TechFiz on February 28th, 2009

Many of you might be wondering if we could get our Ubuntu system cleaned quickly and easily. If you’re using update-manager for installing the updates, it automatically cleans the downloaded packages along with unsupported dependencies etc. But this won’t remove many other cruft which I’m mentioning here ie. old kernel versions, transitional packages, unnecessary packages [...]

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TechFiz on February 28th, 2009

If you want to read Kannada on Mandriva, you should ensure that fonts-ttf-kannada  package is installed on your system. Above slide show lets you learn how to install it.
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TechFiz on February 28th, 2009

video/x-asf-unknown or MSS2 are two codecs required to play windows media files. If you’re unable to play them on your  using regular media players on your Ubuntu, install Mplayer and you should be good to play any WMA files.
If you have already installed Mplayer and still have issues playing wma files, then download the codes [...]

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TechFiz on February 27th, 2009

If you’re getting the following error on your server, iptables update might have caused this issue.
[root@server ~]# /etc/init.d/iptables restart
Flushing firewall rules: [...]

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TechFiz on February 27th, 2009

While we test the Alpha releases of Ubuntu 9.04 Jaunty Jackalope, Mark Shuttleworth announces the code name for Ubuntu 9.10 as “Karmic Koala” to the developers community in the mailing list.
While 9.04 brings in lots of new goodies to Ubuntu lovers, 9.10 dreams about making it beautiful. I even found a cool comic asking why [...]

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TechFiz on February 25th, 2009

It makes easy for me to share knowledge with my people using my own language. To take technology to people, you should always educate them  in a language which they use in their daily life. Sampada community tech volunteers groups realizes the need for techno bytes in Kannada. Dr. Poorna Chandra Tejasvi, Nagesh hegde and [...]

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