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Swapping drives in Ubuntu Not A Problem
I recently got my hands on a decent computer to upgrade an "old beast" that I had Ubuntu installed on. The hardware between the "old beast" and my "decent computer" were a little different. Both were Dells, but they had different video cards. The ...
Christmas Music on Ubuntu Rhythmbox
I have been learning to use Rythmbox's Radio Station a little more, and found that it is pretty easy to get all of Sky.fm's radio station feeds integrated with Rhythmbox. I added the Christmas Music stream offered by Sky.fm and it was very easy to d...
Speed Up Ubuntu Boot Time
Here is a simple way to speed up the boot time of your Ubuntu system. It involves recreating the readahead profile. Readahead is a daemon that runs in Ubuntu that loads a set if files into page cache that accelerates the first time of loading of pr...
Using Ubuntu to Recover Data from an XP Drive
I have several PCs in my house. One of them, a Microsoft Windows XP stopped booting for me. I was not sure if the motherboard went bad or the disk drive. This PC had a lot of files on it that were important for my wife and her on line studies. Un...
Find Your Hardware and Parts in Ubuntu
In Ubuntu, the best information can be gleaned from the system using the command line interface.Here is an Ubuntu command that will tell you just about every thing you need to know about the hardware that is running on your systemFrom your desktop h...
