Radeon HD 7850 graphics card beyond a ‘standard’ set-up while on Ubuntu When Win7 is loaded this machine flies, lately in Ubuntu my Kerbals are in bullet time 🙂 lspci -nn | grep VGA tells me I’m using: Pitcairn PRO [Radeon HD 7850] [1002:6819] So there’s no full 3D driver… yet 🙁 This guide from The Unofficial AMD Linux Community helped save my…
19/10/2013
I’ve updated the Ubuntu OS on my PC this afternoon, and shock horror, now no sound! sudo alsa force-reload Thanks to It’s f.o.s.s. for the guide 🙂
19/10/2013
Latest Ubuntu released today, I have it coming down now 🙂 If it didn’t start automatically for you try: sudo do-release-upgrade No Mir, but hope KSP will now load for me? eh oh, heaps of retro arcade xbox games to try this weekend!
17/10/2013
I’d read that today was the launch day of Ubuntu 13.10, to find it wasn’t until the end of the month… no worries, I’ve been playing with the beta Then I found Kerbal Space Program 0.22 had launched! Fantastic, except it won’t open in my Ubuntu installation 🙁 I could boot windows, but will wait and create a fresh install for 13.10 🙂 The birth of the Kraken
10/10/2013
For those admin enough to take it http://releases.ubuntu.com/saucy/
09/10/2013
Are you all as excited as me? OK contain yourselves 😉 Ubuntu 13.10 releases in 12 days, and counting From the great OMG Ubuntu blog: Ubuntu 13.10 Beta Downloads Go Live – This Is What’s New Unity Smart Scopes – Semantic Web Search from the Dash xMir – Canonical’s new display server technology Will we get better Steam performance? Unity 7 Enough to tempt me back to Unity? New versions…
22/08/2013
When the shit goes down, you’ve lost grub (as I did earlier :)) this is the tool you need! Ubuntu – Boot repair install Boot-Repair in Ubuntu – boot your computer on a Ubuntu live-CD or live-USB. – choose “Try Ubuntu” – connect internet – open a new Terminal, then type: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:yannubuntu/boot-repair && sudo apt-get update – Press Enter. – Then type: sudo apt-get install -y boot-repair &&…
06/08/2013
I remember when installing an operating system was a timely complicated task 🙂 How to create a bootable USB stick on Ubuntu
28/07/2013
After the retro music of D-rock this afternoon, I was surprised to come across another blast from the past via Ubuntu Software Centre, a game I first played back in the late 90’s Abuse Here’s the intro from the wiki, last updated 2 years ago! Kudos to Sam for keeping it alive. Abuse is a dark 2D side-scrolling platform game developed by Crack dot Com in 1995. It features beautiful…
21/07/2013
Today I have been trying to work with Tor via AWS… I have installed Tor ok, it seems to be running, I am currently having issues connecting to the bridge from Vidalia. So while trying to achieve this I’ve come across some cool Linux commands htop – I use this ofter but thought I’d list it, as one of my favourites. It lists the current processes and system activity ps…
21/07/2013
Is no site sacred? Ubuntu Forums Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore normal operations. This page will be updated regularly with progress reports. What we know Unfortunately the attackers have gotten every user’s local username, password, and email address from the Ubuntu Forums database. The passwords are not…
21/07/2013
Although I’ve been using linux for years, I’m still quite a n00b when it come s to command line prompts 🙂 leaving this here for future reference: How to close VIM from the command line In vim there are 3 different modes: Insert – allows typing and editing as normal Visual – used for selecting copy/paste etc. Normal – used for commands To get back to Normal mode, you can…
14/07/2013
I was looking to pick up an arcade cabinet from the Kiwi equivalent of Ebay, Trade ME There are some great deals available, but rather than spend the best part of a grand, I thought I would see what I could put together within Ubuntu. I know that the re-make of the cabinets run Mame games, I’m not stranger to the emulator, I even run it on my PS3, so…
06/07/2013
After finally getting my AMD graphics driver sorted in Ubuntu, I’ve made a move to Gnome 3 from Unity. I’ve been using Linux for quite a few years, and haven’t felt comfortable with Unity from release… in saying this I’m still not a fully converted fan of Gnome 3, let’s see how it goes. I’ve been playing with Mint via VirtualBox, but I’m not quite ready to make it my…
03/07/2013
I’ve finally sorted out my ATI graphics card driver in Ubuntu. KSP is nearly as fluid as in Win7, but it’s in Linux so more fun 🙂 Helpful Pages BinaryDriverHowto/AMD RadeonDriver What is the correct way to install proprietary ATI Catalyst Video Drivers (fglrx) directly from AMD? How to install Radeon Open Source Driver? Why Radeon Users May Want to Avoid Ubuntu 16.04 LTS Is my AMD hybrid-graphics card supported…
27/06/2013
[Rating:4.5] My first endeavor into space and linux gaming, and I’m loving it! I did pick up a couple of PS3 games to play last week… but I’ve forgotten what they were (Yakuza 3, buggered if I can remember the other :)) all of my gaming, and blogging time has been taken up playing with rockets. 😀 So if you haven’t guessed yet, I’ve been enthralled with the Kerbal Space…
12/06/2013
I’ve been using tor for a few years, but have never had the motivation to shell out for vpn.. I mean, seriously what do I do that warrants tracking, I post all I play with here… until I found free vpn 🙂 This was until I came across Open VPN A free of charge (optional donation) service is offered, with servers in the UK, US, or EU. This give an…
09/06/2013
A couple or years ago I set my xbox Rock Band drums up via (Linux) Ubuntu, to play different drum samples. Many Linux installations have occurred since now and then, so that work was lost. Now I’m going to try and set it up again, but this time I have bigger ideas, not just my drums but I want to look into utilising my 8 button street fighter stick 🙂…
26/05/2013
I’ve not been using the processing power of my 8 core PC, so decided to see what it could do this afternoon. I’ve installed VirtualBox direct from Synaptic Manager, and have created Virtual boxes for Debian and Windows 7. Both are currently installing, and I have not seen so much activity across all cores before. Having Windows as a VM will save me heaps of time and frustration, as I…
30/04/2013
Bash Scripting useful Unix commands Destructions of where to save a shell file to call it from a command line did I mention I was a n00b at shell scripts 🙂 Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide 50 Linux Commands And here’s my first simple script ‘alter’, saved in my /bin directory. #!/bin/bash FILENAME=”$1″ sudo cp ${FILENAME} ${FILENAME}.old gksudo gedit ${FILENAME} From the CLI type: alter filename a copy is then taken of…