Category: Ubuntu 9.10

Webcam with Skype 2.1.0.81 in Ubuntu 9.10

October 7th, 2010
I recently upgraded Skype to version 2.1.0.81, and since then I've been having troubles with my web cam (Microsoft Lifecam NX-6000). The camera would work in other applications, and Skype would detect it but couldn't grab the image either in the test or… more »

Posted in Ubuntu 9.10

R Repositories for Ubuntu

April 25th, 2010
R packages for Ubuntu have been available through the main Ubuntu repositories for a while. However, these repositories are not updated with version changes in R and so, using these, R will only be updated when Ubuntu is upgraded. I discovered recently t… more »

Posted in R, Ubuntu 9.10

xrandr screen names in Mint 8 (Ubuntu 9.10)

December 1st, 2009
When using Ubuntu 8.04 I changed between display settings using the xrandr command line interface. For example, I had a script which included the line: xrandr --output VGA --auto --right-of LVDS However, none of these scripts were working after u… more »

Posted in Linux, Ubuntu 8.10, Ubuntu 9.10