Recently I had the opportunity to install and test two of India’s most widely used Mobile broadband providers’ USB datacards on Ubuntu 13.04. The following steps will help anyone trying to install Airtel datacard software & drivers on Ubuntu 13.04. 1 . On insertion of the Airtel data card, autorun will pop up asking to run […]
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This is my first of the many findings that I will post about FuseESB/MQ middleware products. After lots and lots of iterations, I have narrowed down the step by step process of creating a Fuse Fabric server cluster with failover setup on Oracle dB. The setup is as follows: 1. Node1 – Server hostname –
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We Linux enthusiasts love to use Linux everywhere possible, even at work, where Microsoft rules the roots! For the last 3 years I have tried and tested various combinations which has helped me replace almost all Microsoft Windows applications which need to run in most office environments. My desktop of choice is Ubuntu. More adventurous
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If you have a broken display , rather a 640×480 display with no unity panels, you are one of the many who tried to install the new Nvidia beta driver which promised initial Optimus graphics card support for Linux. In reality, the Nvidia beta driver 319.17 does not support the current Xorg nor the current Ubuntu kernel
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If you are running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and have been raring to jump to ‘Raring Ringtail’ edition of Ubuntu, you can follow the commands below to switch to bleeding edge features. Ubuntu 13.04 (Raring Ringtail) is past the beta stage now and is very stable; can easily be used as a daily driver. Upgrading is
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sd@sd-1:~$adb get-serialno unknown sd@sd-1:~$ adb shell error: device offline If you are one of those frustrated users who cannot get adb to work with your android device, you may be in for a breather. The issue is probably similar for all operating systems. In Linux and to some extent Mac, this issue may be caused
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Sometimes, it so happens that after creating a unique user for a new Ubuntu install, you completely forget the username. If you are a single user on a Ubuntu machine, physical or virtual, you can easily recover the username without firing up the Ubuntu Live CD. Here are the steps: 1. Restart your machine and go to
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If you are an ardent Google and Android fan, you must have got either the Nexus 4, 7 or 10 or may be considering getting one for yourself. If you have already got one and if you are using Ubuntu or any other flavour of Linux you must have noticed that transferring music and other
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Updates from Microsoft owned Skype is coming in thick and fast. And surprisingly, the world’s most anti-Linux company has been steadily updating its Skype for Linux client. Skype and Microsoft last week released Skype 4.1 for Linux . One of the new features of this release is that, it now enables users to login to the Skype
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Since the last few releases Ubuntu has been using Ubuntu Software Centre (USC) as the default package installer for all .deb files replacing the older gdebi package installer. This means that if you double click on a packaged file like Skype for Linux, USC opens up trying to install the file. Although it is a
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