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Google Earth on Linux

Google Earth on Linux

Searching road maps, places, offices is all a headache and I feel lazy to drive around the city in search of some address. I tried Google earth once again after a long time on Ubuntu 8.10 and this time I could use it quite easily and its much more faster. Installation...
FOSS.in/2008 – Day 2

FOSS.in/2008 – Day 2

Attended, Coding for education, coding for the last one billion Sayamindu Dasgupta One Laptop Per Child And now I’m in Telepathy: communication for people and programs Marco Barisione Collabora Ltd. Macro is giving insight on Telepathy framework.. Hah! again...

Mount nfs shares in Ubuntu

Trying to mount NFS share on your system? First confirm that you have (nfs-common) package i.e. NFS support files common to client and server. Once you have it installed ony our PC, you will be able to easily mount the NFS shares. mount -t nfs...

Foss.in/2008 Kick started

Foss.in/2008 started with Harald Welte’s keynotes speech. It was already 10:45AM when Atul chitnis welcomed the developer community to Foss.in and explained how the event will progress. I had to head out to office and could not attend any other session. I shall...
Empathy amusement

Empathy amusement

Today, I forced myself to revisit and reuse Empathy, a simple messaging client for Linux with rich set of widgets. Just because, pidgin has been eating up resources and it was found to be hanging or taking too long to pull in the friends list during which my IM...