I took this from http://ubuntuforums.org/showpost.php?p=8261958&postcount=6 There are so many variations on these VPN implementations that it is extremely difficult to generalize a known-good configuration for each. Install from the various VPN components PPTP (Microsoft VPN) pptp-linux network-manager-pptp b. VPNC (Cisco VPN) vpnc network-manager-vpnc c. OpenConnect openconnect network-manager-openconnect Reboot PPTP VPN Configuration – This setup works for connecting […]
I recently installed Windows 7 on my laptop which already had ubuntu remix installed in it.The problem i faced was, the GRUB was lost. But i had trouble getting your GRUB boot loader since the process of restoring GRUB has changed. Follow these instructions to restore your GRUB. 1. Boot from your UBUNTU LIVE from […]
I recently installed the new Ubuntu Remix 9.10 karmic Koala on my laptop. I found that all windows where automatically maximized when open. I had showed you how to disable the auto-maximize feature of ubuntu remix earlier. Another annoying feature was that the maximized windows doesn’t have the restore/maximize, minimize and close buttons on it. […]
I recently installed the Ubuntu Remix on my netbook. The most annoying feature i found was the ‘Maximus’. It maximizes every window you open, even small windows which should not be maximized. This is how you can disable this feature. Press Alt + F2, enter gconf-editor, Go to -> /apps/maximus/no_maximize and set it to “true” […]
Follows the steps below to play DVD in your ubuntu 9.10 karmic Koala 1. Become root $ sudo su – 2. Add medibuntu repositories to your sources.list. # wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/karmic.list –output-document=/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list Now add the GPG Key:# apt-get update && sudo apt-get install medibuntu-keyring && sudo apt-get update 3.Update your system. # apt-get update 4. Now […]
The two methods below doesn’t work now. Please see http://blog.dipinkrishna.info/2009/11/how-to-download-and-install-skype-for_3060.html for a successfull installation of skype on ubuntu. I have provided two methods. Please do comment which one is successful. Follow these steps to install skype in ubuntu 9.10 (64 bit). First add: deb http://packages.medibuntu.org/ karmic free non-free to your […]