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Brief Description

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Introductions:

["/WhatAreTheComponents"]

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["/LinuxForWindowsUsers"]

"Where is my C drive!?" etc

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["/InstallingUbuntuOnANewDisk"]

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["/WhereToGoForHelp"]

websites, wikis, forums etc

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["/AnIntroductionToTheUbuntuDesktop"]

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["/IntroductionToTheFilesystem"]

where everything lives

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Typical Basic User Activites:

["/InstantMessaging"]

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JoshuaHenderson

["/AccessingWindowsFileShares"]

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["/CreatingAndUploadingSimpleWebPages"]

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["/UsingBitTorrent"]

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JoshuaHenderson

["/WritingAndPrintingALetter"]

The basics of word processing and printing

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["/BurningAndDuplicatingCDs"]

Burning data, music and ISO images to CD.

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["/ManagingDigitalPhotos"]

Getting photos off a digital camera, and using F-spot to manage them.

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MattMedland

["/ManagingDigitalMusic"]

Ripping CDs to various formats (MP3, OGG, WAV), managing collections.

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["/InternetTelephony"]

Using tools like Skype and Ekiga

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["/FileNavigation"]

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Typical Intermediate User Activities:

["/WatchingDigitalTelevision"]

Getting a DVB-T card to work, and then using an application to watch telly.

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["/RunningDOSandWindowsPrograms"]

Using DOSEMU / WINE / Cedega / Transgaming

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AlanPope

["/WatchingDigitalTelevision"]

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AlanPope

["/InstallingMythTV"]

Installing MythTV on Ubuntu

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AlanPope

Basic Admin Tasks:

["/InstallingNewSoftwareViaSynaptic"]

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["/PlayingMP3s"]

Configuring the system to be able to play MP3s, then actually playing them.

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["/WatchingVideos"]

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["/InstallingJava"]

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["/ConfiguringAPrinter"]

Setting up a printer which may be networked or locally attached.

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["/RemoteControl"]

- SSH, VNC and Rdesktop

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Intermediate Admin Tasks:

["/InstallingSoftware"]

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["/UsingTheShell"]

basic Linux commands (ls, cd, mv, ./, chmod, chown)

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["/ConfiguringSamba"]

from both a server and client point of view

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["/KeepingTheSystemSecure"]

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["/FindingDriversForHardware"]

Non specific - cover video cards (open vs closed), wireless, LAN, sound etc

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["/MakingThingsHappenRegularly"]

Regularly scheduled jobs using cron.

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Problem Solving:

["/VideoCardTroubleshooting"]

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["/LaunchpadBugSubmission"]

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Unsorted / Incomplete:

["/FullSystemEmulation"]

Qemu / VMWare etc

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["/InstallingFromAlternateCD"]

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["/InstallingEdgyFromLiveCDOnANewDisk"]

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["/ConfiguringAdditionalRepositories"]

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["/BackupAndRestore"]

Using sbackup/hubackup to do full backup and restore of individual files

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["/EnablingNvidiaBinaryDriver"]

Preparing

AlanPope

["/ReconfiguringXorg"]

When you screw the video config, how to get it working again.

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["/UpgradingFromReleaseToRelease"]

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["/MakingThingsHappenAtStartup"]

Configuring applications to start globally but also on a session by session basis.

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["/InstallingVideoDrivers"]

- Cover video cards in more detail

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["/InstallingWirelessLanDrivers"]

Cover options including madwifi, ndiswrapper and native support.

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["/UsingExternalDrives"]

- USB and firewire drives for example, could be hard disks or flash memory card or digital camera.

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["/UsingMultipleScreens"]

- Dual headed displays

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Completed Videos:

["/ChangingTheLookOfYourDesktop"]

[http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/Customising_Ubuntu_Desktop Complete]

AlanPope

["/ConfiguringEmailInUbuntu"]

Configure evolution to get mail by pop3 and send mail by smtp

[http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/Introduction_to_Evolution Complete]

AlanPope

["/InstallingFlash"]

Installing flash 7 and 9 beta

[http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/Installing_Flash_on_Ubuntu_i386 Complete]

AlanPope

["/InternetRelayChat"]

How to connecct

[http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/Connecting_to_IRC_Using_GAIM Complete]

AlanPope

["/InstallingUbuntuDualBoot"]

Install ubuntu on an existing windows system

[http://doc.ubuntu.com/screencasts/Installing_Ubuntu_with_Windows_Dual-Boot Complete]

AlanPope