Samsung Driver for my new Ubuntu setup

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Brian

Just a quick one. Found this solution to a print driver for my Samsung CLP-310N. Works first time. Go to this thread.

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Ubuntu Lucid 10.04 64 Bit IPv6 problems

Posted on May 7, 2010 by Brian

I’ve installed Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid on a core 2 Duo Acer Aspire, going for the 64bit version for the first time and am having loads of problems with IPv6. 2 Instances; firstly Firefox would not connect to a website. I could see it resolving the Domain Name then nothing just a “cannot connect to server” error message. A bit of googling led me to change the IPv6 Setting. In the address bar do ‘about:config’ then filter on ‘ipv6’. you should be presented with the item network.dns.disableIPv6 set this to true and bingo Firefox connects.

Second time was trying to get DVD playing working. This needs libdvdcss to be installed. Follow this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats/PlayingDVDs except that you need to edit the shell script to force wget into ipv4 mode using the -4 option. the code line should look like this once done.

set +e # prevent this from stopping everything
wget -4 “${sitert}dists/${dist}/free/binary-${arch}/Packages” -O “$CSSTMP”/Packages && \

If you are not sure, open a terminal window, “sudo gedit /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.sh” edit and save then run it.

Not completely sure why but it works!

So install VLC and I can watch movies to my hearts content!

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iTunes and a NAS

Posted on February 12, 2010 by Brian

I recently found this in a trusted review comment. I’m sure I’d lose it so here it is repeated here so I don’t!

http://www.trustedreviews.com/networking/review/2009/11/19/Netgear-Stora-MS2110/p1

iTunes: Requiremnet for me was to have as single place for all music and ideally to share a single library so that you can use either computer to add songs and sync iPods. Solution was to move all music into the “Family Library -> Family Music” folder on the mapped drive and then on the main computer account change the default library source in iTunes within advanced preferences to this network location and check “Copy files to iTunes Music folder when adding to library”. Restart iTunes holding down shift key – select “create new library” and create it again in the same network location. Once this is done and you have enabled sharing in iTunes simply open iTunes on all user accounts on all computers whilst holding shift and “change library location” to the network folder and again in advanced prefs change the library source. Currently any changes I make in any user account in iTunes (playlists song adds etc) are reflected for all iTunes accounts.

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What do I want from Ubuntu?

Posted on November 3, 2009 by Brian

What would I like to see from Ubuntu. Well 2 things; Continue reading →

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What’s in an OS

Posted on October 29, 2009 by Brian

The imminent release of Ubuntu 9.10 and the release last week of Windows 7 has prompted me to consider what I actually want from an Operating System. Rory Cellan-Jones (BBC technology Correspondent) produced a storm of response to his off handish dismissal of Ubuntu. In a similar vein the Deputy Editor of PC Pro did much the same in the last issue of PCPro – his main complaint the ‘clippy’ in Open Office for goodness sake. Continue reading →

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