Category Archives: Ubuntu

Nokia E-63 on Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: November 14, 2009
Recently I bought a Nokia E-63 Symbian Series 60 3rd edition smartphone. It looks similar to the Blackberry smartphones. It has got QWERTY keypad, WiFi, 2MP Camera, 3G and Bluetooth. I have been using Nokia 6300 for a long time; and a month ago it fell down and the panel got broken. After the fall [...]
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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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Google Chrome on Linux

By Sreejith K | Published: June 7, 2009
Disappointed in not having Google Chrome for your favourite Linux distro ? Now you shouldn’t be. Fetch the Google Chrome packages from here. They are on the development stage and wouldn’t be a stable one. But you can give it a try. Features like Flash will not work in this release. Installing Google Chrome will [...]
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