Advanced Chess with Ubuntu

Here is a great tutorial on how to install two Chess engines which allow one to study the game, presumably by loading PGN from here

DraftSight - Free CAD software

DraftSight is Free CAD software. It has an Ubuntu version in beta.

SolidWorks has a page of free CAD tools, not all of them cross-platform.

Some Joy with JACK

One of the mysteries of Ubuntu is why there is no underlying audio production infrastructure. Linux users have long suffered because of the disregard for music production. Most Linux music production apps rely on JACK to port sound. If you want to use JACK, you'll have to install the ubuntustudio-audio package. Doing this any other way will lead to partially configured packages. Still it is not the easiest of solutions, and hopefully some day the entire Ubuntu sound infrastructure will receive a more user-friendly overhaul.,

In order to get the most out of JACK, you will want the lowest possible latency. It can be a daunting task at first, because there are a lot of settings and if you change them a certain way, you can cause the server to not start up properly.

Firstly, you will want Real-Time capabilities; either install the ubuntustudio-audio package, or read through theUbuntuStudioPreparation page for help on getting your studio set up properly.

Now, open up QjackCtl, and change the settings in here. Generally, to get the lowest latency, you're mostly concerned with the Frames/Period, Sample Rate, and Periods/Buffer settings.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToJACKConfiguration

Ubuntu Gallery

Some great Ubuntu Wallpapers at this site

Gnash 0.8.9, the alternative flash is out

The current release of Gnash is 0.8.9. You can install it with your package manager, or download the source. The source can be found at a GNU FTP Mirror. First, choose a mirror near you, then select the 'gnash' directory. Once you have downloaded the latest revision, follow the installation instructions in the documentation.

Gnash 0.8.9 is also available via Git:

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnash.git

Development Version

The latest development sources are available via anonymous Git:

git clone git://git.sv.gnu.org/gnash.git

You can also browse the repository on the web.

Fix Kdenlive libraries

Every now and then the Kdenlive libraries get ahead of themselves. This fixed my problem.

Open a terminal

kdenlive

You will get the following error:

kdenlive: error while loading shared libraries: libmlt.so.3

Here is how to fix it:

cd /usr/lib
sudo ln -s libmlt.so.0.7.0 /usr/lib/libmlt.so.3

Create a symbolic link as above.

Based upon this

Create ISO out of DMG image

DMGextractor is a great cross-platform utility for extracting dmg to iso. Useful if you duel boot Ubuntu and OSX

There are some other useful utilities at this site, like HFSexplorer