Tuesday, September 6th, 2011
Quicktext for Thunderbird 7
I have been using Quicktext as an addon for Thunderbird for a while now and find it very useful. Recently I upgraded to Thunderbird 7 with Ubuntu 11.10. The Quicktext download doesn’t work beyond version 6. So I modified it to work with Thunderbird 7. It has been working well for me, if you want […]
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Thursday, September 1st, 2011
Ubuntu for Developers’ workstations
In June this year, Eclipse, a popular IDE, published the results of a global survey of its community, which aims to show how people are using Eclipse and other open source software (OSS), and participating in open source communities. The purpose was to create a profile of how open source developers interact with the community. Incidentally, the […]
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Tuesday, August 2nd, 2011
My first video on YouTube
During my interview with Hindu Business Line, they also took a video about Ubuntu.
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Tuesday, June 28th, 2011
A window to open source OS
From my interview in Hindu Business Line: “I have been using the latest Ubuntu 11.04 on a laptop that’s almost three years now and I don’t see any degradation of performance,†says Prakash.
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Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
Dark Clouds Over iCloud, Apple Sued
I have been quoted in this article. Apple released a feature of its Mac OS named LaunchPad. LaunchPad is a development, bug tracking platform of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu. Canonical doesn’t seem to have deep pockets to sue Apple over the usage of name LaunchPad. Canonical’s Prakash Advani told our editor that “We are glad […]
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Saturday, May 14th, 2011
USB size PC for $25
. Raspberry Pi Foundation is offering a $25 Ubuntu PC. Its very tiny, has an HDMI port at one end and USB at the other. This brings in a very low cost computing solution to the market. Its also low power consumption due to the ARM processor. Vital Stats! 700MHz ARM11 128MB of SDRAM OpenGL […]
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Friday, May 13th, 2011
Slashdot: Ubuntu Aims For 200 Million Users In Four Years
I have been slashdotted! “Delivering the keynote at the Ubuntu Developer Summit at Budapest, Hungary, Canonical Founder Mark Shuttleworth has announced that Canonical’s goal is to have 200 million Ubuntu users in four years. Canonical has not officially provided any data on how many Ubuntu users there currently are — in fact, the number is […]
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Friday, February 25th, 2011
64-bit Adobe Air for Ubuntu
I have been using 64-Bit Ubuntu for a while and all the apps that I was using were available in 64-Bit version. Until I was to install Adobe Air. The binary provided on Adobe’s side is 32-Bit only. Found this nice blog post which explains how to make it work on 64-bit Ubuntu, this documentation […]
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Friday, February 18th, 2011
Yet another dual-OS phone
After the Motorola Atrix which runs both Android and a Linux based OS, ARM showcased a TI OMAP4 based phone that runs Ubuntu and Android. Todays phones have become powerful enough to as a phone as well as provide basic PCÂ functionality. This should get more PCs accessible to People, as more people today have mobile […]
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Friday, February 11th, 2011
Ubuntu Developer Day a huge success
We organised the Ubuntu Developer Day in Bangalore and received 350+ attendees. We had people travel all the way from Sri Lanka, Himachal Pradesh, Kerala, Mumbai, Chennai, Hyderabad and elsewhere.. Most of the people were already Ubuntu users and I was happy to see the laptops people were using, all of them running Ubuntu. This […]
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Tuesday, December 7th, 2010
Changing default application/open with Gnome/Ubuntu
I accidently set my default application for PDF to OpenOffice, it was a royal pain, you know where..:) After googling, I came across many articles which explained how to setup a default application, but none of them explained how to change it. Here is a simple way to change it. You may already know this, […]
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Tuesday, November 30th, 2010
Exclusive Interview: Ubuntu Is The Number 1 Desktop OS
My Interview in Muktware.com. Ubuntu, the Canonical-sponsored operating system is gaining new grounds – in both enterprise and consumer segments. The Company now has new challenges — the challenges which develop as a company grows. We talked to Prakash Advani, Partner Manager – Central Asia at Canonical, to understand how Canonical is preparing Ubuntu for […]
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Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Updated Windows Vs. Ubuntu hardware requirements
I have updated the Ubuntu vs Windows Hardware requirements to include Ubuntu 10.10 and Ubuntu 10.04, memory requirements still remains a humble 256MB which hasn’t changed in the last 10 releases 🙂
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Thursday, October 21st, 2010
Donate Your Bandwidth to Support Ubuntu Downloads
Nice article from PC World. In the Ubuntu tradition, you can do your part to make this process go well for all. With just a few mouse clicks, you can donate some of your upstream bandwidth to smooth the process for others to download the open source OS. To do so, you’ll be using a […]
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Thursday, September 16th, 2010
Broadcom plays good samaritan by Open Sourcing their WiFi chipset drivers
Broadcom which until now refused to open their Wi-Fi drivers, has released their Linux WiFi Drivers under Open Source. This is great for Linux users, as Broadcom was one of the few chipsets for which there were no open source drivers. While you could use Windows drivers on Linux using NDIS wrapper, it had its […]
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Wednesday, September 15th, 2010
Finding IP addresses of devices in your network using port scan
I was trying to find the IP address of a device which was connected to the network and had secured the IP address using DHCP. The easiest way to check was to look for the DHCP Server logs, but since that was not possible I did a port scan. Here are the simple steps on […]
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Friday, September 10th, 2010
Converting your Ubuntu Notebook into a Wifi Hotspot using Network Manager
I came across an interesting article on how to convert your Ubuntu Notebook into a WiFi Hotspot so that you can connect other devices to your Ubuntu Notebook for sharing the internet connectivity. You don’t need to install any fancy software, in fact the functionality is built into Network Manager itself. Its very easy and […]
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Monday, August 9th, 2010
Automated caching of your Ubuntu updates
If you wish to automatically cache all you Ubuntu/Debian updates on one computer, you can use Squid-deb-proxy. This is useful if you have multiple Ubuntu/Debian clients in your network and they all download the updates. Instead of each system connecting to the internet to get the updates, it will get the updates from the caching […]
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Saturday, July 3rd, 2010
Building a media center with Ubuntu + XBMC + Zotac
If you want to build a Media Center PC to play your movies, music and photos on a high definition TV. Here is a simple way to build so. Step 1 First get the tiny Zotac Media Center PC. Step 2 Install Ubuntu, which is very easy just download from Ubuntu.com and follow the simple […]
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Tuesday, April 27th, 2010
Banks users Ubuntu to prevent online frauds
McLaughlin, a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and CIO of CNL Bank is sending Ubuntu bootable live CD to its customesr, this disks will boot into Ubuntu, start Firefox and go straight to the banking website. He believes that desktop computers running Windows are highly vulnerable and this is the best option available. Read the […]
