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Dell offers Microsoft Ubuntu 8.04 !
From : linuxsologist’s site
Upgrade Pidgin to solve Yahoo messenger Issue
Regarding the previous post Solving Pidgin Yahoo Messenger Connection Problem , the temporary solution may not work anymore as Yahoo already upgraded their server to accept newer authentication mode.
The good news is, users can download the latest Pidgin release (2.5.7) in order to keep connected with Yahoo Messenger.
For Ubuntu users, Pidgin 2.5.7 is available for download from the Click-and-Run GetDeb.net portal. Just select Pidgin package, and choose to open it with gdebi.
Hopefully you can solve the Pidgin login problem through this post.
How to disable touchpad in Ubuntu Netbook Remix
Here’s how to temporarily disable the touchpad control on Ubuntu Netbook Remix for those who were always accidently ‘clicked’ or ‘touched’ the touchpad while typing long sentences.
Disabling Touchpad
- Go to the Ubuntu Netbook Remix main screen
- Select ‘Preference’, then ‘Mouse’
Untick the touchpad checkbox. The touchpad would be disabled until you you change the option back.
How to solve Pidgin Yahoo Messenger Connection Problem
Lately, it seems that some people are having trouble connecting pidgin to Yahoo Messenger services. The problem seems to be associated with the Yahoo server itself.
Solving the Yahoo Messenger problem
A temporary solution for this problem is to change the Pidgin YM server setting.
Go to Accounts->Select your YM screen name->Edit Account->Advance.
Then change the original value of “scs.msg.yahoo.com” to any of these ip address:
66.163.181.183, 66.163.181.166 , 66.163.181.169, 66.163.181.170, 66.163.181.172, 66.163.181.171, 66.163.181.181, 66.163.181.182
As shown on the screenshot :
Note that this is only a temporary solution and you should only use this as the last resort.
How to make my Ubuntu detect more than 4GB memory
There were a couple of people that I met recently complained to me that their Ubuntu only detects 3 gigs of RAM after they upgraded their machine to 4 GB RAM.
Actually the problem does not lie with Ubuntu or any operating system in particular, rather the problem is related to 32bit operating system which only can address maximum of 232 bytes of memory.
Some might argue that 32-bit should be enough to address 4GB RAM, but in reality some of those memory location are reserved for computer and application operation that only a fraction of it are addressable when you installed 4GB RAM on a 32bit operating system. Thus you would see that your computer would only have around 3.5 GB only.
The solution?
There are two solutions to remedy this problem :
i) Install a 64-bit (Ubuntu) operating system
ii) Compile/Install kernel with PAE features enabled
The (i) solution is obvious, just install a 64bit edition of Ubuntu to your computer, and your problem will be automatically solved! The downside is, you probably does not want to use a 64bit edition of Ubuntu yet for some obscure reason (the evil binary only drivers and blobs)
The (ii) solution requires you to install a kernel with Physical Address Extension (PAE) support enabled.
For you information, Ubuntu comes with pre-compiled linux kernel that has PAE enabled. What you need to do is to apt-get these 3 packages “linux-headers-server, linux-image-server and linux-server” and reboot your computer. This will enable you operating system to recognize the extra RAM installed inside your computer.
p/s : The best solution is to get a system that does not depend on binary blogs (hardware drivers, etc) and move to 64-bit operating system in order to enjoy the full potential of your computer.