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mlbviewer 2012 Installation guide for Ubuntu (MLB.TV on Linux)

Download mlbviewer: Go and grab the latest version from the sourceforge page below: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlbviewer/ Unrar: tar -zxvf mlbviewer2012.tar.gz It doesn’t require any installation...

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HowTo: Restore Your Default .bashrc File in Ubuntu

If you’ve managed to find yourself deleting, overwriting or generally messing up your profiles .bashrc file there’s a really easy way to fix it. A default version of the file can be found under...

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Setting up a static external IP address on a Raspberry Pi (For Free!)

If you’re planning on setting up your raspberry pi as a server or a project that’ll want you to access it from a static external IP address, here’s a really simple and quick way to get that up and...

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Team Fortress 2 Segmentation Fault – Steam for Linux

After getting invited to join the Steam Beta for Linux, (after weeks of using the bypass) I decided to get playing some TF2. After the long install and download I booted it up. The Value splash screen...

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what(): Serial Port failed to open: open: Permission denied

what():  Serial Port failed to open: open: Permission denied Trying to get access to your serial port without the need for running whatever program as sudo or root? You’re probably not in the dialout...

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VirtualBox (4.26) USB Issue: “unable to enumerate USB device on port n”

After a couple of hours trying to get a USB device (USB-to-Serial FTDI) working in VirtualBox with OSX host and Ubuntu 12.10 guest and receiving an error message similar to the follow: usb 6-3: new...

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Unknown encoder ‘libx264′

If you encounter a problem similar to the following, where you’re missing the libx264 codec try this solution. avconv -r 10 -i image%06d.jpg -r 10 -vcodec libx264 -crf 20 -g 15 timelapse1.mp4 avconv...

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Linux Mint: “Could not download all repository indexes”

When running sudo apt-get update or attempting to update via the Update Manager in Linux Mint (13), I was fronted with the following error: Failed to fetch http://packages.linuxmint.com/dists/deb ......

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apt-get error “E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.”

The problem you have encountered is basically the package, or dependencies that are conflicting or broken and are therefore “held”. You can check what (if any) packages are held using the following...

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ERROR: Failed to build gem native extension.

While attempting to install a package from gem, I encountered this issue: sudo gem install dashing Building native extensions. This could take a while... ERROR: Error installing dashing: ERROR: Failed...

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