The Ubuntu One Music store, slated for release with Ubuntu 10.04 just went into public beta. Since I have Lucid running in Virtualbox OSE it seemed like a good thing to test. As the public beta blog entry lists a number of things to test, I decided to look at those specifically.
Having used Ubuntu exclusively for about two years now, I have learned many handy little tricks that I probably use regularly without even thinking. However, I am still quite amazed at the number of simple desktop tricks I am discovering all the time, increasing my ability to work (or play) quickly and efficiently.
The following is a small collection of features that are really useful, easy to remember and (I believe) not too widely known. They were compiled from various forum discussions I have read or been involved in. Hope you find something useful to you.
Although Ralink based wireless cards have a nice open source driver, things aren’t all rosy with them on Ubuntu 7.04, aka Feisty Fawn. This in part due to Ubuntu’s switch to using Network Manager (nm) for network connections. In theory, selecting manual configuration from nm should allow you to setup your rt2x00, t2570, rt61 or [...]
