Animesh Kumar {itsAnimesh}
I'm an IT professional/FOSS Geek living and working in New Delhi, India. Currently for the most part I work as a Technical Consultant developing Open Source ICT solutions for social and societal inclusion. I am a a FOSS enthusiast, I want to create an awareness about FOSS through the work I do. Below are the latest updates from a some social networks I subscribe to.
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Dell XPS touchpad not working in ubuntu…
The touchpad might jump around all over the screen or do other weird crap. To fix this first you have to update your BIOS to A09 or higher version. This can be done by downloading the driver from Dell and installing it via windows. Now in ubuntu terminal type : sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst And edit …
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Dell XPS M1530 fingerprint reader in Linux!!!
Using a fingerprint reader to access your account is better than typing those long passwords again and again in Linux. Some people have said that even if it works in Linux sometimes it doesn’t recognize your fingerprint, well if u swipe your finger “properly” it surly works . I you have Ubuntu 8.10 then here …
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Top linux games…..
I play alot of games as they act as stress busters (even though i’m never in stress of studies or life now days. ). Its annoying for me to log into windows to play a game and then log back into ubuntu to surf the net and sometimes study . Here is are some of …
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Webcam not working in Ubuntu 8.10 for Dell XPS M1530!!!!!
When i updated from hardy(8.04) to ibex(8.10) don’t know for some reason my webcam stopped working in Cheese because it worked out of the box without any problems in hardy. Looks like there is some bug in ubuntu which the geeks are trying to fix but I got a work around while surfing the web …
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How to install Oracle10g in Ubuntu
Students of computer science normally use oracle in there practicals of DBMS. Oracle is available in Linux to but it is not Open Source. For open source database software look at MySQL, PostgreSQL, etc… To install Oracle 10g in Ubuntu : Add deb http://oss.oracle.com/debian unstable main non-free to your /etc/apt/sources.list file. This can be done …
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Graphics.h in Linux for C and C++
Most of the students in Windows use graphics.h header file in there programs that are written in TurboC. This is a reason that some don’t wanna migrate to Linux well there is a solution for that to. Just follow the steps that i did in Ubuntu.. First run sudo apt-get build-essential to install necessary compiler …