This could be a very useful post for people who search about and want the  new Intrepid Ibex and its NewHuman theme. There are many clones of the theme available all over the internet in websites like gnome-look.org. However there is also a way to get the original theme through the repositories.

Let’s see how we can go about doing the same.
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Many, who do a dual boot with any Linux and Windows will face the problem of Master Boot Record (MBR). In easier words, one of them (Windows or Linux) wont boot after installing/uninstalling the other. This is a small guide I hope many would find it useful.

FIXING WINDOWS BOOT AFTER UNINSTALLING LINUX
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Codeweavers’ CrossOver software, which allows you to run Windows programs on your Linux and Mac machines, has a Lame Duck offer in which for today ONLY they’ve put up unlocked builds of Codeweavers’ CrossOver for Mac and Linux, and are allowing you to download them FREE OF COST.
Make the best use of this opportunity, head over to Codeweaver’s site

or use these Direct Download links
Download CrossOver Mac Pro

Download CrossOver Games Mac

Download CrossOver Linux Pro

Download CrossOver Games Linux

Remember to signup for the serial, you might receive it in a couple of days time though.

Many of us may feel screen resolution as the biggest pest in any OS. If we don’t get the screen resolution we want we get real fed up with the UI (dont we?). Personally, I very much hate if screen resolution gets screwed up and also have faced a lot of problems on that.

So I thought I would make a post on the common problems I faced in ubuntu and I hope it would be useful for other distros too.

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I just encountered this problem recently so I thought I would drop a short note about it. Once I was trying to mount ext3 filesystems with read and write support and I, by mistake, did chmod my entire root partition as 775.

In this process, I made a warning message appear everytime I login, saying something like the home directory should be accessible by only its owner and should be set to 644. In addition, it also said that the file “$HOME/.dmrc” should be blah blah blah.

First, I made my home directory into 644. Then it won’t let me login saying it was not able to access my home directory. If I set it to 755 then that damn warning message I mentioned earlier reappears (What do I do?). Then what i doubted was that “.dmrc” file.

WHAT TO DO?

I just set the permission of “$HOME/.dmrc” to 644 , leaving rest to be in775 and it worked like a charm. I now am able to login and no warning message appears.

I hope this will help you too.

[Editors note: Here's a good example of why you should not mess with user permissions and chmod/chown commands if you have no idea what they do]

With just few days ago to Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) ShipIt – Canonical’s service of sending Ubuntu CDs FREE of cost to your doorstop has now started accepting pre-orders for delivery requests of Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex (Ubuntu 8.10). You can order either the Desktop edition or the server edition, and it will be delivered FREE of cost to you(yes, you don’t even have to pay for shipping).

Although Canonical states delivery can take upto 10 weeks – I’ve generally received them here in India with 3 weeks. Although the default request is that of a single CD, by placing a special request, you can order any number of CDs – though I suggest against this – instead, order a single CD, and make copies of it yourself and distribute it!

Continue I am personally a Frontech tv tuner user. I dont currently use it now but i was using in the past. I faced hell a lot of problems to get it working. It was sheer luck that i ran into the info here which saved me!!!! Thanks to Mann.

Here’s an excerpt from it

13/06/07- I cannot install my TV tuner card in fedora (this problem is irrelevant to my project, but i want it to be solved)

Causes:
Its a cheap card and manufacture didn’t provide the sufficient information on its EEPROM. So fedora cannot recognize it automatically and hence driver is not loaded.

Solutions tried

1. From internet and using the commands dmesg and lspci -v, i was able to figure out that it is saa7130 chip based card.
2. The thing to do here is to figure out the card type and tuner number by yourself and load the modules But in fedora there are 108 cards with different tuner number number. The last tuner number I tried was 71 and the list was more than 71 I think. So I sticked to card number 3 and tried different variations of tuner number from 1 to 71.

Continue Reading over at Mann’s blog

KDE commnunity recently launched a dedicated forum over at forum.kde.org

The forum will complement the already existing and pretty exhaustive KDE User Base for support and other resources. Having a dedicated forum for a desktop environment is a really good thing, it should help users get help right from the horse’s mouth.

The forums include sections like News, Tips, How-to’s, Releases, Commits, Look and Feel, Localization and lot more!.

So if you’re having trouble with KDE, just drop by KDE forums, and post away!

While exploring Fedora 10 Beta, I found this neat little app called Phone Manager.

The about page of PhoneManager states

Phone Manager is a program created to allow you to control aspects of your mobile phone from your GNOME 2 desktop..

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LiveCDs are a great way to try out (new) Linux distros on your system.

Unfortunately CDs get scratched pretty easily, and can turn into a coaster pretty soon.

With prices of USB pen drives at rock bottom, they’re probably the best way to try out LiveCDs. Generally its not that easy to make a bootable LiveCD using USB pen/flash drives. If you’re a Fedora lover then here’s a very easy way to create a bootable USB pen drive.

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