I love Brasero. It's simple, lightweight, and comes with Ubuntu. Recently, when I wanted to back up a disk, ISO was not on the list of formats. As is usual, the issue was a missing package: brasero-cdrkit.

apt-get install brasero-cdrkit

Now, .ISO (ISO9960) will be an available disk format for …

There are a million different tutorials out there on how to convert a MKV file into a format that an xbox360 will play. You may have found, like i did, that most of them use 50 different questionable pieces of software to manipulate individual tracks and separate the mkv, etc …

Using your blackberry as a 3G (in my case) modem proved to be Incredibly simple. There are five million different methods to do this and many have you compiling stuff and editing text files. I love those sorts of things, but this is much easier. I Wish that I had …

Ran into this while running Vmware Workstation under Ubuntu Jaunty. I got an error while shutting down the machine through an NX session.

This is a result of a zombie 'vmware-vmx' process running. All you need to do is kill the process. This command sends 'signal 9' to the process …

This appears to be related to vmware, to correct: open up the terminal, and type:

setxkbmap.

Thats it.

You can remove or configure the Pidgin pop up's that you see from pidgin. Buddies logging on/off, and in my case, new messages. I didn't want every new message i receive to be blasted up on the desktop OSD. To control what you see there, Pull up your Pidgin …

I have an eee 1000 netbook running Ubuntu Jaunty netbook remix. Installing and configuring Skype was pretty simple:

Add the Medibuntu repository:

sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/jaunty.list --output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring
sudo apt-get …

So your Ext3 root partition is corrupted. No matter how you try to log into your system, your system asks you for root password. But you are a good, obedient ubuntu user. And you do not have a root password set. You can press CTRL+D, but that just reboots …