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TATA Photon+ on Ubuntu

Okay, without discussing much of the technicalities behind this hack, I shall give you the steps to go ahead and get photon+ working on your machines. Step 1: Insert Photo+ onto your USB slot Step 2: Check for the product and vendor id using lsusb and keep a note #...

GIMPFx for quick Image editing

There is very little time to process the images that I click through my digital camera. Even if you like to send out couple of pics to friends, it becomes hard to send them without editing. I have found a way to quickly process the images, add borders etc through GIMP...

Enable/Allow Root Access to KDE

For security reasons root login has been disabled in Kubuntu/Ubuntu. Here are the quick steps to enable root access to KDE 1. Edit kdmrc file in /etc/kde4/kdm and change AllowRootLogin=false to AllowRootLogin=true Use the following command line option to achieve this:...