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The video shows how cool Dell Inspiron Duo is when running Ubuntu.
This particular demo uses Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) with Ubermix customization, which contains a collection of application suitable for netbook users.
Ubermix can be downloaded from its official website, please check the Netbook/table model specific instructions for proper installations.
Supported Netbooks
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First you need youtube-dl tool or ‘cclive’ to download the Youtube .FLV file.
Then, download the Youtube stream.
python youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lee7a55401e
Alternatively, you can use ‘cclive’ to download the youtube stream.
cclive http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lee7a55401e
After that, use ffmpeg to extract the audio and encode it to MP3
ffmpeg -i lee7a55401e.flv vn -acodec libmp3lame -ab 128000 -ar 44100 lee7a55401e.mp3
Note: You need to install the restricted codecs in order to extract MP3 audio files.
Thanks Mohammad Bahathir Hashim for the tip!
Google has made a playable guitar doodle to commemorate the birthday anniversary of Les Paul, the electric guitar inventor. Although lacking few notes as well as the ability to lengthen the notes– within hours, people have come ups with guitar tabs for for playing popular songs on this doodle.
Among the tabs:
Intro of One – Metallica – DJDG AJAG DJDG AJAGK DJDG SJSG AJAG
Godfather – DHKJH KHJH FGD
Smoke on the Water – SFG SFG HSFG FS
Twinkle-Twinkle little star – AAGGHHG FFDDSSA GGFFDDS GGFFDDS AAGGHHG FFDDSSA
Happy Birthday – AASAFD AASAGF AAKHFDS KKFGF
Yankee Doodle – KKL; – K;L – KKL; – KJ – KKL; – FDSA – JGHJ
The tutorial video is largely aimed for those who are new to Ubuntu. It covers topic ranging from:
The video is easy to follow and comprehensive. Moreover, its Youtube page contains Chapter Timing bookmarks, which enables user to skip to appropriate chapter without going through the video serially.
This is a continuation from my post of running Android on my AMD decTOP machine.
Of all Linux distribution that I tried, I found out that only Puppy Linux offered a usable GUI desktop environment on a plain vanilla AMD decTOP out of the box, but that is not without some effort on the installer side.
On the other hand, it is very easy to get Windows XP running on a plain vanilla AMD decTOP, without additional hardware upgrades. Here is my prove.
It seems Windows XP is more tolerant to low end desktops (or in this case, decTOP) than Linux operating system for fully GUI environment. Are we getting bloated?
AMD decTOP specs
RAM: 128MB RAM DDR2
HDD: 10GB IDE
Processor: AMD Geode GX 500, 366 MHz clock rate
To tell you the truth, I’m kind of agree with some points in this video even before it was published.
There are stories of organizations, school computer labs or home users that switch back to Microsoft Office after they have use OpenOffice.org. There is even a local (Malaysian) joke that poke fun at the amount of training and costs required to educate staffs to use OpenOffice.org which eventually exceeds the cost Microsoft Office Suite.
We have used a lot of open source software, libraries and components in our daily lives without realizing, In case of OpenOffice.org, I think the problem is just the process and familiarity with application. Microsoft has spend a lot of money to ensure every schools, university, computer labs used its products to educate our younger and future generations that eventually would be accustom to Microsoft branded products. It is a great business strategy, but the question is, who would benefit the most from this scheme?