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iPod Touch/iPhone Support on Ubuntu 10.04

February 27, 2010 at 5:25 pm ·

Well, hello there iPhone/iPod Touch support! I’ve got friends who use the iPod Touch for their music playing and video watching and to synchronize with iTunes, some of them use VirtualBox to have Windows where they have iTunes. Now that there’s Ubuntu 10.04 coming with out of the box support for it, that’s quite awesome news for them. No need for VirtualBox just o have Windows. No need for a separate machine either. Neat!
UbuntuForums has a post with comments from its forum members confirming this when they tried out Ubuntu 10.04 Alpha 3.
So I had my iPhone plugged in and when Alpha 3 installed, guess what? I can now access all my tunes, playlists, apps and everything from my iPhone 3G using Nautilus. And what else? RhythmBox interfaces with it, working like iTunes! – UbuntuForums post “Lucid Lynx, I love you!”

So there! Isn’t that great or what? Other forum [...]

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Shutdown and Rebooting via the Terminal

February 27, 2010 at 7:56 am ·

There are so many ways to shutdown and restart your computer. There are applets, there are also widgets you could use. However, what happens if your desktop environment freezes or what if you’re on the command line? How do you reboot or shutdown? Here are some ways:
The Halt Command
Halt! Sounds like an old word for stop. But there really is a command you could use when you want to shut down the computer. Type ‘halt’ on the command line. You might need sudo/root access for this.
Reboot!
If you want to reboot your computer, just type ‘reboot’ on the command line and you will have your computer reboot.
There’s also the shutdown command…There’s also the shutdown command…
I used to issue the shutdown command before. If it was for shutting down the computer, I’d use shutdown -h now so that it shuts down. You could also specify the time it shuts down. In my [...]

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