It is super easy to get remote desktop sharing working between two Ubuntu Lucid (10.04) machines. Just follow the steps below. 1. System -> Preferences -> Remote Desktop -> Tick allow remote destop ( add a password for security reasons) 2. Open Empathy and login using your google / jabber client id 3. Double click […]
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A few months back I blogged about zattoo player pulling a plug on linux support as they complained of funding issues . However,they said they will be launching a browser compatible version of the player soon. Remembering that I typed zattoo on my address bar in firefox. Firefox took me to the zattoo main page
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Get rid of your pulseaudio nightmare ,’ Waiting for Sound system to respond’ in Ubuntu/Linux distros in 3 easy steps
Have you ever had a situation when Ubuntu was running perfectly fine moments ago and after restarting the system you are greeted with a black screen with white letters saying ‘Gave up waiting for device…. BusyBox v1.13.3(Ubuntu …….) (initramfs)’??? I’ve had a few. The screen is something like the one shown above. This is caused
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Novell released the second version of opensource implementation of Silverlight, Moonlight 2.0, today for linux users. Although Moonlight is lagging way behind the Silverlight version which is at 3.0 stable and 4.0 beta, this release will give users compatibility with SIlverlight 2.0 applications and some 3.0 ones as well. Moonlight is opensource, however, the codecs
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Since Adobe released a new version of its x64 bit flash player , I am going to install it replacing my existing 32 bit flash player. First, download the file from this link http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html. Now go to the download directory and right click on the file and select ‘Extract here’. Go into the folder to
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Adobe has just made available the second prerelease of x64bit flash player for all platforms. The version is 10,0,42,34. You can download the file from. http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_64bit.html
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Google released the beta version of Chrome for Linux and Mac today. The packaged files for major distributions are availabe at http://www.google.com/chrome. Users who were already using the dev channel version can find the beta packaged seperately in synaptic . Trying to install the beta will prompt you to uninstall the unstable version though. Try
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For times immerorial, Linux users have had a problem with MS Exchange mail, Global Address Books and Exchange calenders. Users had to be content with accessing the email only through IMAP and by manually creating contact lists on their systems. The OWA will work well only with IEs . The moment it detectes firefox, it
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Firefox 3.6 beta 3 is already available in Ubuntu 9.10. The Mozilla development team has released it to the development ppa . To install , add the mozilla ppa from the Ubuntu tweak 3rd party repository section and hit the refresh button. A new window will pop up with newly available packages. Install firefox from
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