Corporations that listen
When I’m talking about public relations what I’m really talking about is communicating. Communication is the key to developing strong relationships, not only between two caring people, but also between...
View ArticleUsing an Adesso Barcode Scanner With Ubuntu
We’re gearing up to test out a new ticketing system at work. We’ll be scanning barcoded tickets using an inexpensive USB Adesso Barcode Scanner. Unfortunately, on my Ubuntu (9.04 jaunty) netbook, the...
View ArticleBanshee music player won’t play or seek on Linux
If you install Banshee on your Linux box expecting it to play music, you’re in for a surprise. Banshee depends on the GStreamer codec packages for audio and video decoding (and encoding)....
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After a brief and torrid affair with Fedora, I gave up and threw Ubuntu 10.04 on my home desktop. One thing that I missed from Fedora was the fpaste utility. This handy little command-line tool lets...
View ArticleMount your ntfs drive on boot in Ubuntu
So you’ve got an NTFS drive you want mounted when your Ubuntu machine boots? Time to pull up your favorite editor and modify /etc/fstab. This is what I ended up with: /dev/mapper/sil_aiaiahddacai1...
View ArticleInstalling Jenkins on an Ubuntu Amazon EC2 instance
This tutorial assumes you have already created an Amazon EC2 instance and are able to ssh to it. In our case, we used the Quick Launch Wizard to spin up a 32-bit instance of Ubuntu Server Cloud Guest...
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