Monthly Archives: April 2007

TuxGuardian – Another firewall for Linux

Posted on April 30, 2007 by Arun

TuxGuardian is another Linux firewall application that was created with an idea to serve non-linux savy users. It’s a free software distributed under the GNU GPL. Some of the features of TuxGuardian are Detects unauthorized applications trying to act like … Continue reading →

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VMWare Server didn’t work after Feisty upgrade

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Arun

You might have read that I upgraded from Ubuntu Edgy to Feisty 3 days back. VMWare server didn’t work after I upgraded to Feisty. I had to download and install a patch before I could get it to work. I … Continue reading →

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WiPeer – Wireless sharing with out a wireless router

Posted on April 26, 2007 by Arun

WiPeer is a software that allows users to share files directly among the computers, play multi player games, chatting and colloboration, all with or without wireless network. According to WiPeer, here are some scenarios where WiPeer can help. – You … Continue reading →

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Acer finally recalls faulty battries

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Arun

Acer America is recalling 27,000 rechargeable lithium ion batteries manufactured by Sony. I don’t know why Acer took so long to recall.None of the incidents reported so far contains Acer laptops, but Acer is voluntarily recalling the batteries. The affected … Continue reading →

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Google releases enhancement patches for MySQL

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Arun

Google uses MySQL open source database for some of it’s application. They have released some enhancement patches for MySQL under GPL license. They would like MySQL team to integrate those patches into the MySQL code and until they do that, … Continue reading →

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Antiword – Free MS Word reader for Linux and other OSes

Posted on April 25, 2007 by Arun

Antiword is a free MS Word reader for Linux and other OSes. Antiword converts the binary files from Word 2, 6, 7, 97, 2000, 2002 and 2003 to plain text and to PostScript. The programmers’ version is released under GNU … Continue reading →

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Upgraded to Feisty from Edgy

Posted on April 24, 2007 by Arun

I upgraded my desktop from Ubuntu Edgy to Ubuntu Feisty yesterday. I did a manual upgrade. I took a backup of my sources.list file and then changed all occurrences of Edgy with Feisty. I then did sudo apt-get update sudo … Continue reading →

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Open Source banner above Bill Gates head

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Arun

Seattle Times reports that an open-source software activist walked on stage as Gates was giving prizes to students and held a banner over his head that read, “free software, open source.” Gates and most of the group appeared shocked at … Continue reading →

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Mozilla Sunbird and Lightning 0.5 release status

Posted on April 23, 2007 by Arun

Simon Paquet posted in the calendar weblog that 2 blocker bugs are blocking the release of 0.5 RC1. They are Bug 377641 – Outlook does not read iTIP/iMIP invitation because of missing UID Bug 372287 – Sunbird crashes on open … Continue reading →

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Video still won’t work in CNN stories

Posted on April 20, 2007 by Arun

I have written earlier that the videos started working in CNN after Microsoft released the plugin for Firefox. Well, it works fine for the videos in the main page. If the video link is inside a news story, it’s not … Continue reading →

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