Archive for the ‘Application Management’ Category

Installing Skype on Ubuntu

kype is a little piece of software, that is used to make free calls to other users of Skype, anywhere in the world. Skype can also be used to call phones and mobile phones at cheap rates. Skype is free to download.
In this example, we will install Skype on a Ubuntu 9.10 operating system.
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Making movies with Sony Handycam DCR-SX30, Ubuntu Linux and Kino

The Sony Handycam DCR-SX30 is a digital video recorder (DVR), that stores video clips in the MPEG program stream (PS, MPEG-PS) container format, that multiplexes one digital video channel and two digital audio channels. The video channel is MPEG-2 at a 16:9 wide screen frame resolution (dimension) of 720 x 576 pixels at a rate [...]

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Udskrift fra Navigator til laserprinter Brother HL-4050CDN

Dette er fremgangsmåden for udskrift fra finansprogrammet Navigator til laserprinter Brother HL-4050CDN, der understøtter netværk, farveprint og emulering (emulation) af HP LaserJet.
Tidligere modeller fra Brother har understøttet emulering af IBM Proprinter XL 24. Det er desværre slut med HL-4050CDN.
Det forudsættes, at laserprinteren er konfigureret på netværket, installeret i operativsystemet og lytter på LTP1.
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Recording telephone calls

There are many reasons why call centers, front office desks and private persons want to record their incoming and outgoing telephone calls, such as improving their customer service, documenting incoming change requests, documenting arrangements, conducting interviews or collecting proof.
Popular methods of telephone call recording are induction coil microphone recording and in-line recording. An induction coil [...]

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Netbank på Mac, Linux og Unix

Ikke alle udviklere af hjemmesider er endnu så langt fremme, at de kan udvikle en hjemmeside, der overholder standarderne, så den kan afvikles i en vilkårlig browser på et vilkårligt operativsystem.
Argumentet fra sådanne udviklere er, at deres produkt er optimeret til Windows. Der er dog ikke tale om nogen optimering. Der er tale om, at [...]

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Installing the Ubuntu Netbook Remix operating system

Netbooks, also known as mini notebooks, are a rapidly evolving category of small, light and inexpensive laptop computers, that are perfect for general computing and web based applications on the go. Popular examples of netboks are the Asus Eee and the Asus Aspire One. The operating system on a netbook should support encrypted files and [...]

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Transferring and converting an address book from one mail client or computer to another

Transferring address books from a mail client or computer to another can be a problem. Converting it between different mail client software can be an even bigger problem. There are lots of conversion add-ons, tools and Unix oneliners available. However, this can be a time consuming task.
The solution is to convert using the standard address [...]

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Encrypted mail for the graphical desktop environment

In this example, we will configure the popular Evolution mail client in a graphical desktop environment to be able to keep privacy by using OpenPGP (PGP, GnuPG, GPG) for signing and encryption. The Evolution mail client is the default mail client on a Ubuntu operating system.
We assume, that the mail server settings has been configured [...]

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Installing a network laser printer in Ubuntu 9.10

In this example, we will be installing a Brother HL 4050 CDN color network laser printer in Ubuntu 9.10.
Prior to this, network has been configured, such as static IP address and domain name for the printer.
We click “System”, “Administration”, “Printing”, “New” and “Printer”. The network is now searched for available printers and the results is [...]

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Blocking incoming calls and messages on a mobile phone

In our example, we want to configure a Nokia 5800 mobile phone to be able to

block incoming calls from hidden numbers,
block incoming calls and messages from numbers, that are not listed in the address book, and
block incoming calls and messages from specific numbers.

When such incoming call is made, the caller should be automatically rejected by [...]

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