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… Continue reading Skype sounds audio distorted in Ubuntu
Category: terminal
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… Continue reading Skype for Ubuntu 13.04 Ringtail
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… Continue reading Executing CakePHP script using Windows Scheduled Task