• Where is this “Me Menu”? – Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)

    by  • May 5, 2010 • 0 Comments

    After updating my Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) to Lucid (10.04) I was browsing the new features, one of which I couldn’t seem to find. The “Me Menu” which has been talked about quite a lot recently and referred to on the feature page of Lucid: “New in 10.04. Read and update your social networks instantly....

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    HowTo: Simple Tesseract Usage Guide (OCR)

    by  • April 12, 2010 • 1 Comment

    Install: (Ubuntu 9.10) sudo apt-get install tesseract-ocr tesseract-ocr-eng Preparing Images for Tesseract with GIMP: Load an image with text into GIMP Image > Mode > make the image RGB or Grayscale. Tools > Color Tools > Threshold > pick a value which best shows the text Image > Mode > Indexed > choose 1-bit &...

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    Howto: Reinstall Grub using Ubuntu Live CD

    by  • March 11, 2010 • 4 Comments

    I recently installed Fedora 12 on my desktop alongside Ubuntu Karmic and Windows 7, however doing so I overwrite my grub which meant my Ubuntu system was hidden. To fix this is pretty simple.. Insert your Ubuntu Live CD Click “Try Ubuntu without any changes to your computer” Once loaded click Applications > Accessories...

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    Howto fix: “error while loading shared libraries”

    by  • February 2, 2010 • 0 Comments

    While installing opencv on an older version of debian for work I kept getting an error while loading shared libraries which turned out to be a pretty easy fix, just finding the libraries and adding them to the dynamic linker. The libraries I was having trouble with below: ./blobtrack: error while loading shared libraries:...

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    HowTo: Install Player/Stage in Ubuntu Karmic (9.10)

    by  • December 12, 2009 • 2 Comments

    UPDATE: There is a much easier way of installing player/stage in Ubuntu 9.10 as pointed out by Arkapravo in the comments, however this is the 2.0.4-3.3ubuntu3 where as of 21/May/2010 the latest version is 3.0.1 if this causes any issues with your needs. sudo apt-get install robot-player stage also check out: http://icrobotics.co.uk/wiki/index.php?title=Player/stage END UPDATE...

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