Installing NVidia drivers on Ubuntu 8.04

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sudo apt-get install nvidia-glx-new linux-restricted-modules-$(uname -r) --reinstall

Two commands enable DVD playback in Ubuntu

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sudo apt-get install totem-xine libxine1-ffmpeg libdvdread3 sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh

No sound with pidgin, etc. on kubuntu

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Problem: error message

play soxio: Failed reading `test.wav': unknown file type `auto'

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$ sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-base libsox-fmt-ao

Installs everything you need just for the wave (.wav) format, *or use *

$ sudo apt-get install libsox-fmt-all

to install all available formats for sox and the play command.

Unix Toolbox

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Highly recommended.

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Subversion on Plesk-controlled subdomain

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After much procastination and personal interuptions (you can tell, I haven’t been blogging that often lately) , I’ve managed to install Subversion running as a subdomain with Plesk 8.0 and CentOS 4.3...

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