Sometimes a blog with thoughts and opinions by Dan Greene
Next for IT 566 is installing support for MP3 creation in Ubuntu. MP3 was a patented audio format (the patent expired in 2017) so Ubuntu does not install support for MP3 creation by default. However, it can easily be added by installing libmp3lame0 and Audacity via the Ubuntu Software Center (or Synaptic or any method you choose).…
Next up for IT 566 is installing LibreOffice. LibreOffice is an Oracle-less fork/update of OpenOffice.
Instructions are at Ubuntu Wiki.…
More software installing for IT 566, this time with Ubuntu Software Center. I started the Ubuntu Software Center via the Ubuntu menu, Applications. I didn’t have any particular software in mind to install this time. However, I did notice that Ubuntu doesn’t install by default anything quite like Apple’s System Profiler or the System options in various versions of Windows.…
More software installing for IT 566. I chose to install Lynx. Lynx is text based browser that has been around since 1992.
I started the Synaptic Package Manager via the Ubuntu menu, System, Administration. You need to enter your password before the manager will start.…
Next on the agenda for IT 566 is installing software. One of the ways to install software in Ubuntu is via the command line using apt. The Ubuntu documentation has an extensive section on apt that includes a tutorial.
The tutorial explains how to install the racing game Torcs.…
Now that I had the computer and the network taken care of, it was time to turn the setup into a web server. Here we get into territory that’s pretty close to my job. So to make things more interesting for me and to help others in the IT 566 class I decided to look around for good tutorials and see if they actually worked so I could pass them along.…
I had one problem with my new Dell Ubuntu machine. The place I had to put to was nowhere near my router and cable modem. The cable modem and router are pretty firmly entrenched near my TV. I really didn’t want to touch the cable modem.…
Next up in IT 566 assignments is installing Ubuntu. I only had blank DVDs so I went the alternate download route and downloaded the DVD iso for version 10.10.
I put the DVD in the Dell machine and let the installer do its thing.…
One of the assignments for IT 566 is getting a server. This presented a problem for me, as I’m not in a position to spend even a few hundred dollars on a extra computer. My main computer is a 4 year old laptop that the keys have started falling off of.…