DVD labelling with Lightscribe on Ubuntu (and the EEEPC)

Just before departing for the Philippines I bought a Lacie external DVD burner for using with the EEEPC. I only needed to be able to burn DVDs while travelling but, since the price difference was minimal, I decided to buy a Lightscribe capable DVD burner. Now, back in Italy, while I’m involved in preparing vacation’s slide-shows and and videos, I decided to burn my first Lightscribe label using Ubuntu and the EEEPC.

Installation

There are plenty of tutorials on the ‘net about installing Lightscribe software, I based myself on this tutorial from Ubuntu community. First I downloaded Lightscribe system software and labelling software deb packages from the following links:

• Lightscribe system software
• Lightscribe simple labeller
• Lacie for Linux Lightscribe labeller

then I installed them with the dpkg command (you can do it also by double-clicking on the files)

sudo dpkg –install lightscribe-1.18.8.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb

sudo dpkg –install lightscribeApplications-1.18.6.1-linux-2.6-intel.deb

sudo dpkg –install 4l_1.0-r6_i386.deb

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I’m back

Hello I’m back! After one month of relaxing stay in the Philippines I eventually returned in Italy. I know, I promised to write something while in the Philippines … I didn’t, sorry, but I was really too relaxed. One thing really impressed me in the Philippines has been the great offer of WiFi internet connection available: in hotels, commercial centres, and even while travelling from Cebu to Tagbilaran on the OceanJet ships. So different from the odd WiFi situation here in Italy!

By the way now I’m back here in Italy and, even if I’m committed to sorting, managing and showing something like 13GB of pictures an video I’ll be soon back with some boring technical post.

Stay Tuned!

Rejoining with my heart

  At last, after three years, I managed to do it. I’ll come back in the Philippines, I’m going to depart from Italy Thursday and I’ll stay there for about a month. So, if you happen to see my face around Cebu or Bohol don’t worry, you have not been reading too much this blog, It’s really me.

From a more technical point of view (I can’t help not going technical) I’ll try during this month to keep in touch with my job in Italy. This will mean interacting a lot with mobile internet and internet cafés in the Philippines. Do not expect a lot of posting during this month but I’ll try to share in some way this experience.

Stay tuned!

Alternative browsers on the EEEPC 900

After the release of Linux version of Google Chrome browser I’ve, at last, decided to give a try to a couple of browsers alternative to Mozilla Firefox: Google Chrome and Opera, in order to see how they work on the EEEPC 900.

Download and installation

Both browsers are available for download as “.deb” files so installation process has been quite smooth and easy. I downloaded both installation files from the respective sites and installed them using the dpkg command (of course they can also be installed by double-clicking on the install files if you don’t like using the command line interface).

I so installed Opera with the following command:

sudo dpkg –install opera_10.11.4791.gcc4.qt3_i386.deb

The installation program notified a missing dependency on libqt3-mt, I installed it using apt-get command:

sudo apt-get install libqt3-mt

And Opera installation process completed successfully.

In similar way I installed Google Chrome with the following command:

sudo dpkg –install google-chrome-stable_current_i386.deb

This time the installation process completed without errors.

 
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Xubuntu 10.4 on Sempron 2400 (full install)

The third and last act of the upgrade season is the desktop computer (Sempron 2400) upgrade. Unfortunately, because my recent switch from Ubuntu to Xubuntu I suppose, I cannot proceed with a regular upgrade. The upgrade process stops after the sources gathering phase with this message.

I so decided to go for a plain install in order to, eventually, have a much cleaner system.

Before installing

Before installation I only had to back-up my home folder since all data I have are kept in the home folder or in NTFS partitions that will remain untouched by the installation process.

I then downloaded Xubuntu install disk image from its download page and prepared a boot disk on a 1GB USB disk using Ubuntu’s boot disk creator.

 
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