Jan 31, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Read an IOMEGA ZIP 100 Drive on Ubuntu Linux 12.04

As with most things computer there are times when old media formats appear and a need to retrieve the data. One such occurrence happened recently when several ZIP  disks arrived. The IOMEGA ZIP  drives were parallel port connected SCSI drives that were popular back in the late 90’s early 2000’s. They were great for backups and had more capacity that floppy disks. They are before USB attached... read more

Jan 1, 2017 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Cinelerra-CV Video Editor in Ubuntu 16.04

Introduction Cinelerra is a free video editing software package, used for Linux operating system. It is produced by Heroine Virtual, which allow the user to perform advanced compositing operations. Cinelerra is a full featured video editing system for Linux which has been around for quite awhile. In this post we will be installing Cinelerra-CV on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS using the cinelerra-cv ppa. Installing... read more

Dec 21, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To Install Microsoft VC++ Runtime Using Winetricks on Fedora 24

Introduction Recently I have had the need to run a few Windows applications on my Fedora 24 laptop and have installed WINE. Scouring the Internet I come upon winetricks that allows just this and many other installations you may need like .NET or VB runtime. In this post we will cover how to install winetricks and how to install .NET 2.0 sp2 for x86. Installation Process First step is t make sure you have... read more

Nov 24, 2016 Posted by newlife007

Capturing Video using Firewire and dvgrab on Fedora 25

Introduction In this post we will explore how to capture video with a firewire card. We will use dvgrab along with a GrassValley ADVC 110 firewire interface. To start we will need to make a few system changes and user id changes to make this happen on Fedora 25 or any other version of Fedora. Getting Details We can see what Fedora detected in several ways. One way is to use dmesg command and look for... read more

Oct 30, 2016 Posted by newlife007

How To install PLUG Linux Software for Fender Mustang on Fedora24

Introduction ok, so you are a guitar player and you have a Fender Mustang amplifier and in the past you have had a WIndows sysytem running Fender FUSE software to edit your amp. Now you have a Linux system and would like to do the same, well no fear we have PLUG. PLUG is Linux Software for Fender Mustang Amplifiers. It is available in the Fedora 24 reposiitory for version 1.1, but in this post we will be... read more