Remove Blizzard Battle.net Authenticator

There are two ways to can remove your battle.net authenticator. Either you still have the authenticator or you have lost it. If you still have it log into your battle.net accoutn and go to https://eu.battle.net/account/management/remove-authenticator.html If you have lost it, typical if you have replaced your old mobile or made a factory reset you have to

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VLC Connect To DLNA Server

In VLC 2.x and up you can access your share DLNA server by opening View -> Playlist. This will open up the playlist view. Go to Local Network -> Universal Plug’n’Play Here you’ll see all your visible shared folders and files. In older VLC versions it’s in a different place: Tools → Preferences → All →

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Chrome Enabling Translate Option

To enable or disable the toolbar in Chrome to translate a page into, say English, you can do the following. You might have selected never translate anything, but now wants it back. Do the following: Click the wrench icon  on the browser toolbar. Select Settings. Click Under the hood In the “Languages” section, use the “Offer to translate

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Ubuntu Problem Running Bluray .mkv Files Smooth

Depending on drivers in Linux distribution like Ubuntu, mkv files might not be running smooth. Install the nvidia/ATI drivers via system > administration > hardware drivers Install the libvdpau1 package via synaptic package manager or open a terminal and type or Code: sudo apt-get install libvdpau1 install smplayer (a nice frontend for mplayer) via synaptic or

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Linux Sound Card Error

Got an error after rebooting Linux Ubuntu, the dound card did not work after an update. Find which codec you’re using cat /proc/asound/card0/codec#* | grep Codec or aplay -l Codec: C-Media CMI9880 CMI9880 minimal 3-jack in back min_fp 3-jack in back, 2-jack in front full 6-jack in back, 2-jack in front full_dig 6-jack in back,

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Linux Wiithon, WDFS for Wii

Mount and burn Wii format WDFS in Linux. Install the following: grep “deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wii.sceners.linux/wiithon-1.1/ubuntu karmic main” /etc/apt/sources.list || echo deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/wii.sceners.linux/wiithon-1.1/ubuntu karmic main | sudo tee -a /etc/apt/sources.list && sudo apt-key adv –keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com –recv-keys 1F882273 && sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install wiithon && sudo gpasswd -a $USER disk Now run sudo /usr/share/wiithon/wiithon.py For

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Linux Desktop Backgrounds

Problem: Only one desktop background available. Run this command in the terminal: sudo apt-get install kdebase-workspace-wallpapers kdewallpapers Now a whole lot of images will be installed and availabe in “desktop activity settings” on desktop.

Linux Automount Hard Drives

Desired: Need to mount drive when booting up Linux distribution, Ubuntu, Kubuntu or similar. The GUI program psydm can help with this. Install if it aren’t and then run it in the terminal sudo apt-get install pysdm && sudo pysdm Add the drives that you want to mount when booting up. Reboot to see if you

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Linux Network Management disabled after reboot

Problem: Network Management was disabled after a reboot and no way to enabled it again via GUI on task list (it were running). The issue was caused by NetworkEnabled=false. Use an editor, kate, gedit or similar. sudo kate /var/lib/NetworkManager/NetworkManager.state Change the following line it back to NetworkEnabled=true Restart the network management program sudo service network-manager restart It

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