One of the things I need my Aspire One to do is watch TV. When you’re away, it’s nice to be able to watch a little TV. I bought a Freecom DVB-T USB stick years ago and have always had success under Linux. It’s small, sensitive and selective.
I was surprised, especially on Ubuntu, how easy it was to setup.
My netbook runs Arch, so I installed it on that and my Dell 1545 running Ubuntu 9.04.
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I recently decided to reinstall a perfectly good install of Arch on my Aspire One because someone said they couldn’t get it to work. I don’t know why this install was more troublesome than the last but it was. I’m not taking any credit here – this information is available on the Arch Wiki, its more to jog my memory for next time. (more…)
People frequently ask for PDF versions of the Ubuntu System Help. We have a toolchain to build them but why not do it yourself?
This is true of any DocBook – dblatex is in the Ubuntu repositories and can transform DocBook in to many formats, the default being PDF.
Usually it is as simple as:
dblatex filename.xml
To generate filename.pdf. Most errors are easy to rectify because dblatex calls other tools and you can step through some (such as pdflatex).
However if you get an error along the lines of:
Overfull @hbox (20.76302pt too wide)
Well that is a bit of a pain. The prescribed wisdom is that something (usually a ulink) is just really too long, such as one of those really long URLs. In the case of DocBook, more often than not it’s a table that it just cannot render – so keep them simple!
Never mind Acronis True Image – you can use the command line to work with disk images and backups, without any extra software.
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