My Technical Notes

If you have an rpm file for a package you wish to install, and if you cannot find a .deb debian package in any of the Ubuntu repositories or elsewhere, you can use the alien package converter application to install the .rpm file.

Alien is a program that converts between the rpm, dpkg, stampede slp, and slackware [...]

Even if you use OpenOffice, you might still want all the Microsoft TrueType fonts so that documents created using Word or PowerPoint look as they were supposed to when you open them with OpenOffice. Also, with the Microsoft Fonts installed we browsing will be better since the pages will look as the designer originally intended them [...]

Playing streaming video, audio, MP3, mpeg1, mpeg2, mpeg4, avi, wmv, wma, etc. is very important to the computer user of today.  Ubuntu has the capability to play pretty much any video or audio format out there with the proper CODEC (CODer / DECoder) is installed.  Ubuntu refers to these proprietary CODECs as Restricted Formats.  Problem being [...]