Jens Olsson

To open RAR in Ubuntu, install unrar by typing in the terminal:

sudo aptitude install unrar

Then you can open your rar file as usually

To get World of Warcraft work on Ubuntu is not hard. Acutely its really simple and it works good.

Start with install wine by “sudo apt-get install wine” in terminal if you do not have it already.

Either you install wow on your Ubuntu machine by insert all disces or do as I did, copy the folder from a windows computer where i had it installed and simply paste it in your Ubuntu computer. Now brows with help of wine to wow.exe and start the game. When i did this I had some problem with my graphic, the game did not start in Open GL. Simply add this line at the bottom on your config.wtf, you will find it under WTF in your world of warcraft folder :

SET gxApi "opengl"

Good Luck!

I had some mess with my headphones and microphone on my Acer 5738ZG Dolby while using Ubuntu. This may help you fix it, at least helped me. Right click on your speaker icon just beside the clock then Open Volume Control. Then you click on settings… Check all that are unchecked and close. Take surround to top and un mark mute. Then to make the speakers quiet just mute front. Do also not forget to make sure your headphones are checked under switch.

Then to microphone, take front mick up to the top and un mark mute. Then go to Alternative and select input source to Front Mic. If you wanna boost your microphone just increase front mic boost, but be careful if you use speakers you will get consecutive working.

3 screens from mine volume control while using headphones:

When i graduated from high school my father and mother was very kind and gave me a camera, Canon EOS1000D to use when skydiving. I even get the package 18-55mm lens. Any way the camera what i thought in the beginning should not be able to manage the auto focus while skydiving but it did surprise me. It works very well and I am very satisfied with the in my opinion cheap camera. Well perhaps it is not a camera for professional users but works fine for me who are pretty new to the photo section.

The fast shoot function in what I nearly only have used so far is very good. It takes 3 photos in 1 second and that’s more then good for beginners. The auto focus is also very fast. The product itself feels very good in the hand, you can feel the quality and I think that Canon have done a great job here. Little info about the product: 10.1(effective) mega pixel, Maximal resolution: 3888×2592px, Sensor: CMOS, Filter: RGB, Video: No (Not needed for photo camera iom), HDMI outputs: No, Weight: 450g (without objective).

I will give this camera 5/5 since the price is very accepteble for what you get and the product does do what it is made for!

Was in need to convert a avi file to iso file and did find a perfect program for this. DeVeDe is the name and you will find it in synaptic. Install and use, choose video DVD if you want to burn it out and then watch it on your DVD-player. You can add subtitles and etc. Perhaps little slow but works perfect!

Did just get my usb modem from my ISP today and was going to install in on my Ubuntu machine. Like many times before there is no drivers for Ubuntu (Linux) in this time “only” for mac and win.
So, here comes a little howto install this Sony Ericsson MD400 modem on Ubuntu. Do not have the modem in the computer until the step I tell you
First you have to download drivers. Go to http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/#download or do as I did just write:

wget http://www.draisberghof.de/usb_modeswitch/usb_modeswitch-1.0.2.tar.bz2

Obs: Look first what is the newst drivers on the homepage, perhaps you have to change the name on the wget command, “usb_modeswitch-1.0.2.tar.bz2″.

After this you run in terminal:

tar xjvf usb_modeswitch-1.0.2.tar.bz2

Go to the folder by:

cd usb_modeswitch-1.0.2

Install:

sudo make install

Now it will work as it should. All you have to run every time before using is this in the terminal, first time it did ask me for password, do not know if it is the same for everyone.

Now you can also insert the modem

sudo usb_modeswitch -v 0×0fce -p 0xd0e1 -O 1

Good luck. I did learn this at: http://ubuntu.se/forum/showthread.php?p=19872 Many thanks to you.

For about one year ago I was looking for a good real time support for my webhost company, inleed.se. After some search on google I found Provide Support. After nearly one year of using their service I am still very satisfied. And yes, it support Linux and some random OS called Mac ofc Windows aswell.

The prices are low and they offer some different price plans. If you don’t have access to install the software on your computer you can just easily use their web consol.

+ List:

Easy to use and install, Good looking consol, Many functions, Good support, Best price, Good uptime.

- List

No wating queue for visitors

Some screens from the program used in Ubuntu (Linux):

Link to their home page:

http://www.providesupport.com/

If you wanna try it as visitor just visit my webhost site, www.inleed.se

Score: 5/5

Today I did get a tip for a webcam program(driver?) on a forum. The program is called Cheese, its in synaptic or if you more like the terminal just write “sudo aptitude install cheese”. After installation you will find it under graphic. Try out some cool effects while testing, take a look at mine below

Now i finally have found a good MSN client for Ubuntu and iom the best. It’s name is emesene and it have some nice futures. Please take a look at the pics below to see a demo of it. For install just do “sudo apt-get install emesene” and it will work perfect.

If you are looking for a nice mac menu for your Ubuntu system I suggest you to download and install: Avant Windows Navigator (AWM)

Both easy to use and add new themes. Please take a look at the pic to see my example of this program.

If you are looking for some other theme then the original just google AWM or full name+theme(s)