Wednesday 24 February 2010

Ubuntu & Dban

Ubuntu & Dban
 
Ubuntu
This is an operating system built by a worldwide team of expert developers. It contains all the applications you need: a web browser, office suite, media apps, instant messaging and much more. Ubuntu is an open-source alternative to Windows and Office.

  • Ubuntu will always be free of charge, along with its regular enterprise releases and security updates
  • Ubuntu comes with full commercial support from Canonical and hundreds of companies from across the world
  • Ubuntu provides the best translations and accessibility features that the free software community has to offer
  • Ubuntu core applications are all free and open source. We want you to use free and open source software, improve it and pass it on.
 
 
Dban
Darik's Boot and Nuke ("DBAN") is a self-contained boot disk that securely wipes the hard disks of most computers. DBAN will automatically and completely delete the contents of any hard disk that it can detect, which makes it an appropriate utility for bulk or emergency data destruction.

Ubuntu User Guide


Ubuntu User Guide
 
Ubuntu offers a range of free software and one of the pieces of software that we had to look at was the music player. The default music player for Ubuntu is Sound Juicer. This application allows the user to play music and rip CD's, but it requires an application called Serpentine to burn CD's. But there is a solution to this, I have researched on the internet and I found that there is a great application that does all of the above in this one application which is called Banshee. This allows users to play your music and videos, access podcasts and video podcasts. Sync your iPod, and other devices. So it is almost an exact replica of iTunes for Ubuntu. Below is a screenshot of the Banshee Music Player

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Tuesday 2 February 2010

Setting Up Surround Sound

Question

You have set up a Dolby surround sound and the speakers are not working correctly



Solution

Go into your Sound manager to ensure that you have selected the Dolby 5.1 as audio output



Ensure that all of the Dolby leads are inserted in the correct input onto the back of the PC, or just enable EAX in the audio settings and select stereo



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