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Video and Audio Editing

I finally got Ubuntu Studio (gutsy) installed directly from the ISO using the the nice Ubuntu wiki article. I did have issues with it not picking up my video card (nvidia 6600gt), but I got around that by booting to the recovery console and installing the needed nvidia stuff. Hopefully, the new alpha does the [...]

Posted 02 March 2008 † robotgeek § Linux ‡ Comments (2) ° Tagged:

Make Your Own Passport Size Photos (using GIMP)

As a new year present to the community, here is an small tutorial on making your own passport size pictures using the GIMP.
http://www.robotgeek.org/articles/passport_tutorial/tutorial.html
Have a great new years, and hopefully this tutorial will help you when you travel

Posted 01 January 2008 † robotgeek § Linux ‡ Comments (1) °

Feisty and a shiny cube - updates

There was a time when I could not get Linux working on my machine. This was circa 2003. This was possibly because I was totally incompetent and that fact that I picked Gentoo for my first install.
Then, things got better. I installed yellow dog linux. For the first time, I had Linux on my machine. [...]

Posted 26 November 2006 † robotgeek § ‡ Comments (1) °

Feisty and a shiny cube

Apparently Ubuntu is going to ship binary drivers by default in Feisty. All for a shiny cube. So that Ubuntu can get lots of new users.
Linux did not get to where it is by compromising on its principles. Well, I am still to confirm if this is all true and is going to happen [...]

Posted 13 November 2006 † robotgeek § ‡ Comments (0) °

Stats

You might or might not know that I work on EasyUbuntu.
Anyways, we released a beta on April 25th. Since then, we have about 3237 downloads in April, and 4580 downloads in May! A total of 7817 (and counting) downloads in 17 days!
Makes you feel nice, doesn’t it
BTW, this beta of EasyUbuntu [...]

Posted 12 May 2006 † robotgeek § Geek Speak § code ‡ Comments (5) °