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Netflix is finally working on Linux - not native, but with a patched Wine build, you can now use Netflix under Linux. For those who are not familiar with Netflix, it is an American provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to both North and South America, the Caribbean, United Kingdom, Ireland, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland. How to install $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:ehoover/compholio $ sudo apt-get update $ sudo apt-get install netflix-desktop The Netflix Desktop package installs all of the components necessary to run Netflix Watch Instantly under Wine, including the Windows version of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Silverlight v4....

I got a Brother MFC-9970CDW printer, a multifunction device with wired/wireless network. For unknown reasons the driver are not available in Ubuntu and as as user you are not able to find them using the printer configuration search tool. Thereby you need to download the drivers yourself. Download Drivers Go to Brother Linux Driver Downloads and download the LPR driver and the cupswrapper driver. Install the Drivers sudo mkdir /var/spool/lpd sudo dpkg -i mfc9970cdwlpr-1....

For some reason Adobe only supported Linux until Adobe AIR 2.6. Download Adobe Air Download Latest Version Air 2.6.0 For Linux http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin (16,1 MB) wget http://airdownload.adobe.com/air/lin/download/2.6/AdobeAIRInstaller.bin Install ia32-libs The ia32-libs 32bit crap is needed if you want to run this in 64-bit Ubuntu. sudo apt-get install ia32-libs Install Adobe Air chmod +x AdobeAIRInstaller.bin sudo ./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin You might get an error saying: “Sorry, an error has occured. Adobe AIR could not be installed....

Mounting a bin/cue image isn’t possible straight away. It requires a simple convertion using bchunk to convert a bin/cue file set into an ISO file. binchunker converts a CD image in a “.bin / .cue” format (sometimes “.raw / .cue”) to a set of .iso and .cdr tracks. The bin/cue format is used by some popular non-Unix cd-writing software, but is not supported on most other CD burning programs. A lot of CD/VCD images distributed on the Internet are in BIN/CUE format, I’ve been told....

When I last upgraded to Ubuntu 12.04, I was quite disappointed. Mostly because it was a LTS release and though you do not expect buggy and unpolished components. Back to Ubuntu 12.10. Installation The installation is simple and for the first time ever my girlfriend was able to install Ubuntu without my support. During the installation she even mentioned that is was incredible easy and straight forward. The best thing about the installation is the fact that you don’t waste time during the installation process....

My father has got a solar water heater system with a SPIII Solar Water Heater Controller. The controller itself is some crappy closed source with a bad interface (non-standard compliant HTML interface) - however it works. In order to collect all environmental data from the house we decided to buy a Raspberry PI and a few Arduino devices. So far we are able to collect data from the SPIII Solar Water Heater Controller using curl and from the Current Cost device (via cosm....