Apr 23, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Upgrade from Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu Server 22.04 LTS (Jammy)

How To Upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to Ubuntu 22.04 LTS Introduction It’s April 21, 2022 and the next release of Ubuntu LTS has been released to version 22.04 (Jammy). In this post we’ll cover how to upgrade your 20.04 (Focal) to 22.04 (Jammy). Note: If you have any custom entries in your sources.list you may want to make changes to point to the new release if they are available. The Process... read more

Apr 19, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Use VirtualDub and Diamond VC500 USB to Capture on Windows 10

How To Use VirtualDub and Diamond VC500 USB to Capture on Windows 10 Introduction For this post we will look at what it takes to use the Diamond VC500 USB capture device on Windows 10 using VirtualDub 1.10.4 32-bit to capture from  a VCR. We will also be using HuffyUV lossless codec as well to get the best quality we can with the capture. Setup For this capture we will be using the following setup, The... read more

Apr 12, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Wine Stable on Ubuntu 21.10 Impish

How To Install Wine Stable on Ubuntu 21.10 Introduction There are just some Windows only programs or games that you just want to be able to run on your Ubuntu Linux system that require a bit of help, this is why the Wine project was born. System Preparation First off we will need to add the WineHQ repository and GPG key to your system.  The reason we are using WineHQ repository is due to the fact that... read more

Mar 25, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Scan Multiple Pictures at Once Using Epson Scan on a Flatbed Scanner

How To Scan Multiple Pictures at Once Using Epson Scan on a Flatbed Scanner Introduction In this post we will look at how to scan multiple pictures on a flatbed at one time using Epson Scan and the Marquee feature. To be clear it is really not scanning all with a single click but it allows you to select each picture on the flatbed, select settings and scan them individually with clicks. Much quicker than... read more

Mar 5, 2022 Posted by newlife007

How To Fix RetroPie 4.7.1 No Sound 3.5mm Jack In EmulationStation

How To Fix RetroPie 4.7.1 No Sound 3.5mm Jack EmulationStation Introduction Recently I started a project on creating an arcade using a Raspberry Pi 3 B+ with RetroPie and ran into an issue in getting the 3.5 mm headphone jack to work for the sound output. This was mentioned in the RetroPie Release Notes for 4.7.1. Through searching I found bits and pieces to rectify the issue. In this post we will see how... read more