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.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

 

 

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.

http://www.dban.org/

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

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



Get correct Drivers for the motherboard on the machine or soundcard

Building My Own PC

The PC that I am buiding is going to mainly used for gaming, so therefore I need to find out what specifications I need in order to create a good gaming PC. below is a link to the PC that I have chosen the specifications I wanted to make it the way I would like it.

http://www.pugetsystems.com/?u=15259

Intel ATOM Versus the ARM Cortex-A9

Below is a link to a website which compares these two processors and there is also a video showing both processors working beside eachother to view the performance differences

http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=222200621

Creating An Image Of Your Hard Drive

If you accidentally destroy your RAID driver (which will lock you out of Windows, and your computer) you are almost forced to find a solution to stop this before you do it. Windows doesn’t provide any applications for this solution. They may have a system restore function but it’s no good if your restore driver has been destroyed. But there is a solution to this, what is needed is a free application that creates an image of a Windows installation, and after some research i found that Drive Image XML is the perfect solution for this as it’s free and can duplicate your hard drive. All you need to do is to download the application run it and choose the Backup Option.

How To Restore My PC Factory Settings

My Packard Bell PC does not have the SmartRestore function that most of the newer models have so i can't use that as it is not installed. So i have to start-up my computer and then i have to press the F10 key when the Packard Bell logo appears and this will give me the step-by-step guide on how to restore the computer back to its factory settings.