full circle magazine #65
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Q & A
to 15 degrees.
However, "power saving mode"
also means "low performance
mode". When I play a 480P video
on youtube, the video is very
choppy.
Q
I have Dell E220WF and
Acer AL2216W monitors
connected to the on-
board Radeon HD 6550D
video adapter on my computer.
The Acer is connected by a VGA
cable, the Dell by a DVI to VGA
connector. Nothing appears on the
Acer.
A
Replace the DVI to VGA
with a regular DVI cable.
Q
I don't use DHCP on my
LAN, everything is set to
work with static IP. Can I
set an HP K8600dn
wireless printer to work with static
IP on Ubuntu?
A
The printer has a built-in
web server for
configuration. Allow
DHCP, then find what
address the printer has: open your
file manager, and click on "browse
network." The result should be a
list of the names of all the devices
on your network. To translate the
name into an IP address, use this
command:
nmblookup [name of device]
Enter the IP address into your
browser's address bar. On e o f the
printer's configuration options is
to set a static IP address. Then you
can disable DHCP again.
Q
Can I run the Windows
picture-viewer, Irfanview,
in Ubuntu?
A
You will need to install
and configure Wine first.
After you download
Irfanview, the easiest
way to install it is through the
command line:
cd Downloads
wine iview433_setup.exe
This assumes that the file is in
your Downloads folder, and that
you downloaded version 4.33.
If you select "put shortcut on
desktop" during installation, you
will get a useful shortcut. You will
probably want to install plugins,
such as exif from Tucows. (With the
exif plugin, you can go from an
image with GPS data, to the
location in Google Maps, with a
couple of clicks via "GeoHack
Wiki".)
Q
I use “Photo Sharing” in
MSN Messenger. Is there
any way to do this in
Ubuntu?
A
Not really. There are
several Linux programs
which support MSN
chatting, but the only
way to get Photo Sharing would be
to install Windows in a virtual
machine such as VirtualBox, then
use MSN Messenger from there.
Q
My entire system
suddenly went read-only
on me, and then it
refused to boot up. I used
a live CD to mount my partitions
and backup some files and got
multiple cases of:
File shrank by xxxxxxx bytes;
padding with zeros
and
Cannot stat: Input/output
error
I have a full backup on an
external drive.
A
Sorry, it's time to buy a
new hard drive. You
should be proud of
yourself for having a