by jtpratt | Jan 5, 2016 | gadgets, hardware, household tech, linux, p2p, resources and tips, tutorial, xbox
More and more people are cancelling cable and “cutting the cord”, then just using the Internet to watch TV. Most modern flat screen TV’s are equipped with apps, and most of us seem to have at least Netflix and Amazon video – and some have added...
by jtpratt | Oct 18, 2012 | linux, liveCD, resources and tips, ubuntu linux
Let’s say your on a Windows box, and then you install an Ubuntu VM with VirtualBox. Maybe you give it a default 4GB or 8GB HDD, and then you start installing the things you need to work in your environment. If you’re doing web development (like me), that...
by jtpratt | Oct 17, 2012 | linux, tutorial, ubuntu linux
In VirtualBox by default usually your VM size is 8GB. You might run out of space, and need a larger virtual machine. Recently on a windows box (gack!) I had an Ubuntu VM spun up that needed more space – and there’s no way at all to do this in the GUI....
by jtpratt | Jul 12, 2012 | diy, linux, resources and tips, ubuntu linux
Often for me one of 2 scenarios arise. The first is I’ve used my portable HD video recorder to make a video, and now I need to chop it up into smaller pieces. Not necessarily edit the video, just chop it into smaller pieces. Like when my band “Not...
by jtpratt | Jul 9, 2012 | diy, linux, ubuntu linux
The great thing about Ubuntu is that there are all kinds of free programs for graphics you can install. I use Pinta for a lot of quick image editing, resizing, cropping, etc. However, what I haven’t come across is a decent utility for batch coverting or resizing...
by jtpratt | Jan 29, 2012 | linux, tutorial, ubuntu linux
I’ve been using Ubuntu for years on my desktop workstation – about 5 years now in total. I’ve been through so many revisions of Ubuntu it’s not funny – and as we all know in the beginning upgrading wasn’t really all that fun...
