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the last number of Full Circle is out. The download of the issue 22 is available in the following link

enjoy your read to everyone

so, if you need read the old numbers of the Magazine you can using this link and making the download of the oldest issues

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Any days ago I was finding a media center for my pc and I’ve found this one…..Moovida Media Center and surprise it is Elisa Media Center with a new face. Do you remember this one

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so, now it’s become Moovida. I don’t know if this new feature is better then elisa, I prefered elisa. Anyway of following there are the steps to install it. For having more details about it go to its web page http://www.moovida.com/. As first thing to make is to insert the repository of Moovida at synaptic add this line

deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/moovida-packagers/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main

and then for terminal launch these commands

$: sudo gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv 26C2E075 && \ gpg --export --armor 26C2E075 | sudo apt-key add - && \ sudo apt-get update

when you have registered the key may install the application by Synaptic or by apt

$: sudo apt-get install moovida

and that’s all, now you’ve just to load your files, and enjoy your watch.

“bye, and see you soon to the next howto”

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This howto it’s just a way to remind me how install a GUI on our server, but is better don’t do that. To install a graphical desktop manager without some of the desktop addons like Evolution and OpenOffice, but continue to use the server flavor kernel use the following command

$: sudo apt-get  install --no-install-recommends ubuntu-desktop

just in case you need to install light weight desktop install xfce using the following command

$: sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
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I hope that you know Virtualbox…..in case have a look on this link http://www.virtualbox.org/. Before to make directly the installation of the package it’s necessary to install the following package, Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework (DKMS).This package contains the framework for the Dynamic Kernel Module Support method for installing and updating kernel

$:  sudo apt-get install dkms

and then to download .deb package for ubuntu jaunty from this website

http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Linux_Downloads

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or if you prefer to install Virtualbox opensource edition in ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty desktop edition using the following command

$: sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose virtualbox-ose-guest-source virtualbox-ose-guest-utils dkms
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Today I’d like show you how installing a wiki on our ubuntu 8.04lts server edition. What’s a wiki?…..simply it’s a website used in business to provide an easy way to create and editing a number of Web pages. MediaWiki is used by Wikipedia to allow to the users of modifing and editing its webpages. This type of service can be using in your internal lan for creating a personal technical encyclopedia. To have a wiki installed on your server is necessary perform the following steps. As first thing to make is creating a LAMP server. From the terminal launch

$: sudo tasksel

and choose LAMP software to install and press ok to conferm it. At this point after LAMP software always from terminal  we have to install wikimedia package.

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In these days I’ve finally found the solution for my problem with audio and the application that used it in the same time. In fact before it I could use only one application with audio. To make it is necessary setting some parameters like these present in the below image

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Instead for setting skype we need leaving in Sound in the default audio device, and in Sound out and Ringing select pulse, like the following solution

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With these eaasy steps I’ve resolve my problem with audio

“bye, and see you soon to the next howto”

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This howto explain you how make to active the usb support for virtualbox on our new release of ubuntu. The procedure is very easy, it consists of modifing just one file. The following there are the necessary step to make it. As first thing add your user to virtualbox:

$: sudo gpasswd -a $USER vboxusers

check with the following comand if your user is present now in the report of  vboxusers

$: sudo grep vboxusers /etc/group

make sure the result wil be something like this

vboxusers: x:123:username

if that one is true we can add at the file /etc/fstab the following line:

none /proc/bus/usb usbfs devgid=123,devmode=664 0 0

a good restart of the mount service

$: sudo mount -a

with this last comand the howto is completed.

“bye, and see you soon to the next howto”

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the last number of Full Circle is out. The download of the issue 22 is available in the following link

enjoy your read to everyone

so, if you need read the old numbers of the Magazine you can using this one and do the download

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Ubuntu One is the last project launched of Canonical to sync or share your files online, at moment it’s just a beta project. Ubuntu one offerts 2 different plans, one is free and it’s consisted of 2GB of space available for the user. And the other one of 10GB but its prize is of 10.00$ per month.  The web page where it’s possible to find more detail it’s the following

https://ubuntuone.com/

The package of installing for our ubuntu is

https://ubuntuone.com/support/installation/

follow the instructions. I’ve requested the invitation today and you?

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This one is another gui complete to administrate from remote our ubuntu server. The package in question is called webmin and the its webpage is http://www.webmin.com/. There you can find every the necessary inform about that, also the way to install it. Directly from its website:

"Webmin is a web-based interface for system administration for Unix.
Using any modern web browser, you can setup user accounts, Apache, DNS,
file sharing and much more. Webmin removes the need to manually edit
Unix configuration files like /etc/passwd, and lets you manage
a system from the console or remotely. See the standard
modules page for a list of all the functions built into Webmin, or
check out the screenshots."

The address where you can find it is the following

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and to install is necessary just make click on debian package bottom. To open it from your browser use this address https://localhost:10000/ and now manage your service present on ubuntu server. The procedure to have it is very easy, after to have connected to the server, from terminal

$: sudo openssh user@ip_of_server
$: sudo wget http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/webadmin/webmin_1.470_all.deb
$: sudo dpkg -i webmin_1.470_all.deb

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