This is how I solved the problem with Ubuntu 16.04 LTS minidlna after upgrading from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. MiniDLNA is a lightweight DLNA/UPnP media server. The MiniDNLA daemon serves media files (music, pictures, and video) to clients on a network. My setup before the upgrade was as follows: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS […]
Yes, I know that Oneiric (11.10) is also released but I am only getting around to upgrading my Ubuntu boxes now. I have 2 Ubuntu desktops and decided to ugrade one of them yesterday from Maverick to Natty. And I was pleasantly surprised how smooth the upgrade went. It is not a new machine, in […]
This is just so awesome … running Linux (Linux (none) 2.6.20 #3 Sat May 14 19:08:30 CEST 2011 i586 GNU/Linux if you run uname -a) right in your browser and this is a working Linux as you can see from the screenshot below. You can see I cd’ed to the root directory and did a ls -al to list the directory structure. Also had a look […]
I have the privilege to share my birthday with some wellknown people like Madonna (same age) and also the one thing that underpins the Operating System I use on a daily basis. Yesterday, 16 August and 17 years ago Debian was born. And Debian is the grand daddy of Ubuntu and all things **buntu*. Congrats to Debian […]
I have blogged about my problems with my HTC Desire SD Card here and here before. I have managed to get another 4GB Sandisk SDHC card but the problem still persist. I have tried the following: Use the card as it was formatted when I received it .. just copied the data across from my […]
From TechSource, I quote On the hardware side, it has 1 external USB, 2 internal USB, motion sensor, Ethernet connector, microphone and headphone ports, front-facing web camera (2-Megapixel), ambient light sensor, accelerometer, and more. On the software side, the device is running Linux but we don’t have further details about it. It could be Android, or […]
So Ubuntu 10.04 was released yesterday with some problems. First there was the memory leak issue and then some issue around GRUB2 which meant that the ISO’s had to be re-rolled. I have 3 machines that needs to be upgraded over the next week or so. One of them is my IBM (yes I work […]
You do not know what SUDO is .. then you must be a Windows fanboy. If you use Linux and/or Macs, you will use it on a daily basis. It is that little command that is in almost every distribution of Linux and also in Mac OSx that elevates your privileges to root for a […]
I have been running Ubuntu on multiple machines since around the 7 release and yesterday Karmic Koala officially became Ubuntu 9.10. I am already running it on one of my laptops and I must say, I am impressed with this release. In my opinion this is the best Ubuntu release by far. Congrats to the […]
From Bob Sutor’s blog … partnership between IBM and Canonical to provide a software package for users of netbooks and other thin clients in Africa. The package, which can be configured in several ways to provide both netbook-based and cloud-based software, is expected to drive new business for local partners by taking advantage of open […]