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Booting Ubuntu 12.04 from external disk connected to USB 3.0 18 Nov 2012 | 09:53 am
I have a Ubuntu 12.04 install on an external HDD. On my Dell Laptop, I tried to boot into 12.04 by connecting the USB 3.0 compatible external HDD to USB 3.0 port but it wouldn’t show the grub (v2.00-7...
[SOLVED] Failed installing Samsung Mobile MTP Device Error code 10: This device cannot start 16 Sep 2012 | 07:15 pm
While trying to connect Samsung Galaxy S3 i9300 with Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich on Windows 7 64bit PC with Kies installed, the device driver installation failed and it showed “The device cannot st...
[HOWTO] Get the Fedora 16 wallpaper for Fedora 15 8 Jun 2012 | 02:41 pm
Fedora 16 Alpha is coming out soon and they have selected Fedora 16 wallpaper. Here is how I installed it in Fedora 15: Then, select the new wallpaper in background settings.
[HOWTO] Install GPaste clipboard manager in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot (Gnome-Shell) 22 Oct 2011 | 03:57 pm
I am a programmer and I can’t do without a clipboard manager. If you have never used a clipboard manager before, you don’t know what a great tool you are missing. GPaste is an excellent clipboard tool...
[HOWTO] Enable Maximize, Minimize buttons on the title bar in Gnome 3 Gnome-Shell (Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot) 22 Oct 2011 | 03:36 pm
I have just installed Gnome 3 in Ubuntu 11.10 Onieric Ocelot. In Gnome-Shell interface, there are no title bar controls for minimize, maximize/restore. To enable them, open up the terminal and type in...
[HOWTO] Install Gnome-Shell (Gnome 3) in Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot 22 Oct 2011 | 03:21 pm
I have installed Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric Ocelot on my laptop. I had been using Ubuntu 11.04 Natty Narwhal on it and since I use this PC for work, I was reluctant in installing Gnome-Shell from PPA. But s...
[HOWTO] Install M2Crypto for Python 2.7 on Windows 30 Sep 2011 | 09:57 pm
I am using Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit and had to setup M2Crypto required for a Python program that I am writing in Python 2.7 (32-bit). After hours of trying and searching, I finally managed to get...
[HOWTO] Install easy_install and pip in Python 3 (Windows) 27 Sep 2011 | 04:16 pm
I am just starting with Python 3 on Windows and I wanted to install easy_install and/or pip for installing other available packages easily. However, I found that setuptools setup for Python 3.3.2 (the...
[SOLVED] “Warning: Could not find package list for PPA: ppa:some/ppa” while trying to use ppa-purge in Ubuntu 6 Sep 2011 | 01:38 pm
When trying to purge Gnome3 PPA, I had to cancel the ppa-purge process and when I tried to run the same, I got the following message: Updating packages lists PPA to be removed: gnome3-team gnome3 W...
[SOLVED] Netbeans svn error “Duplicate extensions not allowed, OPTIONS request failed on ‘path’” 3 Sep 2011 | 09:36 am
I have installed sun-java-jre/jdk on my Ubuntu and Fedora. I am using svn for my project and have been running it well with my old Fedora 15 installation on my old PC. However, recently I installed Fe...
