Network Settings by Jan Mussche originally appeared in Full Circle Magazine Issue 72. When you connect your desktop, laptop, printer/scanner, tablet, cellphone or whatever other device you might have, to a network, you need to set a few things straight in order to get connected. The first choice you make is whether you use a … Continue reading
From Command & CONQUER: Ubuntu Touch by Lucas Westermann from Full Circle Magazine issue 71. I originally wanted to write this article on my first impressions for the developer preview of Ubuntu Touch. However, as I couldn’t get the work-in-progress version working on my TF101 (Asus Transformer), and as I wasn’t willing to sacrifice my … Continue reading
Full Circle Magazine Issue 71 is available now from the main site. This month: Ubuntu News. How-To : Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Using PAF. Graphics : Blender, and Inkscape. Book Review: Python for Kids. Review: Chrome OS plus: Q&A, Command & Conquer, Linux Labs, Ask The New Guy, My Story, and soooo much more! Get … Continue reading
FCM#70 hits your virtual door step Get it while it’s hot! This month, we have the usual Python, LibreOffice, Inkscape and Blender How-To’s. Joining them is an interesting HowTo on cron jobs. In other words: a script to do something on a particular day or time. In this month’s Linux Labs, Charles looks at the … Continue reading
Full Circle Side-Pod Episode 13: That’s How it Feels To Be Wrong is available from the magazine site. In this episode, Ubuntu Phone and TV. File Sizes: OGG 45.5Mb mp3 52.1Mb Running Time: 1 hour 21 mins 56 sec
When you delete a file in Windows, Ubuntu, or any other operating system, what it actually does is delete the pointer(s) within the disk index indicating where on the hard disk the file is stored. The file, and therefore the data contained therein is still sitting there. Which is how certain file recovery tools are … Continue reading
In a video released over the New Year, Mark Shuttleworth demos the new Ubuntu Phone operating system. In a glossy, well produced (if slightly long 8mins 37secs), Canonical founder and CTO Mark Shuttleworth talks us through Ubuntu Phone, a product he hopes will challenge Ios, Android and now Tizen in the mobile market. We wait … Continue reading
Happy Holidays to everyone! In this month’s Full Circle Magazine, issue 68 is available from the main site: Ubuntu News. How-To : Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Install 12.10 on an EEE PC. Graphics : NEW! Blender, and Inkscape. Web Dev : CRUD Part 4. * Book Review – Super Scratch Programming. Review: Linux Mint … Continue reading
Full Circle Issue 67: English can be downloaded from the main site. This month: NEW! Ubuntu News. How-To : Programming in Python, LibreOffice, and Create a Thief-proof PC. Graphics : Kdenlive, and Inkscape. Web Dev : CRUD Part 3. Book Review – Think Like a Programmer. Review: OS4 OpenWorkStation. Closing Windows – Installing Fonts. What … Continue reading
Another fill-in required to address the audio output presets in Ubuntu. If you use Sound Juicer (aka CD Extractor) or Rhythmbox music player to output audio in various formats, you may be wondering where the options have gone. In Edit – Preferences, the Settings button is either greyed out or missing completely. So there is … Continue reading
Following our look at Chromium OS in Part One, we’re now going to try it in a virtual machine using VirtualBox. We’ll use the standard Vanilla build of Chromium OS. Hold on for Part Three to try the bootable USB image. Hexxeh provides pre-built, bootable, virtualized disk images for VirtualBox. The image is supplied as … Continue reading