Category Archives: Networking

Reliance NetConnect on Ubuntu 9.04

By Sreejith K | Published: October 17, 2009
Today one of my friend came to me asking for help in connecting to internet with his Reliance Netconnect USB Modem. As I had done this before for BSNL EVDO connections, I knew the steps to follow. But when I tried to load the usbserial module on Ubuntu using modprobe command, I got this sree@jaunty$ sudo [...]
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Twitter on Pidgin

By Sreejith K | Published: September 18, 2009
There you go… Now there is a Pidgin plugin available for Twitter updates. For Ubuntu Linux users its very easy to install it. They only need to add Ubuntu PPA repository and install the plugin using apt. deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/sugree/ppa/ubuntu jaunty main Import PPA keys using the following command sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com [...]
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Chrome OS: The new threat to Redmond

By Sreejith K | Published: July 13, 2009
Last week Google announced in their official blog that they will be entering the Operating System arena with the launch of Chrome OS. If Microsoft is challenging Google in the search engine arena with Bing, then this one is Google’s reply to MS. According to Google, Chrome OS is a complete redesign of Operating System [...]
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