I’m not an OSX person and personally prefer my minimise, maximise and close buttons to be in that order on the right, which they are not as default on the new Ubuntu 10.04 (Lucid Lynx) so here’s how you can swap them back to their rightful place (pun intended). This can be done either...
Read more →An error occurred while mounting /dev/bus/usb (and/or) An error occurred while mounting /proc/bus/usb Press S to skip mounting or M for manual recovery If you are seeing this error on boot an easy way to get rid: sudo gedit /etc/fstab Fine the following line (or lines if you are having both errors) none /proc/bus/usb...
Read more →The sound in Spotify was jumping or skipping much like a scratched disk would. After a little investigation I found a couple of ways to fix it with people saying one worked but the other didn’t for them. (Solution 2 worked for me). Solution 1: Open terminal and type: winecfg Click on the Audio...
Read more →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 &...
Read more →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...
Read more →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:...
Read more →Error: Dependency is not satisfiable: libstdc++5 This is a simple fix, just grab the libstdc++5 package for your architecture from here: http://packages.debian.org/stable/base/libstdc++5
Read more →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...
Read more →Heres how I got OpenCV installed: First install some needed packages sudo apt-get install build-essential libgtk2.0-dev Now you need to grab FFmpeg for the install to work svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg The svn didn’t work for me, probably something to do with the proxy I’m under at Uni so I had to grab the...
Read more →UPDATE I now have it working and wrote a guide of how I got it to work - http://alexsleat.com/2009/12/02/howto-install-opencv-in-ubuntu-karmic-9-10/ END UPDATE I found a great guide on getting OpenCV to install on Ubuntu Karmic (9.10) –http://ivkin.net/2009/11/installing-opencv-2-0-on-ubuntu-9-10-karmic-koala/ Most the comments show the guide works however I have a couple of problems: Firstly when reloading the...
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