Audacious 3.4.2 has been released with annoying bugs fixed. This tutorial shows how to install it via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
Audacious fixed following bugs:
Opening an Internet channel takes too long at the first time
SDL error: Failed to open audio stream: XAudio2: XAudio2Create() failed at open..
incorrect playtime length
NULL pointer segfault due to vfs async race
some opus file won’t play
Time label shows wrong time if slider is dragged beyond its upper limit
To get started installing Audacious 3.4.2, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command below to add the PPA:
Giada is a minimal, hardcore audio tool for DJs and live performers. Just pick your sample, drop it in any channel, and start the show by using this tiny piece of software as a loop machine, drum machine, sequencer, live sampler, or effect (VST) host. Giada aims to be a compact and portable virtual device for production use and live sets.
Giada 0.8.0 brings initial MIDI input support. It also fixes many annoying bugs and introduces some minor improvements.
Changelog:
initial MIDI input support
Fix freeze when recording audio inputs on a second channel
Fix ‘R’ button to show up even if the channel has no actions
Fix weird drawings of keypress actions in action editor
Free channel: delete ‘R’ button as well
Shift+key does not kill loop mode channels in a wait status
Fix issue with ‘R’ button and newly added actions
Remove “left”/”right” labels from main buttons
Download & Install Giada:
First check your OS type under System Settings -> Details. Choose to download the DEB from the official links below:
The latest Linux Kernel LTS 3.10.18 has been released today. Similar to Kernel 3.11.7, this kernel brings lots of updates and bugfixes for USB, wireless drivers, ARM, ipv6, tcp. See the changelog for details.
This tutorial shows you how to install / upgrade Linux Kernel 3.10.18 in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens:
1. Run commands below one by one to download the DEBs:
Linux Kernel 3.11 series has reached v3.11.7. It’s recommended to upgrade as soon as possible if you’re on Kernel 3.11.
Linux Kernel 3.11.7 has lots of updates and bugfixes for USB, wireless drivers, ARM and ext3/4. See the changelog.
This tutorial shows you how to install / upgrade this Kernel in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Linux Mint and Elementary OS.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens:
1. Run commands below one by one to download DEBs for Kernel 3.11.7:
GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program), the popular image editing tool is now at version 2.8.8 stable. This tutorial shows how to install GIMP 2.8.8 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 13.04, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10, Linux Mint.
Changes from GIMP 2.8.6 to GIMP 2.8.8:
Core:
Make sure indexed images always have a colormap
Fix language selection via preferences on Windows
Don’t crash on setting a large text size
GUI:
Keep the same image active when switching between MWM and SWM
Make sure all dockables are properly resizable (particularly shrinkable)
Add links to jump directly to Save/Export from the Export/Save
Linus Torvalds finally announced Linux Kernel 3.12. Here’re the new features and how to install / upgrade to Kernel 3.12 in Ubuntu 13.10, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 12.10 and Linux Mint.
I was vacillating whether to do an rc8 or just cut the final 3.12, but
since the biggest reason to *not* do a final release was not so much
the state of the code, as simply the fact that I’ll be traveling with
very bad internet connection next week, I didn’t really want to delay
the release. Sure, we had a number of driver reverts, and there was an
annoying auto-NUMA memory corruption fix series, but none of it was
really worth delaying 3.12 for.
But the fact that I’m going to be (effectively) off-line next week
means that I’m *not* opening the merge window for 3.13 yet …
…
What’s New in Linux Kernel 3.12:
The Radeon open-source kernel graphics driver has improved Dynamic Power Management, but it won’t be until Linux 3.13 where Radeon DPM is enabled by default along with HDMI audio.
A brand new DRM/KMS driver in the form of the Snapdragon MSM driver written by Rob Clark to go along with his reverse-engineered Freedreno driver for Qualcomm Snapdragon/Adreno graphics.
Run-time GPU power management so NVIDIA Optimus systems can dynamically power on/off the secondary GPU.
Experimental DRM render nodes support done by David Herrmann over the summer.
AMD Berlin APU support as the first APU built upon AMD’s Heterogeneous System Architecture (HSA).
The EXT4 file-system now supports aggressive extent caching and better recovery capabilities.
Random F2FS, XFS, and Btrfs file-system improvements. This kernel does deliver on disk improvements.
zRAM has been promoted out of the staging area of the kernel. ZRAM supports a compressed block device in RAM to avoid paging to disk and is mostly of benefit for systems with limited amounts of system memory.
Various staging driver updates and sound driver work and other glorious work.
Install / Upgrade Linux Kernel 3.12
The DEBs for Linux Kernel 3.12 has been made into kernel-ppa. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard to open terminal and follow the steps below to download and install them.
1. Download DEBs for this kernel:
For 32-bit Ubuntu, Linux Mint and alternatives run commands below one by one:
Calendar-indicator is a system tray applet which integrates Google Calendar into Ubuntu Unity Desktop. It allows to quickly add new calendar / event, sync with Google Calendar, and more.
The developer has made this app with Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy support, and this tutorail shows you how to install it via PPA repository.
Tutorial Objectives:
Install Google Calendar indicator in Ubuntu 13.10
Enjoy!
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command below to add the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:atareao/atareao
Then update system package lists:
sudo apt-get update
Finally install the indicator:
sudo apt-get install calendar-indicator
Once installed, open calendar-indicator from Unity Dash. Turn on “Allow access to Google Calendar” and authenticate with your Google account.
Wireshark, the most popular network protocol analyzer has reached v1.10.3. Wireshark 1.10.3 fixed lots of bugs and updated many protocols support.
This tutorial shows how to install Wireshark 1.10.3 via PPA in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Linux Mint and their derivatives.
What’s New in Wireshark 1.10.3:
The following vulnerabilities have been fixed:
The IEEE 802.15.4 dissector could crash.
The NBAP dissector could crash. Discovered by Laurent Butti.
The SIP dissector could crash.
The OpenWire dissector could go into a large loop. Discovered by Murali.
The TCP dissector could crash.
The following bugs has been fixed:
new_packet_list: EAP-TLS reassemble does not happen when NEW_PACKET_LIST is toggled.
TLS decryption fails with XMPP start_tls.
Wrong Interpretation of GTS starting slot.
“Follow TCP Stream” shows only the first HTTP req+res.
The value of SEND_TO_UE in the DIAMETER Gx dictionary for Packet-Filter-Usage AVP is 0 instead of 1.
Crash then try to delete the same entry (length range) twice.
Crash if wrong “packet lengths range” entered.
Bssgp ⇒ SGSN-INVOKE-TRACE use the wrong function…
Minor correction to dissection of DLR frames in Ethernet/IP dissector.
WebSphere MQ V7 Bug Fix 8322 TSHM_EBCDIC.
EDNS0 “Higher bits in extended RCODE” incorrectly decoded in packet-dns.c.
Files with pcap-ng Simple Packet Blocks can’t be read.
Bug in RTP dissector if RTP extension is present.
Improve “eHRPD Indicator” NVSE dissection in 3GPP2 A11 Registration Request.
It’s recommended to upgrade to this version because it fixed lots of vulnerabilities and bugs that affected in versions that are available by default in Ubuntu repository.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to install Wireshark 1.10.3 from PPA:
Virtualbox 4.3.2, the first maintenance release of virtualbox 4.3 was released with lots of bugfixes. Here’s how to upgrade it in Ubuntu 13.10 Saucy, Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.04 Precise, Ubuntu 12.10 Quantal and Linux Mint.
What’s New in Virtualbox 4.3.2:
VMM: fixed restoring of the auxiliary TSC MSR in VT-x that caused host BSODs on Windows 8.1 hosts and unpredictable behavior on other hosts
VMM: provide fake values for a couple of MSRs to make more guests happy on certain hosts
VMM: fixed detection of VT-x on certain machines where the BIOS would not set the VMX LOCK feature bit, which affected the VM settings in the GUI
VMM: fixed TPR threshold which caused BSODs on Windows XP guests that use the I/O APIC (VT-x only;
VMM: fixed PATM saved state incompatibility for software virtualized VMs
VMM: don’t fail if AMD-V isn’t available if the VM is configured to use software virtualization
GUI: fixed guest resize breakage on visual representation mode change (when switching from normal to fullscreen etc)
GUI: make sure the guest screen is resized after restoring a VM from a saved state if the host screen size changed
GUI: disabled SCROLL LED sync from HID LEDs synchronization (Mac OS X hosts only)
Webcam passthrough improvements including GUI support (see the manual for more information)
Guest Control: implemented more IGuestSession methods
Guest Control: added support for deleting and renaming guest files + directories in VBoxManage
Guest Control: various bugfixes
API: incorrect handling of hardware UUID default value, resulting in an all zero DMI/SMBIOS UUID, which leads to Windows requesting re-activation
3D support: fixed crash on shutdown if 2D video acceleration is enabled (Mac OS X hosts only)
3D support: miscellaneous fixes
Storage: fixed detection of CD/DVD media when switching from an empty to a host drive with passthrough enabled
Storage: fixed hang of the VM process when the disk is full under certain circumstances
NAT: listen for changes of NAT Network setting at runtime
NAT: NAT Network DHCP server now saves leases to a persistent storage
Main: monitor changes in host DNS configuration
Mac OS X host: reworked a mechanism of adding a VM desktop alias from the VM selector
Mac OS X installer: remove old kernel extensions during upgrade
Linux Additions: correctly set umask before installing
X11 Additions/3D: fix freezes starting 3D desktop
X11 Additions/3D: fix depth buffer support
X11 Additions/3D: fix Age Of Empires 3 rendering
Windows Additions/3D: fix Google Earth plugin rendering
Or install it from Virtualbox repository for Linux. Press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run commands below one by one to add the repository:
This quick tutorial is going to show you how to enable login as Root account in Ubuntu 13.10 LightDM login screen.
NOTE: it is not recommended to do so unless you know exactly what you are doing. Root is a superuser, meaning it can do anything and everything – it is only meant for administrative tasks. Day-for-day tasks can bear a security risk that WILL be exploited if EVERYONE (or a large proportion of users) used root.
To get started, press Ctrl+Alt+T on your keyboard to open terminal. When it opens, run command below to set a password as well as enable root:
sudo passwd root
handbook@handbook-1310:~$ sudo passwd root
[sudo] password for handbook:
Enter new UNIX password:
Retype new UNIX password:
passwd: password updated successfully
Then run command to allow manually type in username and password to login in LightDM.
