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How-to: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS minidlna fixes after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

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 […]

Upgraded Ubuntu to Natty — 11.04 — eventually

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 […]

Geek in me — Linux in your browser using JavaScript

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 […]

Happy Birthday Debian – sweet 17

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 […]

Update on HTC Desite SD Card that loose write access

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 […]

Eat your heart out iPad — I want one of these

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 […]

Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) — when to upgrade

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 […]

Mircro$oft at it again — patents SUDO …

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 […]

Ubuntu 9.10 ala Karmic Koala is out – get it while it is hot.

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 […]

IBM and Canonical takes on Africa

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 […]