Hi everyone, The Linux Kernel 5.19 was released last week and can be installed in our Ubuntu system with the help of the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer. We can install this Kernel version really simple in just a few clicks and we will see those steps below. Installing the Linux Kernel 5.19 1. Launch Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer (Check the above link to install this tool if you do not have it installed): 2. Wait for it to load. You…
Hi everyone, Today is the first Tuesday of August 2022. Today, we are getting 4 movies on DVD and 1 in Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Crimes of the Future Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Pil’s Adventures White Elephant Blu-Ray Doctor Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness Movies Coming Soon This list may be incomplete, and titles may be added or removed at any time. August 9th Code Name Banshee Gone in the Night Hot…
Hi everyone, Today, we will see how to label a DVD using a LabelTag-compatible DVD drive and using Linux. Before we proceed, you must have installed Wine in your system. If you have not, you can follow the steps I wrote in this post to install it. You’ll also need to have Lite-On’s SmartPack installed in your system. You can download it here. Lite-On’s LabelTag is a technology they developed back around 2010, and made available on very few drives….
Hi everyone, Today, we will be installing the Nvidia GPU drivers for an Nvidia GeForce 10-series using a command called ubuntu-drivers which is available in Ubuntu. While I’m using the GeForce 10-series as an example, this should work for other GPU generations and architectures as well. When I upgraded Ubuntu 22.04 to the development release of 22.10, everything went fine. However, I was using the integrated graphics card in my Media Center PC as my main output device. The reason…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be installing Wine from the WineHQ repository in Ubuntu 22.10. Wine is a compatibility layer that allow us to run Windows software on Linux. It is not an emulator nor a virtualization software. It simply translates the binary to Linux-compatible POSIX API call to allow the execution of them. In Windows, Microsoft added the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). There are currently 2 versions: WSL1 and WSL2. WSL1 can be considered the opposite of Wine,…
Hi everyone, Yesterday, I wrote about restoring the audio output after upgrading to Ubuntu 22.10. Today, we will be seeing about how to restore the Bluetooth connectivity to Bluetooth Headsets, Headphones, and dongles. Just like yesterday, this has to do with a package that we must install in the system to make this work. Otherwise, the connections will fail. The Problem After upgrading Ubuntu to the development version 22.10, Bluetooth audio devices fails to connect with a br-connection-profile-unavailable error. The…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing how to restore the audio outputs after upgrading an Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 22.04 to Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 22.10. I had this problem happen on my machines after installing Ubuntu Cinnamon Remix 22.04 and then performing an upgrade using the command do-release-upgrade -d. This effectively upgrades Ubuntu 22.04 to the latest development version which currently is 22.10. However, it seems it messed up with my audio. Luckily, the solution is simple and we will…
Hi everyone, Today, I´d like to show you how to install the latest Linux Kernel in Ubuntu. There’s a software called Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer that allow us to do exactly this. Linux works with the Linux Kernel, and that means that Ubuntu uses it, of course. The latest stable version of Ubuntu: 22.04, uses the Linux Kernel version 5.15, but with the Ubuntu Mainline Kernel Installer, we can install up to the current 5.19-rc8 version. Note that this version…
Hi everyone, Today is the last Tuesday of July 2022. Today, we are getting 2 movies on DVD and 1 in Blu-Ray. Let’s see them below: Movies added DVD Mid-Century The Lost City Blu-Ray The Lost City Movies Coming Soon This list may be incomplete, and titles may be added or removed at any time. August 2nd Crimes of the Future Pil’s Adventures White Elephant August 9th Code Name Banshee Hot Seat Sonic The Hedgehog 2 Men August 16th Sniper:…
Hi everyone, Today, we will be seeing how to resize and watermark an image using Python and the PIL library. This is very simple once I went through a few issues I experienced myself and a deprecation warning. This code is based on the code from the following page: How to Watermark Images w/Python (PIL) I have recently switched to Ubuntu Linux and am looking for alternative software to those I normally use in Windows. To watermark and resize my…