Category Archives: Linux

Install McAfee Siteadvisor in Linux

Posted on August 24, 2010 by Arun

I wrote about how McAfee sucks with their Linux support and how to install the Firefox addon using Mac link more than a year back. That doesn’t work anymore since that gives you a Mac installation file. I finally found … Continue reading →

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Voice and video chat in GMail now available for Linux

Posted on August 20, 2010 by Arun

Google has finally released a plugin to make voice and video calls through Google chat in GMail for Linux. Though this was available in Windows for quite sometime, it is now finally available for Linux and there is a deb … Continue reading →

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Google Chrome stable version released for Linux

Posted on May 25, 2010 by Arun

Google has released their first stable release of Google Chrome for Linux and Mac. The stable release brings the following features: Sync bookmarks across multiple computers Sync browser preferences including themes, homepage, startup settings, web content settings, preferred language & … Continue reading →

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Linux Ice Cream Vending Machine

Posted on May 12, 2010 by Arun

MooBella is an ice cream vending machine which runs on Linux. The MooBella is build around off-the-shelf pc hardware and it runs red-hat linux, even it user interface is based on a firefox browser. The machine has a wireless satellite … Continue reading →

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GRUB error: invalid signature

Posted on March 15, 2010 by Arun

I have a dual boot system with Ubuntu 9.10 and Windows 7. Everything was working fine until last week. I tried to boot into Windows and I got Invalid Signature error when I selected Windows in the GRUB menu. Ubuntu … Continue reading →

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How to install OpenOffice 3.2 in Ubuntu 9.10

Posted on February 22, 2010 by Arun

OpenOffice 3.2 was released 10 days back. It has some new enhancements including faster startup. I wanted to install the new version, but it won’t get into Ubuntu repositories soon. Here is what I did to install OpenOffice 3.2 in … Continue reading →

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NZ school ditches Microsoft and goes with Ubuntu and Open Source

Posted on January 25, 2010 by Arun

A New Zealand high school running entirely on open source software has slashed its server requirements by a factor of almost 50, despite a government deal mandating the use of Microsoft software in all schools.New Zealand government is a sucker … Continue reading →

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Logitech Quickcam Chat with Skype 2.1 in Ubuntu Linux

Posted on January 21, 2010 by Arun

As you may be aware of, Skype released their 2nd beta of Skype 2.1 for Linux. I have Logitech Quickcam Chat I use with my desktop and it didn’t work with official Skype before. I was using the one from … Continue reading →

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Skype 2.1 beta 2 released

Posted on January 20, 2010 by Arun

Skype team has released the 2nd beta of Skype 2.1 for Linux, 5 months after the 1st beta release. This release brings the following new features along with several bug fixes. Screen sharing. Report abuse. Support for UI styles. Possibility … Continue reading →

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Integrate Firefox notification with Ubuntu notification system

Posted on January 4, 2010 by Arun

FirefoxNotify is a Firefox addon which integrates Firefox notifications with Linux notification system, which allows Firefox to integrate better with Linux OSes. The addon needs Galago compatible notification server which can be enabled by installing libnotify (if it’s not installed … Continue reading →

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