TechFiz on March 14th, 2010

Long back I had changed my theme to MacOS theme on my Ubuntu. Since then, my metacity theme retained the windows controls on left hand side and it never changed for any theme since then. I did try looking for an easy option to revert that change but found none in appearance windows.
You got [...]

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TechFiz on November 10th, 2009

Looking for a video editor on your linux box? Here is the best one. OpenShotVideoEditor is just awesome!, stable and does all that you need.
Installing OpenShot is quite simple as it comes with a custom PPA:
Here are the details of this PPA (Detailed Instructions):
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonoomph/openshot-edge/ubuntu karmic main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/jonoomph/openshot-edge/ubuntu karmic main
Signing key: 1024R/EDFBD1F9
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TechFiz on November 6th, 2009

You might have been searching for instructions to reinstall grub after upgrading or reinstalling Windows on your systems to get your Ubuntu booting once again. Here are the steps.

Boot to the 9.10 Karmic LiveCD Desktop.
Open a terminal - Applications, Accessories, Terminal.
Determine your normal system partition – (the switch is a lowercase “L”) sudo fdisk -l

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Looking for a web administration tool for your system? Try out Webmin. One of the very basic tools to manage your system.

You can download the webmin package for different OS’s from the official website webmin.com.
Once you have the .deb package for Ubuntu/Debian, you will be prompted to install some dependencies. So first get the dependencies installed.  Here [...]

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TechFiz on October 26th, 2009

I know that every one is waiting for Ubuntu Karmic Koala release. Just two more days to go….
Check this image that I have added here. Reliance Broadband+ Huawei EC1260 device internal memory device (detected as cdrom drive) and MMC card attached to the device both are detected without any configuration changes. It started working [...]

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Attansic Ethernet card doesnot seem to be working on many motherboards.
#lspci | grep Ethernet
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Attansic Technology Corp. Device 1063 (rev c0)
Follow these steps to get it working:
1. First download this file: AR81Family-linux-v1.0.0.10.tar.gz from here: http://partner.atheros.com/Drivers.aspx
2. Yes, you need to put that onto your Ubuntu box via windows drive or via a USB drive.
3. [...]

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