If you want to get the STABLE RELEASE of the ubuntu second life viewer, eg the same as the lindens official release then add the following lines to your /etc/apt/sources.list (you will need to do this as root e.g. sudo…
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Second Life Open Metaverse viewer After installing the latest version of wine via command line and rebooted ubuntu, I was greeted by this message after typing my user/pass and logging in.
"User's $HOME/.dmrc file is being ignored. This prevents the…
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Here's an excellent guide to getting VPN connections working in gutsy and hardy.
http://tipotheday.com/2007/11/28/connect-to-windows-vpn-server-pptp-with-ubuntu-gutsy/
Unfortunately when using the…
Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Interpid Ibex Ubuntu 8.10 VPN Client network-manager-pptp Installing the drivers for the GeForce GTX 260 on Ubuntu 8.04 64 Bit is not exactly intuitive. The drivers aren't found under "System > Administration > Hardware Drivers". The drivers instead need to be downloaded…
Ubuntu 8.04 GeForce GTX 260 Thought I'd share some quick fixes to get Ubuntu 8.04 working on an Asus P5Q Premium motherboard. These will probably also help with similar problems in Ubuntu 7.04 and Ubuntu 7.10 when using SATA drives.
The…
Ubuntu Ubuntu 8.04 Asus P5Q Premium To automatically start synergy at the login screen:
Run "sudo vim /etc/gdm/Init/Default" in the command window. This will run the vim text editor to edit the startup script of gdm.
Add the following chunk of text…
Ubuntu Ubuntu 8.04 Synergy