BeamCable connection with Ubuntu

If you love Ubuntu and if you are pissed off about the fact that the geniuses at BeamCable did not provide a 24online client for Linux, do not worry.There is a wonderful tool linc which will solve your problem. Here are the step by step instructions: Install linc Since, the installer is in rpm format,download [...]

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Feisty Fawn is wicked!!

This is my first post from Ubuntu. I have just finished installing Ubuntu Feisty Fawn from the alternate CD.I have an ATI X1400 graphics card in my laptop and there is a known bug with the Live CD on any system with this graphics card,so I had to go with the text installer from the [...]

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Altec Lansing MX-5021 rocks.

After a very long one week of research, I finally bought an Altec Lansing speakers and boy, do they rock.In my whole ordeal I managed to piss off Vikrant whom I took with me to various computer shops in two previous instances(I did not buy in these two instances ). Those who know me would [...]

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Dell’s (India) after-sales support just went from OK to great!

As I mentioned in an earlier post, I bought a Dell Inspiron 9400 notebook. About two weeks back, I sent a mail to their customer support with some of my concerns regarding incompatible audio video(A/V) cable kit. an upgrade from my regular carry-case to a backpack(it costs more). But even after 4-5 working days, these [...]

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