Month: December 2008
066.06 – Understanding Codecs and Installing Them
Posted by on December 26, 2008
On this episode of The Meat, Robbie shows a free (and legal) codec pack for Windows which allows users to watch and listen to nearly all media file formats. 4 minutes 45 seconds.
066.05 – Viewer question – Running Windows XP on a Compiz Fusion Cube Face
Posted by on December 26, 2008
On this episode of The Meat Robbie shows how he has Windows XP running on one of the faces of Compiz Fusion. 1 minute 32 seconds.
066.04 – Viewer question – Setting general.useragent.vendor to Firefox Permanently in Ubuntu
Posted by on December 26, 2008
After setting their general.useragent.vendor value to Firefox in Ubuntu, a viewer reports that web sites such as Hotmail began to work again. However, the value kept resetting to Ubuntu, thereby breaking the sites again until they manually edited the value. In this episode of The Meat, Robbie shows a simple fix to set your vendor tag permanently to Firefox. 2 minutes 59 seconds.
066.03 – Viewer question – Desktop Publisher for Linux and Stripping Down Compiz Fusion Effects
Posted by on December 26, 2008
A viewer asked about a Microsoft Publisher alternative for Linux, as well as how to improve visual performance of his system by scaling down the effects in Compiz Fusion. On this episode of The Meat, Robbie makes his recommendations for this viewer. 2 minutes 55 seconds.
066.02 – Dual-booting XP and Ubuntu – Part 3
Posted by on December 26, 2008
On this episode of The Meat, Robbie wraps up the three-part series on dual-booting Ubuntu on your windows XP system. You'll see the Grub boot menu for the first time, and get to boot either Windows XP or Ubuntu Intrepid on boot. 4 minutes 48 seconds.
066.01 – Introducing The Meat
Posted by on December 26, 2008
What is this thing called "The Meat"? On this episode of The Meat, Robbie introduces The Meat for the first time on-air. 1 minute 46 seconds.
065.08 – Viewer Question – Hiding Old Kernels in Grub’s Boot Menu
Posted by on December 19, 2008
After some updates to your Linux kernel, you may start to notice a build-up of kernel options on your grub boot menu. In this episode of The Meat, Robbie shows you a very simple way to limit your grub boot menu to only one kernel option (or any number of your choice). 4 minutes 38 seconds.
065.07 – Viewer Question – Understanding Video Resolution
Posted by on December 19, 2008
On this episode of The Meat we'll look at an easy way to determine the visual quality of a video or image file: it's pixel resolution. 2 minutes 37 seconds.
065.06 – Viewer Question – KDE Updates in Gnome
Posted by on December 19, 2008
Have you noticed KDE updates in your Gnome environment? On this episode of The Meat, we'll discuss why this occurs, and whether you should bother installing these updates on your computer. 1 minute 49 seconds.
065.05 – Viewer Question – Adding a Windows Shared Printer to Ubuntu
Posted by on December 19, 2008
So you have a printer connected to your Windows computer, but you want to be able to print to it from a Linux computer on your network. No problem! On this episode of The Meat, we'll have a quick look at the New Printer wizard on Ubuntu Linux. 1 minute 36 seconds.