Posts Tagged ‘ubuntu’

I got the above mentioned error when i tried to install uTorrent 1.8.4 on Ubuntu Karmic Kola i386, though wine. But this error does not come if you try to install utorrent 1.8.2 or a older version. Hence i installed 1.8.2 and then updated it to 1.8.4 and it works fine. i think the latest [...]

Background
I’ve been using linux for like 4 years now. in the beginning i was just trying it out. back then i used almost any thing i could find. redhat/knoppix/suse/debian…etc but back then i was only trying them out. but for the last one/two year(s) I’ve been with ubuntu. the reasons were simple. it just worked! [...]

when i am using Netbeans to code i usually run it in my desktop because it is a bit resource hoggy(well i am saying this while jugging it by my standard’s. i only have 512 in my lap). i do this using NX. i have a NX server running in my desktop while my client has NX client. both machines are running Ubuntu(what else ;) ). desktop is running 8.04 and the lap is running 8.10. so what am i writing all these in my blog? well i came across some problems while using the above setup. so i thought of noting them here.

i recently wanted to give my lap a static ip for some n/w administration purposes. i am running ubuntu 8.10 on it. the network manager was the usual way to go about when getting this done so i tried setting a static ip from the network manager. but it doesn’t work as expected. my configuration [...]

My Desktop Now days…

My Desktop Some Time Back

Songbird In Action!
You know what? changing your OS for real is not that easy. mainly because of the fact that as a human you get used o everything that you use in your daily life. for me when i was in XP i had some favorite [...]

you know when they say ubuntu is good i thought well hey yea it must be good. but you really need to keep using the system for days(at least to get a correct feeling about a system. Now when i first installed ubuntu…. things were fine and everything was stable but as you [...]

The Switch To Ubuntu

Ok guys and girls, i been telling everyone that im loving FOSS so much. Still im using a windows XP system most of the time!!! so that don’t go with it. i speak something and i do something. Now this time im gonna go in to ubuntu for sure. I’ve been using linux since a [...]