Category: shell

  • Skype sounds audio distorted in Ubuntu

    Now that I have Skype installed on Ubuntu 13.04 I discovered that the various Skype sounds were distorted.  It was almost like the sounds had some static mixed in with them.  I thought it was probably just a problem with the new version of Skype, or the new sound drivers.  However, I made a discovery […]

  • Skype for Ubuntu 13.04 Ringtail

    I am running the new version of Ubuntu 13.04 Raring Ringtail, and so far really like it.  However I’ve had a bit of trouble with Skype, because I could not get it to use the indicator area of the tray.  Other than that it seemed to work fine. When I installed Skype I did it […]

  • Add items to Ubuntu 12.04 Unity Launcher (quicklaunch)

    Creating a Unity Launcher item in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin is a bit challenging. Here is how I took care of it for Zend Studio and PHPStorm.

  • Collect hardware info in Ubuntu

    Handy terminal commands to collect hardware information in Ubuntu.

  • Executing CakePHP script using Windows Scheduled Task

    In Windows adding a scheduled task is just not as straight forward as adding a CRON job using Linux. (Don’t get me started on troubleshooting a Windows Schedule Task that did not run for some reason.) However, it is not so difficult once you get it figured out. Here is what I did: In this […]