I was trying to find a way to watch Netflix in Ubuntu 14.04 In the past you had to install Wine and Silverlight. Since Google Chrome 37 it should work natively. Still I was getting Error Code: M7063-1913 It turns out some libraries were messed up. Apparently the problem is fixed in 14.10 Alpha but … Read more
After installing Ubuntu on a stick the system will let you in without asking for a password. What happens is that the display manager LightDM will auto-login the built-in ubuntu user. While for many people it may seems convenient and fast I would like to have the system protected by a password. If you think … Read more
I wanted to connect to an OpenVPN server from my Ubuntu on a stick. There are different clients but the one I liked was the Linux Network-Manager GUI for OpenVPN. To install it you need to enable the Universe repository first: sudo add-apt-repository universe sudo apt-get update and then type: sudo apt-get install network-manager-openvpn After … Read more
After I installed Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS I found that the Bluetooth drivers and utilities were already installed. I paired my Bluetooth headset Jabra BT620s without any problems. Unfortunately I could not make it to be the default device for playback or this was what I was trying to do similarly to the way you would … Read more
This is the first in a series of blog posts that talk about running Ubuntu from a USB flash drive. Ubuntu (/u:’bu:ntu:/ oo-BOON-too) is a Debian-based Linux operating system. For more information about the operating system itself, please check Ubuntu (operating system) on Wikipedia. Now that you know what Ubuntu is you may still wonder … Read more
Delete all files with given extension recursively: find . -name “*.dll” -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rf Find the number of .jpg file in the current folder and all sub-folder recursively: find . -name “*.jpg” -print | wc -l Move all .m2ts files to /mnt/backup/m2ts folder: find . -iname “*.m2ts” -type f | xargs -I … Read more