In this example, the composite video signal from an internal Hauppauge PVR 150 video adapter from Hauppauge will be viewed and recorded on a computer with the Ubuntu 11.10 operating system.
Install the video adapter and boot up the computer.
Read the boot log and confirm, that the Hauppauge PVR 150 video adapter are recognized by the [...]

UTF-8 is a variable-width character encoding set, that has been designed with backward compatibility for the popular ASCII character encoding set. UTF-8 has become the standard in popular open source multilingual operating systems.
There is one exception though. UTF-8 is not standard in the FreeBSD operating system. However, FreeBSD can be configured for UTF-8.
Determine the locale, [...]

WinAmp is a very popular MP3 audio player, that was written by Nullsoft, for the Windows operating system. Nullsoft also wrote the equally popular ShoutCast server. ShoutCast is used for streaming MP3 on the internet. The name “Nullsoft” is a parody of “Microsoft”. WinAmp and ShoutCast was released as free software.
WinAmp is not available for [...]

This procedure will configure the Firefox web browser for the Ubuntu 11.10 operating system.
If you will be using Firefox for printing to paper or file, such as PDF, then you will find, that Firefox is extremely bonded to the letterbox format and forced variables in headers and footers. You can change the settings over and [...]

In the following example, we will change the screen resolution in BackTrack 5.
We are running BackTrack as a guest in a VirtualBox 4.2 and we have installed the Guest Additions within BackTrack in order for this to work.
We will use the xrandr utility to list the current available screen resolutions and to do the change.

xrandr
xrandr [...]