By Ubuntuman Artem Grinevich, Sales Manager
I’ve decided to understand how to work with Windows Shared folders. It appeared that I was not paying enough attention to it on the first day (night). I found Places menu on the Panel (analogue to Start Menu in Windows). On the first evening I found Connect to Server option. While accessing the menu you can see the option of server selection and get connected to the server you want. So among these server types, there is server type called Windows Share, which I did not notice at that time. By selecting this type of server and entering server IP, I got connected. As I found out this way is a bit tricky… Just enter: smb://[server name or IP] in File Manager and be happy.
1. My thanks to valiant Sibers system administrators for the following:
On the same Panel, there is Application menu, which last option is “Add/remove…”. So, while selecting this option, the system connects to repositories (these are archives of distributives) and displays on the screen the applications available for installation. Each application has its own icon and short description. Our administrators configured me the addresses of mirrors of the main Linux sites. The mirrors are stored in our local networks, so to download programs from them is much faster. The programs are installed pretty easily. The programs which are already installed are marked in the list. So to install something you should select a checkbox for this program, and in order to remove the program you should unmark its check box. And of course you should enter the password prior of doing this.
2. Investigating video. Instead of Movie Player I decided to play around with Movie Player Totem (Xine Backend) and additionally to install Xine Extra Plugin. This plugin contains codecs necessary to play DVD, for example. It is a miracle – Bono from U2 not just sings, but dances too! And I can see this.
3. I’ve start missing Winamp… I don’t know from where it came to my head, but I just remembered that there is XMMS player for Linux. And so I’ve installed it. It looks like Winamp, and works like Winamp.
4. Searching for dot (.). I access System menu, located on Panel. There I select Preferences. Sure thing this is something related to keyboard. I select Keyboard, then Layout. I already accessed this menu on my first day, there I added Russian layout by clicking Add button. It seems I’ve added something but not the right thing though. I am clicking Add, then I select Russian and in that menu I select Russia Winkey. Hooray – the dot works……hooooorrrraaaaayyyyy.
I’ve downloaded Skype for Ubuntu from skype.com, installed it without any problems, everything works just fine.
No zeal in my work on the day 2. Went to sleep at 2 am.