If you are using Oracle-XE for database with Apache and PHP you need to install php-oci8 module. It is difficult to find any .deb for php-oci8 which would run with PHP 5.3 and Oracle-XE. Somehow they dont like each other. Also, if you try to compile using pecl, it throws up errors. To work around […]
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Since I have an inbuilt TV Tuner card on my Dell XPS 1640, I wanted to watch TV after I installed Ubuntu 10.04 . I had earlier watched TV on my Windows 7 partition. However, after I installed the required software, Me-TV, I found out that there was no driver in the Ubuntu default installation for
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Generally when a stable version of a software is released , it is assumed that the product will be stable and will have less crashes. My Google Chrome stable v5 on Ubuntu 10.04 seemed to behave otherwise. Eversince I installed the stable package, the flash plugin kept crashing without any warning. It would crash on
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Hello there. Many of you who have installed Kubuntu KDE4.x version along with Ubuntu or who are using a standalone installation of Kubuntu may have come across this annoying error “Compositing has been suspended by another application. You can resume using the ‘Alt+Shift+F12’ shortcut” even after installing proprietary graphics drivers . This error can be
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Google is all set to catch up with Internet Explorer as far as version number is concerned. Today’s update of the google-chrome-unstable from the Google Chrome repositories, catapulted the version from 5.0.396 to 6.0.401. Cannot tell yet if there are any new changes, have to play around with it. However, the Natwest Personal Banking has
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I have found a stunning Ubuntu wallpaper. Have a look here
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First of all thanks to posts from Cappy in Ubuntu forums…. While running Alien Arena in Ubuntu 10.04(64 bit) , if you get an error like this one ./crx: error while loading shared libraries: libXxf86dga.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory Do the following. 1. Download getlibs from here and install
This is the most bizarre thing I have seen on my system. I was exploring my Lucid Lynx today and I was shocked to see my system was running out of memory. I couldn’t believe it as I have 4GB of RAM running core2duo. So, I fired up my system and was dumbstruck to see
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Most of you guys who are using a proprietary driver from ATI must have been frustrated by the ugly look of plymouth while booting up. I am not sure if Nvidia driver users are in the same soup.I have found a very simple way to fix it. In other words the GUI way. No terminal
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Hi guys, Here is the link for the much awaited Ubuntu Manual 10.04. On firefox, right click on the link and select ‘Save Link As’ to download the file. Getting Started with Ubuntu 10.04 Enjoy.
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