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Mission: Get Bluetooth Stereo Headset Working in Linux. Current Status: EPIC FAIL

Posted by Jaffery 55 days ago Linux/Unix

I’ve owned a Sony Ericsson HBH-DS970 for nearly 2 years now, and I use it pretty often with my previous phone ( the Sony Ericsson P1i ), and my Read More

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Changing the GNOME Menu panel in openSUSE GNOME back to Gnome defaults

Posted by Jaffery 57 days ago Linux/Unix

Seems like lot of openSUSE Gnome users don’t like the new Gnome panel, which is radically different interface from the traditional Menu bar wit Read More

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Fixing Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala boot drops to grub shell without showing boot options

Posted by Jaffery 89 days ago Linux/Unix

I had this problem with a wubi install. Ubuntu would highly pester me and drop to command shell (that of grub) without showing the boot options (Why Read More

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“Kernel-panic – not syncing : VFS : Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(X,X)” error in Ubuntu

Posted by Jaffery 90 days ago Linux/Unix

This one seems to be a really famous problem for most folks in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala. So I had it too. The problem was on the initrd file. It is a Read More

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Mounting file system created by Wubi in other Linux distros

Posted by Jaffery 102 days ago Linux/Unix

I wasn’t aware of this tiny little thing - the filesystem in the file created by a Wubi install can be easily mounted as a loop device.To do Read More

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[How-to] Fix “E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/extended_states (1)” error in Synaptic or apt-get

Posted by Jaffery 107 days ago Linux/Unix

This is just a quick tip. If you are getting this error message in Synaptic:E: Unable to parse package file /var/lib/apt/extended_states (1)E: _cache Read More

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[How-to] Make nVidia settings persistent and retain the settings in Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala

Posted by Jaffery 110 days ago Linux/Unix

Nvidia Proprietary Drivers need nvidia-settings to set screen resolution and change other settings. In previous versions of Ubuntu and in other distr Read More

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A Comprehensive List of Ubuntu Hardy Heron (8.04) and Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (8.10) Repositories

Posted by Jaffery 478 days ago Linux/Unix

Installing Linux software through repositories is the safe bet. In respect with Ubuntu, there are many software in Intrepid Ibex which I feel is crap Read More

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Test OpenSUSE 11.0: feature by feature

Posted by Jaffery 679 days ago Linux/Unix

Now that the first beta is out for openSUSE 11.0, you can start to dig in and really start banging on the release to catch bugs before the release ca Read More

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Countdown to Ubuntu 8.04: The Hardy Heron

Posted by Jaffery 692 days ago Linux/Unix

It’s that time of the year. Everyone’s excited and looking forward to it. Ofcourse it’s the release of the next LTS version of Ubun Read More

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Linux Gets Adobe AIR, Flex

Posted by Jaffery 702 days ago Linux/Unix

People had been demanding for a Linux version of Adobe AIR. Now now finally, Adobe has joined Linux Foundation and has announced the pre-release alph Read More

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