Archive for the ‘Ubuntu’ Category
Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
I am Muslim and we don't really celebrate Christmas here in Pakistan. So Satanic or Christian doesn't matter to me. But since downloading the Satanic Edition was easier I decided to give it a try, besides I was already feeling like downloading some new wallpapers for a change and this ...
Posted in Edgy, Linux, Ubuntu | 1 Comment »
Thursday, December 21st, 2006
I personally feel that mIRC is the best IRC client ever. Unfortunately, mIRC is not available for Linux. I tried IRC clients available for Ubuntu to find out something closest to or better than mIRC.
Xchat IRC client
It is easy to use but it is missing certain features that most mIRC ...
Posted in Information Society, Networking, Ubuntu | 9 Comments »
Wednesday, November 15th, 2006
Recently I realized that the Disks utility was showing 8.6 GiB consumed on my Ubuntu partition (I have Xubuntu installed on another partition and have one FAT partition). I decided to free up some disk space by deleting temporary files. I found that there is no tool in Dapper to ...
Posted in Dapper, Gnome, KDE, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Monday, November 13th, 2006
I haven't upgraded to Edgy yet. I really want to but I am afraid to loose the stability, usefulness and the charm of Dapper that comes with Long Term Support. I was looking around to see what kind of trouble people facing while upgrading to Edgy from Dapper. To my ...
Posted in Dapper, Edgy, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu | 3 Comments »
Sunday, November 12th, 2006
Dennis talked about the issue of unhealthy Ubuntu systems and how they interrupt between distribution upgrades. Dennis presents a list of signs to identify a possibly unhealthy system. He writes:
What makes an Ubuntu system unhealthy, you'd say - well here are a few examples:
Automatix/easyubuntu/fasterdapper
Third party packages
checkinstall'ed or alien'ed packages
The problem ...
Posted in Dapper, Edgy, Tips, Ubuntu | 2 Comments »
Tuesday, November 7th, 2006
People often ask about how they can make changes to their Grub boot loader menu. This is one of the most commonly asked question that comes from newbies who have a dual/multi boot Ubuntu with some other operating system(s) like Windows, Kubuntu,Xubuntu or some other Linux distro installed. Open Source ...
Posted in GNU, Tips, Ubuntu | No Comments »
Wednesday, October 25th, 2006
So many people complained to me that they do not enjoy gaim because it does not supports Yahoo! web cam. Personally I don't like web cams, but there are so many people out there who love to use Yahoo! messenger with web cam support. I wanted to assure people that ...
Posted in Dapper, Free Software, Linux, Tips, Ubuntu, Web | 4 Comments »