If I had to pick one horror story that I get messaged about the most, it would be the dreaded bootloader. "It's missing" or "I have a black screen of death.." and some people edit their grub.cfg without realizing it can disable you from booting at all, essentially turning your computer into a brick. Yay!
Most of you already know that when you power on your computer, the first software that runs is a bootloader that invokes the OS from the computer. GRUB, the GRand Unified Bootloader, is an important part of many Linux systems. Above are a few tips to help address the issues with Grub 2.
What are your horror stories?
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OMG Video: Desktop Recording in Ubuntu - No Sammich For You!
While on vacation this last month, I gathered up all the requests for Ubuntu help and advice that I have received over a year or so and decided I would attack them here by popularity.
The most popular "request" was.. sudo make me a sandwich (alternately, sammich)
Sorry guys, you need my private key to ssh in as root ;-)
The second most popular request is: How do you capture your desktop in Ubuntu?
Here's two ways of capturing your computer screen - Easy and Challenge Mode:
To answer that I have put together a video tutorial which helps people learn the easy way to do desktop recording (gtk-recordmydesktop), and the more difficult way I do it, using ffmpeg from the terminal.
You will probably notice that I did not record sound in this tutorial - I used Audacity to narrate the desktop captures during the editing process.
I hope you enjoy and find this useful, and I owe many thanks to FakeOutdoorsman and andrew.46 from the Ubuntu forums for making this possible.
Which method did you know? The easy, the difficult, or both ways?
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