Penguins-On-Hudson

Linux & F.O.S.S. in the Hudson River Valley.

Penguins-On-Hudson is an advocacy program sponsored by Codefix Consulting to help promote Linux and F.O.S.S. (Free Open Source Software) in the lower Hudson River Valley.

Archive for January, 2010

Automount USB drives on Ubuntu servers.

Wednesday, January 20th, 2010

In most cases, Ubuntu desktop systems will automatically detect and mount removable media, and this is largely done with software that is part of the X Windows system; for server systems without X Windows however, this sort of thing requires a bit of work.
Now some may ask, “Why automount removable media at all?” It is […]

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Diagnosing Sound Problems in Ubuntu Linux

Saturday, January 2nd, 2010

Sound problems fall in to three basic categories, and the first thing you want to do is determine which one you’re dealing with. The easiest thing you can do is test your speakers with something else, using the same cable. If your speakers and cable are confirmed to be in good working order, then the […]

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