HowTos

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Ideas for How-To's

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• How does recovery mode work?
• What should I do to back up my system (so I can restore if I change something and break Ubuntu)?
• Switching from Windows
  • Finding equivalent software
  • Where's CTRL-Alt-Del?
  • Using workspaces (a new concept for Windows users!)
  • How should I organise things (programs, docs, etc)
  • Advantages of separate home partition
  • What are symlinks? How to create/use them
  • How do I know what versions are installed?
• Can I still attach my ... webcam/mobile phone/digital camera/printer/fax/etc
• How do I back up stuff
• Is SUDO always safe? Can I break Ubuntu using SUDO?
• Filesharing and printing
• What's involved in a system upgrade (eg from dapper to edgy)? What
• should I do before I start?
• Different flavours of 'buntu - what are the differences?
• How to increase screen resolution

How-To's in Progress

When you take an idea, use a page name like MyArticleIdea so you can link to it easier!

FieryProphet

• Create a virtual machine in VirtualBox

Compucore

• Installation and setup of MAME in Ubuntu
• Setting up an Ubuntu server

Mrmonday

• Keyboard shortcuts

Ronnie - Scribus

• Scribus II : Images
• Scribus III : Paragraph Styles
• Scribus IV : Colour Styles
• Scribus V : Templates
• Scribus VI : Live Linking
• Scribus VII : Exporting to PDF

Sonny

• OpenOffice Calc (How to keep your income and expenses)

• GnuCash (Some small to medium accounting)

• OpenOffice Impress (Executive Pressentations, and advanced options)

• Complete integration of an Ipod under Linux (Music, Photos, Videos, Podcasts, Cover-image, contacts)
• Integration of Evolutions for advanced office use
• And beautiful graphs with Rplot, among some other programs

Jisao

• Zim

MikeB (MikeBgts)

• Nvidia Howtos Taxis - Working on the links collection
  • An attempt to collect all nvidia related howtos as a list, and then proceed with the creation of a unified nvidia howto (for Dapper, Edgy and then Feisty).
• Envy - Working on it

• Installing Software: Kubuntu (using adept package manager) - Completed & Submitted

ukubuntu

• IRC how to and apps [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuMagazine/HowTo/irc here]

The Dark Master

• Switching from ITunes to Amarok: Tips and Tricks
• Envy: Nvidia / ATI Drivers + Ubuntu Feisty/ Edgy / Dapper easily
• Digital TV Record with Kaffeine and mpg2avi
• Dream Aquarium as a Desktop Wallpaper with Beryl!
• How to completely Backup your system using Knoppix Live and Partimage

Chechu Ironman

• Ubuntu Server Directory I : OpenLDAP, Installation and Configuration.
• Ubuntu Server Directory II : Samba, Cups and User's Accounts.
• Ubuntu Server Directory III : Kerberos and OpenAFS (home directories).
• Ubuntu Server Directory IV : Replicating the Servers.

Pyros

• Kiddiesafe : setting up a user account for the <6 crowd. [http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=ajk67kqdkcmj_14g2jwdg google docs preview]

• Printing to PDF in Gnome.
• Installing whys hacketyhack on ubuntu