Playing Mp4, WMV, and other formats in Ubuntu

Go to this page and follow these steps to play and record most common multimedia formats, including MP3, DVD, Flash, Quicktime, WMA and WMV, including both standalone files and content embedded in web pages.

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats

Ubuntu does not supplies these by default, because they are proprietary formats, rather than Open Source. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/FreeFormats

Installing Adobe Air/Tweetdeck on Ubuntu

It wasn't easily obvious, nor did it come back to my memory until I was reminded by this website,
http://www.shivaranjan.com/2009/04/12/linux-how-to-install-adobe-air-in-linux-ubuntu/
but after downloading a .bin file, you change the file to executable, and use ./programname in a terminal window to run it as an executable.(./AdobeAIRInstaller.bin)

It also appears that when I go to Tweetdeck, it would install Adobe Air anyway?

Nice to have Tweetdeck again.

Lexmark Printing on Ubuntu 9.10

Lexmark offers deb packages of linux drivers

Go to Lexmark/downloads (http://support.lexmark.com/index?page=home&locale=EN&userlocale=EN_US&segment=DOWNLOAD)

Enter your printer model number, linux (S300, Ubuntu)

Extract it, run it from the terminal as sudo
(sudo sh lexmark_inkjet_09_driver_1.0_1.i386.deb.sh)

Ubuntu 9.10 & Cups Printing - Fixed

On my fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10, the printer management was not working.
When I opened system->printers, it was not connected. When I pressed connect, it gave an httpconnectionencryption message.

Some help bug files mentioned printer sharing, and editing the config file.

I found that my config files were blank.

I reinstalled through Software Center, but it turns out, that's only the gui.

I reinstalled Cups through the System -> Synaptic Package Manager, and now it is working.