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Secure Browsing using SSH 14 Jun 2009 | 07:14 am
It seems like these days wherever you are (coffee shop, airport, burger joint) you can find a wireless hotspot allowing you free access to roam the Internet without much of a problem. However when sur...
Monitor CPU and hard drive temperatures on Ubuntu Linux 7 Jun 2009 | 08:10 am
Most new computers support ACPI which stands for Advanced Configuration and Power Interface. ACPI provides for many functions besides power management, such as thermal management and plug-and-play eve...
VirtualBox – virtualization alternative to VMWare 31 May 2009 | 12:21 pm
My post on Installing VMWare Server (and Windows XP) on Ubuntu gets a lot of hits. There is another open source virtualization software from Sun that I really like – VirtualBox. I personally prefer Vi...
Bluetooth USB Adapter that works on Linux 24 May 2009 | 10:53 am
I run Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope on Compaq NC6000 and one of the features I was missing was Bluetooth. I was hence limited to using USB cable to sync my phone with my laptop using BitPim (see post o...
HotMail enables POP3 18 Feb 2009 | 09:11 am
As per Windows Live blog entry HotMail is now available via POP3 to users in United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, France, Japan, Spain, Germany, Italy, and the Netherlands. POP3 will be enabled for othe...
Configure Proxy for Amarok on GNOME 8 Feb 2009 | 06:54 am
Amarok is an excellent music player that uses some core KDE components (like KDElibs) and can be installed independent of KDE on Ubuntu. One issue with this however is that it does not read the system...
Installing VMWare Server (and Windows XP) on Ubuntu 20 Jan 2009 | 07:40 pm
Virtualization allows running of multiple operating systems and multiple applications on the same computer at the same time. This can be very handy if you are doing software development and need to te...
Send hostname to DHCP server on Ubuntu/XUbuntu 17 Nov 2008 | 06:43 pm
Default installation of Ubuntu and XUbuntu do not send the hostname to the DHCP server and this prevents other machines on the network from looking up your machine by using the FQDN (Fully Qualified D...
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on Compaq Evo N610c 10 Nov 2008 | 06:59 pm
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) was officially released on Oct-31. Since I had tested Ubuntu 8.04 LTS on Compaq Evo N610c I was eager to give Ubuntu 8.10 a spin on the same laptop. I did a fresh install a...
Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) officially released 31 Oct 2008 | 03:43 am
The latest version of Ubuntu is officially available for download. Code named Intrepid Ibex this release includes the latest version of the Kernel, Gnome desktop environment and Xorg etc. It also brin...
