http://www.bengamblin.com Blog of Ben Gamblin http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/466/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2009-04-25/ubuntu-9-04_jaunty-jackalope_amarok-1-4/ The latest edition of the popular Linux distribution; Ubuntu was released on Thursday. Unfortunately if one wishes to use Amarok as their preferred music player the discovery that installing through Synaptic provides version 2 may come as a disappointmen... Sat, 25 Apr 2009 11:51:23 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/459/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-12-05/amazon-mp3-and-64-bit-linux/ At long last Amazon has launched it's MP3 music store in the UK, providing more choice for DRM free music downloading (along with the likes of 7Digital and Play.com). The new store very kindly provides downloading software which is designed to make downl... Fri, 05 Dec 2008 17:35:40 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/453/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-08-18/simplicity-is-ubuntu/ As is pretty well established, I've been a Linux user for a while now and I've come to expect certain things of which one is whilst most things work, somethings can be a right pain in the derriere. Wireless networking has often been cited as a prime exam... Mon, 18 Aug 2008 22:42:47 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/450/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-06-29/creating-dvd-video-in-ubuntu-linux/ The Linux command line makes the task of making a DVD-Video compliant disc fairly straight forward when one knows how, but finding straight forward instructions on the internet isn't always so simple. So after searching through various sites I've come up... Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:12:43 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/445/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-06-11/flash-player-10-beta-on-ubuntu-hardy-heron-amd64/ I spent a little while searching for instructions on how to setup the beta version of Adobe Flash 10 on Ubuntu. Now I've found them, I'm putting them here for easy reference. Note that these instructions are for the beta version of the latest Flash play... Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:16:43 +0100 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/428/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2008-01-31/one-year-with-linux/ This month marks one year since I decided to move from Windows to Linux on my main computer, and I thought it might be good to write a follow up on how I'm getting along. Well the fact that I'm writing this follow-up, is proof in itself that I'm quite ha... Thu, 31 Jan 2008 18:02:34 +0000 http://www.bengamblin.com/entry/424/ http://www.bengamblin.com/2007-12-24/itunes-and-linux/ For a little while now, I've been intrigued by the offerings of DRM free music through Apple's iTunes music store. I understand that a lot of independent offerings have been made available as well as some major label music albeit not a lot. However, as ... Mon, 24 Dec 2007 11:49:14 +0000