Written by Bang of the release schedule, the next version of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.10 dubbed the Intrepid Ibex was released on October 30th.
Ubuntu Intrepix Ibex brings in some new features like
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[How to] Install NewHuman theme From Intrepid Ibex On Hardy Heron
Written by 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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[How To] Fix MBR after installing/uninstalling Windows/Linux in a dual boot
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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[How to] Tackling Screen Resolution Problems in Linux
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.
[How to] Setting up Frontech Tv Tuner in Linux
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
- From internet and using the commands dmesg and lspci -v, i was able to figure out that it is saa7130 chip based card.
- 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
[How-To]Send SMS from your Linux computer via your Mobile Phone
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..
Create a Fedora Bootable USB Pen/Flash Drive Easily using liveusb-creator
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.
Adobe Releases Flash Player 10 For Linux
Adobe released the latest version, Flash 10 for Windows, Macintosh and Linux.
The new release brings in loads of new features, and has better Linux support as well.
Download Flash Player 10 for Linux from here.
Instructions on how-to install the Flash Player can be found here
Amarok 2.0 Beta 2 Released And a look at what Amarok 2.0 might bring in
Couple of days ago, the second beta to the second version of the immensely popular and fantastic audio player Amarok was released by the Amarok team.
The second beta brings in some drastic changes, the main one being SQLite no longer being the default backend, and PostgreSQL support being dropped, in favour of a single backend, that being MySQL-Embedded platform. Other notable changes include improved scripting support, the return of lyric fetching and incremental scanner support.
[How To] Solution for sudo: must be setuid root problem
I had encountered this problem on sudo/gksu not working few months earlier.
Whenever I had to open an application with gksu it did not open at all ! I was wondering what did i do. I dint know whether i meddled with something or is it any other configuration that created the problem.
If I type sudo in terminal i get “sudo: must be setuid root”
This is how I went about fixing it:-
- Open terminal and enter as root i.e. type ‘su’ and then the root password (Please be careful while being the root). Alternatively, you can also use ur OS’s live CD to mount the root partition (the partition where you have installed your OS)
- Next, type
chmod 4755 /usr/bin/sudoIf the command perfectly happens then as far I am able to tell sudo and gksu should work correctly.
If anyone of you are still having problems regarding this issue please post it in comments
