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Ambiance and Radiance themes updated. Now sports orangish links in firefox
After today’s update to Lucid Lynx, I was quite surprised to see a glaring change that was made to the themes. First was a change which affects both the themes, namely Radiance and Ambiance. I noticed this while trying to type a website address in the browser url bar. In the firefox awesomebar , the
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4 Easy steps for remote desktop sharing in Ubuntu 10.04
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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And Zattoo surprises again!!
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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How to solve ‘ Waiting for Sound system to respond’ issue in jaunty/karmic/lucid in 3 simple steps
Get rid of your pulseaudio nightmare ,’ Waiting for Sound system to respond’ in Ubuntu/Linux distros in 3 easy steps
Solving the BusyBox black screen problem in grub2/Ubuntu9.10
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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Moonlight 2.0 goes gold
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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How to install x64 flash in linux
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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x64 Adobe flash player prerelease for linux now available
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 Chrome beta for Linux officially available
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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