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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GIMP can now be operated in a single window mode. All you need to do is enable the testing repository from Ubuntu Tweak. Then hit the refresh button. When the update manager pops up just install the updated GIMP package. Then open GIMP . go to Windows -> single windowed mode. Thats it. enjoy !!
GIMP single window mode is now available. Read More »
There has been reports of installation failure at the fag end of a clean installation on Ubuntu 9.10. This generally happens when you have a Windows partition in your hard drive. The reason of failure is the Ubiquity Migration Assistant which is used to migrate the ‘My documents’ folder from Windows to Ubuntu. This,in previous
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All those who are using Fedora 11 as their operating system, you can enable the NTP server on your system to avoid manually setting the clock on your pc every time the clocks go forward or backward. Go to system -> administration -> time & date -> network time protocol and enable it. Mine was
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When I upgraded to kernel 2.6.30 on Fedora 11 , catalyst 9.9 stopped working and I got blank screens. I had to be content with the opensource graphics drivers which did not provide 3D acceleration in fedora 11 systems (surprisingly!) Now, after the release of catalyst 9.10 , I’m back using compiz and my favourite
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I have been following the ubuntu 9.10 development since alpha 4. After the launch of pidgin voice/video services, there were talks of removing empathy from the default installation of ubuntu. After today’s update, i saw, that empathy has automatically been removed, and pidgin has been reinstated as the default IM client for Ubuntu 9.10. Readers
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I have been testing video calls from the newly launched pidgin voice/video service. The test was done with a windows user on the other end , on a dell studio 15 laptop running windows vista home premium. On my end i have been using the latest ubuntu 9.10 alpha4 daily release 29th of august 2009.
Pidgin voice & video calls from gmail actually working!! Read More »
TIme to rejoice for Skype Linux users!!!! Skype developers yesterday released the much awaited beta of skype 2.1 . This new version is hoped to improve on all the pulseaudio related issues in Ubuntu distros and all the other distros using pulseaudio as the main sound server. Plus it is touted to provide better video/voice
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All of us who are using Ubuntu 9.04 &/or its derivatives like super os or linux mint 7 or ultimate edition 2.2 must have had the a few issues with skype. 1. Call drops after approx 4 mins 2. Call muting after approx 4 mins 3. High CPU usage . 4. Crashing of Skype. Searching
Finally,Skype runs without a glitch in Ubuntu 9.04! Read More »
